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The Guest (British TV series)
The Guest is a four-part British psychological thriller, BBC One and iPlayer, premiered 1 September 2025. Eve Myles plays Fran, Gabrielle Creevy her cleaner Ria; written by Matthew Barry, Quay Street Productions, filmed in Wales.
The Head
The Head is a Spanish-produced English-language survival thriller series (2020-2025) created by the Pastor brothers and Ran Tellem for The Mediapro Studio with Hulu Japan and HBO Asia, following murders among scientists isolated at the Polaris VI Antarctic station across three anthology seasons.
The Hunt (2026 TV series)
The Hunt (Traqués) is a 2026 Apple TV French-language psychological thriller, Gaumont's six-episode adaptation of Douglas Fairbairn's novel Shoot, created by Cédric Anger, starring Benoît Magimel and Mélanie Laurent, delayed from December 2025 over plagiarism claims.
The Imposter (miniseries)
The Imposter (produced as Imposter) is a 2025 Australian four-part psychological drama on Channel 5 and Network 10, starring Jackie Woodburne, Kym Marsh, and Dannii Minogue, about an impostor claiming to be a hotel matriarch's long-lost daughter; distinct from the 2012 documentary film.
The Innocent
The Innocent (El inocente) is a 2021 Spanish Netflix miniseries by Oriol Paulo, adapted from Harlan Coben's 2005 novel, starring Mario Casas and Aura Garrido; eight episodes, premiered April 30, 2021, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Iris Affair
The Iris Affair is an eight-part 2025 Sky Original thriller created by Neil Cross (Luther), starring Niamh Algar as codebreaker Iris Nixon and Tom Hollander as Cameron Beck, chasing a stolen activation sequence for the supercomputer Charlie Big Potatoes across Italy.
The Last Night at Tremore Beach
The Last Night at Tremore Beach (La última noche en Tremor) is an 8-episode Spanish Netflix psychological thriller miniseries directed by Oriol Paulo, adapted from Mikel Santiago's 2014 novel, starring Javier Rey as a pianist whose visions follow a lightning strike; premiered October 25, 2024.
The Last Thing He Told Me
The Last Thing He Told Me: Laura Dave's 2021 #1 New York Times bestseller mystery novel and its Apple TV series starring Jennifer Garner, Angourie Rice, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau; season 2 (2026) adapts the sequel The First Time I Saw Him.
The Mess You Leave Behind
The Mess You Leave Behind (El desorden que dejas) is a 2020 Spanish Netflix limited thriller series, 8 episodes, created by Carlos Montero from his Premio Primavera 2016 novel, starring Inma Cuesta and Bárbara Lennie, set in Galicia.
The Night Logan Woke Up
The Night Logan Woke Up (La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé) is a 2022 French-language Canadian miniseries, Xavier Dolan's first television work, adapted from Michel Marc Bouchard's play.
The Patient
The Patient is a 2022 FX on Hulu psychological thriller limited series by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg (The Americans), in which Steve Carell's therapist Alan Strauss is kidnapped by serial-killer patient Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) and forced to cure him.
The Rapture (TV series)
The Rapture is a five-part British psychological thriller broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer in 2026, adapted from Liz Jensen's 2010 novel and starring Ruth Madeley and India Amarteifio.
The Ridge (TV series)
The Ridge is a 2025 six-part Scottish–New Zealand psychological thriller made by Sinner Films and Great Southern Studios for BBC Scotland and Sky New Zealand Originals, starring Lauren Lyle and Jay Ryan, premiered 21 October 2025 on BBC iPlayer.
The Savant
The Savant is an eight-episode Apple TV+ limited thriller starring Jessica Chastain as Jodi Goodwin, an undercover investigator infiltrating online hate groups. Inspired by Andrea Stanley's 2019 Cosmopolitan article about the ADL investigator "K"; postponed after the Charlie Kirk assassination, now set for spring 2027.
The Serial Killer's Wife
The Serial Killer's Wife is a 2023 four-part Paramount+ UK psychological thriller miniseries adapted from Alice Hunter's novel, starring Annabel Scholey, Jack Farthing, and Luke Treadaway, directed by Laura Way, filmed in Kent, released December 15, 2023.
The Shrink Next Door
The Shrink Next Door is an eight-episode Apple TV+ dark comedy limited series (2021) adapted from Joe Nocera's 2019 Wondery podcast, starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd as patient Marty Markowitz and manipulative psychiatrist Dr. Ike Herschkopf.
The Singing Detective
The Singing Detective is Dennis Potter's six-part 1986 BBC serial, directed by Jon Amiel, starring Michael Gambon as hospitalised writer Philip E Marlow, blending 1940s noir, lip-synced songs, and childhood memory.
The Staircase
The Staircase (2022) is an eight-episode HBO Max true crime limited series created by Antonio Campos, starring Colin Firth as Michael Peterson and Toni Collette as Kathleen Peterson, adapted from Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's documentary about Kathleen Peterson's 2001 death.
The Third Day (TV series)
The Third Day is a 2020 HBO/Sky psychological horror miniseries by Dennis Kelly and Felix Barrett, starring Jude Law and Naomie Harris on Osea Island, split into Summer, Winter, and a 12-hour live Autumn event.
The Wives (TV series)
The Wives (TV series) is a 2024 six-part British Channel 5 mystery thriller by Helen Black, produced by Gaumont, starring Jo Joyner, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Angela Griffin as sisters-in-law investigating a death in Malta; distinct from the Nigerian series and the Tarryn Fisher adaptation of the same title.
Tip Toe (TV series)
Tip Toe is a 2026 five-part Channel 4 suburban thriller written by Russell T Davies, starring Alan Cumming as gay bar owner Leo and David Morrissey as neighbour Clive, whose feud escalates through disinformation; 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.
True Story
True Story (2021) is a Netflix limited thriller series, 7 TV-MA episodes, created by Eric Newman, starring Kevin Hart as comedian Kid and Wesley Snipes as brother Carlton during a Philadelphia tour stop.
Unchosen
Unchosen is a 2026 six-episode British Netflix psychological thriller by Julie Gearey, starring Molly Windsor, Asa Butterfield, and Fra Fee, about a woman in a cult called the Fellowship of the Divine whose affair with an escaped convict upends her sect.
Unforgiven (TV series)
Unforgiven is a three-part British crime drama broadcast on ITV1 in January 2009, written by Sally Wainwright and starring Suranne Jones as a woman rebuilding her life after prison.
Vaka
Vaka (Wake) is a 2026 Swedish dystopian thriller miniseries on Prime Video: six episodes about a deadly insomnia epidemic in Stockholm, created by Brynja Björk, directed by Henrik Georgsson, starring Jonas Karlsson, Aliette Opheim, and Gizem Erdogan.
Vanished (2026 TV series)
Vanished (2026) is a four-part MGM+/Prime Video mystery thriller miniseries starring Kaley Cuoco as Alice Monroe and Sam Claflin as Tom Parker, created by David Hilton and Preston Thompson, directed by Barnaby Thompson, about a boyfriend vanishing from a train in France.
Victim (2019 TV series)
The Victim is a 2019 four-part BBC One legal thriller by Rob Williams, produced by STV Productions, starring Kelly Macdonald as Anna Dean and James Harkness as Craig Myers, broadcast 8–11 April 2019, BAFTA-nominated.
Watching You (TV series)
Watching You is a 2025 six-episode Australian erotic psychological thriller on Stan, adapted from J.P. Pomare's novel The Last Guests by Alexei Mizin and Ryan van Dijk; Aisha Dee stars as Lina, blackmailed over a secretly filmed affair. Sold to Hulu and Disney+ in 2026.
Wayward (miniseries)
Wayward is an eight-episode 2025 Netflix limited series created by and starring Mae Martin, a psychological thriller set in 2003 in Tall Pines, Vermont, about a troubled-teen academy run by Toni Collette's Evelyn Wade, filmed in Ontario.