The best psychological thriller films to watch if you liked “The Maid”

Published on December 20, 2025 at 6:56 p.m.

The arrival of the film “The Maid” looks imminent. It’s on December 24 that Paul Feig’s new feature film makes its debut in theaters. The actress tandem, Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried, is expected at the turn.

Based on the phenomenon saga of Freida McFadden, the adaptation is under close scrutiny from the public. To help you wait, there’s nothing like immersing yourself in a psychological thriller. Over the decades, thrilling suspense classics have appeared on film one after the other.

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We think of the disturbing duo formed by Simone Signoret and Véra Clouzot in “Les Diaboliques”, the “Mulholland Drive” by the late David Lynch, including “L’Été Murderer”, carried by an incandescent Isabelle Adjani. A role which earned the actress the César for best actress in 1984.

In 1994, Claude Chabrol tackled the unfinished film by Henri-Georges Clouzot and created a classic of the genre, “Hell”. If initially the headliners were Serge Reggiani and Romy Schneider, the roles are taken by Emmanuelle Béart and François Cluzet.

Several of these masterpieces of the seventh art are adaptations of books written by renowned novelists. As evidenced by Alfred Hitchcock’s film, “Rebecca”, where the shadow of Daphne du Maurier looms. The film that propelled Alain Delon to the forefront, “Plein soleil”, is no exception to the rule, based on the work of Patricia Highsmith. Behind the film “Gone Girl” by David Fincher, the pen of Gillian Flynn is revealed.

Here are the best psychological thrillers to watch without delay