Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

A Thriller that focuses on characters' psyches. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes Eldritch Abomination Horror Films Taking You with Me Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Here We Go Again! The Remake All Girls Want Bad Boys Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Black Comedy Rape Does Not Like Shoes The Smurfette Principle Gorn Book-Ends Unusual Euphemism Femme Fatale Adaptational Heroism Chewing the Scenery Rated M for Manly Interrupted Suicide Shell-Shocked Veteran Room Full of Crazy Better to Die than Be Killed After the End Decoy Protagonist Adults Are Useless Together in Death Authority Equals Asskicking Even Evil Has Standards Cat Fight Moment Killer Our Vampires Are Different Disproportionate Retribution Took a Level in Jerkass Fanservice Extra Film Noir Index Berserk Button Cool Old Guy What the Hell, Hero? The Ace Batman Gambit Zombie Stories Sassy Black Woman Fiery Redhead Heel–Face Turn Daddy's Girl Never Found the Body Despair Event Horizon Animal Title Index Cloudcuckoolander Bald of Evil Ship Tease Auto Erotica Sequel Escalation Flashback Japanese Films Hoist by His Own Petard Put on a Bus Television Movie Index Fingore Stealth Hi/Bye Deliberate Values Dissonance Heroes Want Redheads Rule of Cool Parental Incest Made of Iron Historical Hero Upgrade A.I. Is a Crapshoot The Bully Ambiguous Disorder Male Gaze Body Horror Creative Closing Credits Police are Useless Revenge Evil Brit Lampshade Hanging Make It Look Like an Accident German Films Video Credits Extreme Doormat Call-Back Loads and Loads of Characters Arc Words Overprotective Dad Age Lift Took a Level in Badass Badass in a Nice Suit Match Cut Danny Peary Cult Movies List Ungrateful Bastard Crapsack World Death by Sex Fake Shemp Chekhov's Gun '80s Hair Double Entendre It's Personal No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Pre-Mortem One-Liner Reality Ensues Obfuscating Stupidity Adaptational Attractiveness Older Than They Look Hollywood Law Shower Scene A God Am I MacGuffin Failed a Spot Check Cowboy Cop Love at First Sight No Ending Faux Affably Evil Vacation Films Rousing Speech Determinator No Antagonist Attempted Rape Meaningful Echo Expository Hairstyle Change Market-Based Title Ironic Echo Does This Remind You of Anything? Scenery Gorn The Un-Reveal Heroic Sacrifice Rule of Three Historical Villain Upgrade Mr. Exposition Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Captain Ersatz Arch-Enemy The Cavalry Villainous Breakdown Red Oni, Blue Oni Badass Longcoat Large Ham Important Haircut Bond One-Liner Light Is Not Good Car Fu Manchild Disguised in Drag Beauty Is Never Tarnished Drives Like Crazy Creator Cameo Translation Convention Beard of Evil Stock Footage Poor Communication Kills Mugging the Monster Ascended Extra Brainless Beauty One Steve Limit Victoria's Secret Compartment Advertised Extra And the Adventure Continues Star-Crossed Lovers Extremely Short Timespan Gender Flip Defiant to the End Eureka Moment Parental Abandonment Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies You Killed My Father Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Mystery and Detective Films Greater-Scope Villain Playing Gertrude The Ditz Dirty Coward Reality Has No Subtitles Betty and Veronica I Just Shot Marvin in the Face This Is Gonna Suck Vampire Fiction Creepy Child And Starring The '60s Not So Above It All Recycled IN SPACE! Rewatch Bonus The Starscream Nothing Is Scarier Character Development Precision F-Strike Film Series Only Sane Man Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Anti-Hero Almost Kiss Heel Realization More Dakka Same Language Dub Implacable Man World of Ham Defrosting Ice Queen Pragmatic Villainy Obviously Evil My Beloved Smother It's All About Me Psychopathic Manchild Be Careful What You Wish For Romantic Comedy Grievous Bottley Harm From Bad to Worse The Great Depression Credits Gag Unusually Uninteresting Sight Driven to Suicide I Have Your Wife As the Good Book Says... folderlabel Improbable Aiming Skills Kick the Dog I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene For Want of a Nail Word of God Big Applesauce Manic Pixie Dream Girl Fantasy Films Four-Temperament Ensemble Public Domain Feature Films Freeze-Frame Bonus The Ghost Adaptational Villainy Author Appeal In Name Only Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Place Darker and Edgier Real Life Writes the Plot Serial Killer Scare Chord Superhero Distracted by the Sexy Big-Bad Ensemble An Aesop The Sociopath Early-Bird Cameo Bury Your Gays Sealed Evil in a Can Agony of the Feet Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Woman in White Madness Mantra Card-Carrying Villain Spiteful Spit Fate Worse than Death Foreshadowing Artistic License – Military Death of a Child The Vamp Adaptation Dye-Job Brick Joke Demoted to Extra Big Damn Heroes Closed Circle Grey and Gray Morality Antagonist Title Fat Bastard Sexy Discretion Shot Pay Evil unto Evil Amusing Injuries Air-Vent Passageway Fanservice Nice Guy No Celebrities Were Harmed The Power of Love The Lost Lenore Artistic License – Gun Safety It Will Never Catch On Outrun the Fireball NO INDOOR VOICE Eagleland Action Genre Asshole Victim Continuity Nod Vomit Discretion Shot Red Shirt In the Back Shut Up, Hannibal! The Bad Guy Wins Dumb Blonde Blonde, Brunette, Redhead One-Word Title Undying Loyalty Immune to Bullets Gold Digger Random Events Plot Parental Substitute Australian Movies Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Bar Brawl Off-into-the-Distance Ending Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism The '90s Punch-Clock Villain Fire-Forged Friends Action Girl Bare Your Midriff Damsel in Distress Mexican Standoff Bland-Name Product Coming-of-Age Story Obstructive Bureaucrat Butt-Monkey Not Quite Dead Evil Is Petty Not So Stoic Only Known by Their Nickname Shown Their Work Dying Moment of Awesome Off with His Head! Insult Backfire Amoral Attorney Would Hit a Girl Dramatic Irony Ass Shove Bad "Bad Acting" Double-Meaning Title Crazy Jealous Guy No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Abhorrent Admirer Actually Pretty Funny Mama Bear Leaning on the Fourth Wall Death Seeker Big Eater Naïve Newcomer Blood from the Mouth Tempting Fate Drugs Are Bad Idiot Ball Cain and Abel O.O.C. Is Serious Business Composite Character Hell Is That Noise A Minor Kidroduction The Film of the Book Contrived Coincidence Gone Horribly Right You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Faking the Dead Canon Foreigner Punny Name Chase Scene Smoking Is Cool Manipulative Bastard Woman Scorned Epic Fail Hollywood Darkness Once More, with Clarity! Re-Cut "Awesome McCool" Name British Films Armor-Piercing Question Bloodless Carnage Dropped a Bridge on Him Made of Explodium Vomit Indiscretion Shot Artistic License – Biology Genre Savvy Award-Bait Song Ax-Crazy Informed Ability Karmic Death Hooker with a Heart of Gold Smug Snake Hair-Trigger Temper The Big Guy Big "NO!" Blood Knight Major Injury Underreaction Corpsing Action Prologue Shirtless Scene Shout-Out Cat Scare Mood Whiplash B-Movie Small Name, Big Ego The Cameo The Chessmaster Broken Pedestal Country Matters Lock and Load Montage Dressing as the Enemy Mythology Gag Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Sequel Hook Darkest Hour Deconstruction Leitmotif Funny Foreigner Show Within a Show Adapted Out Even Evil Has Loved Ones Depraved Bisexual Villain Song Would Hurt a Child Really Gets Around Due to the Dead Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Suspiciously Similar Substitute She Cleans Up Nicely Kill It with Fire Camera Abuse Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Hidden Depths Trailers Always Spoil Corrupt Corporate Executive Guns Akimbo Aside Glance Annoying Younger Sibling Evil Counterpart Cluster F-Bomb Fatal Flaw Hero Antagonist Adaptation Name Change Dirty Cop Evil Sounds Deep Fish out of Water Exactly What It Says on the Tin From Nobody to Nightmare Bilingual Bonus Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Captain Obvious Back from the Dead Kids Are Cruel All There in the Script Action Survivor Only in It for the Money Developing Doomed Characters Imagine Spot Needs Wiki Magic Love Jitter Cam Training Montage Parental Neglect Silent Movie No-Sell Gory Discretion Shot Never My Fault Real Life Stealth Pun Establishing Character Moment Author Avatar Enemy Mine Nice Hat The Oner Throwing Your Sword Always Works Mundane Made Awesome Irony Jerk with a Heart of Gold BFG Documentary Bound and Gagged Works Set in World War II As You Know Male Frontal Nudity Wrong Genre Savvy A Father to His Men Super Strength Love Triangle Spared by the Adaptation Manly Tears Rasputinian Death Cool Car Very Loosely Based on a True Story Earn Your Happy Ending Department of Redundancy Department Stepford Smiler Actor Allusion Unreliable Narrator Adaptation Distillation Dissonant Serenity Comically Missing the Point And I Must Scream Neck Snap Lighter and Softer Artistic License – Physics Red Eyes, Take Warning Music Stories Big Fancy House The Alleged Car Disappeared Dad Reasonable Authority Figure Half the Man He Used to Be Evil vs. Evil Thriller The Lancer Motor Mouth Evil Laugh Skewed Priorities Narrator Wretched Hive Brutal Honesty Scenery Porn The Dreaded Five-Man Band The '70s Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Red Right Hand What Happened to the Mouse? Dark Reprise Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Pet the Dog Belligerent Sexual Tension Logo Joke Fan Disservice Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Easily Forgiven Call-Forward Say My Name Not What It Looks Like Destination Defenestration Diabolus ex Machina Beta Couple Ominous Latin Chanting Anguished Declaration of Love Funny Background Event Stuff Blowing Up Names to Run Away from Really Fast Film Noir Drill Sergeant Nasty Plucky Comic Relief Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Those Wacky Nazis Meaningful Background Event The Dragon Romantic False Lead Humans Are Bastards Death by Irony Loophole Abuse Properly Paranoid Evil-Detecting Dog Russian Films Dirty Old Man Ambiguous Ending Take That! Everyone Has Standards Bavarian Fire Drill Big Brother Instinct Bad Boss Wham Shot Rich Bitch Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Shipper on Deck The Smart Guy My God, What Have I Done? You Have Failed Me Bottomless Magazines Let's Get Dangerous! "Shaggy Dog" Story Spanner in the Works Storming the Castle Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Naked People Are Funny Well-Intentioned Extremist Empathic Environment Stylistic Suck Accidental Murder Big Bad Duumvirate Dramatic Gun Cock Crazy-Prepared As Long as It Sounds Foreign Historical-Domain Character Cool Shades N-Word Privileges Central Theme Flipping the Bird Toplessness from the Back Affably Evil Race Lift Alas, Poor Villain Anti-Villain 20 Minutes into the Future Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Slashed Throat Straight Gay Missing Mom Peek-a-Boo Corpse Overly Long Gag Psychological Thriller Black and Gray Morality "Well Done, Son!" Guy Have a Gay Old Time Black Comedy Accidental Misnaming All Just a Dream Friend to All Children Eyepatch of Power Bi the Way Eiffel Tower Effect Silence Is Golden Martial Arts Movie Heterosexual Life-Partners All There in the Manual Disney Death Psycho for Hire Animal Motifs Insistent Terminology Rule of Funny Honor Before Reason Christmas Movies Index Dark Is Not Evil Sports Stories Not Even Bothering with the Accent Title Drop Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Karma Houdini Domestic Abuse Tranquil Fury Epic Movie Blackmail Rape as Drama Camp Gay Costume Porn Hero of Another Story Expy Slasher Smile Adaptational Badass Disney Villain Death The Alcoholic Your Head A-Splode Spiritual Successor Break the Cutie Freudian Excuse Reality Is Unrealistic In Medias Res Offscreen Teleportation Novelization Humiliation Conga Knight Templar Deal with the Devil Paper-Thin Disguise Ghost Fiction Guile Hero Race Against the Clock Meet Cute Dark and Troubled Past It Can Think Curb-Stomp Battle Stalker with a Crush Pre-Asskicking One-Liner The Brute The Load Abusive Parents Maybe Ever After Broken Aesop Too Dumb to Live Adaptation Expansion Bullying a Dragon Biopic Shoot the Shaggy Dog Retired Badass The Stoner There Is No Kill Like Overkill She's Got Legs Married to the Job I'm a Humanitarian Face Death with Dignity Handicapped Badass Groin Attack Pyrrhic Victory Foregone Conclusion The Musical Pimped-Out Dress Canadian Movies Riddle for the Ages Bloodier and Gorier The End... Or Is It? Wicked Cultured Kubrick Stare War Is Hell Cool Old Lady La Résistance Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique The Quiet One Laser-Guided Karma Fainting Drowning My Sorrows No Name Given How We Got Here Happily Married Index of Film Westerns Conspicuous CG Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Dark Action Girl Token Minority True Companions Chekhov's Gunman Alliterative Name Visual Pun Death by Adaptation Badass Normal Jerkass Men Are the Expendable Gender Villain Opening Scene Kill 'em All Not Using the "Z" Word Exact Words Product Placement Eye Scream Slasher Movie Retcon Apocalypse How Neck Lift Casting Gag Fourth Date Marriage Malevolent Masked Men Famous Last Words One-Man Army Soundtrack Dissonance Sole Survivor The Chick Your Cheating Heart Badass Grandpa Plot Hole Mad Scientist Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome The '80s Did Not Get the Girl Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Totally Radical Kick the Son of a Bitch Cool Guns Ambiguously Gay Get Out! All Men Are Perverts Line-of-Sight Name Serious Business Soft Glass Wounded Gazelle Gambit Black Best Friend Oh, Crap! Military and Warfare Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome Insane Troll Logic Sinister Minister Gratuitous English The Casanova Horror Comedy Papa Wolf What You Are in the Dark Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Mistaken for Gay Catapult Nightmare No OSHA Compliance Fatal Family Photo Jerk Jock Dual Wielding Cassandra Truth Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – Law Curse Cut Short Fun with Acronyms Daylight Horror Sanity Slippage Tagline Tap on the Head Posthumous Character Retirony Left the Background Music On Dull Surprise Gilligan Cut Running Gag Heroic BSoD The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Redshirt Army Henpecked Husband Deus ex Machina Leave the Camera Running The Hero Dies Italian Films Anyone Can Die Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Redemption Equals Death Gainax Ending Face–Heel Turn Ripped from the Headlines Artistic License – Geography Yandere Black Dude Dies First Worthy Opponent Unresolved Sexual Tension Facial Horror Mind Screw Slap-Slap-Kiss Noodle Incident Mighty Whitey Death Glare Brother–Sister Incest Badass Boast Instant Death Bullet Frame-Up Bolivian Army Ending Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Early Installment Weirdness Final Girl Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Hong Kong Films As Himself Time Skip Mr. Fanservice Never Trust a Trailer Genre Throwback Fantastic Racism Chiaroscuro Bowdlerise Wham Line The X of Y Dogged Nice Guy Killed Mid-Sentence Getting Crap Past the Radar Truth in Television Sir Swears-a-Lot Up to Eleven Improbable Weapon User Unwitting Instigator of Doom Anachronic Order The Reveal Improvised Weapon Badass Bookworm Self-Deprecation Deadpan Snarker Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Scary Black Man Children Are Innocent Whole Plot Reference An Axe to Grind Every Car Is a Pinto Framing Device Big Bad The Stoic Unspoken Plan Guarantee Historical In-Joke Intrepid Reporter "The Reason You Suck" Speech Covers Always Lie Villain Protagonist Only a Flesh Wound Twist Ending Artistic License – History Taking the Bullet Adorkable Cold-Blooded Torture Mercy Kill The Voiceless Dutch Angle Good Is Not Nice My Greatest Failure Pretty Little Headshots Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass He Who Fights Monsters Homage Politically Incorrect Villain Last-Name Basis Police Brutality Those Two Guys Roaring Rampage of Revenge Breaking the Fourth Wall Spell My Name with an "S" Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Dies Wide Open Villain with Good Publicity Celebrity Paradox Deliberately Monochrome Sacrificial Lion Non-Indicative Name He Knows Too Much Chekhov's Skill Jump Scare Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Adult Fear Man on Fire I Did What I Had to Do Only One Name Suspiciously Specific Denial Laughing Mad Hope Spot The Atoner Genre Shift Pretty in Mink Science Fiction Films Green-Eyed Monster "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Bring My Brown Pants May–December Romance The Dog Bites Back The Mafia Cruel and Unusual Death Sci-Fi Horror Reckless Gun Usage Not So Different Downer Ending Based on a True Story Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Alpha Bitch Meaningful Name French Films Evil Is Hammy Calling the Old Man Out Vitriolic Best Buds Aluminum Christmas Trees Intergenerational Friendship Red Herring Rule of Symbolism Evil Plan For the Evulz Bloody Hilarious Awesome, but Impractical Didn't Think This Through Protagonist Title Monumental Damage Pragmatic Adaptation The Mole The Faceless Bunny-Ears Lawyer Mooks An Arm and a Leg Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Knife Nut All for Nothing Foil Setting Update Combat Pragmatist Demonic Possession Jerkass Has a Point Boom, Headshot! Break the Haughty Bittersweet Ending Babies Ever After Sadistic Choice Catch-Phrase I Need a Freaking Drink Villain Ball Animated Credits Opening Becoming the Mask Crucified Hero Shot The Stinger Arranged Marriage Anachronism Stew Ms. Fanservice Bait-and-Switch The Hero Affectionate Parody Dwindling Party Our Zombies Are Different Those Two Bad Guys Beware the Nice Ones Hate Sink Suddenly SHOUTING! Determinator aka: The Determinator Hypocritical Humor Take a Third Option You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Dramedy Refuge in Audacity Blatant Lies Broken Bird Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! The '50s Hypocrite A Date with Rosie Palms timeperiod Morality Pet