Tropescilloscope: Psychological Thriller

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

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