Some links in this articles are affiliate links The frightening but also entertaining Hannibal Lecter character played by Anthony Hopkins in the now famous Silence of The Lambs and Hannibal Films...
Category: Psychopaths in Film
The internet is full of "best psychopath films" lists, and there's some great films in there, but from what I've seen, they do tend to cover the same, predictable, mainstream films about psychopaths....
Psychopaths In Film – Craig Fairbrass as “Terry” in Muscle (2019)
I've just watched Gerard Johnson's 2019 movie "Muscle", starring Cavan Clerkin and Craig Fairbrass, and had to do a review of it, because it's such an instructive portrayal of a pathological...
Michael Mann's 2004 film Collateral is another excellent character study of a psychopath; a stylish action thriller starring Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx as the two leads engaged in a strange...
The film The Wolf of Wall Street, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. is a fantastically over the top, but still broadly accurate depiction of a psychopath in high level Western business, particularly the...
Another skilful depiction of a psychopath in film is given by Paul Bettany and Malcolm McDowell in British crime thriller Gangster No 1 from 2000. This portrayal undoubtedly leans towards the extreme...