Collider ranks 20th-century psychological thrillers that explore obsession, paranoia, unreliable perceptions and moral collapse.

– ‘American Psycho’ (1991): Bret Easton Ellis uses Patrick Bateman’s materialistic, violent inner life to satirise the excesses of 1980s capitalism.
– ‘The Collector’ (1963): John Fowles contrasts a kidnapper’s detached obsession with his captive’s perspective, portraying cruelty as disturbingly ordinary.
– ‘Libra’ (1988): Don DeLillo fictionalises Lee Harvey Oswald and the Kennedy assassination as an examination of alienation, conspiracy and paranoia.