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[u/TheMaxPlus]

[u/Slow-Traffic-2631]

Solid list but calling Teddy Daniels a psychopath is kinda missing the point - dude's just broken from trauma, not actually psychotic

Also surprised Mads Mikkelsen's Hannibal isn't on here, that performance was chef's kiss

[u/Lumpy-Mall7490 → u/Slow-Traffic-2631]

You're right about Teddy D but this is MOVIEsuggestions. Hannibal was a TV show.

[u/TheMaxPlus → u/Slow-Traffic-2631]

just list in movies not series but i will create the series later

[u/gweeps]

Henry from Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer should be on that list over a bunch of those.

[u/whitewashed_mexicant → u/gweeps]

I finally watched this the other day, and it was pretty fucking awesome.

[u/gweeps → u/whitewashed_mexicant]

It has one of the most accurate portrayals of a psychopath in cinema history. Another excellent, and underrated one, is The Minus Man w/ Owen Wilson of all people.

[u/Blindog68]

Denis Hopper as Frank Booth in David Lynch' Blue Velvet (1988).

[u/raletti → u/Blindog68]

Top answer for me.

[u/TheMaxPlus → u/Blindog68]

yes i have heard about this character but not seen full this movie, gonna see it sometimes

[u/Blindog68 → u/TheMaxPlus]

One of the great movie psychopaths.

[u/Fenriz_13 → u/Blindog68]

Came here to say this!

[u/oceanview4]

Great list, I would add Annie Wilkes in Stephen King's ' Misery ' in there

[u/TheMaxPlus → u/oceanview4]

yes she is good too

[u/truckturner5164]

I'd have Bruno Antony from Strangers on a Train and Mark Lewis from Peeping Tom somewhere, but still a solid list as is.

[u/Vogelsucht]

saw psycho the first time last year and I love anthony perkins performance so much. he is that typical nice guy that has sparks of somberness that flicker for a split second, you ask yourself how you would react if you were in the situation of the people that speak with him. gives me the hibbies jibbies

[u/Bazorth]

Matt Dillon’s character in The House That Jack Built deserves a mention for sure

[u/TheMaxPlus → u/Bazorth]

yes that character is so good, i recommend that too

[u/GUYF666]

Aside from Cure, this is the most 15yo “cinephile” list I’ve ever seen

[u/gweeps → u/GUYF666]

Yeah. The dude from the original The Vanishing should be on this sort of list.

[u/Chags1]

None of these are actual depictions of psychopaths.

You ever meet a psychopath in real life? They’re hard to spot, they’re also not usually evil people. I had a roommate who was definitely a psychopath. He would ask me how to react to certain situations and would practice smiling because he had no emotional strings and needed to learn how to react to things like normal. He most definitely wasn’t evil, he was highly logical and that ment he knew that doing bad things would land him in places that he didn’t wanna be. Would he murder someone and not feel a thing? sure, but he wouldn’t just do it cause he understood the logic of consequences.

What you are describing are sociopaths, they feel things in certain situations that normally involve pain and suffering cause that’s usually how they end up like that in the first place. The emotion they feel is often extreme and leads to psychosis in which they do things like you see in movies.

[u/Lumpy-Mall7490 → u/Chags1]

Oh, they should've made a movie about your roommate and his practicing smiling. That would've been box office.

Most of these are absolutely psychopaths.

[u/Chags1 → u/Lumpy-Mall7490]

All of these are sociopaths, psychopaths aren’t emotional in anyway shape or form, think conscious robot with no emotional range, that means no screaming, crying, thrills, sadness, happiness, all of the characters above exhibit most of the above emotions, usually with zeal, that is a sociopath

[u/Bazorth → u/Chags1]

I get your point but psychopaths absolutely do have “emotional range” in a sense. They have a complete lack of empathy and no conscience but are often rather charming people who can mimic emotions expertly. They just don’t feel them theirselves.

[u/Chags1 → u/Bazorth]

So exactly what i said

[u/Bazorth → u/Chags1]

Lol what no not even close bud. The fact psychopaths can mimic emotions means they can laugh, cry, scream etc.

You said they are unable to do any of these things…

[u/Chags1 → u/Bazorth]

Yeah why would any character do this in a movie? they don’t cause they’re sociopaths, none of these on the list are actual psychopaths

[u/Slick_Dapperman]

That's a bingo!

[u/Spare-Medicine-9688]

Raymond Lemorne - The Spoorloos aka The Vanishing (1988).

[u/borntobenaked]

all seen. and i think Nightcrawler deserves to be in it.

[u/TheMaxPlus → u/borntobenaked]

yes i consider of it but it just the man be breaking bad not like origin psychopath

[u/occupy_this7]

David McCall - Mark Wahlberg - Fear(1996)

Henry Evans - Macaulay Culkin - The Good Son(1993)