The word "paranoiac" describes someone who is constantly suspicious or distrustful of others, often thinking that people are trying to harm or deceive them. Full definition
Trintignant's borderline - lost quality in these films — the implication in his furrowed brow that he's always just a step away from slipping out of his composure, even behind dark sunglasses — is picked up and refined by Costa - Gavras and Bernardo Bertolucci, who in Z and The Conformist, respectively, find something paranoiac in his steely good looks that prefigures Jack Nicholson in Chinatown. (filmfreakcentral.net)
It's a modest film for those sci - fi connoisseurs who flip out over paranoiac Cold War flicks about outsiders as dangerous foes. (rottentomatoes.com)
Dope - fueled interrogations, inspirations, lyrical flights, reveries, and jags gradually bend, lose whatever foundations they had, and dissolve into paranoiac terror or mute incomprehension or dumbstruck awe, ending sometimes with a scream and sometimes with a whisper. (filmcomment.com)