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Crazy as Hell (2002)
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Original name: Crazy As Hell
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the Hospital seeking help. Or is it just help that he wants?
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspenseful, slasher, psychological thriller, twist ending, psycho film
Plot:
devil, mental institution, mental illness, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, psychiatrist, black, satan, video surveillance, obsession, research, blaxploitation, lgbt, hell, mythical creature, sad ending, satanism, psychiatric ward, american horror, psychiatric hospital, good versus evil, power relations, female nudity, suicide, bare breasts ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Crazy as Hell
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and psychological films with plots about mental illness, murder, danger, power relations, obsession, deadly and doctors and patients mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Crazy as Hell: Committed (1991), Samuel Bleak (2013), Waking Madison (2010), Fear Me Not (2008), On the Inside (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, nurse, murder, mistaken identity, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
mental institution, small town life, isolation, family problems, small town, mute, suspect, society, danger, autism, mental illness, woods ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, mental disorder, psychiatrist, family relations, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, family problems, death in the family, dysfunctional family, doctors and patients, midlife crisis, estrangement, couples, losing-it hero, love and romance, life is a bitch, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, murder, psychopath, redemption, mentally unstable, criminal psychologist, woman in danger, crime and punishment, haunted by the past, prison, love, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be, but he is ...
Style:
psychological, satanic, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, satan, psychopath, murder, psychiatrist, american horror, hell, psychiatric ward, satanism, occult, puzzle ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, action thriller ...
Plot:
psychopath, terror, family in danger, rivalry, split personality, maniac, murder, villain, black, psycho, mental illness, black girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
illegal drugs, addiction, murder, danger, drug dealing, dishonesty, mental disorder, mythical creature, psychology, nightshift, pregnancy, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Henry Adler lives in Ontario by himself, regularly visits his gruff and critical father, and works in a bank; he's also an actor. He finds new purpose in life when he's cast as a cop in a realistic TV show. He gets into the part, borrowing ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
psychopath, actor, police, violence, television, lgbtq, anti hero, tough heroes, bank, mental illness, prostitute, losing-it hero ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Similarity:
61%
523
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, psychiatric ward, cons and scams, mental institution, murder, working undercover, hospital, clinic, power relations, dishonesty, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Emily Edmunds has a great job and a great guy, Mark. But when Mark is killed in a plane crash, a distraught Emily attempts suicide.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
obsession, danger, woman in danger, doctors and patients, suicide attempt, plane crash, murder, psychiatrist, loss of husband, kidnapping, power relations, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
Style:
sexy, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctors and patients, dishonesty, uncover truth, missing person, power relations, investigation, gay, mental health, dialogue, homosexual love, destruction ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 21st century
Place:
usa, africa
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
older man younger woman romance, small town life, infidelity, extramarital affair, investigation, couples, who done it, family problems, couple relations, obsession, dangerous attraction, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
55%
619
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Dr. Dupont arrives at a mental facility to apply for a staff position. World famous Dr. Quilly interviews her, and has her sign papers. She is thrilled to get the job, and is shown her room. However, confusion with her room being on the same floor ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, uncover truth, danger, rescue, rehabilitation, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, wrongfully committed, mind game, psychiatric hospital, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
53%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, vengeance, criminal's revenge, violence spree, sexual content, murder, strip club, nightclub, crime boss, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
510
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chance Williams (Underwood), a man whose life is torn apart when his wife and unborn child are killed in a bizarre accident. Chance comes to believe Lauren (Morgan), wife to best friend Michael (Beach), is the only woman who can love and help him, ...
Style:
independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
black, urban, stalking, pregnancy, obsession, best friend, psychopath, family problems, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elle Overton, a college student, becomes obsessed with Katie Kampenfelt, the mysterious heroine of a novel she's just finished reading. When Elle, battling depression, becomes convinced that Katie is actually a flesh-and-blood human being, it ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, depression, mental illness, obsessed fan, possessed woman, female protagonist, problem, paranoia, character study, internet culture, identity crisis, stalking ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
Style:
sexual, independent film, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalking, psychopath, infidelity, obsession, danger, dangerous attraction, couple relations, dishonesty, couples, husband, woman, friend ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Dr. Yehia returns to El-Abbaseya Hospital five years after the death of his family. His return coincide with the arrival of a new patient, Sherif, a friend from college, who is accused of murder.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
mental institution, arab, twists and turns, doctors and patients, confined, losing-it hero, uncover truth, danger, friends, mysticism, hallucination, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have been imaginary.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, woman in danger, haunted by the past, best friend, mental illness, teenage life, youth, supernatural, mentally unstable, mental institution, doctors and patients, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
sex scene, femme fatale, showbiz, cons and scams, private detective, obsession, down on your luck, love and romance, infidelity, violent content, couples, battles ...
Time:
1940s, year 1997
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
sex scene, couples, stranger, family problems, mysterious character, danger, drinking, duel, drinking alcohol, romantic triangle, marriage, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
Style:
psycho sexual, psychological thriller, psychosexual thriller, intense, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, obsession, dangerous attraction, captivity, voyeurism, losing-it hero, female nudity, male nudity, jealousy, unrequited love, love triangle, nude girl ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
vancouver, canada
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, confined, danger, rivalry, international relations, violent content, hostage, realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, somalia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing ...
Style:
medical horror, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, doctors and patients, hospital, nurse, family dinner, workaholic, power relations, manipulation, medication, sociopath, teenage girl, evil doctor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman is tortured by the sudden disappearance of her only child years before. Obsessed with having another baby, she is devastated and driven to emotional crisis when discovering her new husband is infertile. Gripped by despair, the woman begins ...
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, mind bending ...
Plot:
obsession, haunted by the past, family relations, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, murder, family life, death in the family, trying to get pregnant, mysterious disappearance, dealing with death ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
711
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Traumatized and suffering from amnesia after witnessing a terrible accident, a man who calls himself P.J. (Howard Nash) is admitted to a hospital, where psychiatrist Alan Shearson tries to get him on the path to recovery. But Dr. Shearson's ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, hospital, memory loss, doctors and patients, rehabilitation, mental illness, curses spells and rituals, isolation, accident, spirituality, uncover truth, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Frank takes Pia Postman hostage on live TV, threatening to execute her after she accepts the blame for his daughter's suicide.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
swat team, nypd, hostage, hostage situation, swat, media, chases and races, confined, danger, haunted by the past, showbiz, hostage negotiator ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, mental illness, macabre, murder, journalism, investigation, murder mystery, voice over narration, mental breakdown, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place:
mount fuji, america, africa, japan, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, family secret, trauma, murder mystery, character study, nightmare, domestic drama, violent outburst, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
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