Movies like Princess 2010

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Princess (2010)
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Princess (2010)
Original name: Prinsessa
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Happier than the rest of us?
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, realistic
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, schizophrenia, depression, treatment, patient, doctor, childhood trauma, nurse, delusion, suicide attempt, mental health, dancehall girl, storytelling, princess, female nudity, alcoholic, mental patient, suicide, dancer, lobotomy, childhood, mother daughter relationship, role playing, mother daughter estrangement ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, 1950s, 50s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, realistic, serious and captivating films with plots about mental illness, mental institution, mental disorder, psychiatric hospital, family relations, mental health and mentally unstable mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres. Some movies like Princess: Homesick (2005), An Angel at My Table (1990), Angels of the Universe (2000), Frankie & Alice (2010), 55 Steps (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Homesick (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 17-year-old Sami has an accident which resulted in him reluctantly sent to closed psychiatric hospital. Sami refuses to speak or show his feelings, even when the nurse Taneli is trying everything in order to understand how the crash really happened. ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, touching, sexy
Plot: sex with mother, mental institution, doctor, mental breakdown, forbidden love, mental illness, broken family, parent child relationship, roommate, suicide attempt, mental health, psychiatry ...
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An Angel at My Table (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Janet Frame grows up in a poor family. She is different than the other kids. She is considered abnormal and locked away in a mental institution for eight years. Everything changes when she starts writing books.
Style: psychological, touching, spiritual, neurotic, erotic ...
Plot: mental illness, writers, depression, biopic, schizophrenia, art, women, children, female writer, making love, feminist, woman ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: new zealand, paris france, london
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39%
Angels of the Universe (2000)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Iceland, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf ...
Style: psychological, touching, captivating, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, suicide, losing-it hero, mental disorder, wrongfully committed, youth, mentally unstable, dark humor, mental institution, painting, psychiatry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Frankie & Alice (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: split personality, mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, racism, dancer, illness, doctors and patients, haunted by the past, identity crisis, power relations, multiple personality disorder, go go dancer ...
Time: 20th century, year 2010, 70s, 1950s, year 1957
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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55 Steps (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, tense, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: mental patient, lawyer, female protagonist, female lawyer, mental health, opposites attract, female friendship, friendship, psychology, dishonesty, danger, society ...
Time: year 1991, year 1985
Place: san francisco
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38%
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental health, mental disorder, ptsd, suicidal, illness, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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37%
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Gods (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, sexy
Plot: surgeon, politics, doctors and patients, rise to the top, ambition, power relations, state affairs, heart, hospital, doctor, reckless driving, patient ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985, year 1987
Place: poland
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37%
Chattahoochee (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom drama, mental institution, social decay, injustice, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, male nudity, hospital, price of justice, prodigy, fighting the system, rebellion ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 1950s, year 1952, year 1955 ...
Place: florida, usa, miami, korea
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37%
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Tove (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb ...
Style: psychological, tense, melancholic, unusual plot structure, touching ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbianism, writers, lgbt, lesbian relationship, artist, lesbian love, unrequited love, lesbian couple, love affair, love, female artist ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1950s, year 1947, year 1952 ...
Place: finland, helsinki finland, paris france, eastern europe
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36%
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Mental (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Four young adults with different stories but the same destination; closed psychiatric ward.
Style: psychological, thrilling, satirical, captivating
Plot: mental health, drug abuse, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, mental patient, nervous breakdown, mental disorder, psychiatric patient, youth, mental illness, satire, suicide attempt ...
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36%
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Awakenings (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style: inspirational, motivational, sentimental, sincere, uplifting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, hospital, illness, doctors and patients, medical, psychiatry, fighting illness, hopes, medicine, disability, patient ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place: america, new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot: biopic, hollywood, mental illness, insane asylum, mental patient, couples, artists and showbiz, actor's life, state affairs, prodigy, politics, performer's life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: washington d.c., seattle
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36%
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Committed (1991)
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, murder, mistaken identity, nurse, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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36%
Poppy Shakespeare (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: mental disorder, hospital, mental illness, public health, life is a bitch, mental institution, social problems, patient, mentally unstable, female protagonist, social work, recovery
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Lost Transmissions (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.
Style: suspense, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: schizophrenia, medication, record producer, songwriter, music industry, mental illness, friendship, help, social realism, mental patient, music, treatment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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35%
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Black Box (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Catherine Black is a world-famous neurologist at the state-of-the-art medical institution known as "The Cube". Catherine is brilliant, beautiful, and at the top of her game, though she's hiding a secret of her own: she's bipolar. ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental illness, treatment, mental disorder, workplace, surgery, workplace situations, therapy, family relations, couple relations, couples, patient, medical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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35%
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Mad World (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An absentee father and his bipolar son are forced to live together as they struggle with a recent family tragedy. The tension and anxiety boil as they live and try to cope in a tiny apartment. As time passes, they realize their shared pain is not ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: mental disorder, bipolar disorder, father son relationship, family problems, estrangement, mental illness, mentally unstable, father son estrangement, mental patient, trauma, depression, mental health ...
Place: hong kong, china
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35%
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Quitting (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An actor becomes increasingly introverted and psychotic and his entire family attempts to intervene.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, tense ...
Plot: addiction, haunted by the past, actor's life, rise and fall, downfall, rehabilitation, tragic hero, family in crisis, drug abuse, showbiz, rebelliousness, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: china, asia, beijing china
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Loro (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: "Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite ...
Style: factual, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: politics, society, lie, political corruption, politician, sex trafficking, sex scene, party, extramarital affair, family relations, anti communism, poem ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy
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35%
Romulus, My Father (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: It tells the story of Romulus, his beautiful wife, Christina, and their struggle in the face of great adversity to bring up their son, Raimond. It is a story of impossible love that ultimately celebrates the unbreakable bond between father and son.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, isolation, family problems, hopes, impossible love, couples, couple relations, rivalry, love and romance, parents and children, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 60s
Place: australia, melbourne
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35%
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Frances (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style: depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, family relations, showbiz, rise to the top, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: california, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Vincent & Theo (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Style: touching, psychological, scenic, sexy, cult classic ...
Plot: painter, art, artist, painting, biopic, genius, obsession, brother brother relationship, poverty, art history, life is a bitch, mentally unstable ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century, 80s
Place: holland, europe, london, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Starving in Suburbia (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what ...
Style: psychological, social, disturbing, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, eating disorder, physical appearance, obsession, weight loss, dancer, internet, family problems, social issues, social problems, imaginary friend ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
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Anna M. (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. Incorrectly believing the love to be reciprocated, she embarks on several attempts to try and stay in touch ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, obsession, mental illness, doctors and patients, doctor, hate, hopes, women, femme fatale, family relations, couples, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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Blind Spot (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story: BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: mental illness, childhood trauma, depression, psychological trauma, psychotic, psychology, mother and daughter, family problems, relationship problems, social problems, parents and children, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
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35%
The White Sound (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lukas, a young schizophrenic man, has to deal with a new town, a new relationship, and the paranoia in his head.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, mindfuck, transgressive
Plot: schizophrenia, going straight, mental illness, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, friendship, insanity, brother sister relationship, hippie, addiction, suicide attempt, doll ...
Place: germany, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.
Style: realistic, sincere, factual, aesthetic, costume drama ...
Plot: art, mental illness, biopic, painter, separation from family, mental institution, unfulfillment, artist, art history, faith, paranoia, sculpture ...
Time: 20th century, year 1915, 1910s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Sybil (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.
Style: psychological, touching, heartbreaking, sad, disturbing
Plot: mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, child abuse, mental disorder, child rape, children, mental health, psychiatrist, patient, mentally unstable, domineering mother ...
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Self Medicated (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on true events. On the edges of Las Vegas, 17-year-old Andrew's life is spiraling out of control. Unable to cope with the loss of his father, Andrew's descent into drugs and violence is gaining momentum, and the once promising young ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, teen ...
Plot: drug abuse, self discovery, rehabilitation, downfall, kids in trouble, addiction, escape, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society, uncontrollable ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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