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Insanity (2014)
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Original name: 暴瘋語
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fan Kwok Sang's schizophrenic breakdown led to the accidental death of his wife Wai Ling, and he was committed to a psychiatric hospital three years ago. Now Fan is ready to be released, with Dr. Chow Ming Kit vouching for him even though his senior objects. However, Fan finds it hard to cope with his new life. Something bad happens to him and Chow becomes obsessed in trying to defend his patient, as well as save his own reputation.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, dark, intense, psychological thriller, emotional, sad ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, drug addict, murder, rehabilitation, convict, psychiatric hospital, twists and turns, insanity, psychology, psychological trauma, death in the family, obsession, grief, family conflict, guilt, trauma, hospital, isolation, family drama, moral ambiguity, mother in law, character study ...
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Most similar movies to Insanity
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, dark and suspense films with plots about isolation, obsession, slow burn, moral ambiguity, trauma, grief and claustrophobia mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Insanity: Guilt & Sentence (2010), Nerve (2013), The Lost Patient (2022), What Remains (2022), Intrusive Behavior (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, depression, crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, guilty conscience, introspection, traumatic past, character study, guilt, redemption ...
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95%
181
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jakob Evans suffers an emotional breakdown after the death of his wife in a car accident. His loss and pain runs deep as he claims to have found her in bed with another man just before she died. Unable to accept her death and her infidelity, Jakob ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, emotional breakdown, infidelity, grief, mental disorder, character study, obsession, loss, introspection, cheating on husband, adultery, lovers ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The 19 years old Thomas wakes up in a hospital after three years in a coma. He doesn't remember anything. The psychologist Anna tells him that his family has been murdered and that he is the only survivor of the massacre while his sister Laura ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
memory loss, psychiatry, waking up from a coma, memory lapse, amnesia, problem, coma, repressed memory, mental illness, memory, psychology, hospital ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Finland, UK, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a psychiatric hospital, an alleged serial killer, his therapist, and a police detective seek to solve a brutal cold case before their obsessive quest for the truth consumes them all.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
trauma, psychiatrist, psychiatric hospital, obsession, crime solving, uncover truth, crime investigation, murder investigation, investigation, mind game, cold case, secrets ...
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Years after the institutionalizing and abandoning of their mentally unstable daughter, the Kilpatrick family becomes victim to mental instabilities of their own as their past comes back to haunt them.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, psychological horror, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, trauma, mental illness, family drama, paranoia, guilt, family secret, mental breakdown, revenge, obsession, grief, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his five-year-old daughter is murdered, a loving family man becomes convinced that the oddball down the street is guilty.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
bereavement, revenge, grief, lynching, price of justice, vengeance, murderer, neighbor, child murder, murder mystery, loss of child, loss of daughter ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, obsession, grief, motherhood, loss, lifestyle, mentally unstable, new neighbor, tragic past, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Bella sees her parents killed during a home invasion. Afterwards, she keeps waking up in a strange white room and the past keeps playing over and over. Bella must solve the mystery of the White Room and move on, but to where?
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological horror, twist ending, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, room, life & death, confronting the past, tragic past, troubled past, mental disorder, murder witness, murder, life is a bitch, problem, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister's killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on the journey, Logan uncovers he has a complex past with much more than one passenger.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
photographic memory, memory, revenge, memories, killer, grief, trauma, confronting the past, fantasy becomes reality, false memory, investigation, murder investigation ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
social media, isolation, loneliness, writers, murder, family relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, internet, society, violence, online dating ...
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalking, murder mystery, art, female protagonist, paranoia, obsession, photography, voyeurism, privacy invasion, female artist, fantasy becomes reality, secretly observing ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
memory loss, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, uncover truth, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, tragedy, car crash, guilt, fatal accident, trauma, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A psychology student attempts to cure her sister's crippling psychosis only to expose them both to its origin: an ancient creature intent on claiming their souls.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, disturbing, mystical, psychological horror ...
Plot:
psychosis, hallucination, mental illness, reincarnation, supernatural horror, sister sister relationship, mentally unstable woman, dark power, parapsychology, psychology, sister, sisters ...
Similarity:
50%
305
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
Style:
emotional, tense, intense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, family crisis, grief, loss, trauma, missing person, intimate, family drama, desperation, love ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A content moderator is tasked with purging offensive media from the internet. When she witnesses a crime in a video, she is lured away from the safety of her keyboard as she obsessively seeks to hold someone accountable.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, grim, dark, psychological
Plot:
obsession, dark web, internet culture, ethical dilemma, female protagonist, social commentary, character study, burnout, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, unsettling, surveillance ...
Time:
near future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Similarity:
48%
114
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Psychological thriller about a woman child-protection officer tramautized by her stillbirth who befriends a woman in hospital and then becomes convinced that the daughter is being abused.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, stillbirth, motherhood, trauma, mental disorder, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, family relations, kids in trouble, domestic violence, loss of child, child abuse ...
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48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, art house, psychotronic ...
Plot:
isolation, mysterious stranger, grief, loss of child, loss of faith, house, church, wife, death, murder, psychopath, runaway ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, alcoholic, obsession, alcoholism, death threat, plan, murderer, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, espionage, criminal, character study ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Soo Jin, a woman suffering from post-traumatic memory loss, returns to her daily life with her husband after an accident. But her recovery takes an unexpected turn when she starts experiencing eerie visions: One day, she sees a vision of a child ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
a vision, investigation, amnesia, supernatural power, memory lapse, uncover truth, repressed memory, confronting the past, tragic past, memory, supernatural, secret past ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A psych-patient, accused of a violent murder, turns to her court-appointed psychiatrist to prove her innocence and sanity. Her psychiatrist must help her decipher delusion from truth to unravel the mystery of her reality.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, psychiatrist, psychopath, patient, mental illness, doctor patient relationship, psychiatrist patient relationship, female psychopath, danger, woman in danger, murder, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
inheritance, deception, evidence, death, secret, house, lie, estate, strong female character, uncover truth, grief, family secret ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After the tragic death of her husband, a soldier posted to Afghanistan, Bryony tries to build a new life for herself and her young son, James. Struggling with her own grief she fails to notice that James has become secretive and withdrawn, spending ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, gothic horror ...
Plot:
bereavement, mother son relationship, family tragedy, family drama, loss of spouse, grief, family relations, life is a bitch, survival horror, family problems, loss of father, loss of husband ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
police station, unsupportive spouse, murder, haunted by the past, law enforcement, family problems, couples, unlikely criminals, confession, police, domestic violence, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After the death of his girlfriend, Travis, a thirty-something psychiatrist, struggles to keep it together. On the brink of a nervous breakdown he stumbles across a strange church run by a charismatic leader, Pastor Jay. In search of answers Travis ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, mysterious girl, teenage girl, nervous breakdown, emotional breakdown, love interest, social problems, relationships, male female relationship, religions or cults, family relations, teenager ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A famous photographer with the ability to mind read returns after leaving due to his lover's suicide as she became aware of his ability. He becomes a guardian for a young girl, in midst of a serial killer's hunt.
Style:
detective, twisted, psychological, emotional, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, murder, suicide, photographer, murderer, murder mystery, murder investigation, mysterious disappearance, serial murder, vanished man, trauma ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, supernatural, schizophrenia, occult, revenge, psychiatric hospital, kidnapping, supernatural horror, mental patient, child abduction, mentally unstable, female psychopath ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man and his friends react to a sudden, unexpected tragedy during their annual all-weekend summer party.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, vengeance, rivalry, prison, tragedy, danger, guilt, grief, youth, moral ambiguity, trauma, secrets ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Les McCubbin spent his whole life in his twin brother Addison's shadow. When Addison severs their psychic connection, Les doesn't just lose his brother - he begins to lose himself.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
twin brother, mental disorder, twins, brother, identity crisis, mentally unstable, mental institution, brother brother relationship, evil twin, psycho, dysfunctional family, psychopath ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Devastated by his daughter's death in a terrible accident, Ben becomes convinced that he can bring her back through a recurring dream. But is it just a dream? Or is Ben losing his mind?
Style:
psychological thriller, mind bending, tense, emotional, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
grief, bereavement, nightmare, death of child, dream, mourning, loss of daughter, family tragedy, death, obsession, haunting, mental breakdown ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
40%
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