Movies like Mad World
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Mad World (2016)
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Original name: 一念無明
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 their only source of grief, as they find the outside world is a cruel and unjust place.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sad, art house, independent film, crying, serenity
Plot:
mental disorder, father son relationship, mental patient, mental illness, family problems, estrangement, father son estrangement, mentally unstable, depression, mental health, trauma, repeated scene, flying, bipolar disorder, mother son relationship, cantonese, reading a book, mental disorders, search
Place:
hong kong, china
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Most similar movies to Mad World
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about family problems, family relations, father son relationship, mental illness, relationship problems, life is a bitch and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like Mad World: Father's Acre (2009), Poppy Shakespeare (2008), Pity (2018), Digger (2020), Paper Spiders (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
parent child relationship, aunt nephew relationship, father son relationship, father son reunion, father son estrangement, family life, dysfunctional family, father and son, male female relationship, family problems, family relations, relationships ...
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95%
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:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
mental disorder, hospital, public health, mental illness, mental health, psychiatric hospital, social problems, patient, mental institution, life is a bitch, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
93%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, psychological, sad, suspense ...
Plot:
pain, family relations, pleasure, grief, care, self pity, addiction, pity, family problems, sadness, unhappy, lifestyle change ...
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When Jonny visits his father Nikitas in his cabin in the woods after 20 years, the hermit ignores him. But to prevent the muddy ground from being pulled out from under their feet for reasons of profit, father and son must dig deep into it...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, neo western ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family conflict, father son conflict, mountain, forest, estrangement, dysfunctional family, countryside, relationship problems, family problems, father son estrangement, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
91%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A bittersweet story about coming of age in the shadow of mental illness.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
coming of age, paranoid schizophrenia, mental disorder, mother and daughter, mental illness, mental health, grownups, life is a bitch, family problems, moral dilemma, parents and children, paranoid ...
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A disoriented and vulnerable woman, overburdened with daily life problems and more: her belongings are impounded, her cosmetics shop has been closed down, and her children's future is unknown. The children's vitality draws a sharp contrast ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
children, depression, life is a bitch, depressed woman, absent parent, single parent, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, mother, nudity, home alone ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Five shorts reveal a fictional Hong Kong in 2025, depicting a dystopian city where residents and activists face crackdowns under iron-fisted rule.
Style:
anthology, thought provoking, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
lifestyle, relationship problems, social injustice, social issues, society, slice of life, social problems, multiple storylines, politics, existentialism, dialogue, prophecy ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
What would you do to save your child? A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.
Style:
suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing, cult classic ...
Plot:
mental health, mental illness, coming of age, bipolar disorder, family relations, teenager, family problems, teenage boy, parents and children, human nature, teenage life, mother son relationship ...
Similarity:
83%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later Salvo lives with his uncles and his cousin a controlled and peaceful existence in the Turin area, but his father returns and claims his son for four ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, road movie
Plot:
father son relationship, road trip, family relations, relationships, dysfunctional family, father son estrangement, estrangement, father, ex convict, father and son, relationship problems, family problems ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, art film
Plot:
female protagonist, relationship problems, life is a bitch, self discovery, lifestyle change, family problems, passionate kiss, mental health, anxiety, mental illness, bare chested male, childhood memory ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When a New York lawyer returns to his Boston hometown to reunite his dying friend with his young son, he is forced to finally confront a childhood trauma.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, disturbing
Plot:
father son relationship, relationships, reunited friends, last wish, life is a bitch, troubled past, psychological trauma, confronting the past, traumatic experience, tragic past, children, lawyer ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
80%
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, mental health, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental disorder, ptsd, illness, suicidal, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A film about a man and one woman who do absurdly crazy things. But although their shocking behaviors are outrageous, but it remains not just as some spectacles. When the communication between two comes to fail, it suddenly arouses subtle sorrows.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, crying
Plot:
insanity, relationships, mentally unstable, tragic love, love affair, love story, relationship problems, male female relationship, couple relations, life is a bitch, mental illness, madness ...
Similarity:
79%
19K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two couples meet for a painful and raw conversation in the aftermath of a violent tragedy.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, sad ...
Plot:
tragedy, violent, church, forgiveness, mass murder, parents, grief, multiple perspectives, mental disorder, relationship problems, backfire, bereavement ...
Similarity:
78%
156
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Set in rural Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Shaw, a bullied outsider, is trying to cope with his mother’s death and a reunion with his estranged, alcoholic father.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, f word
Plot:
father son relationship, family problems, estranged father, father son estrangement, family life, parents and children, dysfunctional family, loss of mother, bereavement, child custody, family relations, kids and family ...
Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Gu Wentong, a middle-aged food critic, is drifting through the local eateries of vibrant Beijing with his younger photographer colleague Oyang. A divorcé with a 6-year-old daughter and estranged from his father for decades, he is looking for a new ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, reflective, realistic ...
Plot:
father son relationship, estrangement, father, family relations, search for father, family drama, father son reunion, absent father, relationships, estranged father, relationship problems, family reunited ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
76%
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, psychological, disturbing, tense
Plot:
childhood trauma, mental illness, depression, psychological trauma, mother daughter relationship, psychotic, psychology, mother and daughter, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, social problems ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
76%
342
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young married couple, not knowing how to deal with their new adopted son's behavior, decides to give him back.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
young couple, married couple, adopted son, foster parent, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, marital crisis, adoptive father adopted son relationship, young lovers, family problems ...
Similarity:
75%
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528
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young and eager police recruit Chris shoots a mentally ill man on duty. He is celebrated a hero, but soon after, traumatic symptoms begin to surface. In a desperate attempt not to be exposed by his tough superior Konstantin, he resorts to excessive ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
police, police officer, cop, life is a bitch, gunfight, special agent, violence, police detective, police brutality, cover up, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A young Tamil-postgraduate, frustrated with the circumstances and futility of his job, slowly loses his mental balance and becomes a sociopath.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
social status, psychopath, murderer, mental illness, mental disorder, serial murder, psycho killer, serial killer, murder, social issues, social misfits, socially awkward ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
74%
835
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Winnie Leung becomes more disturbed and depressed after her boyfriend Seth Lau breaks up with her and she turns schizophrenic - imagining events which never occurred, and often living in her own world- until one day she meets a guy named Ray, ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, obsession, psychopath, twists and turns, breakup, mentally unstable, murder, danger, violence, rivalry, relocation, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A child disappears from his parents sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
missing child, parents, forest, lost in the woods, disappearance, mysterious disappearance, vanished man, parent child relationship, family drama, punishment, isolation, loss ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Suffering through a mid-life crisis, Omer has to face the angry villagers in order to realize his estranged father's dying wish to be buried under the enshrined Noah Tree which his father claims to have planted half a century ago.
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
father son relationship, midlife crisis, family conflict, family problems, conflict, parents and children, social problems, village life, crisis, society, villager, social relations ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko. They have been married for 5 years. Haruko draws comics for work, but they do not sell well. ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, uplifting, crying
Plot:
depression, husband wife relationship, husband, male female relationship, family problems, supportive spouse, support, melancholy, coping, relationships, family relations, couple relations ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive sort who is addicted to gambling.
Style:
erotic, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
gambling, parent child relationship, father son relationship, gambling debt, casino, family problems, gambler, estranged father, father and son, father, life is a bitch, family relations ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a business consultant. But when a tragic event forces the past back into her life, Lola's grip on reality seems to slips away.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, sincere, social ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, relationship vs career, sister sister relationship, family problems, dysfunctional family, mentally unstable, disturbed individual, sisters, lesbian interest, sexism, love ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This Town is in part a social commentary, giving us some scary insight into todays youth but also reflecting the points of view of different generations. At heart, the movie asks the viewer to decide if these characters are right or wrong in their ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
older man younger woman sex, womanizer, social problems, multiple storylines, friendship, city life, family relations, social relations, relationships, small town, society, friends ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the day that Antoinette Tuff considered suicide, she realized that all of her challenges had prepared her for a purpose; to save an Atlanta school under siege from a deranged killer bent on murdering the students.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, inspirational ...
Plot:
faith, hostage situation, courage, psycho killer, psychopath, hostage, mentally unstable, mental disorder, death threat, threat, murderer, gunfight ...
Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Vlad was five his mother was killed. And the only person whom Vlad blames for her death is his father . On the 20th anniversary of the tragedy the young man decides to gather all his relatives together to dot all the i's and cross all the ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
family secret, father son relationship, guilt, family drama, uncover truth, murder mystery, changing lives, family relations, character change, family problems, family tragedy, murder ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe, russia
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A troubled teen is sent to live with his estranged father, a park ranger. During his time there, he develops an unusual affinity with and passion for the wolves in a local pack.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
wolf, nature, animal, teenage boy, survival, teenager, animal human communication, human animal relationship, teenage life, family problems, wild animal, adolescence ...
Place:
wyoming
Similarity:
70%
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