Schizophrenic movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant schizophrenic movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films and TV shows about / with schizophrenic, mental illness, insanity, schizophrenia, death, murder, hallucination, blood, paranoia and mental patient plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as schizophrenic: Donnie Darko (2001), Eye Catcher! (2014), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Black Swan (2010), Lost Transmissions (2019), Synecdoche, New York (2008), Fear of Rain (2021), The Voices (2014), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), Spider (2002).
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But she has a crush on a popular boy at school, and a deranged ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, schizophrenic, female bully, bullying, vengeance, social misfits, youth, teenage life, rivalry, physical appearance, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
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:
realistic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
songwriter, schizophrenia, record producer, medication, mental disorder, music industry, mental illness, friendship, help, music, musician's life, schizophrenic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Style:
philosophical, cult classic, confusing, art house, surreal ...
Plot:
existentialism, depression, death, writers, theater, twists and turns, schizophrenic, loneliness, philosophy, writer's life, mental illness, actor ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenage girl living with schizophrenia begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her parents try desperately to help her live a normal life, without exposing their own tragic secrets, and the only person who believes her is Caleb – a ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, intense, dark, thought provoking ...
Plot:
fear, mental illness, schizophrenia, teen angst, schizophrenic, fictional reality, missing child, delusion, hospitalization, hearing voices, abduction, paranoid schizophrenia ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, dark, surreal, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, kids
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, psychopath, blood, hearing voices, murder, psychiatrist, schizophrenic, hallucination, dog, childhood trauma, crush ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, minimal cast, twist ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, alien invasion, post apocalypse, kidnapping, bunker, strong female character, alien, underground bunker, survivalist, end of the world, conspiracy theory, bomb shelter ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
louisiana, peru, new orleans, usa
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43K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, childhood trauma, murder, haunted by the past, paranoia, mental patient, misfit, macabre, psychopath, twists and turns, mental health ...
Time:
2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 50s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, east end london, united kingdom ...
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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, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, fighting the system, freedom, human spirit, insanity, society, mental patient, mental disorder, nurse, psychiatrist, schizophrenia ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1963
Place:
oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Style:
psychological, touching, melancholic, sincere, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
suicide, suicidal, mental institution, coma, female protagonist, terminal illness, hopes, suicide attempt, starting over, doctors and patients, depression, life & death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, ireland
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 46 min.
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Story:
Factual drama based on the notorious Whitehouse Farm murders, and the ensuing police investigation and court case.
Style:
crime drama, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
murder trial, murder mystery, true crime, police investigation, schizophrenic, crime scene, adopted son, british police, murder case, farmhouse, investigation, murder investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, humorous, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, dark humor, mental disorder, schizophrenic, love affair, fall in love, military life, war, prisoner, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage proposal ...
Time:
year 2002, year 1996
Place:
chechnya, soviet union, afghanistan, russia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A team of French-Brazilian actors goes to Bucharest in Romania to shoot a film at a lower cost. But the Romanian technical team secretly shoot their own film.
Style:
avant garde, psychotronic, contemplative, stylized, independent film ...
Plot:
lgbt, movie actress, schizophrenic, conspiracy, filmmaking, paranoia, backstage, schizophrenia, ambitious man, producer, bisexual, mistaken identity ...
Place:
europe, romania
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339K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of an incurable virus spread, a robot seeking to eradicate humanity deceptively guides a Red Cross survivor to sanctuary with the false hope of his family awaiting in Safe Zone 57.
Style:
epic, psychotronic, educational, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot:
sole survivor, zombie outbreak, robot, cholera, infection, journey, expedition, top secret, quarantine, zombie attack, imagination, loss of father ...
Time:
future, 2020s, near future, year 2019
Place:
utah, china, usa, washington d.c., colorado ...
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22K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, frightening, grindhouse, cult horror, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, gory, violent, extreme violence, murder, exploitation, schizophrenic, schizophrenia, disturbed individual, male victim, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, confusing, art house ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, nightmare, macabre, curse, danger, couples, violence, alternate reality, abusive husband, insanity, doppelganger, mysticism ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
poland, los angeles, europe, california, usa ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A beautiful schizophrenic woman is pushed over the edge by her husbands elicit affairs and when her hallucinations become reality the Devil comes to take his due. Is Miriam insane or has the Devil come to collect on her promise?
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, psychotronic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
schizophrenic, unfaithful husband, husband wife relationship, insanity, schizophrenia, devil, violence, danger, vengeance, mental disorder, photography, terror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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457
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her sister's impending wedding. But inside Letty there¹s an anxiety that¹s building. Suddenly ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, captivating, independent film
Plot:
couple relations, schizophrenic, opposites attract, introspection, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, hopes, prodigy, couples, doctors and patients, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nervous breakdown ...
Time:
future
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615K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, kidnapping, dissociative identity disorder, murder, split personality, psycho, insanity, serial killer, paranoia, captive, schizophrenia, psychopath ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young man on the run from a mysterious government agency is desperate to find the cure for a condition that causes him to wake up at random places around the world when he falls asleep.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
teleportation, schizophrenic, hallucination, craziness, professor, paranoia, mental breakdown, danger, psychological trauma, tragic event, artificial intelligence, fight ...
Place:
france, italy, switzerland, new york, new jersey ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Abraham and his female friend Álex have a close relationship; they share both secrets and fears. When Abraham starts going out with Anchi, he begins to distance himself from Álex, who gradually dives into a living hell where she encounters strange ...
Style:
suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, abusive father, psychotherapy, imaginary friend, split personality, friendship, father son relationship, childhood friend, psychotherapist, mental illness, mysterious event, hearing voices ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After the death of his young daughter, Thomas Dunn is a man who has lost his faith. His life has crumbled and his confidence is shattered. Yet, on this day he wakes to discover that Mandy, his loving wife is finally pregnant again. Maybe this is ...
Style:
suspense, intense, tense, exciting, disturbing ...
Plot:
alien invasion, mental illness, disaster, haunted by the past, schizophrenic, little boy, alien contact, abusive father, brother brother relationship, painting, child in peril, fictional war ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
big ben london, manhattan new york city, britain, new york, london
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A recent transplant to Bradbury Academy is finding it difficult to contain his deadly empathic powers, soon resorting to using his gift in order to exact revenge when the other guys gang up on him.
Style:
serious, psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, stylized ...
Plot:
homosexual subtext, boarding school, revenge, gang, vengeance, rivalry, mysterious event, schizophrenic, schizophrenia, gay interest, school, sexploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, rejection and fear without facing Akai, he develops a ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
split personality, serial killer, bullying, revenge, destiny, psychopath, vengeance, rivalry, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, schizophrenic ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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212
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Adapted and inspired from the play Lipsynch, Triptyque is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle (Lise Castonguay) a schizophrenic bookseller, Marie (Frédérike Bédard), singer and actress, and Thomas (Hans Piesbergen), a ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, contemplative, emotional ...
Plot:
mental illness, destiny, hopes, society, surgical operation, schizophrenic, urban, neurologist, jazz singer, poetry, sister sister relationship, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style:
humorous, witty, melancholic, cult classic, philosophical ...
Plot:
infidelity, friendship, fetish, self discovery, life philosophy, character study, introspection, buddies, couple relations, sex, dialogue, food ...
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
A group of teens are faced with a life-changing experience when they meet a deranged drifter
Style:
suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
psychopath, survival, youth, danger, woods, kids in trouble, teenage life, kidnapping, mind game, exploitation, schizophrenic, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
united kingdom
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