| Forgotten (2017) | 7.4 | |
| Suicide Room (2011) | 6.6 | |
| Jacob's Ladder (1990) | 7.4 | |
| Defendor (2009) | 6.7 | |
| The Terror (2018) | 7.8 |
Delusion movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant delusion movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, psychological, weird, suspenseful and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with delusion, mental illness, murder, paranoia, hallucination, mental disorder, insanity, storytelling, dialogue and blood plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as delusion: Suicide Room (2011), K-PAX (2001), Lars and the Real Girl (2007), The Forgotten (2004), Take Shelter (2011), The Good Liar (2019), The King of Comedy (1982), Teenage Dirtbag (2009), Nine Miles Down (2009), Repulsion (1965).
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List of delusion movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dominik is an ordinary boy. He's got loads of friends, the hottest girl in school, rich parents and money to spend on brand-name clothes. But one innocent kiss with a mate changes everything. He begins to isolate himself from the outside world, ...
Style:
tense, bleak, captivating, serious, adult animation ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
suicide, escape from reality, gay, youth, depression, emo, alienation, delusion, internet, mental illness, fictional reality, self harm ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
poland, europe
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202K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
patient, mental institution, extraterrestrial, alien, mysterious character, psychiatry, hypnosis, psychiatrist, planet, space and aliens, investigation, delusion ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, persia, new york, newfoundland, greenland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size ...
Style:
touching, humorous, depressing, sweet, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, mental illness, sex doll, shyness, doll, delusion, bittersweet, young man, introvert, small town, forbidden love, character study ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son she never had. But when she meets a man who has had a ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, missing child, mind game, delusion, alien abduction, memory, grief, paranoia, husband wife relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, dark, ambiguous ending, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, nightmare, schizophrenia, obsession, insanity, paranoia, nervous breakdown, dream, delusion, character study, premonition, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
ohio, columbus ohio, peru, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An aging con artist cannot believe his luck when he meets a wealthy widow and marks her as his next target. But she hides a secret of her own.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, captivating, atmospheric, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
delusion, elderly, rich woman, deception, ruse, criminal, embezzler, online dating, male female relationship, money, old woman, lie ...
Time:
year 1948, year 2019, year 1943, year 2009, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, england, london, berlin germany
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
Style:
tragicomedy, black comedy, dark comedy, funny, satirical ...
Plot:
character study, obsession, desire for fame, ambition, delusion, showbiz, dark humor, satire, artists and showbiz, nervous breakdown, kidnapping, manic ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A popular high school girl is harassed by a delinquent boy until they are placed in creative writing class together. Through written words, they create a bond, but tragically a bond that cannot withstand her social pressures or his brutal home life.
Style:
uplifting, serious, sincere, realistic, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, cheerleader, delusion, child abuse, teenage life, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, enemies to lovers, notebook, social differences, friends, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Hungary
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. A security patrolman, battles through the high winds to investigate why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the ...
Style:
scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, mystic, psychological horror ...
Plot:
geologist, investigation, mysterious character, delusion, isolation, hallucination, twists and turns, hell, desert, mystery killer, scientific research, atheism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, sahara
Is relevant?
61K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, cerebral, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot:
mental illness, surrealism, rape, insanity, schizophrenia, murder, isolation, delusion, hallucination, fear, nightmare, claustrophobia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place:
england, london, europe, britain, eastern europe ...
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12K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A haunted Afghanistan war veteran attempts to come to terms with his past while searching for his family in a post-apocalyptic America.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, surprise ending ...
Plot:
delusion, illusion, alternate reality, paranoia, mental illness, dream, friendship, mission, danger, military, tragic event, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
twist ending, disturbing, surreal, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
nightmare, paranoia, delusion, memory, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, dealing with death, soldier, macabre ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The crew of a Royal Naval expedition searching for the Arctic's treacherous Northwest Passage discovers instead a monstrous predator.
Style:
anthology, twist ending, spooky, psychological horror, costume drama ...
Plot:
arctic, violence, cannibalism, starvation, expedition, corpse, insanity, delusion, mysticism, desperation, north pole, british navy ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 2010s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
former yugoslavia
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman discovers her new husband wants to keep her all to himself.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
woman in danger, psychopath, delusion, husband wife relationship, hidden identity, captivity, couple relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, possessiveness, murder, miscarriage ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During their journey the expedition led by Captain Choi Do-hyung discovers a journal that was left behind by a British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the ...
Style:
atmospheric, gothic, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
isolation, paranoia, danger, delusion, christmas, mental disorder, mountain, snow, escapades, winter, disaster, nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antarctica, oceania
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Count Arthur Strong is a faded star from the golden days of variety, prone to delusions of grandeur, selective memory loss and the blurting out of malapropisms. He was never as famous as he thinks he was... or still thinks he is. Believing that ...
Style:
sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, slapstick comedy
Plot:
delusion, desire for fame, unsuccessful, elderly, farce, showbiz, writers, embarrassment, pun, memory loss, nostalgia, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This film was the pinnacle of anti-D&D fearmongering. Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and ...
Style:
fantasy adventure, dark fantasy, bleak, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
delusion, disappearance, world trade center manhattan new york city, quest, psychosis, college, tragic event, loss of brother, depression, map, missing person, breakup ...
Time:
80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Is relevant?
38K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, stylized, sincere, brutal ...
Plot:
superhero, vigilantism, delusion, revenge, secret identity, friendship, dark hero, wannabe, undercover, obsession, righting the wronged, mental disorder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, mind twisting ...
Plot:
plot twist, revenge, memory loss, delusion, brother brother relationship, home invasion, twists and turns, new house, uncover truth, hypnosis, deception, chase ...
Place:
south korea, korea
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the ...
Style:
gothic, slasher, psychotronic, gothic horror, suspense ...
Plot:
castle, male model, curse, serial killer, bare chested male, dungeon, insanity, muscleman, executioner, masked killer, villain, murder ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 17th century
Place:
europe
Is relevant?
213K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the year 2047 a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the long lost starship "Event Horizon". The ship disappeared mysteriously 7 years before on its maiden voyage and with its return comes even more mystery as the ...
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, scary, lovecraft, spooky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, outer space, spaceship, cosmic horror, space station, trapped in space, insanity, space and aliens, violence, supernatural, hallucination, nightmare ...
Time:
future, 2040s, 90s, year 1997, 21st century
Is relevant?
153K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A shallow man falls in love with a 300 pound woman because of her "inner beauty".
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, kids, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
love story, overweight, relationships, fall in love, power of love, dating, womanizer, physical appearance, love and romance, soul mate, honest, adaptation ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, boston, new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!
Style:
surreal, medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
nightmare, hallucination, mental illness, psychiatrist, surrealism, experiment, insanity, body horror, delusion, experiment gone awry, corporation, doctors and patients ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1989
Place:
indonesia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
Style:
psychological, spooky, scary, horrifying, slasher ...
Plot:
blindness, woman in danger, mysterious villain, suicide, who done it, twin sister, disability, murder, uncover truth, unsupportive parent, blind character, delusion ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Is relevant?
40K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style:
psychological, cult classic, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
insanity, paranoia, obsession, losing-it hero, mental illness, psychosis, couples, nudity, conspiracy theory, addiction, schizophrenia, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa, louisiana
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, gothic, psychological ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental breakdown, country house, husband wife relationship, adultery, hallucination, countryside, surrealism, loneliness, delusion, housewife, unicorn ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
ireland
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
astronaut, atheism, mental illness, insanity, therapy, psychotherapy, nervous breakdown, nightmare, psychiatric hospital, castle, religion, insane asylum ...
Time:
year 1980, year 2016, 80s
Place:
vietnam, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, sexy, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, drug addiction, obsession, identical twins, losing-it hero, twins, mistaken identity, brother brother relationship, love triangle, addiction, schizophrenia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1954, 1950s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant?
1.7M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, suspense, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental illness, villain, loneliness, mental patient, psycho, comedian, psychological trauma, mental disorder, psychopath, social problems, insanity, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia, bronx new york city
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
On a trip to the beach, a teenage girl named Tobe meets a charismatic stranger named Harlan, who dresses like a cowboy and claims to be a former ranch hand. The pair feel an instant attraction and begin a relationship, but her father, a lawman, is ...
Style:
psychological, neo western, disturbing, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual content, cowboy, rebellious daughter, delusion, dangerous attraction, love and romance, parents and children, crazy love, father daughter relationship, psychopath, mental illness, hipster ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
south dakota, california, los angeles, usa, san diego california
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