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 psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film, suspense and weird films and TV shows about / with delusion, mental illness, mental disorder, obsession, blood, friendship, paranoia, dream, murder and insanity plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
delusion
 539
delusion movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as delusion: Lars and the Real Girl (2007), Take Shelter (2011), Suicide Room (2011), The Forgotten (2004), The Good Liar (2019), The King of Comedy (1982), K-PAX (2001), Nine Miles Down (2009), Repulsion (1965), Teenage Dirtbag (2009).

List of delusion movies

Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
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, depressing, humorous, melancholic, cute ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: mental illness, loneliness, sex doll, shyness, doll, introvert, delusion, small town, young man, forbidden love, grief, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2007, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
Is relevant ?
 7.3
 107K
Take Shelter (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 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, bleak, suspense, ambiguous ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, insanity, nightmare, obsession, paranoia, end of the world, nervous breakdown, dream, twists and turns, fear, delusion ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place: ohio, peru, usa, columbus ohio
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 11K
Suicide Room (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 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: bleak, tense, captivating, serious, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: suicide, gay, mental illness, escape from reality, youth, emo, addiction, internet, alienation, self destructing, teenage boy, fictional reality ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: poland, europe
Is relevant ?
 5.8
 68K
The Forgotten (2004)
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, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: memory loss, conspiracy, psychiatrist, memory, missing child, mind game, delusion, twists and turns, abduction, grief, alien, experiment ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 47K
The Good Liar (2019)
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, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: delusion, elderly, rich woman, criminal, past coming back to haunt, embezzler, online dating, ruse, male female relationship, money, widow, old woman ...
Time: year 2019, year 1943, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, london, berlin germany
Is relevant ?
The King of Comedy (1982)
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, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, talky ...
Plot: obsession, desire for fame, ambition, showbiz, character study, delusion, kidnapping, artists and showbiz, insanity, satire, psychology, television ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 192K
K-PAX (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
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, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: alien, mental institution, patient, planet, extraterrestrial, mysterious character, hypnosis, space and aliens, mental illness, psychiatrist, science, investigation ...
Time: future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, persia, new york, greenland, newfoundland ...
Is relevant ?
Nine Miles Down (2009)
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, mystic, psychological horror, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: isolation, geologist, investigation, hallucination, mysterious character, delusion, desert, hell, twists and turns, scientific research, mystery killer, gas ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
Is relevant ?
 7.6
 57K
Repulsion (1965)
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: surreal, disturbing, black and white, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, rape, schizophrenia, surrealism, insanity, murder, hallucination, delusion, isolation, claustrophobia, repression, female protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place: england, london, europe, britain, eastern europe ...
Is relevant ?
Teenage Dirtbag (2009)
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, romantic drama ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: cheerleader, delusion, teenage life, high school, child abuse, domestic violence, dysfunctional family, social differences, notebook, friends, life is a bitch, hardcase students ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 117K
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
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: surreal, twist ending, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot: nightmare, paranoia, hallucination, memory, delusion, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, psychology, dealing with death, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
Is relevant ?
Happy Sugar Life (2018)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Family, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Satou Matsuzaka, a girl who has never loved anyone before, falls in love with a girl named Shio Koube. The two girls are drawn to each other, and begin a happy life together. Satou won't let anyone endanger their new life, and would do anything ...
Style: anime, suspenseful, bleak, romantic, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, insanity, secret, dysfunctional family, abusive father, blackmail, affection, troubled past, romantic relationship, delusion, girl, murder ...
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 51K
The Terror (2018)
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, psychological, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: arctic, cannibalism, expedition, starvation, insanity, violence, animal attack, leadership, mysticism, delusion, desperation, cold ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Is relevant ?
Her Perfect Spouse (2004)
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, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: woman in danger, psychopath, delusion, husband wife relationship, hidden identity, captivity, couple relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, possessiveness, love, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 6.0
 11K
Man Down (2015)
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, bleak, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: alternate reality, delusion, dream, mental illness, friendship, paranoia, danger, military, mission, illusion, violence, tragic event ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan
Is relevant ?
Mazes and Monsters (1982)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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: bleak, dark fantasy, cult classic, fantasy adventure, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world trade center manhattan new york city, delusion, college, quest, mental illness, psychosis, disappearance, tragic event, cave, friendship, breakup, hallucination ...
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.7
 37K
Defendor (2009)
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: realistic, dark comedy, black comedy, stylized, sincere ...
Plot: superhero, vigilante, friendship, delusion, revenge, wannabe, undercover, obsession, righting the wronged, comic book, villain, drug ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style: surreal, psychological, scary, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, suicide, ghost, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, tragedy, haunted house, twists and turns, children, guilt, sisters ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
Is relevant ?
Count Arthur Strong (2013)
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, humorous, not serious, realistic, slapstick comedy
Plot: delusion, desire for fame, elderly, unsuccessful, farce, writers, aging, old man, actor, cafe, overbearing, british humour ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
Is relevant ?
Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Genre: Horror
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, gothic horror, psychotronic, grindhouse ...
Plot: castle, male model, serial killer, murder, delusion, bare chested male, dungeon, curse, insanity, villain, muscleman, masked killer ...
Is relevant ?
Antarctic Journal (2005)
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, suspenseful, scary, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: isolation, danger, snow, escapades, delusion, paranoia, winter, disaster, survival, mental disorder, nature, arctic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: antarctica, oceania
Is relevant ?
 7.4
 45K
Forgotten (2017)
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, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: plot twist, brother brother relationship, memory loss, uncover truth, home invasion, delusion, revenge, twists and turns, new house, deception, chase, childhood memory ...
Place: south korea, korea
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 6K
Special (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, surreal, dark comedy ...
Plot: mental illness, delusion, hallucination, identity crisis, dark humor, wannabe, misfit, obsession, society, superhero, employer employee relationship, paranoia ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Is relevant ?
Down in the Valley (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 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, disturbing, stylized, serious, captivating ...
Plot: mental illness, cowboy, sexual content, delusion, love and romance, dangerous attraction, parents and children, father daughter relationship, psychopath, character study, small town, hipster ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: california, south dakota, los angeles, usa, san diego california
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 212K
Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, lookalikes, obsession, nightmare, surrealism, disturbed individual, actor, existentialism ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 11
Lapse (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Renee wakes up one morning in the middle of the desert with blood on her hands. She cannot remember why she is there, how she got there or with whom she came. Her quest to uncover forgotten events leads her on a journey of discovery where reality ...
Style: surreal, suspense, experimental, avant garde, surprise ending ...
Plot: desert, delusion, guilt, missing person, infidelity, vengeance, amnesia, puzzle, memory, betrayal, confession, false memory ...
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 825
The Movie Hero (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man believes his life is a movie watched by an audience only he can see.In his feature film debut, director Brad T. Gottfred delivers a spoof of cinema cliches with a memorable protagonist named Blake Gardner (Jeremy Sisto), who believes his life ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience: date night
Plot: delusion, impossible love, unemployment, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, mental illness, male female relationship, humour, filmmaking, autism, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather — without snow. Even in this bewildered cold hundreds of people are standing around ...
Style: bleak, contemplative, serious, allegory, slow cinema ...
Plot: surrealism, delusion, circus, musician, magic realism, philosophy, social relations, danger, small town life, village life, european, small town ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: hungary, europe
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 38K
Bug (2006)
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, disturbing, suspenseful, mind bending, suspense ...
Plot: paranoia, insanity, conspiracy theory, mental illness, psychosis, couples, nudity, obsession, schizophrenia, addiction, losing-it hero, delusion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
Is relevant ?
Observe and Report (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective is recruited to close ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, disturbing, satirical ...
Plot: shopping mall, workplace, farce, security guard, unrequited love, justice, delusion, police investigation, thief, workplace situations, adolescence vs adulthood, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
Is relevant ?
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie