Losing-it hero movies and TV shows – page 5

List of losing-it hero movies

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Diary (2006)
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: obsession, psychopath, losing-it hero, twists and turns, breakup, mentally unstable, murder, danger, relocation, violence, rivalry, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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 6.9
 749
Rozen Maiden (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Jun is a total recluse who won't take a step outside his house and only loves online shopping. When Jun winds up a doll that suddenly appears in his room because of his mail-orders tendencies, he has no idea what he's in for. The doll ...
Style: anime, exciting, semi serious, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: true love, forbidden love, supernatural, danger, losing-it hero, lovers reunited, redemption, love and romance, dysfunctional family, heroes, small town, imaginary ...
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The Girl He Met Online (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A man's relationship with a bipolar woman becomes dangerous.
Style: serious, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, online dating, jealousy, mentally unstable, mental illness, losing-it hero, couples, dangerous attraction, murder, social network, obsession, dating ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Guard Post (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The plot concerns Guard Point 506, where an entire squad of soldiers have been killed in mysterious circumstances, bar one survivor who's in a coma. Military Investigators are dispatched to the base, and discover they're dealing with a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, spooky, detective, scary ...
Plot: military, soldier, survival, heroic mission, riddles and clues, military life, danger, losing-it hero, murder, race against time, zombie, gory ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: korea
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Sanitarium (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, anthology, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, danger, losing-it hero, psychological trauma, doctors and patients, doll, puppet, hospital, obsession, father son relationship, art ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 4.7
 1K
Removal (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Gothic horror meets industrial-strength cleaning products in this spine-tingler about a pill-popping cleaning service employee and a sprawling mansion with secrets of its own.
Style: scary, gothic, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: witnessing a crime, losing-it hero, estate, hallucination, life is a bitch, split personality, suspicion, ghost, domestic disturbance, life turned upside down, gory, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
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Hipnos (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dr Sánchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, scary ...
Plot: doctor, hospital, supernatural, mental illness, losing-it hero, isolation, mind game, eye, health, psychology, nightmare, psychiatric ward ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe, brussels
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 5.7
 8K
Bad Milo! (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A horror comedy centered on a guy who learns that his unusual stomach problems are being caused by a demon living in his intestines.
Style: horror comedy, suspenseful, not serious, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: body horror, creature, life turned upside down, losing-it hero, danger, deadly creature, disorder, breaking point, dark humor, revenge, split personality, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Possession of David O'Reilly (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A supernatural shockumentary about a demonic presence in a young couple's home in London.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, psychological, tense ...
Plot: couples, supernatural, losing-it hero, deadly creature, found footage, nightmare comes true, couple relations, danger, possession, haunted house, supernatural power, death of protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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A Thousand Peace Clouds Encircle the Sky (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A teenager discovers that mending a broken heart is no simple thing in this independent romantic drama from Mexico. Gerardo (Juan Carlos Ortuno), a 17-year-old who has recently embraced his homosexuality, has just parted ways with his first serious ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, erotic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, breakup, lost love, teenage life, unfulfilled love, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, obsession, love and romance, sex scene, gay interest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, mexico city
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Demons of the Mind (1972)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: incest, murder, family secret, parents and children, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, danger, estate, siblings relations, manipulation, life is a bitch, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1972, 19th century, 18th century
Place: germany, europe, central europe
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Lucid (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thirty-two year old Winnipeger Joel Rothman's personal life falls apart after his wife, Mari, catches him cheating. Following, he can't sleep which affects the parenting of his adolescent daughter Jenny. A therapist, he dismisses the work ...
Style: psychological, neo noir, captivating, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: insomnia, group therapy, doctors and patients, mental illness, losing-it hero, family problems, unfulfillment, father daughter relationship, post traumatic stress, sleep disorder, making love, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Psalm 21 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Henrik is a young father who lives in Stockholm, constantly plagued by nightmares with his deceased mother. One day, he receives the news that his father, father, who lives in a remote village, it is drowned and died. The circumstances of drowning ...
Style: serious, psychological, scary, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot: uncover truth, supernatural, losing-it hero, clergy, religions or cults, church, on the road, dealing with death, farm, ghost, murder, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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The Lords of Salem (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.
Style: psychological, surreal, satanic, atmospheric, splatter ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, radio station, occult, witchcraft, devil, insanity, radio, radio dj, burned alive, uncover truth, religions or cults ...
Time: 21st century
Place: salem massachusetts, new england, usa, massachusetts, boston
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Cosmopolis (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, Portugal, Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.
Style: bleak, philosophical, art house, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: wall street, billionaire, on the road, murder, social decay, downfall, losing-it hero, city life, lifestyle, dialogue, cyberpunk, adaptation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Left Bank (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A chilling thriller about a woman, who upon moving in with her new boyfriend, becomes obsessed with the fate of the previous tenant and descends into madness.
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: supernatural, illness, occult, missing person, memory loss, athlete's life, mentally unstable, danger, losing-it hero, curses spells and rituals, folk horror, running ...
Time: middle ages, 2000s, 21st century
Place: antwerp, europe, belgium
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Blood of the Undead (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A recently-married woman who has been labeled as mentally unstable, begins to suspect that someone close to her is the culprit in a sudden string of murders.
Style: slasher, psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: wedding, maniac, stalking, obsession, woman in danger, danger, losing-it hero, exploitation, pursuit, murder, terror, serial killer ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom
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 2K
Aurora (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 181 min.
Story: An apartment kitchen: a man and a woman discuss Little Red Riding Hood, their voices hushed, mindful of waking the little girl sleeping next room. Waste land on the city outskirts: behind a line of abandoned trailers, the man silently watches what ...
Style: psychological, contemplative, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot: murder, midlife crisis, family relations, losing-it hero, parents and children, factory worker, unfulfillment, artist, post apocalypse, alienation, railway, big city ...
Time: 21st century
Place: romania, europe, bucharest
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Frozen Days (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Meow is a young woman roaming the streets and nightclubs of Tel Aviv. She lives in empty apartments and surfs the internet chat rooms. She decides to meet Alex, her chat buddy. They plan to meet in a nightclub but a suicide bombing prevents their ...
Style: psychological, neo noir, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: losing-it hero, twists and turns, obsession, identity, israeli, female nudity, woman, drug, nightmare, drug dealer, neighbor, nightclub ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, middle east
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 5K
Noise (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, freeze frame ...
Plot: vandalism, vigilante, vigilantism, anger, society, satire, rivalry, losing-it hero, love and romance, fighting the system, heroic mission, city life ...
Time: year 2007
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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I Love Your Work (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, mindfuck, gloomy ...
Plot: obsession, self defense, actor's life, showbiz, couples, desire for fame, lifestyle, losing-it hero, rise and fall, ambition, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa
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 3K
Our Children (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Young and full of life, Murielle (Emilie Dequenne, Rosetta) has a promising future ahead of her when she meets and falls head over heels for Mounir (Tahar Rahim, A Prophet). A wedding soon follows, and the happy couple quickly set about preparing to ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, sincere, sad ...
Plot: generosity, motherhood, love, children, downfall, family relations, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, domestic disturbance, fall in love ...
Time: year 2012, 2000s, 21st century
Place: belgium, morocco
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In Our Name (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Suzy's a British soldier, born and bred, but fitting back into civilian life after fighting in Iraq isn't easy. Haunted by the responsibility she feels for the death of an Iraqi child, she becomes obsessed with the safety of her own ...
Style: realistic, tense, emotional, serious, captivating ...
Plot: soldier, paranoia, obsession, parents and children, losing-it hero, homecoming, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, military, introspection, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Secret Sunshine (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 142 min.
Story: Sin-ae moves with her son Jun to Miryang, the town where her dead husband was born. As she tries to come to herself and set out on new foundations, another tragic event overturns her life.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: suicide attempt, redemption, faith, family problems, hopes, couple relations, love and romance, losing-it hero, human nature, death in the family, parents and children, christianity ...
Time: 2000s
Place: south korea, seoul, korea, asia
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The Captive (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An adaptation of Proust's "La Prisoniere" (book five of "Remembrance of Things Past"). Set in Paris, France, it is a serious tale of a tragic and dysfunctional love.
Style: sexy, psychological, serious, erotic, slow cinema ...
Plot: obsession, sex, love triangle, captive, desire, friendship, lifestyle, voyeurism, losing-it hero, destructive relationship, infidelity, sexual relations ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: paris france, europe, france, normandy
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The Kovak Box (2006)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?
Style: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: scapegoat, danger, mysterious character, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, rivalry, supernatural, race against time, psychopath, murder, destiny, supernatural ability ...
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Crazylove (2005)
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, realistic, psychological, captivating, independent film
Plot: schizophrenic, introspection, opposites attract, couple relations, couples, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, prodigy, hopes, doctors and patients, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nervous breakdown ...
Time: future
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Apartment 1303 (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her ...
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, suicide, uncover truth, losing-it hero, investigation, danger, grudge, curses spells and rituals, urban legend, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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Typhoon (2005)
Genre: Action
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Myung-sin, who has become a pirate, lives with hatred in his heart and endures the hardships, seeks revenge on the two nations, North and South Korea, using nuclear waste that has the devastating power of plutonium. Se-jong, a South Korean naval ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, secret agent, politics, heroes, save the day, undercover, heroic mission, losing-it hero, betrayal, race against time, danger, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea, russia, asia, southeast asia ...
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A Hole in My Heart (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a decript apartment, a young man watches as his father and a friend shoot an amateur porn film. Issues of morality, reality TV and friendship are explored.
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, bleak, avant garde ...
Plot: sexploitation, porn industry, father son relationship, obsession, dysfunctional family, social decay, family problems, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, human nature, isolation, teenage life ...
Place: eastern europe
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