Hallucination movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant hallucination movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, weird, atmospheric, surreal, psychological thriller and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with hallucination, paranoia, surrealism, twists and turns, psychology, mind game, macabre, storytelling, nightmare and supernatural plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
hallucination movies
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TOP 10 movies tagged as hallucination: Escape from Tomorrow (2013), The Stendhal Syndrome (1996), Enter the Void (2009), 1408 (2007), Gerald's Game (2017), Naked Lunch (1991), Mr. Robot (2015), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Requiem for a Dream (2000), Shutter Island (2010).

List of hallucination movies

Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father's sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.
Style: surreal, disturbing, black and white, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: amusement park, hallucination, losing-it hero, disneyland, surrealism, dysfunctional family, adultery, loss of job, middle aged man, disorder, parents and children, midlife crisis ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, memory loss, sadistic psychopath, art, murder, killer, psycho killer, surrealism, obsession, vengeance, rape, violent ...
Time: 90s
Place: rome italy, europe, italy, florence
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 7.2
 94K
Enter the Void (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan
Duration: 161 min.
Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta). When Oscar is killed by ...
Style: psychedelic, art house, disturbing, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, stripper, afterlife, trippy, drug trip, lsd, sex scene, hallucination, life after death, incest, abortion, youth ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
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 6.8
 312K
1408 (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, isolation, fear, hotel, stephen king, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, confined ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, california, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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 6.5
 141K
Gerald's Game (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
Style: psychological, psychological horror, sexy, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: stephen king, childhood trauma, survival, hallucination, child abuse, childhood memory, eclipse, mind game, dog attack, flashback, serial killer, sex game ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, alabama, new orleans
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 6.9
 60K
Naked Lunch (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands, UK, Japan, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, cult classic, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot: hallucination, surrealism, exterminator, nightmare, addiction, trippy, repressed homosexual, secret agent, drug addiction, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, homosexuality ...
Time: 1950s, 20th century, year 1953, year 1991, 90s ...
Place: north africa, usa, new york, canada
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 8.5
 461K
Mr. Robot (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hacker, computer hacker, hacking, computers and web, conspiracy, psychotherapy, fighting the system, conspiracy theory, split personality, secret society, introvert, hallucination ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, indiana
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, gothic, lovecraft ...
Audience: date night
Plot: small town, insanity, supernatural horror, book, paranoia, ghost town, investigation, hallucination, gory, novelist, writers, american horror ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, distant future
Place: new england, new hampshire, manhattan new york city, england, europe ...
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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 8.2
 1.6M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place: iran, persia, america, boston
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, road movie, black comedy, cerebral ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: drug abuse, road trip, lsd, journalism, psychedelia, trippy, addiction, surrealism, american dream, casino, marijuana, hallucination ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1965 ...
Place: las vegas, usa
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 6.6
 213K
Event Horizon (1997)
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
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 6.2
 78K
1922 (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
Style: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, scary, enigmatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: stephen king, farmer, corpse, murder, hallucination, cornfield, husband murders wife, guilt, infection, murder of wife, husband wife relationship, psychosis ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: usa, america, nebraska
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 8.0
 905K
Donnie Darko (2001)
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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 7.5
 24K
Perception (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Daniel Pierce, a neuroscientist and professor, is recruited to help the federal government crack difficult cases. His intimate knowledge of human behavior and masterful understanding of the mind give him an extraordinary ability to read people, ...
Style: intellectual, mind bending, exciting, offbeat, detective ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: investigation, schizophrenia, fbi, college professor, prodigy, riddles and clues, talented, crime investigation, intelligence, hallucination, genius, law enforcement ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
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 8.7
 243K
Twin Peaks (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, neo noir, mind bending, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, surrealism, small town, nightmare, murder, investigation, mysterious villain, hallucination, supernatural, mysterious death, small town life, mysterious place ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1990, 90s, year 1989
Place: washington state, hawaii, washington d.c., usa, canada
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 6.9
 140K
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Alone on a tiny deserted island, Hank has given up all hope of ever making it home again. But one day everything changes when a dead body washes ashore, and he soon realizes it may be his last opportunity to escape certain death. Armed with his new ...
Style: surreal, buddy comedy, touching, absurd, philosophical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, corpse, friendship, forest, loneliness, hallucination, dark humor, friendship between men, survival, imagination, dead body, island ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 90s
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 7.4
 298K
The Lighthouse (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style: black and white, minimal cast, suspense, gothic horror, mysterious ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: isolation, nightmare, lighthouse keeper, lighthouse, drunkenness, symbolism, hallucination, fight, storm, madness, violence, bird ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, 90s, year 2019, victorian era ...
Place: new england, nova scotia, canada
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 7.0
 122K
Filth (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Style: cynical, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, sexual ...
Plot: addiction, insanity, drug abuse, antisocial behavior, dark humor, losing-it hero, corruption, manipulation, self destructing, drug, cocaine, corrupt cop ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: scotland, hamburg germany, edinburgh scotland, britain, new orleans
Is relevant?
 7.1
 68K
Don't Look Now (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style: sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time: 70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place: italy, venice, europe
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The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: devil, lawyer, supernatural, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, satan, law firm, plot twist, trial, courtroom, demon, courtroom drama ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
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 5.8
 6K
Brain Dead (1990)
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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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Style: scary, mind bending, atmospheric, psychological, creepy ...
Plot: urban legend, hallucination, warning, psychic, death of wife, twists and turns, nightmare, supernatural power, telephone call, fantasy world, destiny, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2000, year 2002, 20th century, 70s
Place: west virginia, washington d.c., pittsburgh, ecuador, virginia ...
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
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 ...
Is relevant?
 7.2
 112K
Videodrome (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A sleazy cable-TV programmer begins to see his life and the future of media spin out of control in a very unusual fashion when he acquires a new kind of programming for his station.
Style: surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: body horror, surrealism, cyberpunk, television, virtual reality, mind control, hallucination, insanity, dystopia, satire, mind game, brainwashing ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: pittsburgh, malaysia, toronto ontario canada, usa, canada ...
Is relevant?
 7.4
 128K
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: 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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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, 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?
 6.0
 5K
Re-cycle (2006)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer. She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, mindfuck ...
Plot: hallucination, losing-it hero, danger, delusion, confusion, supernatural, writer's life, supernatural power, writers, haunting, architecture, post apocalypse ...
Time: year 2006
Is relevant?
 6.6
 98K
Flatliners (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style: scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, medical horror ...
Plot: afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, medical student, medical school, memory, suicide, paranoia, childhood memory, childhood trauma ...
Time: 80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: chicago
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style: surreal, psychological, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
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