Insane movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant insane movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, suspense, serious, suspenseful, dark and disturbing films and TV shows about / with insane, insanity, murder, supernatural, mental illness, blood, twists and turns, mental disorder, death and illness plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres shot in USA, Germany, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as insane: Girl, Interrupted (1999), Evilenko (2003), Call-center (2020), House on Haunted Hill (1999), Shutter Island (2010), Madhouse (2004), Memento (2000), A Tale of Two Sisters (2003), Hide and Seek (2005), Beneath (2006).
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and ...
Style:
slasher, heartbreaking, suspense, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
serial killer, pedophile, child murder investigation, true crime, child rape, cannibalism, woman in danger, killer, murder, biopic, serial child killer, crime investigation ...
Time:
year 1984, year 1992, 90s, 80s
Place:
kiev ukraine, ukraine, russia, soviet union, crimea ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Moscow. High rise. Here, on the 12th floor, is the office of the call center "Online Store for Adults". One morning, twelve people who are in the office suddenly find out that there is a bomb in the room. The voices of the unknowns who ...
Style:
psychological, tension, mysterious, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot:
psychological abuse, call center, trapped in a building, fear, sadistic psychopath, sadist, trauma, insane, sexual humiliation, sexual torture, terror, torture ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style:
scary, slasher, gothic, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, gory, mental institution, survival, danger, haunted by the past, murder, ghost, evil spirit, isolation ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles
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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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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental institution, ghost child, mental illness, ghost, murder, investigation, supernatural, danger, doctors and patients, psychopath, woman in danger, who done it ...
Time:
year 2004
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1.4M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, confusing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
memory, vengeance, memory loss, plot twist, revenge, murder, amnesia, whodunit, twists and turns, paranoia, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2001, future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, america, usa ...
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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:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, surprise ending, twist ending ...
Plot:
mental illness, tragedy, suicide, death, ghost, children, hallucination, stepmother, twists and turns, evil stepmother, guilt, haunted house ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia, japan
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
imaginary friend, plot twist, twists and turns, split personality, psychologist, supernatural horror, mental illness, haunted by the past, single father, murder, child's point of view, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Christy (Zehetner) returns to her hometown years after a car accident that disfigured her older sister. Haunted by the accident in which she was the driver, she learns that her worst nightmares have either come true ... or are about to.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
death of sister, burn victim, mental illness, burned alive, haunted by the past, blackout, adultery, disfigurement, buried alive, ghost, photograph, insane ...
Place:
montana
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
time travel, destiny, death, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, deja vu, couples, family problems, housewife ...
Time:
year 2007, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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163K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, split personality, police investigation, imaginary friend, macabre, murder mystery, psycho killer, maniac, schizophrenia, twists and turns, secret ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, palo alto california, portland oregon
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns ...
Style:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, mental illness, ghost, family problems, supernatural horror, woman in danger, parents and children, uncover truth, family in danger, secret relationship, siblings relations, mistrust ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place:
maine, new england
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218K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of connections to occult practices, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless ...
Style:
psychological horror, suspenseful, dread, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
serial killer, occult, sociopath, sadistic psychopath, fbi, satanism, black magic, devil worship, supernatural horror, murder, female investigator, crime spree ...
Time:
year 1974, 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1995 ...
Place:
oregon
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Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An animated anthology of 5 stories adapted from Edgar Allan Poe.
Style:
gothic horror, anthology, suspense, dark fairy tale, scary ...
Plot:
cemetery, edgar allan poe, old mansion, murder, paranoia, mansion, raven, hypnosis, literary, trippy, dying, death sentence ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times
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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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3K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An entity is terrorizing a small Midwest town. Ludlow Falls continues to descend into madness and death as more young women are driven insane. Sometimes small towns hide big secrets and a town's sin will be exposed.
Style:
suspenseful, slasher, dark, serious, dread ...
Plot:
small town, sin, insanity, madness, witch, town, death, secrets, insane, undercover, delusional woman, moral corruption ...
Place:
midwest
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
17 yr old Jasmine struggles to come to terms with her fathers death. She and her best friend Skye are left to take care of their younger siblings Zac, Blake and Eva when their mother's Sandy and Katherine decide to go on a girls night out to ...
Style:
slasher, atmospheric, bleak, surprise ending, intense ...
Plot:
found footage, hospital, painful memories, haunted by the past, haunting, paranormal phenomena, quarantine, paranormal activity, mental illness, adaptation, haunted, woman in danger ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A journalist from an Eastern European country arrives in Paris to start a tour of European capitals. His intention is to make a documentary about the European dream. Between fascination and difficulty of adaptation, Sorgoï struggles to complete his ...
Style:
mockumentary, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
found footage, nightmare, extreme, insanity, tourism, violence, sociopath, drunkenness, homeless, crazy, craziness, supernatural ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Transfer student Mizuki Aonuma (Rina Sakuragi) is bullied mercilessly by classmate Aya (Eriko Nakamura) and others. Nevertheless, Mizuki is always able to maintain her calm composure. Kirie (Maika Shimamura), who has a passive character and is also ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, sincere, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
bullying, bully, schoolgirl, insanity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, insane, teenager, social problems, mockery, teenage girl, killing, technology ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.
Style:
lovecraft, disturbing, tense, psychological horror, suspense ...
Plot:
cosmic horror, painting, madness, driven mad, insane, possessed human, obsession, insanity, treasure, creative block, supernatural, macabre ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, isolation, human nature, confined, misfit, doctors and patients, society, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the mansion. Following this, he tries out ...
Style:
psychological thriller, erotic, dark, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot:
cannibal, necrophilia, murder, exhumation, necrophiliac, serial killer, hand job, anthropophagus, two killers, violent, exploitation, gory ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place:
southern italy, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Plot:
shock treatment, danger, hypnosis, experimental drug, courtroom, psychiatrist, imposture, hidden money, decapitation, insane, mental institution, murder ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
usa, beverly hills
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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: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot:
time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
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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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10K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, cyber, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, friendship, hacker, mind game, teenage life, bullying, self harm, manipulation, social network, computers and web, friends, buddies ...
Time:
future, year 2010, 21st century
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. ...
Style:
suspense, spooky, surprise ending, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, country house, brother brother relationship, family in danger, home invasion, uncover truth, haunted by the past, confined, twists and turns, parents and children, isolation ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lyon, 1960s. Emile is twelve years old. His father is a hero. He says he is a judo champ, a parachutist, a soccer player and even a personal advisor to General de Gaulle. Now he wants to save French Algeria! Fascinated and proud, Emile willingly ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
children, father son relationship, lie, father and son, family life, family relations, kids and family, parents and children, hidden truth, lifestyle, deception, life ...
Time:
year 1961
Place:
lyon
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