Emotional breakdown movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant emotional breakdown movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing, emotional and weird films and TV shows about / with emotional breakdown, family relations, depression, female nudity, nude, loneliness, sex scene, obsession, dysfunctional family and mental illness plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Japan, France and other countries.
emotional breakdown
TOP 10 movies tagged as emotional breakdown: Midsommar (2019), Young Adult (2011), In Treatment (2008), The Forest for the Trees (2003), About Alex (2014), Somewhere (2010), Poetical Refugee (2000), Ismael's Ghosts (2017), A Silent Agreement (2017), Let Go (2017).
Best films
List of emotional breakdown movies
339K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style:
disturbing, rough, psychedelic, brutal, enigmatic ...
Plot:
cult, ritual, paganism, religious cult, emotional breakdown, nervous breakdown, isolated community, sacrifice, burned alive, female protagonist, rite, grief ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
sweden, new york, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
Style:
realistic, talky, depressing, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, high school, small town, childhood sweetheart, borderline personality disorder, emotional breakdown, alcoholic, divorce, narcissism, thirtysomething life, depression, arrested development ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
minnesota, california, new jersey, usa, minneapolis minnesota
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions and centering around Dr. Paul Weston, a psychotherapist who exhibits an insightful, reserved demeanor while treating his patients—but displays a crippling insecurity while ...
Style:
psychological, clever, captivating, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
psychologist, introspection, doctors and patients, therapist, psychotherapist, patient, emotional breakdown, psychology, self involved, power relations, haunted by the past, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
As an awkward idealistic high school teacher begins her first job in the city, things turn out to be much tougher than she had imagined.
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
teacher, emotional breakdown, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, fish out of water, loneliness, unsupportive coworkers, hardcase students, misfit, idealism, workplace, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences ...
Style:
inspirational, atmospheric, surreal, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, depression, suicide attempt, relationships, suicide, friends, group of friends, life philosophy, writer's block, anxiety, introspection, college graduate ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york state, new york
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45K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Italy, Japan, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A hard-living Hollywood actor re-examines his life after his 11-year-old daughter surprises him with a visit.
Style:
art house, emotional, meditative, thought provoking, surreal ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, luxury hotel, casual sex, hotel, obsession, family relations, lifestyle, actor's life, introspection, direction and purpose, artists and showbiz, womanizer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, milan italy, california, tokyo, italy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Like a Candide dreaming of Eldorado, Jallel lands in France, hoping to try his luck. From encounter to encounter, hostel to social welfare group, Jallel will make his way through a Paris of outcasts. Although failing to achieve his hopes, he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
sex addict, friendship, hospital, family life, looking for love, lifestyle, social outcast, curses spells and rituals, adoption, society, mentally unstable, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The film tells the tale of a widowed film director who is in the middle of making a film about an atypical diplomat inspired by his brother. While he has started a new life with Sylvia, he still mourns the death of a former lover, Carlotta, who ...
Style:
erotic, suspenseful, exciting, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
female nudity, husband wife reunion, father in law son in law relationship, sea, disappearance, beach, love triangle, presumed dead, party, husband wife estrangement, emotional breakdown, hospital ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
prague, paris france, tel aviv israel
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Reuben, a sensitive writer, grapples with a speech impediment as his boyfriend, Derek, a profoundly deaf Human Rights activist, provides strategies to restore his confidence and communication skills. When Reuben approaches an over-the-hill film ...
Style:
intellectual, serious, disturbing, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
deaf, gay, deafness, discrimination, altruism, troubled past, cerebral palsy, mourning, tragic event, bullying, insecurity, gay son ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia
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102
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Everyone can have a bad day now and then, but we meet Valerie on a morning that divides her life neatly into before and after. It took one inconsequential setback – a silly thing, really – to cause a slight delay in Valerie’s schedule, ...
Style:
captivating, humorous, tense, psychological
Plot:
burnout, depression, mental disorder, nervous breakdown, social relations, emotional breakdown, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, dysfunctional family, loss of job, family problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Style:
touching, captivating, disturbing, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, writers, single father, death of wife, childhood trauma, father and daughter, family relations, emotional breakdown, kids and family, male female relationship, parents and children, couple relations ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With her husband away at work, and her son at school, Laura dreams of a home-renovation project to supplant her restless days. Elliott, her irresistibly hot private contractor, soon fulfills her more forbidden dreams.
Style:
emotional, suspenseful, thought provoking
Plot:
infidelity, chores, male objectification, scolding, jealousy, sex scene, family life, family relations, hottie, emotional breakdown, parents and children, suspense ...
Place:
canada
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332K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cult, fear, demon, ghost, dysfunctional family, supernatural, seance, supernatural horror, secret society, possession, evil spirit, terror ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
utah
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, depressing ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, swimming, nudist, neighbor, swimmer, existentialism, life philosophy, character study, social relations, neighborhood, haunted by the past, unfulfillment ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This drama follows the last few days in the life of Elvira (formerly Erwin) Weisshaupt. Years before, Erwin told a co-worker, Anton, that he loved him. "Too bad, you aren't a woman," he replied. Erwin took Anton at his word. Trying to ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, art house, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, lgbt, gender, gay, suicide, loser, sex, social outcast, betrayal, prostitution, psychopath, slaughterhouse ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1978
Place:
frankfurt germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski's previous films, is a 44 year-old teacher, who reads poetry during school ...
Style:
tragicomedy, humorous, cynical, surreal, mind bending ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, nothing goes right, social satire, alienation, loner, teacher, obsession, suspense, self loathing, nervousness, dark humor, paranoia ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
warsaw poland, eastern europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style:
thought provoking, melancholic, sexy, sexual, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
existentialism, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, suburbs, obsession, coming of age, loneliness, age difference, teenager, youth, older man younger woman relationship, older man young girl relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, captivating, serious
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, family relations, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, parents separation, siblings relations, friendship, sex scene, infidelity, girl, emotional breakdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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27K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two emotionally unavailable men attempt a relationship.
Style:
art house, queer cinema, interesting
Plot:
lgbt, gay, lgbtq, gay interest, gay pride, screenwriter, gay relationship, museum, gay club, homoerotic fight, gay sex, beefcake ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The study of a marriage. Jo has five children and husband number two when she meets writer Jake Armitage. She leaves this husband to marry Jake, and his career takes off. A few years and at least one child later, Jo is deeply depressed, breaking ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, clever, touching ...
Plot:
writers, children, family relations, depression, existentialism, mental disorder, marriage, strong female presence, love and romance, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story:
When he was a child, Murakami was friends with a girl he called Kuroneko. One day, while trying to prove the existence of aliens to Murakami, she is killed in an accident that he barely survives. Guilty of his role in the accident, Murokami decides ...
Style:
anime, captivating, romantic, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
good versus evil, telescope, guilt, childhood friend, doom, suspense, astronomy, research, space, stargazing, secret organization, cute girl ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates.
Style:
bad ending, depressing, heartbreaking, bleak, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
adultery, marriage, abortion, mental illness, infidelity, dysfunctional family, depression, death of wife, under the surface, suburbs, family problems, existentialism ...
Time:
50s, year 1955, 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place:
california, usa, paris france, new york, connecticut
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot:
military, voyeurism, gay, marriage, infidelity, obsession, sex, soldier, couples, sexual dysfunction, solace, perversion ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
georgia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, intense, depressing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, depression, university, introspection, college, suicide attempt, psychiatrist, coming of age, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, drugs, therapy ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
harvard university, austin texas
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mass suicide, cult, dysfunctional family, family relations, suicide, internet, nihilism, woman in danger, teenage life, youth, on the run, leaving home ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
gay, homosexual, homosexuality, friendship, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, friendship between men, love, gays and lesbians, prostitution, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, rome italy, seattle, italy ...
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809
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
My-HiME is an anime series, created by Sunrise. Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, the series originally premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005. The show is a comedy-drama focusing on the lives of ...
Style:
anime, yuri, serious, exciting, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural ability, friendship, save the world, good versus evil, youth, betrayal, rivalry, teenage love, mind control, magic, lgbt, beast ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
Style:
witty, intense, disturbing, tense, semi serious ...
Plot:
politics, dark humor, sexism, death, culture clash, serial killer, murder, assassination, justice, vigilante, brainwashing, propaganda ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
iowa, usa
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
At first, Takayuki Narumi is befriended by Mitsuki Hayase only because Mitsuki's best friend, Haruka Suzumiya has a crush on him; however since then, Takayuki, his pal Shinji Taira, and Mitsuki have grown to be the best of friends. Then one ...
Style:
anime, sentimental, touching, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot:
love triangle, forbidden love, tragedy, high school, teenage love, haunted by the past, grownups, first love, youth, best friends, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Style:
touching, realistic, psychological, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, prison, physician, character study, ex convict, job seeking, complex characters, parenthood, honest, loss of son, sibling relationship, family reunited ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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