| The Exorcist (1973) | 8.1 | |
| Maniac (2015) | 7.0 | |
| Mirrors (2008) | 6.1 | |
| Buried (2010) | 7.0 | |
| Logan (2017) | 8.1 |
Medication movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant medication movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, psychological, independent film, suspenseful, serious and realistic films and TV shows about / with medication, death, mental illness, blood, friendship, hospital, doctor, storytelling, illness and psychology plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as medication: Imaginary Friend (2012), Side Effects (2013), Single White Female (1992), The Exorcist (1973), Beau Is Afraid (2023), The Voices (2014), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Misery (1990), Lost Transmissions (2019), The Roommate (2011).
Best films
New films
| Good Boy (2025) | 6.1 | |
| Hot Milk (2025) | 5.6 | |
| The Forest Hills (2023) | 3.5 | |
| Neighborhood Watch (2025) | 6.2 | |
| Another End (2024) | 6.4 |
List of medication movies
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
During her traumatic childhood with an abusive father, Emma relied on an imaginary friend for strength. She is now an artist struggling with mental illness living with her apparently loving husband, Brad. But when Emma's imaginary friend starts ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, mental illness, imaginary friend, childhood, medication, haunted by the past, dishonesty, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, family relations, control ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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204K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatrist, manipulation, murder, patient, sleepwalking, twists and turns, doctor, mental patient, mental institution, deception ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, future, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, erotic, psychosexual thriller, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, femme fatale, stalker, mental illness, sex scene, jealousy, sexual harassment, nudity, stalking, murder, dangerous friend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
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495K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style:
scary, suspense, demonic, classic horror, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
religion, demon, exorcism, priest, supernatural, devil, demonic possession, possession, occult, supernatural horror, exorcist, crisis of faith ...
Time:
70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., persia, iraq, usa, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Finland, Canada
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
An anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.
Style:
independent film, atmospheric, dark comedy, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, anxiety, paranoia, therapist, nightmare, fear, death of mother, domineering mother, childhood trauma, violence, guilt, shame ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, dark, surreal, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, kids
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, psychopath, blood, hearing voices, murder, psychiatrist, schizophrenic, hallucination, dog, childhood trauma, crush ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, childhood, guilt, prison visit, depression, teenager, sociopath, antisocial behavior, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, america, connecticut, usa, new york ...
Is relevant?
263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.
Style:
realistic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
songwriter, schizophrenia, record producer, medication, mental disorder, music industry, mental illness, friendship, help, music, musician's life, schizophrenic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, teen, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, female psychopath, college, stalker, fraternity, obsessive love, mentally unstable, mind game, woman kills a man, female stalker, love interest, murder ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Is relevant?
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, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
memory loss, conspiracy, twists and turns, missing child, mind game, delusion, alien abduction, memory, grief, paranoia, husband wife relationship, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
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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202K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
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, sentimental, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
patient, mental institution, extraterrestrial, alien, mysterious character, psychiatry, hypnosis, psychiatrist, planet, space and aliens, investigation, delusion ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, persia, new york, newfoundland, greenland ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up ...
Style:
humorous, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Plot:
gay, writers, medication, lgbt, roommate, painter, dishonesty, money, life is a bitch, society, friendship, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sleep doctor tries to protect a family from a demon that feeds on people in their nightmares.
Style:
demonic, captivating, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, supernatural horror, sleeping, paranormal activity, supernatural, laboratory, haunted by the past, doctor, hallucination, female protagonist, flash forward, medication ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, enigmatic, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, blonde, blind woman, sex show, married couple, medication, promise, fear, lie, doctor, loss of eyesight, car accident ...
Place:
bangkok thailand, barcelona, spain, thailand
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Indonesia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Style:
futuristic, intense, harsh, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
utopia, relationships, dystopic future, post apocalypse, forbidden sex, depression, sexual attraction, secret relationship, love story, love, suicide, forbidden love ...
Time:
future, near future
Is relevant?
76K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Style:
medical drama, sincere, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, doctor, medical, emergency room, surgical operation, intern, doctors and patients, workplace situations, workplace romance, suffering, surgery, coworker ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing ...
Style:
medical horror, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, doctors and patients, hospital, nurse, family dinner, workaholic, power relations, manipulation, medication, sociopath, teenage girl, evil doctor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eleanor, thirties, has just lost her father. He bequeathed his house in Brittany in the Cotes d'Armor. She is a photographer, has had some success but business no longer work as before. It is imperative to sell the house. She goes there with ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic
Plot:
female photographer, ex lover ex lover relationship, couples, couple relations, introspection, thirtysomething life, dealing with death, bittersweet, father daughter relationship, death of father, medication, mourning ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, brittany
Is relevant?
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An apocalyptic female buddy movie. Two years ago zombies took over the earth. Weimar and Jena are the last places of human civilisation. Vivi and Eva have to fight the undead together, as well as the demons of their past.
Style:
psychotronic, intense, captivating, stylized, exciting ...
Plot:
zombie, zombie attack, fear, seeing dead people, survival, nightmare, friendship, dog, grave, hallucination, van, cannibalism ...
Place:
europe, germany, central europe
Is relevant?
878
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Amber Vickers is ecstatic that she will finally be making the walk down the aisle with her prince charming Luke. After multiple failed relationships, she was beginning to think that something was wrong; but her soon-to-be mother-in-law and best ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
engagement, mother in law, mother in law daughter in law relationship, attempted murder, investigation, guest, mother, medication, patient, eavesdropping, party, family problems ...
Place:
cleveland ohio, boston
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Style:
sad, touching, sentimental, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, best friend, friendship between men, friendship, male friendship, bromance, medication, dying, destiny, life philosophy, tragedy, buddies ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Style:
scary, demonic, suspense, mystical, satanic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
demonic possession, morgue, corpse, exorcism, demon, hospital, supernatural, terror, fear, police officer, priest, delusion ...
Is relevant?
53K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A victim of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 helps the police track down the killers while struggling to recover from devastating trauma.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, touching, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
physical therapy, rehabilitation, running, hospital, terrorist bombing, disability, sex scene, conspiracy, terrorism, terrorist, husband wife relationship, friendship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 2013, year 2016, year 2014 ...
Place:
boston
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
One-time Maori speed-chess champ, Genesis Potini, lives with a bi-polar disorder and must overcome prejudice and violence in the battle to save his struggling chess club, his family and ultimately, himself.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, depressing ...
Plot:
chess, brother brother relationship, hopes, teenager, illness, friendship, compassion, boy, uncle nephew relationship, underdog, contests and competitions, dedicated educator ...
Time:
20th century, year 2016, future
Place:
new zealand, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
Style:
black comedy, humorous, disturbing, talky, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
mental illness, depression, satire, obsession, mental disorder, mental health, food, character study, storytelling, life turned upside down, media, nervous breakdown ...
Time:
year 1989, year 1971, year 1996, year 1991, 21st century
Place:
usa, palm springs california, california, new jersey
Is relevant?
688
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A post-apocalyptic thriller set in the ruins of a collapsed America, Refuge follows a family’s struggle to survive and rebuild a life in the absence of civilization. In the wake of a catastrophic plague, the family lives a lonely existence, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, epidemic, murder, child in peril, gang, family home, medication, husband wife relationship, zombie, distopia, post-apocalyptic future ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming task any easier.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
bipolar disorder, mental illness, father daughter relationship, mental disorder, mental health, absent mother, parents and children, illness, poverty, husband wife relationship, youth, trust ...
Time:
year 2014, future, 60s, year 1967, year 1978 ...
Place:
boston, usa, new york, new england, massachusetts ...
Is relevant?
246
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Jack is driving aimlessly on a road to nowhere with his imaginary girlfriend, Sally, when he meets Beth. The duo becomes a trio when escaped mental patient Bugs, also fixated on an imaginary woman named Sally, finds himself along for the ride with ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, light, melancholic, sincere ...
Plot:
doctor patient relationship, love, doctor, nurse, medication, road trip, imaginary friend, autism, sex crime, psychiatric hospital, psychiatric patient, dream ...
Place:
minnesota
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