Mass hysteria movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mass hysteria movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful and cult classic films and TV shows about / with mass hysteria, murder, death, hysteria, politics, female nudity, husband wife relationship, deadly, violence and society plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mass hysteria: Salem Witch Trials (2002), The Falling (2014), Don't Look Up (2021), Mom And Dad (2017), Kimen (1974), The Devils (1971), Don't Look Up (2009), Limetown (2019), The Signal (2007), Criticsized (2016).

List of mass hysteria movies

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Salem Witch Trials (2002)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected - but unproved - presence of the occult in the small New England town.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, historical drama ...
Plot: witch hunt, false accusation, puritan, execution, religions or cults, society, politics, legal, courtroom drama, social decay, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 17th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, salem massachusetts
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 5.3
 8K
The Falling (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.
Style: serious, tense, psychological, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, mother daughter relationship, secret, epidemic, best friend, incest, mass hysteria, friendship, bare butt, girls' boarding school, schoolgirl, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: england
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 7.2
 594K
Don't Look Up (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Two low-level astronomers, upon discovering that a meteor will strike the Earth in six months, go on a media tour to try to warn the world but find an unreceptive and unbelieving populace.
Style: apocalyptic, feel good, dark comedy, political, funny ...
Audience: kids, date night, adult
Plot: disaster, end of the world, asteroid, social satire, meteorite, apocalypse, danger, save the world, astronaut, chaos, comet, politics ...
Time: future, 2020s, year 1994, distant future, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, london, america, illinois ...
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 5.6
 27K
Mom And Dad (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origin causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
Style: suspense, scary, horror comedy, bloody, slasher ...
Audience: kids
Plot: mother daughter relationship, teenager, epidemic, parents, sibling relationship, virus, family relations, brother, neighbor, murder, father daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
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 5.4
 51
Kimen (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a small green island out in the sea, they live in harmony - until a stranger comes. Like a hurricane this rocks the small society, and a killing lets all hidden forces loose.
Plot: mass hysteria, summer, manhunt, island, small community, revenge, fear, death, disturbed person, daughter, stranger, forest ...
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The Night That Panicked America (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: radio, mass hysteria, panic, disaster, halloween, radio show, radio broadcasting
Time: 20th century, 1930s
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 7.8
 18K
The Devils (1971)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Style: disturbing, controversial, surreal, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: adult
Plot: religion, surrealism, inquisition, priest, nun, nunsploitation, witch, politics, torture, clergy, witchcraft, convent ...
Time: 17th century, year 1971, medieval times, year 2016, middle ages
Place: france, europe, london, england
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Don't Look Up (2009)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Japan, South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While filming in Transylvania, a crew unearths celluloid images of a woman’s murder and unleashes the wrath of evil spirits.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, terrifying ...
Plot: murder, filmmaking, danger, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, terminal illness, film set, supernatural power, gypsy, curse, found footage, eye ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, romania, transylvania, europe, usa
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 6.6
 3K
Limetown (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Follows Lia Haddock, a journalist for American Public Radio (APR), as she unravels the mystery behind the disappearance of over 300 people at a neuroscience research facility in Tennessee.
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, exciting
Plot: mysterious disappearance, journalist, uncle niece relationship, experiment gone awry, secret experiment, female reporter, investigation, human guinea pig, experimental technology, mass hysteria, cover up, conspiracy ...
Place: tennessee
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 6.0
 22K
The Signal (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Style: suspenseful, scary, dark comedy, psychological, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, zombie, brutality, chaos, psychopath, post apocalyptic, post apocalypse, danger, survival, murder, virus, epidemic ...
Time: 2000s
Is relevant ?
 3.7
 228
Criticsized (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A serial killer taunts police while increasing the body count on live streaming TV.
Style: exciting, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: internet, police detective, serial killer, murder, manipulation, psychopath, serial murder, revenge, chase, killer, danger, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.1
 468
Litan (1982)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, surreal, art house, dark fantasy ...
Plot: folk horror, surrealism, festival, magic realism, occult, ritual, river, cave, couples, macabre, escape, death ...
Time: 80s
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of ...
Style: depressing, political, realistic, serious, talky ...
Audience: preschool
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, pedophilia, law, journalism, criminal justice, politics, sex crime, gender, sexual abuse, hysteria, false accusation ...
Time: 80s
Place: tahiti, los angeles, california
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The Painted Bird (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine
Duration: 169 min.
Story: A young Jewish boy in Poland seeks refuge in the forest during World War II where he encounters many different characters.
Style: disturbing, allegory, exciting, captivating, visual ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, man boy relationship, sexual abuse, existentialism, intolerance, abuse of power, zoophilia, terrorism, folk horror, humiliation, child protagonist ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 2010s, 1930s
Place: poland, europe, eastern europe
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Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: 1972, Milano. We are just a few days before the general elections. The daughter of a well-known professor is found dead. Mr Bizanti editor in chief of newspaper "Il Giornale", in agreement with its owner Mr. Montelli, decides to charge of ...
Style: political, cult classic, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: underage sex, journalism, politics, manipulation, police, fascism, reporter, psychology, years of lead, murder, media, state affairs ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: italy, milan italy
Is relevant ?
 8.3
 431
Xica da Silva (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In the Colonial Brazil, a smart, sassy and sensual slave rises to become a queen as an important contractor falls for her, all for the anger of a woman obsessed with him.
Style: novela, soap opera, telenovela
Plot: slavery, rags to riches, bare chested male, obsession, female nudity, witch, male nudity, coven, promiscuity, murder, interrogation, surrealism ...
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 5.3
 1K
Superstar (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An average guy who works in a recycling plant wakes up one morning to discover that he's become inexplicably famous.
Style: satirical, cynical, tragicomedy, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: love hate relationship, life turned upside down, media, media satire, disorder, price of fame, celebrity, fame, fish out of water, internet, television, media circus ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Prager Botschaft (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Plot: iron curtain, berlin wall, stasi, mass hysteria, camp, protest, embassy, politics, politician, propaganda, police, fence ...
Time: 80s
Place: east germany
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Thinking Speed (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Reader becomes trapped in an evolving autobiography of an executed killer.
Style: avant garde, scary, disturbing, bleak, postmodern ...
Plot: parallel universe, revenge, post punk, urban legend, exorcism, superstition, suburbs, death, surrealism, politics, murder, telepathy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chicago, woodstock
Is relevant ?
 2.4
 153
The Dark Area (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Five friends get lost in the woods. Soon one by one gets killed by a mysterious person...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, slasher, independent film
Plot: found footage, murder, woods, mass hysteria, forest, lost in the woods, night, teenager, camera, handheld camera, screaming
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 354
Arcana (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the ...
Style: surreal, controversial
Plot: folk horror, lgbt, oedipus complex, supernatural horror, clairvoyant, death, rape, sorcerer, supernatural, mother, palm reading, fraud ...
Place: milan italy
Is relevant ?
 5.3
 183
Secrets (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Five teens get stuck in the basement in an attempt to see the Beatles in a local hotel.
Style: independent film
Plot: the beatles, teenage boy, secret, liar, basement, teenage girl, lie, hotel, friend, shyness, friendship, music fan ...
Time: 60s
Place: australia, melbourne
Is relevant ?
 8.0
 541K
Zootopia (2016)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Style: feel good, 3d animation, funny, allegory, witty ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot: anthropomorphic animal, anthropomorphism, police, furry, happy ending, female protagonist, stereotypes, rabbit, friendship, prejudice, conspiracy, racial relations ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
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Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT commander Sergeant Button (John Cassavetes), learn of the plot and ...
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: disaster, american football, sniper, terrorism, serial killer, paranoid, kickass, time, crash, killings, natural disaster, usa president ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
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The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 143 min.
Story: TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot: manipulation, political intrigue, journalism, media, media satire, political corruption, corrupt politician, state affairs, dishonesty, campaign, blackmail, governor ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 3K
Stalin (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Hungary, USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.
Style: political, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: world war two, communism, politician, josef stalin, dictatorship, propaganda, intrigue, paranoia, stroke, european history, world war, international relations ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, year 1917 ...
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia
Is relevant ?
 8.1
 169K
Network (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
Style: talky, political, realistic, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot: media, journalism, satire, television, media manipulation, social commentary, media satire, corruption, adultery, business, older man younger woman relationship, workplace ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, middle east, california, los angeles
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: If they missed Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A. they would hate themselves for the rest of their lives! So six young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: the beatles, rock and roll, teenager, music, obsessed fan, friends, obsession, rebellion, radio, hotel, voyeurism, irreverent ...
Time: 60s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, independent film, mockumentary ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: found footage, witch, supernatural, urban legend, woods, fear, folk horror, survival, lost in the woods, wilderness, videotaping, panic ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1994
Place: maryland, usa
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 24K
Devil's Knot (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
Style: bleak, factual, intense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police investigation, satanism, courtroom drama, teenager, courtroom, jury, court, murder, legal, investigation, police interrogation, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, memphis, southern usa, arkansas
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