Mental disorder movies and TV shows – page 3
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2K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Broadcasting through a makeshift network of discarded televisions, this story is tangled up in the aftermath of Los Angeles's worst earthquake nightmare. Travel between screens and aftershocks into the twisted lives of the survived.
Style:
disturbing, transgressive, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
mental disorder, extreme, distopia, arthouse horror, blaxploitation, supernatural power, hypnosis, excrement, surrealism, demolished city, vestiges of humanity, apocalypse ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Documentary, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
This harrowing half-hour archive series revisits some of the most brutal killers in modern history, reviewing news footage and the words of the killers themselves to see which terrifying traits each killer exhibited. What are the signs...of evil?
Style:
disturbing, tense, non fiction, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, true crime, mental disorder, psychopath, murder, murderer, psycho killer, mental illness, mentally unstable, bandit, homicidal maniac, forensics ...
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115K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, dark, ambiguous ending, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, nightmare, schizophrenia, obsession, insanity, paranoia, nervous breakdown, dream, delusion, character study, premonition, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
ohio, columbus ohio, peru, usa
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150K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style:
touching, heartbreaking, sad, depressing, tear jerker ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, memory loss, illness, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, columbia university, family bonds, terminal illness, family drama, relationships, psychology, memory lapse ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2015, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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13K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man who becomes obsessed with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams. This obsession will lead him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings and even turn him to crime.
Style:
black comedy, suspense, scary, slasher, enigmatic ...
Plot:
obsession, mental disorder, jacket, fashion, guts, paranoia, serial killer, bartender, mentally unstable, manipulation, murder investigation, home invasion ...
Place:
alps
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11K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Karla, a young medical student, is trying to cure her brother, Blake, from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to treat him, a more sinister reason for his condition is ...
Style:
medical horror, atmospheric, twisted, psychological
Plot:
insomnia, nightmare, sleeping, medical, terminal illness, cure, student, disease, illness, medicine, waking up, dreaming ...
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style:
melancholic, depressing, touching, sad, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
dysfunctional family, disability, small town, mentally challenged, mental illness, self discovery, responsibility, brothers, character study, coming of age, life philosophy, life & death ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, 70s, 60s
Place:
iowa, texas, southern usa, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, melancholic, romantic, philosophical ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
memory, amnesia, relationships, surrealism, loneliness, existentialism, melancholy, love, love story, dream, memory loss, couples ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, future, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
persia, america, usa, north america, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, psychopath, shooting, serial killer, peril, desert, human nature, brutality, death, sheriff, cruelty, bounty hunter ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, america, austin texas ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Style:
sweet, feel good, melancholic, cute, compassionate ...
Audience:
date night, kids, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, social misfits, brother sister relationship, poker, love, mechanic, love story, mental health, siblings living together, misfit, mental disorder, autism ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
usa, seattle, washington state
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220K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s ...
Style:
psychological, sexy, philosophical, period piece, intellectual ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, psychology, psychiatrist, mental illness, historical character, sexual perversion, psychologist, adultery, sex, biopic, introspection, psychiatry ...
Time:
1900s, year 1912, 2010s, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place:
switzerland, europe, central europe, vienna, austria ...
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216K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Brandon is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's insular life ...
Style:
sexual, erotic, sexy, psychological, erotic drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, sex, sex addict, sexuality, nudity, sexual relations, sex scene, sexual dysfunction, male nudity, masturbation, lifestyle, fetish ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new york, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new jersey
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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 ...
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268K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, demon, insanity, supernatural, twists and turns, mental disorder, obsession, paranoia, friendship, illness, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 80s
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13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man with a split personality fools his small town into believing his two alter egos are man and wife, although a struggling young mother holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the personalities.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, split personality, faked death, dissociative identity disorder, small town, mental disorder, double life, single mother, secret life, guilt, small town life, social relations ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
nebraska, usa, texas
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532
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fan Kwok Sang's schizophrenic breakdown led to the accidental death of his wife Wai Ling, and he was committed to a psychiatric hospital three years ago. Now Fan is ready to be released, with Dr. Chow Ming Kit vouching for him even though his ...
Style:
disturbing, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, drug addict, murder, rehabilitation, convict, psychiatric hospital, insanity, twists and turns, psychological trauma ...
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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, sad, romantic drama ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
marriage, abortion, adultery, depression, passion, death of wife, destiny, under the surface, dysfunctional family, deadend life, mental illness, existentialism ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2008, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, connecticut, california
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Genre: Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young man named Kengo Kosaka suffers from extreme mysophobia. Due to his compulsive disorder, he is unable to maintain a relationship with anyone. Kengo Kosaka is also a lonely young man. Meanwhile, high school student Hijiri Sanagi has ...
Style:
romantic, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
mental disorder, loneliness, romantic relationship, love story, romantic friendship, love affair, social problems, male female relationship, obsessive compulsive disorder, couple relations, love and romance, lifestyle ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Gravity is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jill Franklyn and Eric Schaeffer. It premiered on April 23, 2010 on Starz in the United States. On June 30, 2010, Starz reported that Gravity had been canceled.
Style:
realistic, tragicomedy, humorous, semi serious, sensual ...
Plot:
support group, suicide, mental disorder, dark humor, father daughter relationship, suicidal, starting over, friendship, plan gone awry, human nature, hopes, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style:
inspirational, psychological, breathtaking, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
disability, hospital, paralysis, death, coma, stroke, memory, writers, courage, patient, mute or deaf, communication problem ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Young Augusten Burroughs absorbs experiences that could make for a shocking memoir: the son of an alcoholic father and an unstable mother, he's handed off to his mother's therapist, Dr. Finch, and spends his adolescent years as a member of ...
Style:
cult classic, stylized, disturbing, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, mental illness, gay interest, dysfunctional family, therapist, mental disorder, unhappy, lgbt, family relations, lesbian, marital problem, drinking problem ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2006
Place:
new york, seattle, massachusetts, california, new jersey
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102K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style:
inspirational, touching, depressing, sincere, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, grief, 9/11, mental disorder, dealing with death, mental health, trauma, character study, therapy, mental illness, tragic event, friends ...
Time:
september 11 2001, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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201K
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970's, a homely, friendless ...
Style:
depressing, touching, emotional, sad, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
loneliness, stop motion, friendship, social misfits, letter, depression, melancholy, asperger's syndrome, young woman, relationships, solitude, mental illness ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 2000s, year 1976, 70s
Place:
australia, oceania, persia, usa, new york ...
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199K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, philosophical, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychiatry, scientology, right hand man, drifter, sex, female pubic hair, mentor, religion, bare breasts, religions or cults, brainwashing, writers ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 1950 ...
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, san francisco, alabama, pennsylvania ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Story:
Padmanabhan master and his wife are waiting for Unni, their only son who is missing for many years. 10 year old Unni got lost in the crowd during a temple festival where he was along with his neighbour Panikkar, popularly known as Poorappanikkar. ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, sentimental, comedy drama
Plot:
mental disorder, missing child, parent child relationship, satire, psycho, countryside, compassion, family drama, village life, heartwarming, misunderstanding, nostalgia ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
india
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being whisked away to Los Angeles by a handsome Hollywood star, Katie is left alone in his apartment, where strange and scary things begin to happen.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
mental disorder, female protagonist, isolation, trauma, paranoia, survival horror, secret, psychopath, survival, struggle for survival, loneliness, character study ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have ...
Style:
semi serious, psychological, humorous, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, dark humor, mental disorder, schizophrenic, love affair, fall in love, military life, war, prisoner, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, marriage proposal ...
Time:
year 2002, year 1996
Place:
chechnya, soviet union, afghanistan, russia
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, obsession, family in crisis, mental disorder, envy, murder, loss of daughter, death of daughter, female psychopath, dead teenager, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, year 2009, 90s, year 1999
Place:
australia, new zealand
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