Insanity movies and TV shows – page 4

List of insanity movies

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 6.1
 40K
Maniac (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Style: disturbing, slasher, scary, sadistic, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, obsession, insanity, mental illness, maniac, murder, sadism, loneliness, mannequin, torture, violence spree, brutality ...
Time: 80s, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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 6.7
 46K
Proof (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, mathematics, insanity, prodigy, university, paranoia, schizophrenia, illness, older woman younger man relationship, grief, life, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, new york, wisconsin
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 8.4
 23K
Invader ZIM (2001)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by Jhonen Vasquez. The show premiered on Nickelodeon on March 30, 2001. The series involves an extraterrestrial named Zim who originates from a planet called Irk, and his ongoing mission ...
Style: humorous, witty, stylized, adult animation, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, adult
Plot: dark humor, social misfits, absurd humor, insanity, rivalry, space travel, supernatural, fish out of water, paranoia, space and aliens, technology, anti hero ...
Time: future, 2000s
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 6.8
 245K
The Babadook (2014)
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, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, macabre, monster, nightmare, ghost, danger, single mother, fear, book, trauma, insanity, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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 6.8
 62K
Inland Empire (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: An actress's perception of reality becomes increasingly distorted as she finds herself falling for her co-star in a remake of an unfinished Polish production that was supposedly cursed.
Style: surreal, psychological, mindfuck, experimental, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, macabre, filmmaking, danger, alternate reality, insanity, curse, murder, nightmare, actress, abusive husband, mysticism ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: poland, los angeles, usa, california, europe ...
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 6.8
 41K
Spider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, paranoia, misfit, insanity, psychopath, mental patient, murder, twists and turns, surrealism ...
Time: 2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, africa ...
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 6.7
 94K
Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
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The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding ...
Style: scary, creepy, bloody, grindhouse, suspense ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, revenge, killer clown, sheriff, murder, kidnapping, brutality, gory, female villain, maniac ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: texas, austin texas, bolivia, usa
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YellowBrickRoad (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, New Hampshire walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. Without warning, they left behind everything: their homes, their clothes, and their money. The only clue where ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological horror ...
Plot: urban legend, missing person, woods, wilderness, survival, insanity, danger, obsession, haunted by the past, escapades, social relations, small town ...
Time: 1940s, year 1940, year 2008, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new england, new hampshire, usa
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A Dangerous Method (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA, Switzerland
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, philosophical, intellectual, sexy, period piece ...
Plot: mental illness, psychiatrist, psychoanalysis, psychology, historical character, introspection, psychologist, mentally unstable, insanity, sexual perversion, biopic, sexuality ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, edwardian era, victorian era, 2010s ...
Place: zurich switzerland, switzerland, europe, vienna, central europe ...
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Day of the Dead (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style: bloody, disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, zombie apocalypse, living dead, virus, apocalypse, gory, mad scientist, violence, insanity, macabre, survival, monster ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, pittsburgh, usa
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Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things ...
Style: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: nightmare, home invasion, serial killer, ghost, sister sister relationship, insanity, sisters, female protagonist, doll, danger, paranoid schizophrenia, violence ...
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 7.6
 47K
The Tenant (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style: psychological, offbeat, black comedy, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, insanity, mental illness, dark humor, nightmare, apartment building, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, landlord tenant relationship, mental disorder ...
Time: near future, year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 7.3
 23K
Betty Blue (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Betty Blue, a mentally unbalanced and sexually aggressive free spirit who becomes involved with Zorg, a repairman moonlighting as a writer. The two engage in a variety of sexual encounters, and grow more passionate toward each other. Betty finds ...
Style: erotic, sexy, atmospheric, sexual, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, nudity, borderline personality disorder, sexuality, obsessive love, mental illness, sex scene, love story, insanity, sex, public nudity, sensuality ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: france, paris france, europe
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 6.3
 21K
Rabid (1977)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After undergoing radical surgery for injuries from a motorcycle accident, a young woman develops a strange phallic growth on her body and a thirst for human blood -- the only nourishment that will now sustain her.
Style: disturbing, scary, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: vampire, body horror, epidemic, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, hospital, virus, zombie, violence, insanity, cannibalism, infected, infection ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: montreal, canada, quebec
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Strait-Jacket (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, farm, psychiatrist, insanity, decapitation, mental breakdown, doctor, murder, mental illness, hagsploitation, mother daughter relationship, mother daughter estrangement ...
Time: 60s
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 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
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 7.4
 7K
Leolo (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
Style: surreal, disturbing, art house, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: coming of age, masturbation, insanity, bestiality, surrealism, dysfunctional family, dark humor, magic realism, imagination, youth, madness, children ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: canada, quebec, montreal, sicily
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Man Facing Southeast (1986)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, surreal, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: insanity, mental illness, alien, mental institution, transformation, ufo, hospital, mental disorder, psychiatrist, waking up, illness, invasion ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: argentina, latin america
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 7.2
 9K
Frances (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style: depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, family relations, showbiz, rise to the top, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: california, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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The Walking Dead (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, supernatural, pandemic, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, plague, undead, fear ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
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 9.0
 2.8M
The Dark Knight (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, exciting, atmospheric, epic ...
Audience: manly, date night, kids, chick flick, boys' night ...
Plot: superhero, batman, heroes, secret identity, tragic hero, psychopath, moral dilemma, corruption, organized crime, joker, double life, villain ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, london, hong kong
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 7.9
 31K
The Sacrifice (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, art house, spiritual, slow cinema ...
Plot: insanity, existentialism, end of the world, spirituality, distopia, god, philosophy, dialogue, art, post apocalypse, religion, female nudity ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: soviet union, ussr, europe
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Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, psychological, clever ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, anti war, suicide, soldier, basic training, boot camp, sniper, military life, brutality, blood ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, year 1968, year 1987, 60s ...
Place: vietnam, persia, america, asia, south carolina
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Genre: Comedy, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.
Style: black comedy, black and white, dark comedy, political, funny ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: cold war, military, satire, nuclear war, nuclear threat, anti war, disaster, doomsday, nuclear holocaust, u.s. president, nuclear, president ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1942
Place: soviet union, washington d.c., persia, united kingdom, britain ...
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 6.2
 29K
Frontier(s) (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: cannibalism, psychopath, sadistic horror, macabre, torture, survival, human monster, gory, cruelty, sadism, insanity, butcher ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, france
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Alone in the Dark (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: maniac, home invasion, murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, blackout, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
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They Look Like People (2015)
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, stylized ...
Plot: mental illness, psychology, supernatural, demon, insanity, obsession, twists and turns, mental disorder, illness, monster, macabre, supernatural horror ...
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 7.7
 245K
Primal Fear (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A family's road trip takes a dangerous turn when they arrive at a secluded mobile home park to stay with some relatives and find it mysteriously deserted. Under the cover of darkness, three masked psychopaths pay them a visit to test the ...
Style: slasher, suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, serial killer, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, psycho, psycho killer, violence, murderer, disturbed individual, unknown killer, fear, murder ...
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