Mental instability movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mental instability movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, psychological, independent film, suspense and captivating films and TV shows about / with mental disorder, family relations, love, husband wife relationship, obsession, hospital, mental illness, female nudity, cigarette smoking and death plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mental instability: Burnt (2015), Mulholland Drive (2001), Home (2008), It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012), The Kindness of Strangers (2006), Everything Put Together (2000), The Adored (2012), Filthy (2017), Visions (2015), Gold Digger (2019).

List of mental instability movies

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 6.6
 132K
Burnt (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Adam Jones is a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Style: culinary, inspirational, talky, exciting, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: chef, cooking, restaurant, food, abuse of power, violent behavior, violent man, male chauvinist, psychopath as protagonist, redemption, bullying, physical abuse ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, y2k
Place: london, new orleans
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surrealism, twists and turns, lesbian, amnesia, obsession, hollywood, nightmare, hallucination, doppelganger, alternate reality, filmmaking, dream ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
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 6.9
 5K
Home (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet) live with their three children in a remote house next to an abandoned highway using it as an extension to their property. One day without warning, construction workers begin to upgrade the road ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, stylized, social ...
Plot: highway, isolated house, car, traffic, house, parents and children, family relations, life turned upside down, eccentric family, family life, society, rebellion ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: france
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style: philosophical, surreal, adult animation, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, illness, mental health, mental illness, narration, dark humor, nightmare, hospital, divorced parents, loneliness, life & death, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Kindness of Strangers (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Ellie and Joe Farrelly are a busy couple bringing up a teenage son while running a large building company. When they suddenly have twins, a stranger comes into their life at just the time when they need help the most.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, serious
Plot: female psychopath, love triangle, fatal attraction, husband wife relationship, mental disorder, female friendship, female bonding, mental institution, housekeeper, manipulation, chance meeting, dangerous attraction ...
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Everything Put Together (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Everything Put Together is a 2000 film directed by Marc Forster starring Radha Mitchell and Megan Mullally.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, touching, depressing ...
Plot: losing-it hero, redemption, pregnancy, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, social decay, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, family life, family problems, babies and infants, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
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 3.8
 206
The Adored (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Photographer Francesca builds Maia's confidence while having to control her own obsessive and sexual desires towards Maia. As they spend more time together, Maia becomes the object of her obsession and things slowly spiral out of control.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating, queer horror ...
Plot: lesbian, obsession, couples, love and romance, lgbt, love, jealousy, stalking, mental disorder, manslaughter, tragedy, psychiatrist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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 6.5
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Filthy (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Lena is a 17-year old girl, experiencing her first love, secret night- time adventures, and magical mornings at the river in Bratislava. Her dream world is shattered after being raped by her math teacher. Lena must set out on a journey that is not ...
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sincere, crying ...
Plot: teenage rape, teenage girl, coming of age, first love, suicide attempt, teacher student sex, doctor, mental institution, older man younger woman relationship, teenage protagonist, traumatic experience, female friendship ...
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 5.3
 11K
Visions (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After moving to a vineyard with her family, a pregnant woman experiences horrifying visions.
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, spooky ...
Plot: pregnancy, hallucination, husband wife relationship, premonition, supernatural, ghost, mental disorder, car accident, revenge, nightmare, a vision, afterlife ...
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 6.7
 3K
Gold Digger (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Gold Digger tells the story of wealthy 60 year old Julia as she falls in love with Benjamin, a man 25 years her junior. As this six part series progresses the impact their unconventional relationship has on her family is explored and the secrets of ...
Style: suspense, captivating, enigmatic, psychological thriller, scenic
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, parents and children, lie, love and romance, money, rivalry, betrayal, mental disorder, feminist, desire, distopia, lgbt ...
Place: london
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 8.4
 1.5M
Joker (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style: thought provoking, suspense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental disorder, villain, psycho, psychopath, loneliness, psychological trauma, character change, insanity, social problems, comedian, social decay ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, year 2019, year 1981, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, los angeles, persia
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 6.8
 491
The Collector (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Eevi's life isn't going the way she would want it to, so she runs away, leaving destruction in her wake. No one will ever say no to her again.
Plot: psychotic, female psychopath, mental disorder, arsonist, female fight, insanity, murderer, car crash, stealing money, woman hits a man, lesbianism, woman kills a man ...
Time: 90s
Place: finland
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 6.7
 306
Tom White (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tom White is an architect who chooses to become homeless despite an seemingly otherwise successful life. However, it soon becomes clear that not everything is as it appears at work. Tom chooses a different path and cuts ties with his normal life.
Style: interesting
Plot: architect, mental breakdown, homelessness, male nudity, nervous breakdown, male pubic hair, mugging, flirting, bare chested male, drunken man, drunken woman, mental disorder ...
Place: australia
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 5.7
 391
Rosa Salvaje (1987)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Rosa salvaje is a Mexican telenovela that was broadcast in 1987. It starred the popular Mexican actress Verónica Castro, who played the main character, "Rosa", co-starring with Guillermo Capetillo as her love interest and Laura Zapata as ...
Style: soap opera, telenovela
Plot: morning sickness, scandal, ambulance, poverty, reconciliation, sister sister relationship, change of heart, secret lover, marriage proposal, disfigurement, unplanned pregnancy, resentment ...
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 8.5
 20K
Please Like Me (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story: After breaking up with his girlfriend, Josh comes to the realization that he is homosexual. With the support of his now ex girlfriend Claire, and his best friend and house mate Tom, Josh must help his mother with her battle with depression and the ...
Style: humorous, realistic, sincere, semi serious, sitcom ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, roommate, sexuality, friendship, lgbt, depression, homosexual, suicide attempt, low self esteem, gay relationship, dating, self discovery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, indiana
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A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.
Style: independent film, art house, psychological, depressing, intense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mental illness, marriage, dysfunctional family, love, working class, insanity, mental disorder, construction worker, mental health, illness, visceral, couples ...
Time: year 1974, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 218 min.
Story: The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological ...
Style: epic, captivating, breathtaking, visually appealing, visually stunning ...
Audience: date night, teens, family outing, kids
Plot: desert, world war one, military, british empire, camel, imperialism, historical character, battles, islam, politics, great war, train ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1962, victorian era ...
Place: middle east, saudi arabia, ottoman empire, arabia, africa ...
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Parasite in Love (2021)
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: disturbing, captivating, psychological, romantic
Plot: obsessive compulsive disorder, phobia, mental disorder, loneliness, romantic friendship, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, social problems, couple relations, couples ...
Place: japan
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The Cry of the Owl (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young woman becomes inexplicably attracted to a man who is stalking her. When her boyfriend goes missing, the stalker is the immediate suspect, until a game of jealousy and betrayal turns deadly.
Style: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, danger, couples, love and romance, neighbor, mysterious character, small town life, twists and turns, dating, dishonesty, cop, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, new york state
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Mickey and the Bear (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: teenage girl, father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, war veteran, family relations, father daughter incest, life is a bitch, parents and children, rural setting, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, montana
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Downfalls High (2021)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story: When reserved and lonely teenager Fenix meets popular high school girl Scarlett, the two form a bond that shapes the rest of his life.
Style: exciting, dramatic, captivating, entertaining, teen
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, subculture, social anxiety, mental disorder, mentally unstable, mental health, mental illness, mental institution, depression, high school, mental breakdown, rock music ...
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 6.6
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The Rose King (1986)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: West Germany, Portugal, France, Netherlands
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.
Style: art house
Plot: gay, lgbt, male nudity, gay interest, art, opera, homosexual, gay subtext, mother son relationship, mental disorder, son, woman ...
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Five Days One Summer (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A 1930s Scottish doctor (Sean Connery) goes climbing in the Alps with an infatuated niece (Betsy Brantley) he passes off as his wife.
Style: independent film, touching, gloomy, realistic, serious ...
Plot: climbing, rock climbing, 007, mountaineering, catastrophe, interwar period, love triangle, marital infidelity, unrequited love, accidental death, couples, infidelity ...
Time: 1930s, year 1982, year 1932
Place: swiss alps, alps, switzerland, europe
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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, uncover truth, life turned upside down, investigation, psychology, power relations, doctors and patients, false identity, domestic violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2014, year 2000, year 2007, year 2013 ...
Place: london, england
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 4.9
 10K
Awoken (2019)
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: medical, insomnia, cure, terminal illness, medicine, disease, student, illness, nightmare, dreaming, treatment, sleeping ...
Place: adelaide south australia, australia, south australia
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The Grissom Gang (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: hostage, gangster, stockholm syndrome, woman with a gun, private investigator, organized crime, nightclub singer, criminal gang, family relations, kidnapping, gang, survival ...
Time: year 1971, 1930s, 1920s, year 1931
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The Secret Rapture (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
Style: independent film
Plot: dead body, family relations, mental disorder, female nudity, cigarette smoking, death of father, nurse, rain, father daughter relationship, fire, bicycle, game playing ...
Time: year 1993
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 7.1
 62K
Don't Look Now (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, europe
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Carry on Girls (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. ...
Style: sex comedy, double entendre, slapstick comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: carry on, sexual humor, satire, beauty pageant, hotel, seaside town, rivalry, falling down, innuendo, women's liberation, sexual joke, photographer ...
Time: 70s
Place: brighton
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 4.6
 176
Thieves (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they're meant to be together despite ...
Style: romantic comedy, independent film, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: couples, female teacher, school, love affair, destiny, love and romance, husband wife relationship, divorce, father daughter relationship, extramarital affair, corpse, nihilism ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york
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