Mental illness movies and TV shows – page 4
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| All in Favor (2025) | 6.4 | |
| Honey (2026) | 7.9 | |
| Caravan (2025) | 6.6 | |
| A Normal Woman (2025) | 4.4 | |
| The Great Chimera (2026) | 7.2 |
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, murder mystery, obsession, infidelity, police investigation, adultery, psychopath, investigation, missing person, female protagonist, flashback, learning the truth ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, america, usa, london
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. In the process, they learn that neither is what she seems to be, and that a murder might solve both of their problems.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, psychological horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
teenager, drug dealer, getting away with murder, nubile girl, female best friends, sexy girl, framed for murder, blackmail, female protagonist, mental illness, feminine wiles, suburbs ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
connecticut, boston
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44K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style:
psychological, gothic, creepy, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, imaginary friend, psychopath, female psychopath, childhood trauma, insanity, dangerous attraction, violence, dark humor, murder, doll ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, sexy, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, telephone call, holiday, killer, violence, sorority, murder, mental illness, serial murder, maniac ...
Time:
70s, near future, year 1974, 20th century, 80s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.
Style:
psychological, rough, suspense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunted, mental illness, mental institution, time travel, mad doctor, missing person, brutality, trapped, little girl, torture, supernatural, survival ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1982
Place:
michigan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surreal, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, paranoia, memory lapse, disorientation, mental disorder, ufo, socially awkward, psychotic, dating, sleepwalking, unfulfillment ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, gay, obsession, friendship, youth, gay interest, lgbtq, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, lgbtqi, friends ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, chicago ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, political, inspirational, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, homeless shelter, homelessness, schizophrenia, homeless man, death, murder, photograph, photography, friendship, street life, street kid ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, boston, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.
Style:
entertaining, humorous, cult classic, uplifting, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mental illness, murder, farce, medical, psychiatrist, hospital, mistaken identity, psychiatric patient, murder witness, on the run, doctor patient relationship, mental patient ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, realistic, depressing, sentimental ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental disorder, family relations, love affair, friendship, parents and children, couples, unfulfillment, psychiatry, self mutilation, psychological disorder, mental health ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Cha Do Hyun is a rich heir to a family company with one major problem. Due to suppressed childhood trauma, he suffers from dissociative identity disorder manifested in 7 unique personalities who are out of his control. In order to overcome this ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, captivating, light, dorama ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dissociative identity disorder, doctor patient relationship, split personality, mental illness, psychiatrist, love, childhood memory, mental health, wealthy family, relationships, friendship, twists and turns ...
Place:
korea, south korea
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39K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, psychiatrist, twists and turns, doctors and patients, split personality, voodoo, child in peril, witch doctor, demon, female psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black (Mel Gibson) begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter (Anton Yelchin) pushes for his ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, sentimental, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
depression, mental illness, happy ending, losing-it hero, midlife crisis, mental disorder, dysfunctional family, psychology, family drama, mental health, coping, cheerleader ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, new jersey
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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: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
The main character is an extraordinary and mysterious person, at the same time, he (Rodion Meglin) is an outstanding inspector. Rodion is used to work alone in order to keep the secrecy of his unusual method. Young graduate Esenya Steklova is ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, investigation, psychosis, murder, mental illness, haunted by the past, brutality, good versus evil, human nature, redemption, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
russia
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19K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single ...
Style:
philosophical, psychological, fairy tale, surreal, mind twisting ...
Plot:
goth, dystopia, mental illness, steampunk, masked vigilante, vigilantism, imaginary friend, suicide, depression, dystopian future, imaginary, religions or cults ...
Time:
future, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sad, thought provoking, depressing ...
Plot:
teacher, mental illness, estrangement, friendship, children, inspiration, introspection, school, imaginary, alice in wonderland, imaginary friend, imagination ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. As time passes, ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, sexual, suspense ...
Plot:
mental illness, hospital, schizophrenia, incest, mentally unstable, fall in love, sex addict, couples, femme fatale, love and romance, doctors and patients, obsession ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, maryland
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, twist ending, futuristic, non-linear ...
Plot:
time travel, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, insanity, virus, post apocalypse, time loop, paranoia, end of the world, psychology, mental institution, dystopia ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1990, year 1996, 90s ...
Place:
philadelphia, maryland, pennsylvania, california, baltimore ...
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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: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, mental illness, macabre, murder, journalism, investigation, murder mystery, voice over narration, mental breakdown, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place:
mount fuji, america, africa, japan, usa
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26K
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
Style:
depressing, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
vietnam war, mental illness, bird, obsession, best friend, psychology, male friendship, military, friendship, illness, sex scene, mental institution ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, 60s
Place:
vietnam, philadelphia, usa, asia, atlantic city new jersey ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.
Style:
emotional, factual, intense, talky, melancholic ...
Plot:
musician, mental illness, pop music, music, biopic, songwriter, psychotherapist, drug abuse, medical malpractice, hearing voices, nervous breakdown, relationships ...
Time:
60s, year 1939, year 1992, year 1971, year 1995 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, malibu california, usa, southern california ...
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36K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, imagination, heroin, mental illness, drug addiction, surrealism, addiction, abandoned house, imaginary friend, mentally challenged, death by overdose, talking doll ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, austin texas, texas, usa
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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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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, stalker, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual obsession, femme fatale, family in danger, crimes of passion, extramarital affair, fatal attraction, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next ...
Style:
serious, realistic, erotic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
mental illness, violence against women, slutty wife, slutty attitude, horny woman, addiction, housewife, alcoholism, knocked up, depressed woman, coitus, no bra ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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1K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jeanne, a shy young woman, works as a night guard at an amusement park and has a close relationship with her mother. While no man can compete with this opposed duo, Jeanne begins to develop strange romantic feelings for Jumbo, the latest attraction ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, talky, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
mental illness, female nudity, sexuality, absent father, male nudity, autism, sexual perversion, mother daughter relationship, lgbt, love and romance, family relations, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark, France, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their ...
Style:
sexy, experimental, surreal, disturbing, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dogme 95, commune, orgy, mental illness, sex orgy, male nudity, nudity, sex, unsimulated sex, community, stupidity, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
denmark
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