Best Movies About Mental Illness of 2025
This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Movies About Mental Illness of 2025" contains films with the following parameters. Style: psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, dark comedy, suspenseful and f word. Plot: mental illness, isolation, blood, psychological drama, obsession, slow burn, claustrophobia, male nudity, sex scene and violence. Genre: Drama, Thriller and Horror. Country: USA, Canada and UK.
Best Movies About Mental Illness of 2025
TOP Movies: Die My Love (2025), Thunderbolts* (2025), The Last Viking (2025), The Plague (2025), Bugonia (2025), The Housemaid (2025), Blue Moon (2025), Together (2025), Marty Supreme (2025), 28 Years Later (2025), Undertone (2025), Dream Eater (2025), Sorry, Baby (2025), Borderline (2025), DNA (2025), Project MKHEXE (2025), All in Favor (2025), Kannagi Nagar (2025), Diabolical (2025), Novak (2025).
List of Best Movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Described as an 'epic environmental horror' film. Plot TBA.
Style:
dark comedy, psychological horror, atmospheric, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
mental illness, postpartum depression, sexless marriage, car accident, emotional breakdown, hallucination, psychosis, isolation, desolation, character study, slow burn, claustrophobia ...
Place:
montana
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263K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, seven disillusioned castoffs must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts.
Style:
political thriller, psychological horror, surprise ending, dark fantasy, psychotronic ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, mental illness, superhero, depression, gay, villain, congressman, multiverse, u.s. senator, motorcycle, good versus evil, destroying evidence ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new york, washington d.c., manhattan new york city, malaysia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Anker is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence for robbery. Anker’s brother, Manfred, is the only one who knows where the money from the heist is. Meanwhile, Manfred has developed a mental illness, causing him to forget where the ...
Style:
dark comedy, crime drama, emotional, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
mental illness, brothers, brotherhood, memory, heist, family drama, character study, trauma, identity, redemption, regret, memory loss ...
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates, USA, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer...
Style:
tense, realistic, intense, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, summer camp, summer, coming of age, teen angst, social anxiety, character study, adolescence, self discovery, isolation, mental illness, outsider ...
Time:
year 2003
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133K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, black and white, psychological thriller, absurd ...
Plot:
kidnapping, conspiracy, ceo, satire, alien invasion, symbolism, power politics, alien conspiracy, political conflict, extraterrestrial, yoga, lunar eclipse ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A woman with a troubled past accepts a job as a live-in maid for a wealthy, seemingly perfect family.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, intense, twisted ...
Plot:
rape, abusive relationship, abusive husband, psychological manipulation, manipulation, betrayal, claustrophobia, class conflict, female nudity, moral ambiguity, slow burn, female rivalry ...
Place:
new york
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14K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.
Style:
historical drama, emotional, melancholic, period piece, art house ...
Plot:
mental health, alcoholism, broadway, gay, intimate, gay interest, depression, character study, biopic, friendship, composer, addiction ...
Time:
1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place:
new york
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66K
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
With a move to the countryside already testing the limits of a couple's relationship, a supernatural encounter begins an extreme transformation of their love, their lives, and their flesh.
Style:
psychological horror, gloomy, compassionate, horror comedy, surprise ending ...
Plot:
body horror, hybrid, male nudity, bare chested male, male star appears nude, teacher, musician, sex scene, transformation, female teacher, new identity, dead father ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Finland, USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.
Style:
dark comedy, period drama, f word
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ping pong, table tennis, jewish man, male nudity, bare chested male, hustler, coming of age, self discovery, sacrifice, isolation, supernatural, identity crisis ...
Time:
1950s, year 1952
Place:
tokyo, paris france, cairo egypt, sarajevo, brussels ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Plot under wraps. The third film in the “28 Days Later” franchise.
Style:
surprise ending, freeze frame, suspense, dutch angle, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
island, zombie, post apocalypse, survival horror, survival, terminal illness, death, father son relationship, quarantine, survivor, death of mother, archery ...
Time:
2030s, 2000s, year 2002, 2020s
Place:
england, britain, scotland, united kingdom, scottish highlands
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275
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The host of an ‘all-things-creepy’ podcast, who moves into her dying mother’s house to be her primary caregiver. When her podcast is sent 10 audio recordings of a young pregnant couple experiencing paranormal noises, she realizes the woman’s ...
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspenseful, atmospheric
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, female protagonist, haunted house, driven mad, obsession, family secret, dying mother, mental illness, slow burn, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A filmmaker documents her boyfriend's violent parasomnia during their holiday at a remote cabin in the woods.
Style:
psychological horror, tense, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
found footage, sleepwalking, couple relations, mental illness, obsession, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, holiday, body horror, experimental narrative, possession, cabin in the woods ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.
Style:
independent film, hilarious, absurd, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
rape, sex scene, rape victim, professor, sexual assault, cat, female friendship, lesbian, lesbian friend, female professor, graduate student, flashback ...
Place:
new england, massachusetts
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A helplessly romantic sociopath escapes from a mental institution and invades the home of a '90s pop superstar. He just wants to be loved; she just wants to survive.
Style:
dark comedy, romantic, horror comedy, crying, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
stalker, skinny dipping, hallucination, mental illness, home invasion, obsession, sociopath, obsessed fan, pop star, escaped mental patient, mother daughter relationship, pastor ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
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3K
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A young woman with borderline personality disorder, fights a lonely battle when she believes her newborn baby was swapped with someone else’s minutes after her delivery. Her loving husband, who initially doubts, eventually believes and starts ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful
Plot:
mental illness, borderline personality disorder, character study, hospital, parenthood, family bonds, ethical dilemma, isolation, loneliness, moral ambiguity, psychological drama, gaslight
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Tim films his brother Sean's funeral after his suicide, then uncovers Sean's fixation with a nonexistent online urban legend about a failed government mind control experiment.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mind control, found footage, grief, conspiracy, brotherhood, obsession, trauma, mourning, paranoia, suicide, urban legend, family drama ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
At a downtown Madrid building, an ordinary meeting of neighbors commune to vote on a change of elevator. However, the event escalates into a full-blown conflict after the unexpected announcement that a new, mentally ill tenant will rent an apartment.
Style:
tense, satirical, dark comedy
Plot:
neighbor, apartment building, prejudice, mental illness, branding iron, social satire, ethical dilemma, single, conformity, character study, bureaucracy, city life ...
Place:
madrid
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Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Kutty and Meena lost their parents in the tsunami and live with their grandmother in Kannagi Nagar. Meena is kidnapped by 5 boys. He falls unconscious thinking that meena has raped and killed. With the help of a demented young charity founder, he ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological thriller, bleak, dark, tragic ending ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, kidnapping, grief, trauma, sibling relationship, suicide, obsession, vigilante, mental illness, guilt, morality ...
Place:
thailand
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Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jessica grew up with a mother plagued by inexplicable psychological issues. Years later, Jessica begins to experience the same disturbing symptoms and she starts to suspect that the cause isn't psychological but something evil.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful, atmospheric, dread ...
Plot:
mental illness, mother daughter relationship, haunting, paranoia, family curse, supernatural, slow burn, identity crisis, isolation, possession, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Greece, Switzerland, India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An ageing Serbian neuroscientist lives a reclusive life in Athens, having been branded as a paranoid schizophrenic for his radical research on the effects of electromagnetic radiation on humans. But when, decades later, he is rediscovered by a group ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, intellectual, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
neuroscience, mental illness, isolation, paranoia, ethical dilemma, obsession, social commentary, activism, moral ambiguity, slow burn
Place:
athens greece, greece
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Arthur Sydenham Sharp, a travelling spiritual medium, arrives in Finland for the final seance of his tour. Immersed in the oppressive atmosphere of an unwelcoming hotel, Arthur's sense of reality becomes increasingly distorted by eerie visions ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological horror, psychological thriller, dark, tense ...
Plot:
spiritualism, seance, medium, haunted hotel, supernatural, paranoia, hallucination, mental illness, claustrophobia, paranormal, isolation, obsession ...
Place:
finland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Overwhelmed by motherhood, Ester steals a caravan and flees to southern Italy with her son David, with an intellectual disability. They meet a young drifter whose open heart transforms their makeshift family into something freer, lighter, and full ...
Style:
road movie
Plot:
single mother, countryside, freedom, mother son relationship, motherhood, rebellion, autism, intellectual disability, teenager, mental illness, boy, vacation ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When an unidentified disease starts to upend her life, a socialite must unravel the mystery behind it — before her whole sense of self falls apart.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, psychological horror, psychological, hot
Audience:
adult
Plot:
socialite, sick, mental illness, violence, house, birthday, treatment, mother in law, plastic surgery, wife, woman, church ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on the classic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Hyde" tells the story of successful defense attorney Edward Hyde, who has the perfect family to go along with his perfect job...even though he finds himself struggling to balance the ...
Style:
slasher, independent film, surprise ending, f word
Plot:
drug use, childhood trauma, split personality, double life, violence, lawyer, blood, murder, nudity, mental illness, getting away with murder, insanity ...
Is relevant?
30K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the breaking point — and into a shocking act of desperation.
Style:
absurd, crying, detective, earnest, hot
Plot:
rain, water, hostage, angry, bank manager, arrest, loss of job, sick child, social worker, veteran, elementary school, jacket ...
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