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Movies: Best "mental breakdown" Movies


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Who Framed Roger Rabbit(1988)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 44min | Fantasy, Animation, Comedy, Crime
3.8/5 (with 2,498 votes)

'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.

Aftermath(2017)

1h 32min | Drama, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 389 votes)

A fatal plane crash changes the lives of Roman and Jake forever. Roman loses his wife and daughter in the accident, while Jake loses his mind—as he happens to be the air traffic controller who failed to avert the nightmare. Rage and revenge engulfs Roman and Jake finds himself swamped with guilt and regret.

Colossal(2017)

3.2/5 (with 959 votes)

A woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.

Betty Blue(1986)

FSK: 16+ years
| 3h 5min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 168 votes)

A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.

Fathers and Daughters(2015)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 447 votes)

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.

Persona(1966)

1h 24min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 975 votes)

A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. The time they spend together only strengthens the crushing realization that one does not exist.

Arbitrage(2012)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 390 votes)

A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

A Woman Under the Influence(1974)

2h 35min | Drama
3.9/5 (with 187 votes)

Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavior convinces Nick that she poses a danger to their family and decides to commit her to an institution for six months. Alone with a trio of kids to raise on his own, he awaits her return, which holds more than a few surprises.

Candy(2006)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 268 votes)

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction, and despair.

Angst(1983)

1h 15min | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 133 votes)

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

Directed by Gerald Kargl - With Erwin Leder

Downfalls High(2021)

3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

When reserved and lonely teenager Fenix meets popular high school girl Scarlett, the two form a bond that shapes the rest of his life.

Resurrection(2022)

3.1/5 (with 79 votes)

A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.

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Face to Face(1976)

2h 16min | Drama, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 49 votes)

Dr. Jenny Isaksson is a psychiatrist whose temporary position at a mental hospital offers only modest responsibilities. With her husband out of the country for a seminar and her daughter at camp, Jenny moves in with her grandparents, expecting a relaxing few months. But it isn't long before unpleasant memories of her childhood, the sudden appearance of strange apparitions, and a near-rape push this otherwise stable woman to the very edge of sanity.

The Assassination of Richard Nixon(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 35min | Drama, History, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 122 votes)

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t give him any money to start anew. He tries to find someone to blame for his misfortunes and comes up with the President of the United States who he plans to murder.

The Offence(1973)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 52min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 59 votes)

A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.

MadHouse(1990)

1h 30min | Comedy
2.8/5 (with 30 votes)

The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.

Images(1972)

1h 41min | Drama, Mystery, Horror
3.5/5 (with 47 votes)

Cathryn is suffering from schizophrenia and is haunted by hallucinations of apparitions. Her husband has his mind on other things, while her mental state is deteriorating. She is unable to define whether the people around her, like visitors to their house, are real or imaginary.

Directed by Robert Altman - With Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Cathryn Harrison

Full Circle(1978)

1h 38min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.

Deadline(2009)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 29min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 35 votes)

A screenwriter travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.

Directed by Sean McConville - With Brittany Murphy, Thora Birch, Marc Blucas, Tammy Blanchard

The Man Who Haunted Himself(1970)

1h 28min | Thriller, Drama
3.1/5 (with 28 votes)

Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he discovers that his life does not belong to him anymore.

Psychout for Murder(1969)

1h 28min | Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.

Me and Me(2020)

1h 45min | Drama, Mystery
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

In a small South Korean village, while investigating the death of two people in strange circumstances, a grumpy policeman will live an overwhelming experience beyond the reality he has known so far.

Like a House on Fire(2021)

1h 25min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Dara returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, whom she left two years earlier. When she arrives, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her.

Directed by Jesse Noah Klein

The Doll(1962)

1h 36min | Drama, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store's mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life...

Directed by Arne Mattsson - With Per Oscarsson

Mayakkam Enna(2011)

2h 25min | Drama, Kids & Family
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Karthik splits his time between aimlessly hanging around his friends and dreams of being an assistant to his role model, an arrogant yet world renowned wildlife photographer. When Karthik's close friend Sundar introduces his girlfriend Yamini to their group, they can't stand each other initially, but there lies the twist, when opposites attract.

Directed by K. Selvaraghavan - With Dhanush, Richa Gangopadhyay

Alias(1999)

13min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

On her birthday, Juliette is too upset to worry about the strange cleaner who imitates her every move and lusts after her clothing.

Directed by Marina de Van

Puzzle of a Downfall Child(1970)

1h 45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.

Home Before Dark(1958)

2h 16min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.

Easy Land(2019)

1h 30min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.

Directed by Sanja Živković

Chlorine(2015)

1h 38min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It won't be long before Jenny starts pursuing her dreams again.

Directed by Lamberto Sanfelice - With Sara Serraiocco, Piera Degli Esposti, Giorgio Colangeli, Ivan Franěk
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