Best "mental illness" Movies of All Time

313 movies found (page 1/11):

Split(2017)

FSK: 16+ years

3.7/5 (with 7,981 votes)

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan - With James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley, Jessica Sula, Haley Lu Richardson, Brad William Henke, ...

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Appassionata(1974)

1h 36min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 19 votes)

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

Directed by Gianluigi Calderone - With Gabriele Ferzetti, Ornella Muti, Eleonora Giorgi, Valentina Cortese, Ninetto Davoli, Carla Mancini, ...

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Glass(2019)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 9min | Thriller, Drama, Science Fiction

3.3/5 (with 3,936 votes)

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan - With Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, ...

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Donnie Darko(2001)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 54min | Fantasy, Drama, Mystery

3.9/5 (with 5,674 votes)

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Directed by Richard Kelly - With Patrick Swayze, Mary McDonnell, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Katharine Ross, Jena Malone, ...

Perfect Blue(1998)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 21min | Animation, Thriller

4.1/5 (with 1,110 votes)

Pop singer Mima Kirigow looks forward to a bright new career when she quits her chart-topping trio to become an actress. When she lands a role in a sexually charged murder mystery, Mima’s life begins to fall apart.

Directed by Satoshi Kon

Smile(2022)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 55min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 1,223 votes)

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.

Directed by Parker Finn - With Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kal Penn, Rob Morgan, Kyle Gallner, Caitlin Stasey, ...

Black Swan(2010)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 48min | Drama, Thriller, Horror

3.8/5 (with 6,560 votes)

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

Directed by Darren Aronofsky - With Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winona Ryder, Ksenia Solo, ...

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Silver Linings Playbook(2012)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 2min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 5,495 votes)

After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

Directed by David O. Russell - With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Chris Tucker, Anupam Kher, ...

Marrowbone(2017)

1h 51min | Thriller, Horror, Drama, Mystery

3.6/5 (with 616 votes)

A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.

Directed by Sergio G. Sánchez - With George MacKay, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Mia Goth, Kyle Soller, Tom Fisher, ...

Enemy(2013)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 31min | Thriller, Mystery

3.4/5 (with 2,720 votes)

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve - With Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Isabella Rossellini, Sarah Gadon, Stephen R. Hart, Joshua Peace, ...

Monster(2003)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 50min | Crime, Drama

3.6/5 (with 1,004 votes)

An emotionally scarred highway drifter shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her, and ultimately becomes the United States' first female serial killer.

Directed by Patty Jenkins - With Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Scott Wilson, ...

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Girl, Interrupted(1999)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 7min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 1,639 votes)

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

Directed by James Mangold - With Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, ...

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Empire of Light(2022)

FSK: 12+ years

| 1h 53min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 154 votes)

The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.

Directed by Sam Mendes - With Olivia Colman, Colin Firth, Toby Jones, Micheal Ward, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, ...

Lights Out(2016)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 21min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

3.2/5 (with 1,734 votes)

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

Directed by David F. Sandberg - With Teresa Palmer, Maria Bello, Billy Burke, Emily Alyn Lind, Gabriel Bateman, Andi Osho, ...

Color of Night(1994)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 1min | Romance / Love, Thriller, Drama

2.9/5 (with 241 votes)

When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into Rose and begins a torrid affair.

Directed by Richard Rush - With Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades, Scott Bakula, Lesley Ann Warren, Lance Henriksen, ...

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Dogtooth(2009)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 38min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 921 votes)

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos - With Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Angeliki Papoulia, Marie Tsoni, Anna Kalaitzidou, Christos Passalis, ...

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The Son(2022)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 3min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 119 votes)

A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.

Directed by Florian Zeller - With Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Hugh Quarshie, Anthony Hopkins, Zen McGrath, ...

Kimi(2022)

FSK: 16+ years

| 2h 29min | Thriller

3.1/5 (with 309 votes)

A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh - With Zoë Kravitz, Byron Bowers, Jaime Camil, Jacob Vargas, Derek DelGaudio, Erika Christensen, ...

Lamb(2021)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

3.2/5 (with 299 votes)

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

Directed by Valdimar Johannsson - With Noomi Rapace, Hilmir Snær Guðnason, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson

Ma(2019)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 39min | Horror, Thriller

2.9/5 (with 971 votes)

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

Directed by Tate Taylor - With Octavia Spencer, Luke Evans, Juliette Lewis, Missi Pyle, Allison Janney

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Mommy(2014)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 18min | Drama

4.1/5 (with 1,253 votes)

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

Directed by Xavier Dolan - With Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Michèle Lituac, Patrick Huard, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Suzanne Clément, ...

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Gothika(2003)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 38min | Horror, Thriller

3.0/5 (with 1,064 votes)

After a car crash, a criminal psychologist regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband—but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz - With Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill, Penélope Cruz, ...

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Goodnight Mommy(2014)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 40min | Horror, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

3.3/5 (with 678 votes)

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

Directed by Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz - With Susanne Wuest, Michael Ande, Ruth Leuwerik

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

2h 15min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

4.0/5 (with 452 votes)

A former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

Directed by Robert Aldrich - With Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono, Maidie Norman, Marjorie Bennett, Anna Lee, ...

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Dear Evan Hansen(2021)

FSK: 12+ years

| 2h 11min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 115 votes)

Evan Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety, unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s letters for their son’s suicide note.

Directed by Stephen Chbosky - With Ben Platt, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amy Adams, Danny Pino, Amandla Stenberg, ...

Lars and the Real Girl(2007)

FSK: 0+ years

| 1h 46min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 823 votes)

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

Directed by Craig Gillespie - With Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider, Kelli Garner, Patricia Clarkson, R. D. Reid, ...

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Ingrid Goes West(2017)

1h 37min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 412 votes)

Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.

Directed by Matt Spicer - With O'Shea Jackson Jr., Elizabeth Olsen, Billy Magnussen, Wyatt Russell, Aubrey Plaza, Pom Klementieff, ...

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Cracks(2009)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 44min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 166 votes)

Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

Directed by Jordan Scott - With Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde, Imogen Poots, Sinéad Cusack

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Don't Look Now(1973)

FSK: 16+ years

| 1h 50min | Thriller, Drama, Horror

3.5/5 (with 428 votes)

Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

Directed by Nicolas Roeg - With Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato, Renato Scarpa, Giorgio Trestini, ...

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God's Crooked Lines(2022)

2h | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 233 votes)

Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.

Directed by Oriol Paulo - With Bárbara Lennie, Eduard Fernández, Loreto Mauleón, Javier Beltrán, Pablo Derqui, Federico Aguado, ...

Movies: Best "mental illness" Movies

Split(2017)

Appassionata(1974)

Glass(2019)

Donnie Darko(2001)

Perfect Blue(1998)

Smile(2022)

Black Swan(2010)

Silver Linings Playbook(2012)

Marrowbone(2017)

Enemy(2013)

Monster(2003)

Girl, Interrupted(1999)

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Empire of Light(2022)

Lights Out(2016)

Color of Night(1994)

Dogtooth(2009)

The Son(2022)

Kimi(2022)

Lamb(2021)

Ma(2019)

Mommy(2014)

Gothika(2003)

Goodnight Mommy(2014)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?(1962)

Dear Evan Hansen(2021)

Lars and the Real Girl(2007)

Ingrid Goes West(2017)

Cracks(2009)

Don't Look Now(1973)

God's Crooked Lines(2022)

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