Top 20 films about psychological traumas and mental disorders, insanity, madness
Movies with characters depicting psychological traumas and mental disorders, sex adicts, weirdos
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- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
- DirectorSergio OlhovichStarsManuel OjedaDiana BrachoDelia CasanovaA writer finds himself amid a spiral of violence, alcohol and his leftist ideologies, eventually being locked down in an asylum, where he leads a rebellion.
- DirectorAlfredo GurrolaFrancisco GuerreroStarsSasha MontenegroAlejandro ParodiVíctor AlcocerMiguel is a corrupt cop. After a drug bust word goes around someone in Miguel squad kept the seized drugs. Miguel must take the heat and gets sent to jail where he gets severely beaten up.
- DirectorDavid FincherStarsBrad PittEdward NortonMeat LoafAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
- DirectorMichael CiminoStarsRobert De NiroChristopher WalkenJohn CazaleAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
- DirectorSteve McQueenStarsMichael FassbenderCarey MulliganJames Badge DaleA sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.
- DirectorStephen DaldryStarsThomas HornTom HanksSandra BullockA nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
- DirectorJonathan DaytonValerie FarisStarsSteve CarellToni ColletteGreg KinnearA family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
- DirectorTulio DemicheliStarsLucía MéndezGonzalo VegaMónica PradoDetective Alicia Gould, investigating the murder of a client's father, decides to go undercover to an asylum.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsBibi AnderssonLiv UllmannMargaretha KrookA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsMax von SydowLiv UllmannGertrud FridhWhile vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsTim RobbinsElizabeth PeñaDanny AielloMourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
- CreatorRodrigo GarcíaHagai LeviNir BergmanStarsGabriel ByrneUzo AdubaDianne WiestA psychotherapist questions his abilities and gets help by reuniting with his old therapist, whom he has not seen for ten years.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsChristos StergioglouMichele ValleyAngeliki PapouliaA controlling, manipulative father locks his three adult offsprings in a state of perpetual childhood by keeping them prisoner within the sprawling family compound.
- DirectorArturo RipsteinStarsClaudio BrookRita MacedoArturo BeristáinThe story of a disciplined and sexually driven man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from the "evil nature" of human beings while inventing (with his wife) rat poison.
- DirectorSamira MakhmalbafStarsZiya Mirza MohamadHaron AhadGol-GhotaiA wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsMatthew ModineNicolas CageJohn HarkinsAfter two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.
- DirectorIsaki LacuestaStarsRaúl ArévaloAlbert PlaIván TelefunkenThis is a mad satire about five individuals living in a mental institution. While inside, they come up with a plan to save the global economy and at the same time punish those responsible. The first step is to get out of the institution and on the yacht of the bank president.
- DirectorJames FrancoStarsJames FrancoTim Blake NelsonScott HazeA look at the trials and tribulations of the Compson family, living in the Deep South during the early 20th century.
- DirectorJulio BrachoStarsArturo de CórdovaIrasema DiliánMaría DouglasA troubled man returns home to find the woman he loves struck with memory loss on the eve of her wedding to another man. He attempts to help her regain her memory but at what cost?
- DirectorSidney LumetStarsSean ConneryTrevor HowardVivien MerchantA burnt-out British police detective finally snaps whilst interrogating a suspected child molester.