Movies by Lists - Best Movies about Insanity (149 [152]) 
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| 3 WomenTwo roommates/physical therapists, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship. | 1977 | Robert Altman (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (14.9K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| 12 MonkeysIn a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. | 1995 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.0 (603.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| 2001 A Space Odyssey The Monoliths push humanity to reach for the stars; after their discovery in Africa generations ago, the mysterious objects lead mankind on an awesome journey to Jupiter, with the help of H.A.L. 9000: the world's greatest supercomput | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (642.5K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| AfflictionA deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity. | 1997 | Paul Schrader (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (16.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Aguirre The Wrath Of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes]In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. | 1972 | Werner Herzog (*) | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.9 (55.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Alice in WonderlandNineteen-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen's reign of terror. | 2010 | Tim Burton (*) | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery | 6.4 (402.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| AmadeusThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. | 1984 | Milos Forman (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 8.3 (388.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| American History XA former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. | 1998 | Tony Kaye | Drama | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| American PsychoA wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies. | 2000 | Mary Harron | Crime, Drama, Horror | 7.6 (546.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Angel at My Table, AnJanet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim. | 1990 | Jane Campion (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (7.7K votes) | 158 | 20220414 |
| Angel BabyTwo schizophrenics meet during therapy and fall passionately in love. Ahead of them lies the inevitable road to disaster - one they share to the end. | 1995 | Michael Rymer | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| AntichristA grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse. | 2009 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (126.7K votes) | 2 | 20220912 |
| Apocalypse NowA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, War | 8.4 (641.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Arsenic And Old LaceA Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers. | 1943 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 8.0 (69.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Aviator, TheA biopic depicting the early years of legendary director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s. | 2004 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.5 (351.6K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| Barton FinkA renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood. | 1991 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Beautiful Mind, AAfter John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. | 2001 | Ron Howard | Biography, Drama | 8.2 (897.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Being John MalkovichA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich. | 1999 | Spike Jonze (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.7 (327.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Belle de JourA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. | 1967 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (43.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Benny's VideoA 14-year-old video enthusiast obsessed with violent films decides to make one of his own and show it to his parents, with tragic results. | 1992 | Michael Haneke (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.2 (15.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Bigger Than LifeA seriously ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity. | 1956 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Drama | 7.5 (7.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Black SwanA committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake". | 2010 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama, Thriller | 8.0 (736.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Blue VelvetThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. | 1986 | David Lynch (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (192.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| BrazilA bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams. | 1985 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (197.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Butcher Boy, TheThe antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland. | 1997 | Neil Jordan | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (10.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Butterfly Effect, TheEvan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal. | 2004 | Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (474.4K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Cape FearA convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him. | 1991 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (187.1K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| CarrieCarrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom. | 1976 | Brian De Palma (*) | Horror, Mystery | 7.4 (182.8K votes) | 98 | 20220524 |
| Cat PeopleAn American man marries a Serbian immigrant who fears that she will turn into the cat person of her homeland's fables if they are intimate together. | 1942 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (22K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Citizen KaneFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'. | 1941 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, Mystery | 8.3 (429.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Clean, ShavenAfter a man suffering from schizophrenia is released from a mental institution, he attempts to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. | 1993 | Lodge Kerrigan | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (5.5K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Clockwork Orange, AIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (799.7K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Cremator, The [Spalovac Mrtvol]Set in Central Europe during World War II, a demented cremator believes cremation relieves earthly suffering and sets out to save the world. | 1969 | Juraj Herz | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.0 (8.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz [Ensayo de un, TheThe delirious journey of a mental disordered man, who is obsessed in making the perfect crime. | 1955 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (5.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Dark Half, TheA writer's fictional alter ego wants to take over his life...at any price. | 1993 | George A. Romero (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.0 (17.2K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Dark Knight, TheWhen the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice. | 2008 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 9.0 (2.5M votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
| David and LisaTeenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people. | 1962 | Frank Perry | Drama | 7.2 (3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Dead RingersTwin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. | 1988 | David Cronenberg (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (45.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Donnie DarkoAfter narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes. | 2001 | Richard Kelly | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.0 (774.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Don't Look NowA married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond. | 1973 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (54.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (13.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dr. StrangeloveAn insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Comedy, War | 8.4 (474.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| EraserheadHenry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. | 1977 | David Lynch (*) | Fantasy, Horror | 7.4 (111.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless MindWhen their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories. | 2004 | Michel Gondry | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (966.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Fatal AttractionA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. | 1987 | Adrian Lyne (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (83K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Fear And Loathing In Las VegasAn oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades. | 1998 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (272.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Fight ClubAn insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more. | 1999 | David Fincher (*) | Drama | 8.8 (2M votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Fisher King, TheA former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake. | 1991 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 (83.6K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| FitzcarraldoThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle. | 1982 | Werner Herzog (*) | Adventure, Drama | 8.1 (34K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
| FrancesThe story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted. | 1982 | Graeme Clifford | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (7.9K votes) | 140 | 20220723 |
| FrankensteinDr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts. | 1931 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.8 (70.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Full Metal JacketA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, War | 8.3 (713.8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| GaslightTen years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife in | 1944 | George Cukor (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.8 (27.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Girl, InterruptedBased on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s. | 1999 | James Mangold | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (177.5K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| HarveyDue to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows. | 1950 | Henry Koster (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 (54.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Haunting, TheHill House has stood for about 90 years and appears haunted: its inhabitants have always met strange, tragic ends. Now Dr. John Markway has assembled a team of people who he thinks will prove whether or not the house is haunted. | 1963 | Robert Wise (*) | Horror | 7.5 (38.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Hitcher, TheA young man who escapes the clutches of a murderous hitchhiker is subsequently stalked by the hitcher and framed for his crimes. | 1986 | Robert Harmon | Action, Thriller | 7.2 (47K votes) | 97 | 20220414 |
| Holy Mountain, TheIn a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a messianic character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment. | 1973 | Alejandro Jodorowsky (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 7.9 (41.2K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Hope [Umut]Umut"" is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will pr... | 1970 | Serif Gören, Yilmaz Güney | Drama | 8.0 (3.9K votes) | 100 | 20220731 |
| Hour of the Wolf [Vargtimmen]While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires. | 1968 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Horror | 7.6 (20.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Hours, TheThe story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (129.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Hunger [Sult]In 1890, Pontus, the starving writer, wanders the streets of Christiania, in search of love and a chance to get his work published. All he meets is defeat and suffering while his sense of reality is withering. One moment his is delig | 1966 | Henning Carlsen | Drama | 7.8 (3.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Hush...Hush, Sweet CharlotteAn aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative. | 1964 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (14.2K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Ichi The KillerAs sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of achieving. | 2001 | Takashi Miike (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Horror | 7.0 (55K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| IdentityStranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one. | 2003 | James Mangold | Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (239.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, TheA traveling theater company gives its audience much more than they were expecting. | 2009 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery | 6.8 (147.8K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| In DreamsA suburban housewife learns that she has a dreamworld connection to a serial murderer, and must stop him from killing again. | 1999 | Neil Jordan | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller | 5.5 (13.4K votes) | 100 | 20230806 |
| Inland EmpireAs an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal. | 2006 | David Lynch (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (56.2K votes) | 180 | 20211228 |
| Innocents, TheA young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. | 1961 | Jack Clayton (*) | Horror | 7.8 (29.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Island, The [Ostrov]Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons... | 2006 | Pavel Lungin (*) | Drama | 7.8 (12.2K votes) | 112 | 20230806 |
| Jacob's LadderMourning 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 de | 1990 | Adrian Lyne (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery | 7.5 (104.6K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Juliet of the Spirits [Giulietta degli spirit]Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband. | 1965 | Federico Fellini (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.6 (13.3K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| King of ComedyRupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself. | 1982 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (98.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| La Haine24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot. | 1995 | Mathieu Kassovitz | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (164.5K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| LeoloThe story of a young Canadian boy who tries to escape mentally from his disturbed family thanks to his fantasy and imagination. | 1992 | Jean-Claude Lauzon | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Leon [The Professional]12-year-old Mathilda is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. An unusual relationship forms as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade. | 1994 | Luc Besson (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Machinist, TheAn industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity. | 2004 | Brad Anderson | Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (377.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Man Facing Southeast [Hombre mirando al sudeste]A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right? | 1986 | Eliseo Subiela | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short, The [De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen]Govert Miereveld is a schoolteacher who has an unhealthy obsession with Fran, one of his students. On the day of Fran's graduation, Govert decides that he needs to tell her. | 1965 | André Delvaux | Drama | 6.8 (884 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Mary ReillyA housemaid falls in love with Dr. Henry Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Edward Hyde. | 1996 | Stephen Frears (*) | Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 5.8 (15K votes) | 108 | 20220806 |
| MelancholiaTwo sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth. | 2011 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (177.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| MementoA man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer. | 2000 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (1.2M votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| MiseryAfter a famous author is rescued from a car crash by a fan of his novels, he comes to realize that the care he is receiving is only the beginning of a nightmare of captivity and abuse. | 1990 | Rob Reiner (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (200.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| MoonAstronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our | 2009 | Duncan Jones | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (350K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Mulholland DrAfter a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. | 2001 | David Lynch (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (343.7K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Naked LunchAfter developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa. | 1991 | David Cronenberg (*) | Drama | 7.0 (50.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Natural Born KillersTwo victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media. | 1994 | Oliver Stone (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.3 (228.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Night of the HunterA religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. | 1955 | Charles Laughton (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (87K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Number 23, TheWalter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise. | 2007 | Joel Schumacher | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (199.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| OldboyAfter being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. | 2003 | Park Chan-wook (*) | Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (553.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | 1975 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 8.7 (970.7K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Open Your EyesA very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured. | 1997 | Alejandro Amenábar | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.7 (68.1K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| OrdetFollows the lives of the Borgen family, as they deal with inner conflict, as well as religious conflict with each other, and the rest of the town. | 1955 | Carl Theodor Dreyer (*) | Drama | 8.3 (15.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Ordinary PeopleThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. | 1980 | Robert Redford (*) | Drama | 7.7 (50.4K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Others, TheA woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted. | 2001 | Alejandro Amenábar | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (354.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Pan's LabyrinthIn the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. | 2006 | Guillermo del Toro (*) | Drama, Fantasy, War | 8.2 (648.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Passion of Anna, The [En Passion]A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair. | 1969 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 7.7 (9.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Peeping TomA young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror. | 1960 | Michael Powell (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.7 (34.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| PersonaA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together. | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (113.5K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| PiA paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature. | 1998 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.4 (175.8K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Play Misty For MeThe life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan. | 1971 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (27.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| PossessionA woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister. | 1981 | Andrzej Zulawski | Drama, Horror | 7.4 (29.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| ProofThe daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search th | 2005 | John Madden | Drama, Mystery | 6.7 (44.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| PsychoA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (643.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Punch Drunk LoveA frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know that he will land in huge trouble and will also jeopardise his relationship with Lena. | 2002 | Paul Thomas Anderson (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.3 (158.9K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Raising CainThe oncologist wife of a prominent child psychologist suspects her husband has an unhealthy scientific obsession with their child, unaware of what - or who - is really going on inside his head. | 1992 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 6.1 (15.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| RepulsionA sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. | 1965 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (52.5K votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| RequiemAn epileptic girl suffers a breakdown during her first year at university, then decides to seek help from a priest in battling the troubles associated with her strict upbringing. | 2006 | Hans-Christian Schmid | Drama, Horror | 6.9 (5.8K votes) | 93 | 20220414 |
| Requiem for a DreamThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. | 2000 | Darren Aronofsky (*) | Drama | 8.3 (809.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. | 1968 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (207.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Sacrifice, The [Offret]At the dawn of World War III, a man searches for a way to restore peace to the world and finds he must give something in return. | 1986 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama | 8.0 (27.3K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Science of Sleep, The [La science des rêves]A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world. | 2006 | Michel Gondry | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.3 (68.9K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Secret WindowA successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism. | 2004 | David Koepp | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.5 (190.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| SevenTwo detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives. | 1995 | David Fincher (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.6 (1.6M votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| ShinePianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. | 1996 | Scott Hicks | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.7 (53.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Shining, TheA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.4 (968K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| Shock CorridorBent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder. | 1963 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.4 (11.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Shutter IslandIn 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. | 2010 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (1.2M votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Silence of the Lambs, TheA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. | 1991 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.6 (1.4M votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Sixth Sense, TheA frightened, withdrawn Philadelphia boy who communicates with spirits seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. | 1999 | M. Night Shyamalan (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (957K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Snake Pit, TheA detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution. | 1948 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.6 (7.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Solaris [Solyaris]A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane. | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| SpellboundA psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (47.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| SpiderA mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood. | 2002 | David Cronenberg (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (38.3K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| StalkerA guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.1 (129.5K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Stir of EchoesAfter being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him. | 1999 | David Koepp | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (79.9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Streetcar Named Desire, ADisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. | 1951 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 8.0 (105.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| StroszekIn Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin. | 1977 | Werner Herzog (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (14K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Suddenly, Last SummerA surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret. | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (15.2K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Sunset BlvdA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. | 1950 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.4 (214.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Take ShelterPlagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. | 2011 | Jeff Nichols | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.3 (98.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Tales of Ordinary Madness [Storie di ordinaria follia]Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity. | 1981 | Marco Ferreri | Drama | 6.8 (2.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Taxi DriverA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action. | 1976 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (780.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Tenant, TheA bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia. | 1976 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (42.8K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| There Will Be BloodA story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. | 2007 | Paul Thomas Anderson (*) | Drama | 8.2 (558.7K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
| Through A Glass Darkly [Såsom i en spegel]Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God. | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 8.0 (24.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| TidelandBecause of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination. | 2005 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 6.5 (33K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| TrainspottingRenton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. | 1996 | Danny Boyle (*) | Drama | 8.1 (665.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Trial, TheAn unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges. | 1962 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (20.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Truman Show, TheAn insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show. | 1998 | Peter Weir (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (1M votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Ugly, Dirty and Bad [Brutti sporchi e cattivi]Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery. | 1976 | Ettore Scola | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (8.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Un Chien AndalouLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery. | 1929 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 7.7 (48.8K votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
| UndergroundA group of Serbian socialists prepares for the war in a surreal underground filled by parties, tragedies, love, and hate. | 1995 | Emir Kusturica (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, War | 8.1 (57.5K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| We Need to Talk About KevinKevin's mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined. | 2011 | Lynne Ramsay | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (148.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| What Ever Happened to Baby JaneA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. | 1962 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 134 | 20220414 |
| White HeatA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. | 1949 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (32K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Wicker Man, TheA puritan Police Sergeant arrives in a Scottish island village in search of a missing girl, whom the Pagan locals claim never existed. | 1973 | Robin Hardy | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (78K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Woman Under the Influence, AAlthough wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage. | 1974 | John Cassavetes (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.2 (24.4K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| WoyzeckFranz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control. | 1979 | Werner Herzog (*) | Drama | 7.1 (9.6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Inside | 2002 | Trevor Sands | Short, Horror, Mystery | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Das weiÃe Rauschen | 2001 | Tobias Amann, Hans Weingartner | Drama | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski | 1999 | Werner Herzog | Documentary, Biography | 7.8 (Unkn) | | Excluded |