Top Anxiety Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Bill Hader

Sarah Goldberg

Anthony Carrigan

Henry Winkler

Barry (2018) TV Show

7.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.

Style: tense

Plot: post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), assassin, show business, depression, hitman, betrayal, dark comedy, los angeles, ...

Cast

Sharon Rooney

Nico Mirallegro

Jodie Comer

Dan Cohen

My Mad Fat Diary (2013) TV Show

7.9 150 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 16

Story: Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.

Plot: overweight, northern england, dark comedy, psychiatric hospital, group of friends, unlikely lovers, body image, teen drama, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Miguel u00c1ngel Silvestre

Max Riemelt

Jamie Clayton

Bae Doona

Sense8 (2015) TV Show

7.7 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Audience: TV-MA

Story: One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other's lives, each other's secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as "Sensates."

Style: romantic

Plot: sexuality, identity, telepathy, secret agent, supernatural, conspiracy, superhuman, super power, ...

Cast

Taraji P. Henson

Sherri Shepherd

Teyana Taylor

Sinbad

STRAW (2025)

7.7 977 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

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: provocative, absurd

Plot: bank manager, arrest, loss of job, sick child, angry, aggressive, hopeless, traffic ticket, ...

Cast

Tom Cruise

Emily Blunt

Brendan Gleeson

Bill Paxton

Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

7.6 15.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 114 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

Style: romantic

Plot: deja vu, based on novel or book, restart, military officer, dystopia, affectation, time travel, training, ...

Time: 2020s

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya

Allison Williams

Catherine Keener

Bradley Whitford

Get Out (2017)

7.6 19.0K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

Style: satirical

Plot: kidnapping, externally controlled action, manipulation, dark comedy, hypnosis, parents-in-law, satire, racist, ...

Cast

Zack Calderon

Alex Fitzalan

Sarah Pidgeon

Sophia Ali

The Wilds (2020) TV Show

7.6 496 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A group of teen girls from different backgrounds must fight for survival after a plane crash strands them on a deserted island. The castaways both clash and bond as they learn more about each other, the secrets they keep, and the traumas they've all endured. But there’s just one twist… these girls did not end up on this island by accident.

Plot: adolescence, island, feminism, flashback, teenage girl, deserted island, lgbt, mental health, ...

Cast

Sarah Paulson

Beanie Feldstein

Annaleigh Ashford

Margo Martindale

American Crime Story (2016) TV Show

7.6 1.1K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 29

Audience: TV-MA

Story: An anthology series centered around some of history's most famous criminal investigations.

Plot: police, based on true story, anthology, lawyer, criminal, crime investigation, curious, nervous, ...

Chhoti Si Baat (1976)

7.6 27 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 123 min.

Story: Arun is a timid accountant in Bombay who dreams of romancing Prabha, but is too shy to share his feelings. While Arun twiddles his thumbs, the suave Nagesh steps into the picture and turns on the heat, prompting Arun to take "love coaching" from "romance specialist" Julius Nagendranath to win Prabha back.

Style: absurd

Plot: anxious, mischievous, hilarious, cheerful, hopeful

Cast

Koji Yakusho

Masato Hagiwara

Tsuyoshi Ujiki

Anna Nakagawa

Cure (1997)

7.5 817 votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: Japan

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Plot: hotel, prostitute, amnesia, based on novel or book, investigation, hallucination, interview, murder, ...

Cast

Amy Poehler

Maya Hawke

Kensington Tallman

Liza Lapira

Inside Out 2 (2024)

7.5 6.8K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Teenager Riley's mind headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who’ve long been running a successful operation by all accounts, aren’t sure how to feel when Anxiety shows up. And it looks like she’s not alone.

Style: witty

Plot: sadness, disgust, sequel, computer animation, teenage girl, fear, anger, envy, ...

Dark Waters (2019)

7.5 2.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: pollution, grave, biography, based on true story, lawsuit, west virginia, cancer, lawyer, ...

Time: 1990s

Cast

Dustin Hoffman

Jon Voight

Sylvia Miles

John McGiver

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

7.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: NC-17

Story: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

Style: cynical, provocative

Plot: new york city, friendship, prostitute, rape, based on novel or book, shower, hustler, homelessness, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: texas

Cast

Ingrid Thulin

Gunnel Lindblom

Birger Malmsten

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The Silence (1963)

7.5 404 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Sweden

Duration: 95 min.

Story: Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: hotel, sibling relationship, travel, rage, desire, complex, sister sister relationship, anxious, ...

Cast

Jovan Adepo

Rosalind Chao

Liam Cunningham

Eiza Gonzu00e1lez

3 Body Problem (2024) TV Show

7.5 1.6K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: China, United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Across continents and decades, five brilliant friends make earth-shattering discoveries as the laws of science unravel and an existential threat emerges.

Plot: based on novel or book, scientist, alien invasion, alien contact, signal, thoughtful, alien civilization, imaginative, ...

Time: 1960s

Place: china

Cast

Emily Blunt

John Krasinski

Millicent Simmonds

Noah Jupe

A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

7.4 7.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.

Style: suspenseful, tense

Plot: new york city, island, post-apocalyptic future, radio transmission, alien life-form, death of father, child in peril, sequel, ...

Cast

Brad Davis

Irene Miracle

Bo Hopkins

Paolo Bonacelli

Midnight Express (1978)

7.4 1.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

Style: suspenseful

Plot: prison, airport, drug smuggling, escape, court, attempt to escape, based on true story, prison guard, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Emily Blunt

John Krasinski

Millicent Simmonds

Noah Jupe

A Quiet Place (2018)

7.4 15.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

Plot: pregnancy, fireworks, deaf, post-apocalyptic future, alien life-form, child in peril, creature, alien invasion, ...

Cast

Anthony Perkins

Romy Schneider

Orson Welles

Akim Tamiroff

The Trial (1962)

7.4 564 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed.

Style: surreal

Plot: bureaucracy, based on novel or book, court, society, sexuality, paranoia, dystopia, fascism, ...

Cast

Heather Langenkamp

Johnny Depp

Robert Englund

Amanda Wyss

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

7.3 5.8K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

Style: shocking, suspenseful

Plot: dreams, nightmare, psychopath, sleep, child murder, supernatural, ohio, murder, ...

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