🏷 Discover The Best Insane Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

45 titles with this tag

Unravel the Chaos: Exploring the Best Movies and TV Shows Related to Insanity

Get ready to delve into the world of the unpredictable and the unknown. From psychological thrillers to supernatural mysteries, we've curated a list of the most captivating movies and TV shows that explore the theme of insanity. With its intricate plot twists and mind-bending storylines, this genre is sure to keep you on the edge of your seat.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion

Cast

Megumi Ogata

Megumi Hayashibara

Kotono Mitsuishi

Yuko Miyamura

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (1997)

8.3 1.9K votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Duration: 87 min.

Audience: NR

Story: SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.

Style: avant-garde, philosophical, intense

Plot: philosophy, insanity, post-apocalyptic future, futuristic, end of the world, mecha, meaningless existence, rebirth, ...

Cast

Martin Sheen

Marlon Brando

Frederic Forrest

Albert Hall

Apocalypse Now (1979)

8.3 9.2K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 147 min.

Audience: R

Story: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Style: absurd

Plot: guerrilla warfare, journalist, mission, vietcong, central intelligence agency (cia), army, drug abuse, based on novel or book, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam, cambodia

Cast

Aleksei Kravchenko

Olga Mironova

Liubomiras Lauceviu010dius

Vladas Bagdonas

Come and See (1985)

8.2 1.9K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: Soviet Union

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: NR

Story: The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

Plot: nazi, war crimes, insanity, surrealism, wehrmacht, teenage girl, atrocity, genocide, ...

Time: world war ii

Cast

Natalie Portman

Mila Kunis

Vincent Cassel

Barbara Hershey

Black Swan (2010)

7.7 15.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

Plot: new york city, dance, nightmare, obsession, insanity, paranoia, hallucination, ballet dancer, ...

Cast

Benjamin Christensen

Ella La Cour

👤

Emmy Schu00f8nfeld

Kate Fabian

Häxan (1922)

7.6 438 votes

Genre: Documentary, History, Horror

Country: Sweden

Duration: 105 min.

Story: Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

Plot: witch, superstition, insanity, mystic, sorcery, hysteria, satan, black and white, ...

Cast

Carla Gugino

Bruce Greenwood

Mary McDonnell

Henry Thomas

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) TV Show

7.6 827 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.

Style: haunting

Plot: insanity, miniseries, mansion, gothic horror, madness, based on short story, ghost, mysterious death, ...

Cast

Winona Ryder

Angelina Jolie

Clea DuVall

Brittany Murphy

Girl, Interrupted (1999)

7.6 4.2K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: based on novel or book, escape, suicide attempt, identity, insanity, female friendship, based on true story, borderline personality disorder, ...

Time: 1960s

Lost Highway (1997)

7.5 3.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: France, United States of America

Duration: 134 min.

Audience: R

Story: A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Plot: prison, pornography, jealousy, dreams, dual identity, nightmare, police, sexual frustration, ...

Cast

Claude Rains

Gloria Stuart

William Harrigan

Henry Travers

The Invisible Man (1933)

7.5 959 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 71 min.

Audience: NR

Story: After experimenting on himself and becoming invisible, scientist Jack Griffin, now aggressive due to the drug's effects, seeks a way to reverse the experiment at any cost.

Plot: based on novel or book, insanity, chemical, train accident, mad scientist, murder, fugitive, snow, ...

Cast

Max von Sydow

Liv Ullmann

Gertrud Fridh

Georg Rydeberg

Hour of the Wolf (1968)

7.4 560 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror

Country: Sweden

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: 15

Story: While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

Plot: island, nightmare, isolation, insanity, artist, diary, castle, insomnia, ...

Cast

Crystal Reed

Mylu00e8ne Farmer

Anastasia Phillips

Emilia Jones

Ghostland (2018)

7.4 2.7K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Canada, France

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

Plot: insanity, hallucination, torture, reality vs fantasy

Cast

Klaus Kinski

Helena Rojo

Del Negro

Ruy Guerra

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

7.4 1.3K votes

Genre: Adventure, Drama, History

Country: Germany, Mexico

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

Plot: gold, sentence, insanity, gold rush, amazon rainforest, float, conquest, new german cinema, ...

Time: 16th century

Place: peru, south america

Cast

Ed Harris

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Michael Biehn

Leo Burmester

The Abyss (1989)

7.4 3.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 140 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.

Plot: sea, flying saucer, submarine, ocean, diving suit, secret mission, insanity, nuclear missile, ...

Cast

Bette Davis

Olivia de Havilland

Joseph Cotten

Agnes Moorehead

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

7.3 288 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: 15

Story: An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

Plot: southern usa, insanity, highway, cousin, family secrets, murder, mansion, psychological thriller, ...

Cast

James Woods

Debbie Harry

Sonja Smits

Peter Dvorsky

Videodrome (1983)

7.2 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: Canada

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditions for the show and never returns, Max investigates the truth behind Videodrome and discovers that the graphic violence may not be as fake as he thought.

Style: surreal

Plot: suicide, virtual reality, radio presenter, black market, insanity, paranoia, dystopia, toronto, ...

Cast

Sam Neill

Julie Carmen

Ju00fcrgen Prochnow

David Warner

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)

7.2 1.9K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

Plot: small town, insanity, paranoia, diner, new hampshire, disappearance, author, church, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Monica Bellucci

Vincent Cassel

Albert Dupontel

Jo Prestia

Irreversible (2002)

7.2 3.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: France

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Plot: prostitute, rape, paris, france, police, nihilism, homophobia, homicide, ...

Cast

Frank Sinatra

Eleanor Parker

Kim Novak

Arnold Stang

The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

7.2 254 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: NR

Story: When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

Plot: prison, drug dealer, underground world, jazz, poker, sense of guilt, gambling, insanity, ...