Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "mental-illness", "reference-to-william-shakespeare"

1. Love Actually (2003)

R | 135 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

Director: Richard Curtis | Stars: Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney

Votes: 531,936 | Gross: $59.70M

2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama

Charlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends his seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.

Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd

Votes: 548,701 | Gross: $17.74M

3. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

R | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver

Votes: 743,429 | Gross: $132.09M

4. The Basketball Diaries (1995)

R | 102 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.

Director: Scott Kalvert | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, James Madio

Votes: 121,201 | Gross: $2.42M

5. Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

Approved | 128 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon

Votes: 4,286

6. The Night House (2020)

R | 107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

Director: David Bruckner | Stars: Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit

Votes: 67,356

7. Spencer (2021)

R | 117 min | Biography, Drama

Diana Spencer, struggling with mental-health problems during her Christmas holidays with the Royal Family at their Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, decides to end her decade-long marriage to Prince Charles.

Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Jack Nielen

Votes: 76,668

8. Phenomena (1985)

R | 116 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.

Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro

Votes: 30,098

9. Stay (I) (2005)

R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A psychiatrist attempts to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality.

Director: Marc Forster | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Kate Burton

Votes: 86,149 | Gross: $3.63M

10. At Eternity's Gate (2018)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen

Votes: 40,085 | Gross: $2.29M

11. A Royal Affair (2012)

R | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Director: Nikolaj Arcel | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm

Votes: 50,937 | Gross: $1.55M

12. Kill Your Darlings (2013)

R | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.

Director: John Krokidas | Stars: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster

Votes: 41,282 | Gross: $1.03M

13. Lost and Delirious (2001)

R | 103 min | Drama, Romance

After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.

Director: Léa Pool | Stars: Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré, Mischa Barton, Jackie Burroughs

Votes: 22,360 | Gross: $0.30M

14. Shirley (2020)

R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery

A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

Director: Josephine Decker | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman

Votes: 13,352

15. The Madness of King George (1994)

PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

When King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves, Amanda Donohoe

Votes: 18,424 | Gross: $15.24M

16. Eve's Bayou (1997)

R | 108 min | Drama

What did little Eve see--and how will it haunt her? Husband, father and womanizer Louis Batiste is the head of an affluent family, but it's the women who rule this gothic world of secrets, lies and mystic forces.

Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Jurnee Smollett, Meagan Good, Lynn Whitfield

Votes: 11,629 | Gross: $14.82M

17. Cutting Class (1989)

R | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A murderer is loose in a high school in this 'whodunit' movie.

Director: Rospo Pallenberg | Stars: Donovan Leitch Jr., Jill Schoelen, Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall

Votes: 5,921

18. The Ninth Configuration (1980)

R | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

An ex-marine psychiatrist attempts to rehabilitate his patients by indulging their fantasies, and seeks to prove the existence of a loving God to one especially troubled inmate.

Director: William Peter Blatty | Stars: Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller, Ed Flanders

Votes: 8,995

19. The Last Days of Disco (1998)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.

Director: Whit Stillman | Stars: Chloë Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin

Votes: 14,389 | Gross: $2.99M

20. Children of the Century (1999)

135 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

A story of doomed passion between two genius writers of the 19th century - novelist George Sand and poet Alfred de Musset.

Director: Diane Kurys | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Stefano Dionisi, Robin Renucci

Votes: 2,021 | Gross: $0.05M

21. Shock Corridor (1963)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, Mystery

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best

Votes: 13,089

22. Stardust Memories (1980)

PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama

While attending a retrospective of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault

Votes: 24,009 | Gross: $10.39M

23. The Whole Wide World (1996)

PG | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom.

Director: Dan Ireland | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell

Votes: 4,036 | Gross: $0.14M

24. A Quiet Place in the Country (1968)

R | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

After moving into a dilapidated rural villa to reinvigorate his creative energies, a neurotic artist becomes obsessed with a beautiful countess who died there many years prior.

Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret, Gabriella Boccardo

Votes: 2,045

25. Endless Night (I) (1972)

Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson

Votes: 2,416

26. God Help the Girl (2014)

Unrated | 112 min | Drama, Music, Romance

As Eve begins writing songs as a way to sort through some emotional problems, she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own.

Director: Stuart Murdoch | Stars: Emily Browning, Olly Alexander, Hannah Murray, Pierre Boulanger

Votes: 9,241 | Gross: $0.10M

27. My One and Only (2009)

PG-13 | 108 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy

After leaving her philandering husband, an elegant socialite takes her two sons on a road trip across America in search of a better life.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Logan Lerman, Mark Rendall, Kevin Bacon

Votes: 9,429 | Gross: $2.48M

28. Day of the Wacko (2002)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

24 hours in the bitter life of a frustrated divorced teacher who stays in the vicious circle of his numerous obsessions.

Director: Marek Koterski | Stars: Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Andrzej Grabowski, Michal Koterski

Votes: 11,827

29. Someone Is Bleeding (1974)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.

Director: Georges Lautner | Stars: Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur, Fiore Altoviti

Votes: 1,032

30. Beloved Infidel (1959)

Not Rated | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Toward the end of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Gregory Peck, Deborah Kerr, Eddie Albert, Philip Ober

Votes: 1,185

31. Far From the Tree (V) (2017)

Unrated | 93 min | Documentary

Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways.

Directors: Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron | Stars: Amy Allnutt, Jack Allnutt, Harry Burdick, Emily Perl Kingsley

Votes: 641 | Gross: $0.16M

32. Paris Belongs to Us (1961)

Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Anne Goupil is a literature student in Paris in 1957. Her elder brother, Pierre, takes her to a friend's party where the guests include Philip Kaufman, an expatriate American escaping ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost, Daniel Crohem

Votes: 2,720

33. Killer: A Journal of Murder (1995)

R | 91 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A prison guard at Leavenworth with lofty ideals and hopes of reform struggles to understand a violent, hateful and conscienceless convict. The result is a written testimonial to a crime that no one could have predicted.

Director: Tim Metcalfe | Stars: James Woods, Robert Sean Leonard, Ellen Greene, Cara Buono

Votes: 2,409 | Gross: $0.07M

34. Nobody's Fool (1986)

PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A sepia tinted weepie where a niave girl learns about men in more ways than one; a loss of innocence - but full of charm

Director: Evelyn Purcell | Stars: Rosanna Arquette, Eric Roberts, Mare Winningham, Jim Youngs

Votes: 908 | Gross: $0.56M

35. Suffering Man's Charity (2007)

93 min | Comedy, Horror

Jonathan Vandermark is a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and without a pot to piss in. When Sebastian enters his life and takes advantage of John's charity, his life and afterlife will be changed forever.

Director: Alan Cumming | Stars: Alan Cumming, Alison Guh, David Boreanaz, Anne Heche

Votes: 897

36. An Unlikely Romance (2013)

Drama, Romance

Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no ... See full summary »

Director: Ivan Vojnár | Stars: Berenika Kohoutová, Alzbeta Pazoutová, Ivan Vojnár, Michal Capka

Votes: 43

37. The Spies (1957)

Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.

Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe

Votes: 1,099

38. Solitaire (I) (2008)

Unrated | 90 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

"Solitaire" is a story of thievery and the lengths that a group of young criminals will go through in order to do exactly that. Stars the legendary Marilyn Chambers

Director: Frank Durant | Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Nick Jandl, Alex Fraioli, Short Sleeve Sampson

Votes: 41

39. The Sculptress (2000)

R | 101 min | Horror, Thriller

A young artist follows her passion to study at one of the finest art institutes in San Francisco.

Director: Ian Merrick | Stars: Jeff Fahey, Patrick Bauchau, Katie Wright, Emmanuelle Vaugier

Votes: 225 | Gross: $0.01M

40. The Finnian Cycle (2006)

40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

Powerful visions and terrible realities chase Paul Finn around these days. All he has is a group of misfit friends who are determined to convince him the truth hides somewhere inside ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin C. Norris | Stars: Mike Spara, Michael John Casey, Frank Asher, Paul Bugelski

41. Biography (1987– )
Episode: Sigmund Freud: Analysis of a Mind (1996)

TV-14 | Documentary, Biography, History

The life and work of the great and influential psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), is examined. Archive footage of Freud and a unique sound recording of his voice are included.

Stars: Sigmund Freud, Jack Perkins, Joe Aguayo, Harold P. Blum

Votes: 132

42. Oz (1997–2003)
Episode: Strange Bedfellows (1998)

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Schillinger attempts to enlist Said to get him out of jail. Recovered from being poisoned, Schibetta is brutalized by Adebisi, losing 'control' of Oz. Meanwhile, Alvarez is bumped out of ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Ernie Hudson, Terry Kinney, Rita Moreno

Votes: 2,101

43. The Crimson Petal and the White (2011)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2011)

TV-MA | 62 min | Drama, Romance

Sugar becomes Sophie's tutor, immediately giving the little girl a happier and less austere life, whilst continuing to sleep with William, who tells her that Agnes has always refused to ... See full summary »

Director: Marc Munden | Stars: Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Amanda Hale, Katie Lyons

Votes: 93

44. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Heathridge Manor (2012)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When an Oregon woman is found dead in an abandoned asylum, the BAU realizes that the victim is part of a series of gothic, ritualistic murders and the suspect might be a Satanist.

Director: Matthew Gray Gubler | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler

Votes: 2,766

45. The Andrew Klavan Show (2015– )
Jackasses, Johnson, Jenna and the Jews (2023 Podcast Episode)

Talk-Show

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Star: Andrew Klavan

46. The Matt Walsh Show (2018– )
The Origins of the Anti-Human Depopulation Agenda (2023 Podcast Episode)

News, Talk-Show

Matt Walsh delves into the historical roots of the left's "anti-human agenda" aimed at depopulation. He sheds light on a little-known, rarely discussed document that marks the beginning of this movement.

Director: Mark Jones | Star: Matt Walsh

Votes: 15