Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sanity"

1. Donnie Darko (2001)

R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

After 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.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne

Votes: 850,214 | Gross: $1.48M

2. 1408 (2007)

PG-13 | 104 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub

Votes: 294,211 | Gross: $71.99M

3. Solaris (2002)

PG-13 | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis

Votes: 86,278 | Gross: $14.97M

4. The China Syndrome (1979)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Thriller

A reporter finds what appears to be a cover-up of safety hazards at a nuclear power plant.

Director: James Bridges | Stars: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady

Votes: 33,044 | Gross: $51.72M

5. Spellbound (1945)

Approved | 111 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 52,248 | Gross: $7.00M

6. The Snake Pit (1948)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, Mystery

A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm

Votes: 8,430 | Gross: $10.00M

7. Abandoned (2010 Video)

PG-13 | 88 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Mary follows her boyfriend to the hospital for his orthopedic surgery. While she has a coffee in the cafeteria, he disappears. He's not on the hospital computer or CCTV.

Director: Michael Feifer | Stars: Brittany Murphy, Dean Cain, Stan Bly, Peter Bogdanovich

Votes: 6,416

8. Hour of the Wolf (1968)

Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

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

Director: Ingmar Bergman | Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg

Votes: 22,578

9. Nuts (1987)

R | 116 min | Drama, Thriller

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.

Director: Martin Ritt | Stars: Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton, Karl Malden

Votes: 7,592 | Gross: $30.95M

10. The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)

G | 90 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Milo is a boy who is bored with life. One day he comes home to find a toll booth in his room. Having nothing better to do, he gets in his toy car and drives through - only to emerge in a world full of adventure.

Directors: Chuck Jones, Abe Levitow, Dave Monahan | Stars: Butch Patrick, Hans Conried, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler

Votes: 3,538

11. Man Facing Southeast (1986)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A patient in a mental hospital claims to be an extraterrestial. Could he be right?

Director: Eliseo Subiela | Stars: Lorenzo Quinteros, Hugo Soto, Inés Vernengo, Cristina Scaramuzza

Votes: 4,588 | Gross: $0.73M

12. The Last Winter (2006)

Not Rated | 101 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Sent to evaluate the environmental impact of oil drilling in the Arctic, James Hoffman clashes with the drilling crew's chief, who wants to get the job done.

Director: Larry Fessenden | Stars: Ron Perlman, James Le Gros, Connie Britton, Zach Gilford

Votes: 9,844 | Gross: $0.03M

13. The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)

R | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A disturbed woman is haunted by memories of childhood abuse, which culminates in a murder spree.

Director: Matt Cimber | Stars: Millie Perkins, Lonny Chapman, Vanessa Brown, Peggy Feury

Votes: 2,549

14. The Method (2015– )

TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An ambitious young law enforcement graduate is thrilled when her idol takes her on as a trainee. But his methods aren't anything like she imagined.

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Polukhin, Alexander Petrov

Votes: 3,327

15. The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)

GP | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Harold Pelham discovers a doppelganger is meddling with his personal and professional life in the aftermath of a car crash.

Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Roger Moore, Hildegard Neil, Alastair Mackenzie, Hugh Mackenzie

Votes: 2,797

16. Don't Sleep (II) (2017)

Unrated | 101 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

After moving into a cottage together, two young lovers confront the horrors of a forgotten childhood.

Director: Rick Bieber | Stars: Dominic Sherwood, Charlbi Dean, Jill Hennessy, Drea de Matteo

Votes: 1,230

17. The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)

R | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

Director: Francesco Barilli | Stars: Mimsy Farmer, Maurizio Bonuglia, Mario Scaccia, Jho Jhenkins

Votes: 2,996

18. Judgementall Hai Kya (2019)

121 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Following the story of two quirky individuals whose lives pivot between reality and illusions.

Director: Prakash Kovelamudi | Stars: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Amyra Dastur, Amrita Puri

Votes: 6,951

19. Alice (2000 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

A game with an all new story that takes place after Lewis Carroll's stories. Alice must return to Wonderland and defeat the Queen of Hearts once and for all.

Stars: Susie Brann, Roger Jackson, Jarion Monroe, Andrew Chaikin

Votes: 1,581

20. Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)

Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance

While on vacation in the Caribbean with his wife, a middle-aged man unexpectedly finds, and falls in love with, a mermaid.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey, Andrea King

Votes: 1,349

21. Gun-Shy (2003)

Unrated | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dito Tsintsadze's drama focuses on a loner whose life changes dramatically, when he gets to know a beautiful, but strange girl. Lukas, a young man doing "meals on wheels" instead of ... See full summary »

Director: Dito Tsintsadze | Stars: Fabian Hinrichs, Lavinia Wilson, Johan Leysen, Ingeborg Westphal

Votes: 632

22. The Judge and the Assassin (1976)

128 min | Crime, Drama, History

An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career.

Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Michel Galabru, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy

Votes: 2,327

23. Crazywise (2016)

Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary

What can we learn from those who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience? During a quarter-century documenting indigenous cultures, human-rights ... See full summary »

Directors: Phil Borges, Kevin Tomlinson | Stars: Angeles Arrien, Phil Borges, Laura Delano, Carroll Dunham

Votes: 149

24. Honeymoon with a Stranger (1969 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

While vacationing with her husband in Italy, a middle-aged woman wakes up one morning to find that the man in bed with her is an impostor. He, however, claims that he is her husband, and she cannot get anyone to believe her.

Director: John Peyser | Stars: Janet Leigh, Rossano Brazzi, Cesare Danova, Eric Braeden

Votes: 127

25. Signpost to Murder (1964)

Approved | 78 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

An escapee from an asylum takes refuge in a woman's house; but she has dark secrets of her own.

Director: George Englund | Stars: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare, Alan Napier

Votes: 539

26. Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (1975 TV Movie)

Unrated | 66 min | Horror, Musical

Steven, a character from Alice Cooper's album "Welcome to My Nightmare", encounters a surreal dream fantasy, guided by the spirit of the nightmare.

Director: Jorn H. Winther | Stars: Alice Cooper, Vincent Price, Linda Googh, Robyn Blythe

Votes: 325

27. The Dark Night of the Soul (1989)

93 min | Drama

A fascinating study of the poet Saint John of the Cross, and his spell in solitary confinement. Set in the convent of Toledo, this film explores the temptations that surrounded him, the ... See full summary »

Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: Juan Diego, Fernando Guillén, Manuel de Blas, Francisco Casares

Votes: 205

28. Captive (I) (1998)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Thriller

After a botched suicide attempt Sam Hoffman finds herself trapped in an evil insane asylum

Director: Roger Cardinal | Stars: Erika Eleniak, Michael Ironside, Catherine Colvey, Adrienne Ironside

Votes: 326

29. Xypna, Vasili! (1969)

81 min | Comedy

A very kind man looses his mind after his brother in law wins the lottery ticket he rejected,after many years of buying these.

Director: Giannis Dalianidis | Stars: Giorgos Konstadinou, Elena Nathanail, Alekos Alexandrakis, Eleni Zafeiriou

Votes: 630

30. Alkitrang dugo (1975)

107 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller

A group of Filipino teenaged boys and girls survives a plane crash and copes to live in an island amid politics, social class, sanity and death.

Director: Lupita Aquino-Kashiwahara | Stars: Roderick Paulate, Jingle, Efren Montes, Zernan Manahan

Votes: 37

31. Selfie from Hell (2015 Video)

2 min | Short, Horror, Mystery

A girl's just taking a selfie for her boyfriend when something really creepy happens.

Director: Erdal Ceylan | Star: Meelah Adams

Votes: 269

32. Life Begins (1932)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance

At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward ... See full summary »

Directors: James Flood, Elliott Nugent | Stars: Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, Glenda Farrell

Votes: 546

33. Rivers of Babylon (1998)

102 min | Comedy, Drama

This tragicomic parable is about the increasing power of an un-educated, ill-mannered and dishonest stoker working at a hotel in Bratislava. Making advantage of the confused political and ... See full summary »

Director: Vlado Balco | Stars: Andrej Hryc, Vladimír Hajdu, Diana Mórová, Barbora Kodetová

Votes: 98

34. Strong Medicine (1981)

Not Rated | 84 min | Drama

Adaptation of an avant-garde play about Rhoda, a hysterical heroine who feels oppressed by the people around her. She suffers through her birthday party, goes to see a doctor, plans a vacation, argues a lot and even breaks the fourth wall.

Director: Richard Foreman | Stars: Kate Manheim, David Warrilow, Ron Vawter, Bill Raymond

Votes: 88

35. The Humans and The Jinns (1985)

133 min | Horror

Fatima returns from America after earning her doctorate, she meets Galal who works as a tourist agent. When she returns home, she finds Galal in her bedroom and warns her from marrying ... See full summary »

Director: Mohamed Radi | Stars: Adel Emam, Youssra, Ezzat El Alaili, Fayza Abduljawad

Votes: 576

36. Amfivolies (1964)

93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Grotesque dark shadows of a faceless manly figure invade the quiet bedroom of an affluent newly married woman. A freelance reporter is onto something; however, can he piece together the truth before she loses both her sanity and her life?

Director: Grigoris Grigoriou | Stars: Nikos Kourkoulos, Viveta Tsiouni, Paris Alexander, Dora Volanaki

Votes: 81

37. I daimonismeni (1975)

97 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A brilliant young psychiatrist devotes herself to the case of a chronic schizophrenic patient, whose family are utterly convinced she is possessed. Little by little, as the doctor succumbs to despair, could their fears be justified?

Director: Dimis Dadiras | Stars: Katia Dandoulaki, Vasilis Mitsakis, Giannis Heimonidis, Amalia Giza

Votes: 32

38. Nurse Jill (2016)

73 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Jill Danvers is trying to put her life back together after her divorce. But someone is watching her; following her every move. Could it be the merciless rapist she's heard about in the news... See full summary »

Director: Peter Romeo Lambert | Stars: Nati Amos, Christopher Cassidy, Happy Dave, Thaddeus Ervin

Votes: 22

39. The Kirkbride Project

Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Filming

Cody K. Sundvor and Jerry G. Angelo present "The Kirkebride Project", a horror/supernatural thriller/ that tells the haunting tale of five college students who disappeared investigating an ... See full summary »

Stars: Mindy Robinson, Larry Laverty, Cody K Sundvor, Brittany Swee

40. Survivor Type (2013)

15 min | Short, Adventure, Horror

When a doctor is stranded on a deserted island, he has to make grisly choices to survive.

Director: Kevin Fisk | Stars: Julia Angelo, Glenn McCumber

41. Look Away (1987 TV Movie)

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Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Madge Sinclair, Jeff Kizer

42. Soft (2023)

13 min | Short

After an night in and an intervention with her "best friend", a young woman must move through the motions of sobered mundane life in seclusion.

Director: Kyndra Lee | Stars: Kyndra Lee, Emily Delegeane

43. Extático (2016)

9 min | Short, Crime, Horror

Two forest guards find a corpse in the woods. The procedure to follow is more than clear, but there's something unique in the body they have in front of them.

Director: Azahara Gómez | Stars: David Blanka, Sergio Sánchez Shaw

Votes: 9

44. Overstappen (1983 TV Special)

65 min | Drama

Ed Martin has to catch a train at a small Irish station. Strange occurrences that await him there make him doubt his own sanity.

Director: Bob Löwenstein | Stars: Huib Broos, Marielle Fiolet, Henk Rigters

45. Illusive (2014)

10 min | Short, Thriller

A young man loses his grip on reality when he becomes obsessed with lucid dreaming.

Director: Samantha Hollinde | Stars: Greg Almeida, Jose Vega

46. Knowing Aaron (2010)

Not Rated | 55 min | Drama

A micro-budget film shot by students of Hopkins High School as an exercise to understand the filmmaking process.

Directors: Jack Anderson, Dani Abraham | Stars: Cody Bursch, Willie Verson, Katherine Fuguet, Tim Larsen

Votes: 24

47. Prepare Yourself: Mike Cernovich and Stefan Molyneux (2018 Video)

79 min | News, Talk-Show

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Stars: Mike Cernovich, Stefan Molyneux

48. Cora (2020)

4 min | Short, Sci-Fi

Assaulted by visions of ghostly shapes, bombarded with otherworldly whispers, a young woman teeters on the cusp of insanity, unsure of her own reality. CORA is a short film about sanity and... See full summary »

Director: Saurav Mohapatra | Stars: Karina Wen, Preeti Padhy, Saurav Mohapatra

49. Fading Sanity (2014)

75 min | Thriller

Seven patients escape from Woodhollow Mental Health Center, leaving the whole state intensely looking for these escaped patients. Mack, a twenty-one year old man living with his alcoholic ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Garcia | Stars: Adam Madsen, Paul D. Morgan, Phil King, Brady Kimmel

50. Pop:1 (2011)

Short, Drama, Sci-Fi

The last man on earth as he attempts to survive in a post apocalyptic world and reclaim his lost love.

Director: Joshua Mellor | Stars: Hannah Davis, Joshua Mellor