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

1. Shutter Island (2010)

R | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 1,456,292 | Gross: $128.01M

2. 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: 849,936 | Gross: $1.48M

3. Brothers (I) (2009)

R | 105 min | Drama, Thriller, War

While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.

Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire, Sam Shepard

Votes: 146,669 | Gross: $28.50M

4. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young woman is held in an underground bunker by a man who insists that a hostile event has left the surface of the Earth uninhabitable.

Director: Dan Trachtenberg | Stars: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr., Douglas M. Griffin

Votes: 354,654 | Gross: $72.08M

5. Night Hunter (2018)

R | 98 min | Action, Thriller

A weathered Lieutenant, his police force, and a local vigilante are all caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a troubled, recently-arrested man who's linked to years of female abductions and murders.

Director: David Raymond | Stars: Henry Cavill, Ben Kingsley, Alexandra Daddario, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 27,013

6. Side Effects (I) (2013)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 197,118 | Gross: $32.17M

7. The Voices (2014)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A likable guy pursues his office crush with help from his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date.

Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver

Votes: 62,579

8. Conspiracy Theory (1997)

R | 135 min | Action, Drama, Mystery

A taxi driver with a penchant for conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of these theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart

Votes: 107,219 | Gross: $75.98M

9. 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: 41,229 | Gross: $1.03M

10. Love & Mercy (2014)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama, Music

In the 60s, Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson struggles with emerging psychosis as he attempts to craft his avant-garde pop masterpiece. In the 80s, he's a broken, confused man under the 24-hour watch of shady therapist, Dr. Eugene Landy.

Director: Bill Pohlad | Stars: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti

Votes: 42,606 | Gross: $12.55M

11. Three Christs (2017)

R | 109 min | Drama

Three Christs follows Dr. Alan Stone who is treating three paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believed they were Jesus Christ. What transpires is both comic and deeply moving.

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Richard Gere, Peter Dinklage, Bradley Whitford, Walton Goggins

Votes: 3,750

12. Jacob's Ladder (2019)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

After his brother returns home from war, Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images.

Director: David M. Rosenthal | Stars: Michael Ealy, Jesse Williams, Nicole Beharie, Guy Burnet

Votes: 3,544

13. Mine Games (2012)

TV-14 | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.

Director: Richard Gray | Stars: Joseph Cross, Briana Evigan, Rafi Gavron, Julianna Guill

Votes: 4,378

14. Brothers (2004)

R | 117 min | Drama, War

Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan.

Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Connie Nielsen, Sarah Juel Werner

Votes: 11,809 | Gross: $0.38M

15. True Believer (1989)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A cynical former civil liberties attorney now reduced to "specializing" in defending drug dealers becomes transformed by an eight-year-old murder case.

Director: Joseph Ruben | Stars: James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto

Votes: 5,431 | Gross: $8.74M

16. The Terminal Man (1974)

PG | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Hoping to cure his violent seizures, a man agrees to a series of experimental microcomputers inserted into his brain but inadvertently discovers that violence now triggers a pleasurable response to his brain.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat

Votes: 2,544 | Gross: $0.22M

17. Mad Dog Time (1996)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.

Director: Larry Bishop | Stars: Michael J. Pollard, Henry Silva, Gabriel Byrne, Jeff Goldblum

Votes: 3,674 | Gross: $0.08M

18. Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.

Director: Boris Ingster | Stars: Peter Lorre, John McGuire, Margaret Tallichet, Charles Waldron

Votes: 4,608

19. Nightmare Man (2006)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Ellen receives mask by mistake, has hallucinations, husband leaves when car breaks down, escapes home during hallucination, husband tells her not to call police as she imagines things.

Director: Rolfe Kanefsky | Stars: Tiffany Shepis, Blythe Metz, Luciano Szafir, Aaron Sherry

Votes: 2,460

20. Two Women (1999)

95 min | Drama, Romance

A sensation when released in 1999 in Iran, Two Women charts the lives of two promising architecture students over the course of the first turbulent years of the Islamic Republic. Tahimine ... See full summary »

Director: Tahmineh Milani | Stars: Niki Karimi, Merila Zare'i, Mohammad Reza Forutan, Atila Pesiani

Votes: 1,729

21. The Way It Melts (2015)

15 min | Short, Drama, Mystery

A paranoid schizophrenic works as a prosthesis by night while seeking treatment for his illness by day.

Director: Dan Sheldon | Stars: Daniel Bonjour, Eric Roberts, Lizzie Hartman, Frederik Hamel

22. The Turing Test: Can a Computer Pass for a Human? (2016)

5 min | Documentary, Animation, Short

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Director: Patrick Smith | Star: Addison Anderson

23. Lovely Thoughts (2016)

80 min | Thriller

Drew Scully (Christopher Millan), paranoid schizophrenic, believes he is being chased by two men. During his escape, his car breaks down and he is rescued by two people with the intention ... See full summary »

Director: Marcello Peschiera | Stars: Gabrielle Alexander, David Brzostowicki, Jeffrey Creightney, Jason Dunlap

24. Bred Alert (2009)

Short, Comedy, Drama

A mentally ill man plays a war game.

Directors: Mykola Yeriomin, Mikhail Bondarev | Star: Mikhail Bondarev

Votes: 17

25. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985–1989)
Episode: Murder Party (1988)

TV-PG | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A wealthy shady businessman is poisoned during his birthday party at his mansion. The main suspects are four of the people closest to him and they all had very good reasons to want him dead. Darkly comical plot twists ensue.

Director: Allan King | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, David McCallum, Leigh Taylor-Young, David Hemblen

Votes: 97

26. Barney Miller (1975–1982)
Episode: Good-Bye, Mr. Fish: Part 2 (1977)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Fish finally reports for work but refuses to acknowledge that he is obligated to retire.

Director: Danny Arnold | Stars: Hal Linden, Max Gail, Ron Glass, Jack Soo

Votes: 138

27. The Hunger (1997–2000)
Episode: But at My Back I Always Hear (1997)

TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A university professor rejects an advance made by one of his students and discovers that her twisted obsession with him does not end with her death.

Director: Patricia Rozema | Stars: Terence Stamp, Michael Gross, Karen Elkin, Cary Lawrence

Votes: 99

28. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Gemini (2003)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A string of murder victims that include an optician, plastic surgeon, and hair stylist seems to have racial overtones.

Director: Frank Prinzi | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Jamey Sheridan, Courtney B. Vance

Votes: 323

29. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Coerced (2003)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In resolving the kidnapping case of a little boy by a schizophrenic, Stabler uncovers further crimes at an adult group home with Huang's help.

Director: Jean de Segonzac | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 957

30. Without a Trace (2002–2009)
Episode: Hawks and Handsaws (2004)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young criminal defense lawyer working for legal aid goes missing, last seen in the middle of the night apparently running from people shooting after him. A quick bit of research and it is... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Hooks | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Poppy Montgomery, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Enrique Murciano

Votes: 171

31. Wire in the Blood (2002–2008)
Episode: Torment (2006)

TV-MA | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a young prostitute is found dead, clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill sees an immediate parallel with the crimes committed by an incarcerated serial killer, Derek Tyler. There can be ... See full summary »

Director: Declan O'Dwyer | Stars: Robson Green, Simone Lahbib, Andrew Westfield, Michael Dunning

Votes: 286

32. Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode: Richard Trenton Chase: The Vampire of Sacramento (2010)

45 min | Documentary, Crime

Profile of Richard Trenton Chase, whose decent into paranoid schizophrenia lead him to be known as The Vampire of Sacramento.

Director: Neil Edwards | Stars: Christopher Slade, Ray Biondi, Richard Chase, Richard Trenton Chase

Votes: 19

33. Evidence of Evil (2018– )
Episode: The Schenectady Strangler (2019)

Documentary, Crime

The story of the tragic murder of 41-year-old paranoid schizophrenic Brett Wentworth, how police tracked his killer down and how advanced forensic technology was key to solving the crime.

Director: Áine O'Neill | Star: Martin Gilligan

34. Deadly Women (2008– )
Episode: Twisted Minds (2008)

TV-14 | 45 min | Documentary, Crime

When a deranged mind snaps, there's no telling when the killing will stop. A young woman opens fire in a shopping mall, a nurse develops a deadly desire for attention and a mother driven by despair does the unthinkable.

Director: John Mavety | Stars: Janis Amatuzio, Dan Balcaban, Bruce Bartlett, Candice DeLong

Votes: 40

35. Law & Order (1990– )
Episode: Skate or Die (2009)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The murders of three homeless men lead detectives to a possible serial killer.

Director: Norberto Barba | Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Anthony Anderson, S. Epatha Merkerson, Linus Roache

Votes: 295

36. FBI (2018– )
Episode: Brother's Keeper (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After a man is killed by an explosive package shipped to his home, the team attempts to capture the sender and intercept his latest deadly parcel.

Director: Alex Chapple | Stars: Missy Peregrym, Zeeko Zaki, John Boyd, Katherine Renee Kane

Votes: 364

37. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: End Game: Part 1 (2009)

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

An old adversary, serial Killer Linda Cummings, entices Boyd to solve 2 more murders. Is she for real or just playing games.

Director: Daniel Percival | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald, Wil Johnson

Votes: 143

38. The Bridge (2011–2018)
Episode: Avsnitt 5 (2011)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The murderer has groomed a number of schizophrenics to commit carefully synchronized violent crimes on the same day in Malmo and Copenhagen.

Director: Lisa Siwe | Stars: Sofia Helin, Kim Bodnia, Dag Malmberg, Ellen Hillingsø

Votes: 1,145

39. True Crime Authors (2003– )
Episode: The Westies (2003)

Documentary

Adapted from the critically acclaimed true crime bestsellers, each author tells their infamous stories on-camera. Each story is told only from the author's perspective. Even among the Mob, ... See full summary »

Stars: T.J. English, Brian Bogulski, Jimmy Coonan, Roy DeMeo

40. Perception (2012–2015)
Episode: Nemesis (2012)

TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Kate wants to impress a new boss and asks Dan to evaluate a young man who's been accused of stalking a federal judge. The judge earlier remanded the young man for treatment as a ... See full summary »

Director: Christopher Misiano | Stars: Eric McCormack, Rachael Leigh Cook, Kelly Rowan, Arjay Smith

Votes: 338

41. Stalker (2014–2015)
Episode: Crazy for You (2014)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The TAU investigates when a psychiatrist is seemingly being stalked by one of his patients. However, they soon find that there is more to the case than meets the eye, while Beth makes a shocking discovery.

Director: Liz Friedlander | Stars: Dylan McDermott, Maggie Q, Mariana Klaveno, Victor Rasuk

Votes: 388

42. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Protection (2015)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The team heads to Los Angeles, California where three people have been murdered in two separate incidents over three days, each victim shot thirteen times while sitting in a car or next to ... See full summary »

Director: Tawnia McKiernan | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook

Votes: 1,989

43. Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode: Robert Napper: The Green Chain Rapist (2014)

43 min | Documentary, Crime

In the Plumstead section of London, Robert Napper, the Green Chain Rapist, struck in the open, targeting mothers accompanied by children.

Director: Peter Chipping | Stars: Christopher Slade, Laurence Alison, Jeff Edwards, Conrad Ellam

Votes: 16