Here we've displayed a list of the best Insanity films : The Silence of the Lambs(1991), Sunset Blvd.(1950), The Shining(1980), Apocalypse Now Redux(1979), A Woman Under the Influence(1974), Fitzcarraldo(1982), Arsenic and Old Lace(1944), Black Swan(2010), The Last Command(1928), The Sea Wolf(1941), Jacob's Ladder(1990), Bram Stoker's Dracula(1992) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1991
119 Minutes
Jodie Foster Anthony Hopkins Scott Glenn Ted Levine Anthony Heald Brooke Smith Diane Baker Kasi Lemmons Charles Napier Roger Corman George Romero
psychiatrist psychopath student agent serial killer police officer dark creepy suspenseful prison cave household washington, d.c. insanity kidnapping cannibalism torture fbi escape mystery
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Drama
USA
1950
110 Minutes
William Holden Gloria Swanson Erich von Stroheim Nancy Olson Fred Clark Jack Webb
writer actress lover butler police officer chilling dark creepy mansion hollywood madness insanity death romance silent movies suicide fall wretched excess 1950s
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1980
142 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Shelley Duvall Danny Lloyd Scatman Crothers Barry Nelson Philip Stone Joe Turkel Anne Jackson Tony Burton Lia Beldam Billie Gibson
wife bartender psychic jack torrance chef caretaker chilling suspenseful disturbing creepy overlook hotel colorado violence axe insanity writer's block cabin fever extrasensory perception escape pursuit
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
War, Drama
USA
1979
195 Minutes
Marlon Brando Robert Duvall Martin Sheen Frederic Forrest Albert Hall Sam Bottoms Laurence Fishburne Dennis Hopper G.D. Spradlin Harrison Ford Jerry Ziesmer
assassin captain tribal leader military officer engaging dense powerful jungle cambodia boat river vietnam war animal cruelty insanity imperialism rebellion pursuit rivalry revenge 1960s
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Drama
USA
1974
155 Minutes
Gena Rowlands Peter Falk Katherine Cassavetes Lady Rowlands Fred Draper Matthew Labyorteaux Matthew Cassel Christina Grisanti
wife child mother stranger construction worker coworker intense bleak los angeles household bar insanity alcoholism class distinctions love-hate relationship marital problems transformation 1970s
Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
Drama
West Germany|Peru
1982
160 Minutes
Klaus Kinski Claudia Cardinale José Lewgoy Miguel Angel Fuentes Paul Hittscher Grande Otelo Peter Berling David Pérez Espinosa
entrepreneur madam native missionary creative fascinating gripping outlandish peru amazon mountain jungle insanity obsession ambition adventure quest pursuit 1890s
The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
Comedy
USA
1944
118 Minutes
Cary Grant Raymond Massey Priscilla Lane Peter Lorre Jack Carson Josephine Hull Jean Adair James Gleason Grant Mitchell John Alexander Edward Everett Horton
writer wife aunt brother neighbor uncle madcap quirky new york city brooklyn, n.y. family home insanity marriage murder poison discovery love 1930s
A writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation when he decides to get married. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2010
108 Minutes
Natalie Portman Mila Kunis Vincent Cassel Barbara Hershey Winona Ryder Benjamin Millepied Ksenia Solo Kristina Anapau
ballerina mother director rival young woman ballet instructor eerie shocking suspenseful thrilling intense emotional new york city studio stage dance studio ballet big city ballet competition
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".
Drama, Romance, History
USA
1928
90 Minutes
Emil Jannings Evelyn Brent William Powell Nicholas Soussanin Michael Visaroff
revolutionary russian general director extra gripping disheartening intense russia hollywood movie set revenge role reversal humiliation insanity movie making fall rivalry transformation 1920s
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Drama
USA
1941
90 Minutes
Edward G. Robinson John Garfield Ida Lupino Alexander Knox Gene Lockhart Barry Fitzgerald Stanley Ridges David Bruce
fugitive captain writer woman doctor dark gritty gripping ferry ship cabin deck boat insanity seafaring sadism writers blindness escape escape
After being fished out of the sea by a sealer, three fugitives find themselves prisoners of the ship's brutal skipper who refuses to put them ashore and they hatch an escape plan during a crew mutiny.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1990
113 Minutes
Tim Robbins Elizabeth Peña Danny Aiello Matt Craven Pruitt Taylor Vince Jason Alexander Patricia Kalember Eriq La Salle Ving Rhames Brian Tarantina Anthony Alessandro
veteran ex-wife girlfriend chiropractor soldier son thrilling frightful dark brooklyn, n.y. apartment subway funeral vietnam lsd death vietnam war hallucinations insanity scientific experiments
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.
Horror
UK|USA
1992
123 Minutes
Gary Oldman Winona Ryder Anthony Hopkins Keanu Reeves Richard E. Grant Cary Elwes Billy Campbell Sadie Frost Tom Waits Monica Bellucci Michaela Bercu
lawyer vampire friend nun victim fiancée frightening creepy passionate suspenseful dark transylvania garden mental institution cemetery romania estate seduction sex supernatural
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
Drama
USA
1963
101 Minutes
Peter Breck Constance Towers Gene Evans James Best Hari Rhodes Larry Tucker Bill Zuckert Philip Ahn Neyle Morrow John Matthews Chuck Roberson
reporter inmate psychiatrist girlfriend witness thrilling tense solemn insane asylum investigation murder deception insanity pulitzer prize journalism quest mystery transformation 1960s
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
83 Minutes
Dorothy McGuire George Brent Forrest Tucker Ethel Barrymore Kent Smith Rhonda Fleming Gordon Oliver Elsa Lanchester James Bell Charles Wagenheim Ellen Corby
serial killer mute person servant nurse chilling suspenseful mansion murder disability alcoholism insanity investigation mystery pursuit 1910s
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
Drama
USA
1993
102 Minutes
Jesse Bradford Jeroen Krabbé Lisa Eichhorn Karen Allen Spalding Gray Elizabeth McGovern Joe Chrest Adrien Brody Cameron Boyd Chris Samples Katherine Heigl
young boy mother father brother charming emotional winsome st. louis hotel abandonment brotherhood coming of age great depression insanity growing up adventure underdog love 1930s
A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down motel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1965
107 Minutes
Laurence Olivier Carol Lynley Keir Dullea Noel Coward Martita Hunt Finlay Currie The Zombies
mother brother superintendent landlord retiree daughter creepy brooding dark uneasy london school scotland yard missing persons insanity siblings investigation mystery quest 1960s
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2000
107 Minutes
Bruce Willis Samuel L. Jackson Robin Wright Charlayne Woodard Spencer Treat Clark James Handy Eamonn Walker Elizabeth Lawrence Leslie Stefanson
security guard wife sick person janitor son suspenseful offbeat philadelphia new york city stadium train station extrasensory perception insanity torture murder supernatural quest transformation discovery 2000s
A man learns something extraordinary about himself after a devastating accident.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1939
72 Minutes
Bob Hope Paulette Goddard Gale Sondergaard John Beal Douglass Montgomery Nydia Westman George Zucco
relative friend attorney housekeeper maniac playful creepy new orleans mansion study bedroom secret passageway haunted houses inheritance impersonation lawyers insanity murder mystery quest
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1947
108 Minutes
Joan Crawford Van Heflin Raymond Massey Geraldine Brooks Stanley Ridges John Ridgely Nana Bryant Moroni Olsen Erskine Sanford Gerald Perreau Isabel Withers
nurse psychiatrist engineer wealthy man neighbor wife dark melodramatic creepy los angeles washington state hospital diner jealousy suicide insanity obsession violence unrequited love love
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1970
121 Minutes
Alan Arkin Martin Balsam Richard Benjamin Art Garfunkel Jack Gilford Bob Newhart Anthony Perkins Paula Prentiss Martin Sheen Jon Voight Orson Welles
captain pilot soldier lieutenant doctor witty amusing profound island mediterranean sea war zone horrors of war bombing aviation disillusionment insanity world war ii escape discovery 1940s
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1958
92 Minutes
Richard Todd Anne Baxter Herbert Lom Alexander Knox Faith Brook Alan Tilvern Thelma d'Aguiar
heiress brother stranger housekeeper police captain intense thrilling melodramatic emotional suspenseful cottage spain villa coast returning home heritage insanity lie diamonds will and testament
At Kimberley Prescott's villa, a stranger shows-up and claims he is her brother who supposedly died the previous year in a car accident.
Horror
USA
1932
63 Minutes
Ernest B. Schoedsack Joel McCrea Fay Wray Leslie Banks Robert Armstrong Noble Johnson Steve Clemento Hale Hamilton
hunter passenger count russian brother sister tense shocking island shipwreck jungle mansion hunting shipwreck survival insanity game escape underdog 1930s
An insane hunter arranges for a ship to be wrecked on an island where he can indulge in some sort of hunting and killing of the passengers.
War, Drama, History
USA
1992
107 Minutes
Ethan Hawke Peter Berg Kevin Dillon Arye Gross Gary Sinise Frank Whaley John C. McGinley Larry Joshua David Jensen Curt Lowens Rachel Griffin
sergeant jew german soldier old man interpreter prostitute powerful shocking france forest cabin world war ii insanity peace massacre christmas fall transformation 1940s
This WW2 psychological drama plays out at Christmas. US GIs hold an isolated cabin in the Ardennes against a handful of Germans cut off from their main force. Combat-weary and short of rations, both sides are determined to survive.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1927
75 Minutes
Laura La Plante Creighton Hale Forrest Stanley Tully Marshall Flora Finch Gertrude Astor Lucien Littlefield Arthur Edmund Carewe Martha Mattox George Siegmann
nephew niece lawyer guard doctor killer chilling tense creepy intricate mansion new york state haunted houses inheritance insanity greed murder rivalry escape 1920s
Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada|Germany|France
2009
123 Minutes
Vera Farmiga Peter Sarsgaard Isabelle Fuhrman CCH Pounder Aryana Engineer Jimmy Bennett Margo Martindale Karel Roden Rosemary Dunsmore
mother father daughter son orphan nun dark suspenseful tense chilling orphanage household hospital family home loss adoption deception insanity marriage husband/wife relationship
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
USA
2015
98 Minutes
Graham Denman Hannah Levien Sean Whalen Ken Foree Joshua Lou Friedman Jon Kondelik Lynn Lowry James Andrew Oster Ruben Pla Jessica Prendes Aaron Pruner
half brother single mother detective young man campy creepy dark disturbing house morgue movie theater office city murder plot investigation insanity family secrets discovery mystery pursuit
A pastor and a teacher, two pillars of the small community of Triune, share a dark and unspeakable secret: the common enemy of an ancient demonic terror deigns to destroy one through the other during the Devil's hour.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1980
108 Minutes
Stacy Keach Scott Wilson Ed Flanders Jason Miller Neville Brand George Di Cenzo Moses Gunn Robert Loggia Joe Spinell Alejandro Rey Tom Atkins
colonel captain psychiatrist astronaut mental patient cheeky quirky profound uneasy washington state mental institution castle post-traumatic stress disorder existential crisis faith disillusionment psychiatry insanity discovery fall
A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
104 Minutes
Ronald Colman Signe Hasso Shelley Winters Edmond O'Brien Ray Collins Philip Loeb Millard Mitchell Joe Sawyer Charles La Torre Whit Bissell John Drew Colt
actor actress mistress striking dark chilling broadway theater new york city insanity actors murder transformation fall mystery 1940s
A celebrated actor struggles to distinguish his own life from that of his most recent stage role, Othello.
Adventure
USA|Brazil
1991
187 Minutes
Tom Berenger Aidan Quinn Kathy Bates John Lithgow Daryl Hannah Tom Waits Stênio Garcia Nelson Xavier José Dumont Niilo Kivirinta S. Yriwana Karaja
missionary wife reverend son native american tribesman spectacular passionate brazil river forest camp missionary work mining infidelity disease hallucinations insanity fall transformation
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1987
119 Minutes
Michael Douglas Glenn Close Anne Archer Ellen Hamilton Latzen Stuart Pankin Ellen Foley Fred Gwynne Meg Mundy
lawyer wife editor husband mistress daughter tense disturbing frightful new orleans apartment subconscious mind adultery stalking obsession insanity marriage temptation revenge fall
A married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.