Here we've displayed a list of the best Nervous Breakdown films : Red Desert(1964), The Princess and the Warrior(2000), The Merchant of Four Seasons(1971), The Woman Next Door(1981), The Killing of Sister George(1968), What About Bob?(1991), The Hireling(1973), The Day a Pig Fell Into the Well(1996), Private Worlds(1935), Charming Billy(1999), Play It as It Lays(1972), Wakefield(2016) ... ...
Drama
Italy|France
1964
116 Minutes
Monica Vitti Richard Harris Carlo Chionetti Xenia Valderi Rita Renoir Aldo Grotti Valerio Bartoleschi Giuliano Missirini Lili Rheims Emanuela Mino Carboni
wife husband old friend businessman son maid bleak profound emotional striking italy beach factory apartment shack town mental illness isolation nervous breakdown infidelity
In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
Drama, Romance
Germany
2000
135 Minutes
Franka Potente Benno Fürmann Joachim Król Marita Breuer Jürgen Tarrach Lars Rudolph Melchior Beslon Ludger Pistor
nurse robber brother patient dreamy creative hospital street bank bus stop gas station hallucinations heist murder explosion unlikely allies nervous breakdown transformation love 2000s
Two enamoured strangers look for a warm place in a cold world.
Drama
West Germany
1971
88 Minutes
Hans Hirschmuller Irm Hermann Hanna Schygulla Andrea Schober Klaus Löwitsch Karl Scheydt Kurt Raab Gusti Kreissl
fruit seller wife mother daughter sister employee bleak disturbing emotional profound munich household hospital funeral germany street family dysfunction unhappy marriage alcoholism unexpected success
Hans Epp is a self-destructive man who lives a dissatisfied life. He tries to find meaning as a fruit vendor, but a heart attack impedes his ability to work, which turns his dissatisfaction into despair.
Romance
France
1981
105 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Fanny Ardant Henri Garcin Michèle Baumgartner Roger Van Hool Veronique Silver Philippe Morier-Genoud Olivier Becquaert
married man married woman neighbor lover old flame wife somber disturbing emotional melodramatic french countryside french alps family home affair obsessive love infidelity nervous breakdown heartbreak jealousy love
Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.
Drama
USA
1968
137 Minutes
Beryl Reid Susannah York Coral Browne Ronald Fraser Patricia Medina Hugh Paddick Cyril Delevanti
actress older woman television producer executive lesbian lover disheartening dark melodramatic television studio london england club apartment acting lesbianism nervous breakdown abuse alcoholism fame
The life of a soap opera actress begins to unravel as she fears her character will be written out of the series.
Comedy
USA
1991
100 Minutes
Bill Murray Richard Dreyfuss Julie Hagerty Charlie Korsmo Kathryn Erbe Tom Aldredge Susan Willis Roger Bowen Fran Brill
psychiatrist patient wife author son daughter hilarious quirky lighthearted madcap new hampshire vacation home new york city lake psychiatrist's office vacation mental illness therapy family nervous breakdown
A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.
Drama
UK
1973
95 Minutes
Robert Shaw Sarah Miles Elizabeth Sellars Peter Egan Caroline Mortimer Patricia Lawrence
chauffeur aristocrat widow veteran politician mother brooding emotional england household car romance love triangle class distinctions unrequited love nervous breakdown forbidden love underdog 1950s
A young British woman suffering from depression over the loss of her husband develops an unusual relationship with her chauffeur.
Comedy
South Korea
1996
115 Minutes
Kim Eui-sung Cho Eun-sook Lee Eung-kyung Park Jin-seong
novelist girlfriend salesman ticket collector prostitute offbeat gritty uneasy amusing south korea love triangle infidelity nervous breakdown midlife crisis love temptation escape 1990s
About desires and lives of four characters in diverse circumstances. A poor novelist, a cheating wife, a mysophobic husband and a ticket girl.
Drama
USA
1935
84 Minutes
doctor partner psychiatrist patient sister wife tense dark uneasy asylum office hospital room household staircase mental illness psychiatry accident misogyny murder nervous breakdown
The work of a progressive female psychiatrist and her colleague at a mental hospital is threatened by the arrival of a conservative new supervisor, who disapproves of both her methods and the fact that she is a woman in a "man's field."
Drama
USA
1999
79 Minutes
Michael Hayden Sally Murphy Tony Mockus Chelcie Ross Bernadette O'Malley Adam Tanguay Oksana Fedunyszyn Tim Decker
father grandfather husband wife sniper bleak chilling disturbing intense small town midwest video store family home water tower emotional abuse insanity mass murder failed marriage dead-end jobs nervous breakdown
Billy Starkman is a seemingly ordinary man living in a small Midwestern town who one day wakes up, murders his family, climbs a rural water tower with a high-powered hunting rifle and ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1972
99 Minutes
actress director celebrity husband wife producer intense dark powerful sad los angeles movie set las vegas mojave desert nervous breakdown failed romance infidelity career vs. love hollywood escape
A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.
Drama
USA
2016
109 Minutes
Bryan Cranston Jennifer Garner Jason O'Mara Beverly D'Angelo Ian Anthony Dale Pippa Bennett-Warner Isaac Leyva Victoria Bruno Ellery Sprayberry Frederick Keeve Hal Dion
lawyer wife child doctor ex-boyfriend client brooding emotional intense dark new york city attic courtroom doctor's office restaurant car nervous breakdown abandonment isolation ex-boyfriends
Bryan Cranston gives the performance of a lifetime as Howard Wakefield, a lawyer on the edge of madness who has decided to disassociate himself from his own life.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA|Germany|Netherlands
2001
119 Minutes
Dougray Scott Kate Winslet Saffron Burrows Jeremy Northam Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Tom Hollander Corin Redgrave Matthew Macfadyen Robert Pugh Lee Montague Nicholas Rowe
code breaker missing girl housemate secret agent admiral co-worker thrilling suspenseful tense gripping intense patriotic england world war ii code breaking nervous breakdown disappearance government secrets english intelligence mystery
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1980
105 Minutes
Angela Lansbury Elizabeth Taylor Edward Fox Rock Hudson Kim Novak Tony Curtis Geraldine Chaplin Wendy Morgan Charles Gray Pierce Brosnan Margaret Courtenay
movie star miss marple husband fan son aunt tense england village murder investigation jealousy nervous breakdown comeback death threat discovery mystery rivalry revenge 1950s
Miss Jane Marple comes to solve the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Comedy
USA
1983
104 Minutes
Walter Matthau Robin Williams Jerry Reed James Wainwright Kristen Vigard Annie McEnroe Anne Pitoniak Bernard Barrow Marian Hailey Joseph Carberry
executive gas station owner hit man veteran fiancée survivalist offbeat hilarious suspenseful diner wall street unemployment office vermont camp gas station unemployment unlikely allies nervous breakdown witnessing murder survival
Having both lost their jobs, two strangers become unlikely friends after a run in with a would be robber, who is actually a hitman with a grudge against the two.
Comedy
USA
1981
91 Minutes
Chevy Chase Patti D'Arbanville Mary Kay Place Nell Carter Brian Doyle Murray Mitch Kreindel Dabney Coleman Arthur Sellers Sandy Helberg
air traffic controller girlfriend vietnam vet ex-wife author amusing outlandish new york city airport restaurant ballet beach house breakup telekinesis nervous breakdown freak accident unrequited love revenge transformation 1980s
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fiedler, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses not only to win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
Horror
USA
1980
100 Minutes
Trish Van Devere Joseph Cotten David Gautreaux Donald Hotton Med Flory Donald Petrie Christopher McDonald Perry Lang Frederic Franklyn Olive Dunbar Al Hansen
divorcée niece ghost devil worshipper driver suitor creepy uneasy suspenseful haunted house church small town car funeral devil worship haunting possession stalking nervous breakdown occult
A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt's home in a small town, only to find herself plagued by supernatural occurrences and unexplained hostility from the local townspeople connected to her aunt's past.
Drama
USA
2019
124 Minutes
Natalie Portman Jon Hamm Zazie Beetz Dan Stevens Colman Domingo Ellen Burstyn Jeremiah Birkett Nick Offerman Tig Notaro Pearl Amanda Dickson Jeffrey Donovan
astronaut husband family colleague dreamy emotional engaging gripping intense passionate profound uneasy united states nervous breakdown family relationships space travel stress fall 21st century
Astronaut Lucy Cola returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space, and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
Gay & Lesbian, Romance
USA|Germany
2000
121 Minutes
Richard Gere Helen Hunt Farrah Fawcett Laura Dern Shelley Long Tara Reid Kate Hudson Liv Tyler Robert Hays Matt Malloy Andy Richter
gynecologist wife beautiful woman amusing offbeat quirky doctor's office texas shopping mall nervous breakdown wedding husband/wife relationship temptation love fall 2000s
A wealthy gynecologist's ideal life is thrown into turmoil when the women closest to him begin to affect his life in unexpecting ways.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
2013
92 Minutes
Meggie Maddock Ali Frances Dakota Pike Jeremy Make Maru Garcia Jeff Maez Christine Olyer John Schmidt Luke Sorge
struggling actor actress psychopath woman landlady love interest brutal dark shocking intense thrilling disturbing united states los angeles apartment movie set struggle career aspirations nervous breakdown cannibalism
Drama
India
2011
90 Minutes
Emily Osment Kelly Rowan Kay Panabaker Meaghan Rath Jon McLaren Robert Naylor Nastassia Markiewicz Jade Hassouné
friend mother brother teen girl student bully emotional bullying life in cyberspace nervous breakdown social media learning experience controversy 2010s
Romance, Comedy, Drama
2016
97 Minutes
Virginie Efira Vincent Lacoste Melvil Poupaud Laurent Poitrenaux Laure Calamy Alice Daquet Julie Moulier Elsa Wolliaston Sophie Fillieres Liv Harari Jeane Arra-Bellanger
frenchwoman lawyer sex addict ex-husband friend daughter cheeky emotional fascinating paris courtroom wedding bedroom bar restaurant law parenthood sex addiction nervous breakdown recovery
Late 30-something Victoria, a beautiful Parisian criminal lawyer who also happens to be a self-involved workaholic sex-addict, feels completely torn apart by pressure from all sides until she rediscovers her own desires.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
2002
89 Minutes
Laura Regan Marc Blucas Ethan Embry Dagmara Dominczyk Jon Abrahams Alexander Gould Desiree Zurowski Mark Hildreth
graduate student little girl emt psychiatrist friend dark suspenseful frightening bedroom mental institution swimming pool subway hospital room childhood trauma nervous breakdown suicide supernatural nightmares phobias discovery
A psychology student (Laura Regan) and her friends begin to have nightmares, resulting in strange marks appearing on their bodies.
Comedy
1968
93 Minutes
repairman husband wife police detective worker amusing offbeat witty attic house factory infidelity nervous breakdown stocks seduction business unhappy marriage discovery love temptation
The bored wife (Shirley MacLaine) of a batty British bra-manufacturer (Richard Attenborough) keeps a secret lover (James Booth) in their attic.
Drama
1984
120 Minutes
Ann-Margret Treat Williams Beverly D'Angelo Randy Quaid Rafael Campos Erica Yohn Fred Sadoff Elsa Raven
southern belle sister wife pregnant woman husband brutal passionate uneasy melodramatic new orleans french quarter apartment louisiana communal living mental illness rape nervous breakdown family dysfunction marriage fall
Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Ann-Margret) lives in New Orleans with her sister, Stella (Beverly D'Angelo), and brutish brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski (Treat Williams).
Drama
1983
120 Minutes
Alan Alda Mike Farrell Loretta Swit Harry Morgan David Ogden Stiers Jamie Farr William Christopher Allan Arbus Kellye Nakahara
captain major surgeon doctor cavalry captain patient emotional moving touching lighthearted dark hilarious south korea military hospital mental institution tent office war zone friendship camaraderie
As the Korean conflict comes to an end, the men and women of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital prepare to go home.