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Descent into Madness Movies

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Films about characters descending into madness — when the mind becomes the enemy.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Apocalypse Now	1979	Francis Ford Coppola	8.3	Drama, War	United States of America	147	At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guer...
Perfect Blue	1998	Satoshi Kon	8.3	Animation, Thriller	Japan	82	Rising pop star Mima quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenz...
Sunset Boulevard	1950	Billy Wilder	8.3	Drama	United States of America	110	A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion	1997	Hideaki Anno	8.3	Animation, Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy	Japan	87	SEELE orders an all-out attack on NERV, aiming to destroy the Evas before Gendo can advance his own plans for the Human Instrumentality Project. Shinji is pushed to the limits of his sanity as he is forced to decide the fate of humanity.
Come and See	1985	Elem Klimov	8.2	Drama, War	Soviet Union	142	The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massa...
Joker	2019	Todd Phillips	8.1	Crime, Thriller, Drama	Canada	122	During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Persona	1966	Ingmar Bergman	8.1	Drama	Sweden	84	A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer.
Requiem for a Dream	2000	Darren Aronofsky	8	Crime, Drama	United States of America	102	The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
Ran	1985	Akira Kurosawa	8	Action, Drama, History	Japan	160	Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
A Beautiful Mind	2001	Ron Howard	7.9	Drama, Romance	United States of America	135	From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash Jr. experiences it all. As a brilliant but socially awkward mathematician, he made a groundbreaking discovery early in his career and stands on the brink of international acclaim. But as the handsome and arrogant Nash acce...
Raging Bull	1980	Martin Scorsese	7.9	Drama	United States of America	129	The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Pink Floyd: The Wall	1982	Alan Parker	7.9	Music, Drama	United Kingdom	95	A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?	1962	Robert Aldrich	7.9	Drama, Horror, Thriller	United States of America	135	A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Black Swan	2010	Darren Aronofsky	7.7	Drama, Thriller, Horror	United States of America	108	A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".
Twelve Monkeys	1995	Terry Gilliam	7.6	Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery	United States of America	129	In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's ar...
Girl, Interrupted	1999	James Mangold	7.6	Drama	United States of America	127	Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get ...
The Tenant	1976	Roman Polanski	7.6	Thriller, Mystery, Drama	France	126	A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
The Lighthouse	2019	Robert Eggers	7.5	Drama, Fantasy, Thriller	Brazil	109	Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Lost Highway	1997	David Lynch	7.5	Drama, Thriller, Mystery	France	134	A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Jacob's Ladder	1990	Adrian Lyne	7.4	Drama, Mystery, Horror	United States of America	113	After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran 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. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help...
The Wrath of God	1972	Ralph Nelson	7.4	History, Adventure, Drama	United States of America	95	A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead ...
Videodrome	1983	David Cronenberg	7.3	Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery	Canada	88	As the president of a trashy TV channel, Max Renn is desperate for new programming to attract viewers. When he happens upon "Videodrome," a TV show dedicated to gratuitous torture and punishment, Max sees a potential hit and broadcasts the show on his channel. However, after his girlfriend auditi...
Midsommar	2019	Ari Aster	7.2	Horror, Drama, Mystery	Sweden	147	Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite the...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas	1998	Terry Gilliam	7.2	Adventure, Drama, Comedy	United States of America	118	Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begin...
In the Mouth of Madness	1995	John Carpenter	7.2	Horror, Mystery	United States of America	95	An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
Pi	1998	Darren Aronofsky	7.1	Mystery, Drama, Thriller	United States of America	84	A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.
Climax	2018	Gaspar Noé	7.1	Horror, Drama	Belgium	97	When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.
mother!	2017	Darren Aronofsky	7	Horror, Drama	United States of America	121	A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer	2017	Yorgos Lanthimos	7	Drama, Thriller, Mystery	United Kingdom	121	Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
Blue Jasmine	2013	Woody Allen	7	Drama	United States of America	99	After experiencing a traumatic misfortune, Jasmine French, a wealthy woman from New York, moves to San Francisco to live with her foster sister Ginger and the firm purpose of getting a new life, but she will be haunted by anxiety and memories of the past.
Dogtooth	2009	Yorgos Lanthimos	7	Drama	Greece	98	Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence...
The Dead Zone	1983	David Cronenberg	7	Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction	United States of America	103	Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he c...
At Eternity's Gate	2018	Julian Schnabel	7	Drama	France	111	Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Inland Empire	2006	David Lynch	7	Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Fantasy	United States of America	180	When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
Color Out of Space	2020	Richard Stanley	6.1	Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller	United States of America	110	The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, o...
Joker: Folie à Deux	2024	Todd Phillips	5.4	Drama, Crime, Thriller	United States of America	138	While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur Fleck not only stumbles upon true love, but also finds the music that's always been inside him.

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