Movies thrillers about schizophrenia

List of the best schizophrenia thriller films according to visitors: Split, Uncut Gems, Shutter Island, Disconnect, Anonymous, Profile, We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Skin I Live In, Captain Phillips, Buried.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Japan
Duration02:27

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

    Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration02:10

      Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

      Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:52

        After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountrySpain, USA
        Duration02:00

        A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

          The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
          Duration01:35

          Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:55

            A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:51

            Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:58

              When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:52

              A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:03

              Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

              Markimdb: 7.4
              Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA, Mexico
              Duration01:45

              A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

              Markimdb: 8.1
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:59

              A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:04

              Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genreaction, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:42

                An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

                Markimdb: 7.8
                Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

                What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:48

                  Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

                  Markimdb: 8.1
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:33

                    When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

                    Markimdb: 8.1
                    Genrethriller, drama
                    CountryCanada, Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
                    Duration02:32

                    Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?

                    Markimdb: 6.5
                    Genrethriller, drama, crime
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration02:35

                    Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.

                    Markimdb: 6.9
                    Genrethriller, drama
                    CountryUSA

                    Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.

                    Markimdb: 7.5
                    Genrethriller, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:32

                      Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

                      Markimdb: 7.3
                      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

                      A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

                      Genrethriller, drama, crime
                      CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada

                      An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.

                      Markimdb: 7.6
                      Genrethriller, drama, history
                      CountryUSA, Germany, India
                      Duration02:39

                        During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.

                        Markimdb: 6.8
                        Genreaction, thriller, detective
                        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA
                        Duration01:53

                        An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a former Stazi agent, he sets out to prove who he is and find out why people are trying to kill him.

                        Markimdb: 7.3
                        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
                        CountryUSA, Germany
                        Duration01:45

                        New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.

                        Markimdb: 7.9
                        Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:53

                        After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex, Scobie and Gideon, who are after a quarter of a million dollars the quartet stole while behind enemy lines. But why does Peter keep changing his name?

                        Markimdb: 6.7
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                        CountryUSA, Canada
                        Duration01:58

                        Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

                        Markimdb: 7.1
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA

                        In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

                        Markimdb: 7.2
                        Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
                        CountryMexico, Spain, USA
                        Duration02:05

                        Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.

                        Markimdb: 6.7
                        Genrethriller, drama, crime
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:35

                        Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

                        Markimdb: 6.4
                        Genrethriller, crime, detective
                        CountryUSA, Spain, Hungary, Serbia
                        Duration01:50

                        A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

                        Markimdb: 7
                        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:54

                        Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.

                        Markimdb: 7.1
                        Genrethriller, drama
                        CountryUSA
                        Duration01:41

                          Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

                          Markimdb: 6.5
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
                          Duration01:45

                          A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

                          Markimdb: 7.6
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:39

                          The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

                          Markimdb: 6.3
                          Genrethriller, drama, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:38

                          A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.

                          Markimdb: 6.6
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
                          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                          Duration01:59

                          Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.

                          Markimdb: 6.5
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:46

                          The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

                          Markimdb: 7.7
                          Genrethriller, drama
                          CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, USA
                          Duration01:37

                          The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

                          Markimdb: 7.5
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                          Duration02:01

                          Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".

                          Markimdb: 7.5
                          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
                          CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
                          Duration02:37

                          During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

                          Markimdb: 7.3
                          Genrethriller, drama, crime
                          CountryGermany, USA, Mexico
                          Duration02:00

                          A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

                          Markimdb: 7.2
                          Genrethriller, comedy, crime
                          CountryUSA
                          Duration01:43

                          A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

                          Markimdb: 6.8
                          Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
                          CountryUSA, Mexico, France

                          Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.




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