Mental Breakdown
"mental breakdown" Movies and TV Shows
#1
Pearl
Synopsis:
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
Starring:
Mia Goth,
Matthew Sunderland,
David Corenswet
#2
The Menu
Synopsis:
A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes,
John Leguizamo,
Nicholas Hoult
Plot:
restaurant,
food,
dinner,
chef,
remote island,
perfectionist,
blind obedience,
obsession,
food critic,
consumer culture
...
#3
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Synopsis:
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Starring:
Bob Hoskins,
Christopher Lloyd,
Charles Fleischer
#4
What Dreams May Come
Synopsis:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
Starring:
Robin Williams,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Rosalind Chao
Plot:
afterlife,
underwater scene,
heaven,
hell,
suicide,
soul mate,
death,
death of husband,
funeral,
woman painter
...
#5
Vertigo
Synopsis:
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Starring:
James Stewart,
Henry Jones,
Lee Patrick
#6
Twelve Monkeys
Synopsis:
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 arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly, and patient…
Starring:
Christopher Plummer,
Brad Pitt,
Bruce Willis
Plot:
time travel,
virus,
plague,
underground,
epidemic,
psychiatrist,
future,
ecoterrorism,
psychiatric hospital,
bald man
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#7
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Synopsis:
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
Starring:
Bonnie Bedelia,
Bruce Dern,
Jane Fonda
#8
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Synopsis:
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Starring:
Gian Maria Volonté,
Gino Pernice,
Salvo Randone
Plot:
years of lead,
exploitation,
italian politics,
left wing,
timeframe 1970s,
italy,
factory,
student,
revolutionary,
factory worker
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#9
The Royal Tenenbaums
Synopsis:
Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father's fault. "The Royal Tenenbaums" is the story of the family's sudden…
Starring:
Danny Glover,
Ben Stiller,
Anjelica Huston
#10
Theorem
Synopsis:
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
Starring:
Terence Stamp,
Laura Betti,
Anne Wiazemsky
#11
The Mummy
Synopsis:
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
Starring:
Boris Karloff,
Edward Van Sloan,
Noble Johnson
Plot:
ancient egypt,
archeologist,
scroll,
supernatural power,
white cat,
loss of loved one,
mummy,
reincarnation,
museum,
resurrection
...
#12
The Machinist
Synopsis:
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Starring:
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
Christian Bale,
Michael Ironside
Plot:
hallucination,
insomnia,
mental breakdown,
paranoia,
single mother,
waitress,
alienation,
urban gothic,
post it,
machinist
...
#13
The Hours
Synopsis:
"The Hours" is the story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.
Starring:
Nicole Kidman,
Julianne Moore,
Miranda Richardson
#14
The Caine Mutiny
Synopsis:
When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny.
Starring:
Fred MacMurray,
José Ferrer,
E.G. Marshall
#15
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Synopsis:
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Starring:
Conrad Veidt,
Rudolf Klein-Rogge,
Werner Krauß
#16
The African Queen
Synopsis:
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Starring:
Katharine Hepburn,
Humphrey Bogart,
Robert Morley
Plot:
boat,
leech,
stuck in mud,
missionary,
torpedo,
death sentence,
repairing an engine,
german military,
steamship,
boat pilot
...
#17
Suddenly, Last Summer
Synopsis:
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Starring:
Elizabeth Taylor,
Mercedes McCambridge,
Katharine Hepburn
#18
Splendor in the Grass
Synopsis:
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Starring:
Pat Hingle,
Gary Lockwood,
Warren Beatty
#19
Shock Corridor
Synopsis:
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Starring:
Constance Towers,
Hari Rhodes,
Paul Dubov
#20
Secret Window
Synopsis:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.
Starring:
Johnny Depp,
Maria Bello,
Len Cariou