Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "driven-insane"

1. A Serbian Film (2010)

NC-17 | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

An aging porn star agrees to participate in an "art film" in order to make a clean break from the business, only to discover that he has been drafted into making a pedophilia and necrophilia themed snuff film.

Director: Srdjan Spasojevic | Stars: Srdjan 'Zika' Todorovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Jelena Gavrilovic, Slobodan Bestic

Votes: 71,667

2. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Archaeologist Indiana Jones races against time to retrieve a legendary artifact that can change the course of history.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, Karen Allen

Votes: 198,273

3. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)

R | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror

A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.

Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian

Votes: 48,875

4. Climax (I) (2018)

R | 97 min | Drama, Horror, Music

French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.

Director: Gaspar Noé | Stars: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile

Votes: 79,367 | Gross: $0.80M

5. Vanilla Sky (2001)

R | 136 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular accident with a resentful lover.

Director: Cameron Crowe | Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell

Votes: 285,653 | Gross: $100.61M

6. The Babadook (2014)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.

Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney

Votes: 247,208 | Gross: $0.92M

7. The Homesman (2014)

R | 122 min | Drama, Western

Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy, who in turn employs low-life drifter George Briggs to assist her.

Director: Tommy Lee Jones | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto

Votes: 35,722 | Gross: $2.43M

8. The Lodge (2019)

R | 108 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place.

Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Riley Keough, Jaeden Martell, Lia McHugh, Richard Armitage

Votes: 57,831

9. Candyman (1992)

R | 99 min | Horror, Thriller

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Director: Bernard Rose | Stars: Virginia Madsen, Xander Berkeley, Tony Todd, Kasi Lemmons

Votes: 100,142 | Gross: $25.79M

10. Nomads (1986)

R | 91 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A French anthropologist specializing in nomadic groups moves to Los Angeles with his wife, and starts following a group of sinister street punks who seem to live and move around in a black van. But they aren't what they seem.

Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Lesley-Anne Down, Pierce Brosnan, Anna Maria Monticelli, Adam Ant

Votes: 5,333 | Gross: $2.28M

11. Color Out of Space (2019)

Unrated | 111 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A secluded farm is struck by a strange meteorite which has apocalyptic consequences for the family living there and possibly the world.

Director: Richard Stanley | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Elliot Knight

Votes: 56,222

12. Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Despite being under heavy sedation, a young woman tries to make her way out of the Arboria Institute, a secluded, quasifuturistic commune.

Director: Panos Cosmatos | Stars: Eva Bourne, Michael J Rogers, Scott Hylands, Rondel Reynoldson

Votes: 16,897 | Gross: $0.06M

13. The Invisible Man (1933)

TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers

Votes: 39,928

14. Wounds (2019)

R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

Director: Babak Anvari | Stars: Armie Hammer, Zazie Beetz, Karl Glusman, Christin Rankins

Votes: 21,575

15. The Andromeda Strain (2008)

44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.

Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Ricky Schroder, Louis Ferreira

Votes: 14,611

16. Human Experiments (1979)

R | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Director: Gregory Goodell | Stars: Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle

Votes: 882

17. The Green Elephant (1999)

90 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller

Two Russian prisoners are abused mentally and physically.

Director: Svetlana Baskova | Stars: Sergey Pakhomov, Vladimir Epifantsev, Aleksandr Maslaev, Anatoliy Osmolovskiy

Votes: 3,083

18. Kingdom Hospital (2004)

608 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The quirky staff and patients of an ultramodern (albeit increasingly dilapidated) Maine hospital gradually become familiar with the supernatural occurrences that take place there, uncovering a dark secret in the process.

Stars: Jamie Harrold, Diane Ladd, Bruce Davison, Jack Coleman

Votes: 7,941

19. Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror (2024– )

Animation, Horror | Post-production

A town of people slowly go insane over increasing obsessions with spiral shapes: patterns in the clouds, everyday objects, hair, insects, skin.

Stars: Uki Satake, Shin'ichirô Miki, Mariya Ise, Tatsumaru Tachibana

20. Hellraiser: Inferno (2000 Video)

R | 99 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".

Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Craig Sheffer, Nicholas Turturro, James Remar, Doug Bradley

Votes: 19,173

21. The Method (2015– )

TV-MA | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An ambitious young law enforcement graduate is thrilled when her idol takes her on as a trainee. But his methods aren't anything like she imagined.

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Polukhin, Alexander Petrov

Votes: 3,325

22. Branded to Kill (1967)

Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After a botched assignment, a rice-fetishizing hitman finds himself in conflict with his organization, and one mysterious, dangerous fellow-hitman in particular.

Director: Seijun Suzuki | Stars: Jô Shishido, Mariko Ogawa, Annu Mari, Kôji Nanbara

Votes: 10,207

23. The Illustrated Man (1969)

PG | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

In 1930s, a psychotic drifter who's after the mystery woman who covered his whole body in illustrations that foresee distant future shows three of them (The Veldt, The Long Rain and The Last Night of the World) to a mesmerized traveler.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom, Robert Drivas, Don Dubbins

Votes: 3,461

24. Woyzeck (1979)

Not Rated | 82 min | Drama

Franz Woyzeck is a hapless, hopeless soldier, alone and powerless in society, assaulted from all sides by forces he can not control.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Eva Mattes, Wolfgang Reichmann, Willy Semmelrogge

Votes: 10,525

25. Wacko (1982)

PG | 87 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Thirteen years after the "Lawnmower Killer" killed her sister, high school student Mary Graves and obsessed detective Dick Harbinger are on the lookout for the killer to reappear during the annual Halloween Pumpkin Prom.

Director: Greydon Clark | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Stella Stevens, George Kennedy, Julia Duffy

Votes: 1,434

26. The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan (2019 Video Game)

M | 227 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

Four friends and their captain set sail on a holiday diving trip to find a rumored WWII wreck, but as the day unfolds, a storm rolls in and soon their trip changes into something much more sinister.

Director: Tom Heaton | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Ayisha Issa, Arielle Palik, Chris Sandiford

Votes: 3,462

27. Fedora (1978)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Romance

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement only to discover the horrible truth behind her success.

Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer

Votes: 5,184 | Gross: $2.20M

28. The Student (2016)

Unrated | 118 min | Drama

Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him.

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov | Stars: Pyotr Skvortsov, Viktoriya Isakova, Yuliya Aug, Aleksandr Gorchilin

Votes: 6,072 | Gross: $0.00M

29. Madhouse (1974)

PG | 89 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A horror movie star returns to his famous role after years in a mental institution. But the character seems to be committing murders independent of his will.

Director: Jim Clark | Stars: Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Robert Quarry, Adrienne Corri

Votes: 4,517

30. Backfire (1987)

R | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Disgruntled wife cheats on her well off husband, who's been suffering from PTSD ever since he came home from the Vietnam War. After an incident he ends up in a catatonic state. Soon, she begins to suspect that someone is after her.

Director: Gilbert Cates | Stars: Karen Allen, Keith Carradine, Jeff Fahey, Bernie Casey

Votes: 732

31. Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU (2020–2021)

TV-MA | Animation, Drama, Horror

Keiichi Maebara is in his new home in the peaceful Hinamizawa village, making friends with girls from school. He's here for a big festival. But something about this town seems off, with that fear what dark secrets can this small town hide?

Stars: Sôichirô Hoshi, Yukari Tamura, Mai Nakahara, Emi Lo

Votes: 776

32. Harvester (1996 Video Game)

M | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Amnesiac named Steve wakes up in a strange little town called Harvest, a place seemingly straight out of 1950s Americana but with a noticeably eerie and twisted pitch black dark side, that's preparing for the annual festival of blood.

Director: Gilbert P. Austin | Stars: Michael Napadano Jr., Pieter Van Der Vliet, M.R. Eudy, Tim Higgins

Votes: 236

33. Maniac (1934)

Not Rated | 51 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A former vaudevillian gifted at impersonation assists a mad scientist in reanimating corpses and soon goes mad himself.

Director: Dwain Esper | Stars: Bill Woods, Horace B. Carpenter, Ted Edwards, Phyllis Diller

Votes: 2,705

34. Born American (1986)

R | 95 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A trio of vacationing American students cross the border from Finland to the USSR during the Cold War and are soon imprisoned after a skirmish with Soviet soldiers.

Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Mike Norris, Steve Durham, David Coburn, Thalmus Rasulala

Votes: 2,184 | Gross: $3.39M

35. Juuni Taisen (2017)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy

The 12th Twelve Tournament that gets held every twelve years - Twelve brave warriors who bear the names of the signs of the zodiac fight each other for the lives and souls. The participants... See full summary »

Stars: Ian Sinclair, Mark Stoddard, Caitlin Glass, Jerry Jewell

Votes: 988

36. Toxin (2015)

Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

Director: Jason Dudek | Stars: Taylor Handley, Danny Glover, Vinnie Jones, Margo Harshman

Votes: 1,185

37. Higurashi: When They Cry - SOTSU (2021)

Animation, Drama, Horror

Sequel and answer arcs to Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou.

Stars: Yukari Tamura, Mika Kanai, Sôichirô Hoshi, Mai Nakahara

Votes: 441

38. Deadwax (2018)

Horror, Music, Mystery

A mind-bending neo-noir set in the obsessive world of vinyl collecting. Etta Pryce, a vinyl tracker, is hired by a rich collector to hunt a legendary rare record that has driven its owners mad and killed anyone that has dared to play it.

Stars: Hannah Gross, Evan Gamble, Tracy Perez, Dohn Norwood

Votes: 465

39. Att angöra en brygga (1965)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A group of party goers have trouble getting their boat ashore on a small island. The inhabitants of the island try to help, often with the help of an old sailor, and the results are absurd and hilarious.

Director: Tage Danielsson | Stars: Monica Zetterlund, Lars Ekborg, Birgitta Andersson, Gösta Ekman

Votes: 2,730

40. The Evictors (1979)

PG | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A nice young couple move into an eerie house which is located in a small Louisiana town, unaware of its violent history, and soon find themselves tormented by the previous owners.

Director: Charles B. Pierce | Stars: Vic Morrow, Michael Parks, Jessica Harper, Sue Ane Langdon

Votes: 1,342

41. The Emperor Jones (1933)

Not Rated | 72 min | Drama, Music

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

Directors: Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille | Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington

Votes: 1,260

42. Red Roses of Passion (1966)

85 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

Jaded Carla drugs her stuck up aunt and her daughter with mind-altering aphrodisiac concocted from a rose by an ominous Pan sex cult. The women become crazed nymphos and the only way to cure them is for Carla to give herself to "Pan".

Director: Joseph W. Sarno | Stars: Judson Todd, Jean James, Carol Holleck, Helena Clayton

Votes: 223

43. Tender Loving Care (1996 Video)

M | 117 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A worried husband hires a beautiful psychotherapist to nurse his delusional wife and help her deal with the death of their child in a car accident. However, the nurse starts playing mind games. Or is he just being paranoid?

Director: David Wheeler | Stars: J. Michael Esposito, Beth Tegarden, Marie Caldare, John Hurt

Votes: 227

44. Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A young woman raised by gypsies hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to protect.

Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Nina Foch, Stephen Crane, Osa Massen, Blanche Yurka

Votes: 1,195

45. Shango (1970)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, Western

(1970) Anthony Steffen, Edjuardo Fajardo, Maurice Poli, Barbara Nelli, Andrea Scotti. Shango is a Texas Ranger who finds himself up against a former Confederate officer and his gang of ... See full summary »

Director: Edoardo Mulargia | Stars: Anthony Steffen, Eduardo Fajardo, Maurice Poli, Barbara Nelli

Votes: 252

46. Strange Confession (1945)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in tragedy.

Director: John Hoffman | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Carrol Naish, Milburn Stone

Votes: 736

47. The Cuckoo Clock (1950)

Passed | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A cat is driven up the wall by the inhabitant of the cuckoo clock, so he spends the film trying to catch him.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Daws Butler, William Hanna

Votes: 478

48. Inju, la bête dans l'ombre (2008)

105 min | Mystery, Thriller

The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the ... See full summary »

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Lika Minamoto, Gen Shimaoka, Ryo Ishibashi

Votes: 972

49. Fear Effect (2000 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Crime

In this cyberpunk survival horror game, a team of three mercenaries led by former prostitute Hana must locate the missing daughter of a Hong Kong triad boss, a girl supposedly destined to bring about the end of the world.

Director: John Zuur Platten | Stars: Elyse Dinh, Braeden Marcott, Anthony De Longis, Rob Monroe

Votes: 244

50. Slap Happy Lion (1947)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Family, Comedy

The king of the jungle, after a well-spent day terrorising the rest of the animals, is petrified by a mouse...

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Tex Avery, Vonnie Beraner, Sara Berner, Peter Bletcher

Votes: 582