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110 films tagged mental health, showing 50
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2025 · Drama
A therapist looks after a daughter who has to be fed through a tube at night, in a motel room, because the ceiling of their flat came down. Her husband is away at sea, her clients are a lot, and she is not sleeping.
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2025 · Drama
A man walks into a remote forest to bring his brother a letter from home, asking him to come back and talk to the boy he left behind. Mostly two men in a hut, talking and not talking.
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2025 · Action
Ronnie wakes from a coma grieving a girlfriend everyone tells him never existed, and sets out to prove she was real. Very long and very violent, and it keeps you unsure what is only in his head.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A pop star sunk in depression loses his voice on stage and walks off, then spends the night with a fan who has just set a house on fire. Loud, and it moves between concert stages and one long night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Mystery
A Paris psychiatrist refuses to accept that a patient's death was a suicide and starts looking into it herself, while her own life comes apart. Part detective story, part comedy, following one woman.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Thriller
A former soldier takes her small son to the US consulate in Frankfurt, and when she comes back for him he is gone. Staff say he was never checked in, so she hides in the building and searches it herself.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Comedy
A burned-out paramedic finally gets the office job he applied for, and has to work one last 24-hour shift with his partner and a student riding along. The night runs from funny to awful, call by call.
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2025 · Mystery
Daisy spends her days reviewing flagged videos for a social platform under strict quotas, until one clip she cannot forget sends her looking for the man in it. It is bleak, and stays close to her.
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2025 · Drama
Two men meet by chance in a London pub on a cold December night and end up spending the whole of it together, talking. A two-hander across one night, with both of them in a bad way.
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2025 · Drama
During the Paris Olympics, a hearing-impaired woman managing short-term flats gets through the noise by taking her hearing aids out. Then an American visitor turns up. Short, and it drifts.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
Ari passes his teaching exam, breaks down nine months into the job and is pushed out of his father's house. He wanders the city feverish, running into old friends, and the film wanders with him.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
An eight-year-old girl watches her Hungarian family settle on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, while her oldest brother's behaviour turns dangerous. It stays down at the girl's level throughout.
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Little-known
2025 · Horror
A man is talked into looking after his ex-girlfriend's senile mother, and the job starts to work on his mind. A horror film built around the two of them.
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2025 · Science fiction
A school security guard in Los Angeles, carrying a lot from his own childhood and about to become a father, sees a beam of light on a night shift and wakes in hospital. After that he cannot stop drawing aliens and empty desert.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Horror
An anxious man sets out to fly home to his mother and falls instead through one strange situation after another. It runs three hours and looks less like the real world the further it goes.
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2025 · Science fiction
Marvel's second-string operatives are sent into the same secret facility with orders to kill each other, work out they have been set up, and have to get out together. Fights, and a lot about their worst memories.
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2025 · Drama
An American army psychiatrist is sent to assess Hermann Goering and the other Nazi leaders held for trial at Nuremberg. Long and talky, built around the conversations between the two men.
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2025 · Drama
In 1981 Bruce Springsteen comes off a sold-out tour, holes up in a rented house near his home town and records a demo album on a four-track in the bedroom. Mostly quiet: one man, a tape machine, and his father.
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2025 · Comedy
A graduate student at a small college in Maine is raped by her thesis adviser, and the film follows the years of her life around it. Quiet, often funny, with her best friend never far away.
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2025 · Musical
A young woman abandoned at the courthouse on her wedding day stops writing and shuts herself in, until a hot-tempered musician finds her notebook and asks her to work with him. Long, loud and built around its songs.
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2014 · Comedy
An actor known for playing a superhero two decades ago is directing and starring in a Broadway play, days from opening night. It is shot to look like one unbroken take and barely leaves the theatre.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A hot-headed student leader falls for the researcher who chose him as her PhD subject, and she does not feel the same. Years later he is a fighter pilot and she is the psychologist assessing him.
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2025 · Comedy
Out after fifteen years for a bank robbery, a man finds the brother who buried the money now believes he is John Lennon and cannot remember where. A psychiatrist suggests playing along.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A father left with two young sons after his wife's sudden death starts to come apart, and his grief turns up in the house as a crow that taunts him from the shadows. It mostly stays indoors.
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2025 · Comedy
Four friends missed their school trip to Thailand ten years ago and finally take it, one fresh out of treatment and one about to become a monk. They bring a body pillow for the one who emigrated.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2025 · Drama
A depressed music student walks away from a car crash in the German countryside and is taken in by the woman who saw it happen, whose family behaves strangely around her. Quiet, slow, and nearly all in one house.
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2026 · Horror
A furniture store owner in San Jose falls through a glowing slit in his basement wall into an endless run of yellow rooms and corridors, where a researcher went missing in 1990. His therapist goes looking too.
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Little-known
2021 · Drama
A radio reporter travelling the country interviewing children ends up looking after his nine-year-old nephew for a while. Black and white, quiet, and mostly the two of them talking.
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2026 · Science fiction
A staff sergeant who lost his brother in Afghanistan puts himself through Ranger selection, and the final training exercise turns into a fight with an otherworldly killing machine. It is straight-ahead action, fast and loud.
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2026 · Action
Frank Castle has killed the last of the men behind his family's deaths and now lives alone in a New York block gone to crime, seeing people from his past who are not there. It is grim, violent, and stays in a few streets.
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2026 · Horror
A man who fell apart after losing the woman he loved gets a letter telling him to come back to the town where they lived together. He finds it fogbound and all but empty, and then it turns into something else.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
A hurricane floods a South Carolina town and washes sharks into the streets, while a woman who cannot leave her mother's house takes in a stranded pregnant stranger. It is fast and gory, cutting between people around the town.
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Little-known
2026 · Thriller
Eight-year-old Josephine sees a violent assault in Golden Gate Park. The film follows the fear and paranoia it leaves her with.
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Little-known
2026 · Drama
A Korean American woman in her thirties goes home after her mother's car crash and meets the man who caused it, and the two of them turn out to have a lot in common. Slow, quiet, mostly conversation.
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Little-known
2026 · Comedy
A young comedy writer cannot face the death of his sister, and spends a long time avoiding it while his family tries to help. Taken from a real memoir, and it swings between funny and very sad.
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Little-known
2020 · Drama
Four Black veterans go back to Vietnam for the body of their squad leader and the crate of gold buried with him. Long, cutting between now and the war, and stopping to argue about history.
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2006 · Comedy
A family who can barely stand each other drive a failing camper van from New Mexico to California so the youngest can enter a children's beauty pageant. Everyone is having their own bad year.
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2001 · Science fiction
A teenager in 1988 sleepwalks out of his bedroom, and a jet engine falls through the roof into it. A figure in a rabbit suit tells him the world ends in 28 days, and the film is in no hurry to explain.
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Little-known
2018 · Comedy
A thirteen-year-old girl posts advice videos nobody watches and tries to get through the last week of middle school. Small scenes shot close up, and often hard to watch out of sheer embarrassment.
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Little-known
2017 · Drama
The minister of a small, nearly empty church in upstate New York starts keeping a journal and agrees to counsel a young man who is frightened about the climate. Slow, quiet, mostly one man alone.
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2014 · Comedy
A young office worker talks his way into a band whose singer never takes off the large fake head he wears, and follows them to a cabin to record an album. Odd and funny early, heavier later.
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2024 · Drama
A London woman furious at almost everything snaps at her husband, her son and everyone in the shops, while her cheerful sister keeps trying to reach her. Nearly all of it is talk in kitchens and living rooms.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
A young television actor lives in a motel with the father who manages him, a former rodeo clown out on parole. Written by the actor it is based on, and it cuts between him as a boy and as a wrecked adult.
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2024 · Horror
Two lonely teenagers in the suburbs bond over a late-night TV show about girls fighting monsters, and one of them cannot let it go. It is slow and dreamlike, and more sad than scary.
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2015 · Animation
The feelings inside an eleven-year-old girl run her from a control room in her head, and two of them get lost the week her family moves across the country. Bright and fast, with a lot underneath.
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2024 · Animation
Riley turns thirteen and a new crew of feelings, Anxiety among them, muscles into the control room in her head just as she leaves for hockey camp. Bright, fast, and mostly set inside her mind.
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Little-known
2017 · Horror
A family lives sealed inside a house in the woods with strict rules about the doors, and then a second family asks to come in. Very quiet, very dark, and almost entirely in that house.
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2019 · Drama
A clown-for-hire in a filthy 1980s city looks after his mother, takes seven kinds of pills and wants to do stand-up. The camera never leaves him, and it turns grim very early.
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Little-known
2018 · Drama
A veteran and his teenage daughter live hidden in a park outside Portland until they are found and moved into a house. Quiet and slow, mostly the two of them working out what the other one needs.
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2015 · Crime
Tom Hardy plays both Kray twins, the brothers who ran a piece of 1960s London, while one of them courts a girl from Bethnal Green. Suits, nightclubs, and violence that arrives without warning.
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