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42 films tagged mental health
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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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2010 · Thriller
Two US marshals travel to an island asylum in 1954 to find a patient who has vanished from a locked room, and a hurricane closes the way back. Nobody on the staff answers a question straight.
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2024 · Comedy
Two cousins who have drifted apart take a group tour of Poland to see the town their grandmother left. It is mostly the two of them talking, funny and awkward by turns.
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2016 · Animation
A boy who led the bullying of a deaf classmate in primary school tracks her down years later to try to say something to her. Most of it is quiet, awkward conversation between teenagers who do not know how to start.
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2022 · Drama
An eleven-year-old girl and her young dad spend a week at a cheap Turkish resort, filming each other on a camcorder by the pool. Very little is said out loud; it is small moments and long silences.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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2024 · Animation
A woman in Melbourne tells her life story to her pet snail: a twin brother sent to the other side of the country, foster homes, and a collection of things she cannot throw away. Clay animation, narrated all the way through, and sad more often than not.
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2007 · Thriller
A law firm's fixer is sent to clean up after their star litigator falls apart in the middle of defending a chemical company. Grown-ups in offices talking, and it tightens slowly.
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2022 · Horror
In 1918 a young woman stuck on her family's Texas farm while her husband is away at war dreams of dancing in pictures. Bright, slow, and mostly her on the same few acres.
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2002 · Comedy
A lonely man who sells novelty bathroom supplies, has seven sisters, and loses his temper in ways he cannot explain meets a woman who likes him anyway. Loud in odd places, and ninety minutes long.
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2000 · Drama
Four people in Brooklyn, three of them young and one a widowed mother waiting on a call from a TV game show, each get hooked on something over the course of a year. Cut fast and hard, and it gets grimmer the longer it runs.
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2015 · Drama
A woman and her five-year-old son live in a single locked room, which is the only world he has ever known. Told from the boy's side of it, in a small space with two people.
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2019 · Horror
A young hospice nurse who has recently found God is sent to look after a former dancer dying at home, and decides the woman's soul is her responsibility. Small, quiet and very close to one person.
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2012 · Comedy
A man comes out of a psychiatric hospital set on winning his wife back, moves in with his parents, and meets a young widow who offers him a deal involving a dance contest. Loud families, and everyone talking over each other.
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2022 · Horror
A therapist watches a patient do something terrible in front of her, and afterwards starts seeing strangers smile at her the same way. Loud, full of jump scares, and it does not let up.
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2021 · Drama
Three days at Christmas 1991 with Princess Diana at the royal family's country estate, weighed down by schedules, meals and being watched. It stays close to her throughout and moves slowly; more mood than story.
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2016 · Horror
A man with many personalities takes three teenage girls and locks them in a room underground, and they have to work out which of him they are talking to. Mostly a few rooms, one actor playing most of it.
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2014 · Horror
A widowed mother and her difficult six-year-old find a pop-up book on the shelf about a thing that visits once you know its name, and the boy stops sleeping. Almost all of it happens in one tired house.
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2020 · Horror
A woman escapes a controlling partner and starts over at a friend's house, then begins to feel that someone else is in the room with her. Long held shots of empty corners, tense most of the way.
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2019 · Horror
Two keepers are left alone on a rock off the New England coast in the 1890s, and the boat that should collect them does not come. Black and white, a boxy old frame, two men and a lot of drink.
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2012 · Drama
A drifting navy veteran with a bad drinking problem attaches himself to the leader of a new movement in post-war America. Slow and loose, mostly the two of them circling each other.
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2001 · Comedy
Three grown-up child prodigies move back into their mother's New York townhouse at the same time as the father who walked out on them turns up saying he is dying. Deadpan, storybook-looking, and sadder than it first sounds.
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2017 · Thriller
Two girls who were friends as children are pushed back together for tutoring at a huge house in Connecticut, and one of them says she feels nothing at all. Cool, funny, and nearly all in a few rooms.
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2018 · Horror
After her difficult mother dies, a miniature artist and her family begin coming apart, and something in the house does not feel finished. Long, quiet and building; the frights are mostly not the jumping kind.
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2008 · War
A bomb disposal team in Iraq gets a new sergeant who takes risks the other two cannot stand, with a month left on their tour. Built one defusal at a time, each one long and tense.
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2018 · Thriller
A hired man who finds missing girls, and carries a hammer to work, is sent after a senator's daughter. Eighty-five minutes, barely any dialogue, and it looks away from the violence as often as at it.
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