Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mentally-ill-mother"

1. Smile (V) (2022)

R | 115 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, a psychiatrist becomes increasingly convinced she is being threatened by an uncanny entity.

Director: Parker Finn | Stars: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Robin Weigert

Votes: 160,125

2. 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: 246,942 | Gross: $0.92M

3. Lights Out (II) (2016)

PG-13 | 81 min | Horror, Mystery

Rebecca must unlock the terror behind her little brother's experiences that once tested her sanity, bringing her face to face with a supernatural spirit attached to their mother.

Director: David F. Sandberg | Stars: Teresa Palmer, Gabriel Bateman, Maria Bello, Billy Burke

Votes: 142,182 | Gross: $67.27M

4. Sleepaway Camp (1983)

R | 84 min | Horror

Bunks and showers are a mad stabber's beat at a summer camp strictly for teens.

Director: Robert Hiltzik | Stars: Felissa Rose, Jonathan Tiersten, Karen Fields, Christopher Collet

Votes: 37,990 | Gross: $11.00M

5. Oculus (2013)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A recently released inmate from a mental asylum learns from his sister that the murders he was convicted of committing were actually orchestrated by a supernatural entity, the Lasser Glass mirror.

Director: Mike Flanagan | Stars: Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites, Katee Sackhoff, Rory Cochrane

Votes: 139,607 | Gross: $27.70M

6. Winter's Bone (2010)

R | 100 min | Drama, Mystery

An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.

Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone

Votes: 150,456 | Gross: $6.53M

7. The Voices (2014)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

A likable guy pursues his office crush with help from his evil talking pets, but things turn sinister when she stands him up for a date.

Director: Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver

Votes: 62,532

8. Gretel & Hansel (2020)

PG-13 | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.

Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw

Votes: 33,996 | Gross: $15.35M

9. The Turning (2020)

PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young governess is hired to look after an orphaned girl, but the return of the girl's problematic brother uncovers secrets from their past. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw."

Director: Floria Sigismondi | Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Barbara Marten

Votes: 16,136

10. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

R | 155 min | Drama, Romance

Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.

Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands

Votes: 28,655 | Gross: $13.34M

11. Malevolent (III) (2018)

TV-MA | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A team of scam artists get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted country estate gets out of hand.

Director: Olaf de Fleur Johannesson | Stars: Florence Pugh, Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Scott Chambers, Georgina Bevan

Votes: 17,057

12. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)

PG-13 | 119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Four college freshmen and best friends find that it may take more than a shared pair of jeans to help them stay in touch as their lives go in different directions.

Director: Sanaa Hamri | Stars: America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel, Amber Tamblyn, Blake Lively

Votes: 30,743 | Gross: $44.09M

13. Center of My World (2016)

Unrated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

After a summer spent with his his best friend Kat to escape his family, Phil goes back to school and starts to question his feelings towards Nicholas, a new classmate.

Director: Jakob M. Erwa | Stars: Louis Hofmann, Jannik Schümann, Sabine Timoteo, Ada Philine Stappenbeck

Votes: 7,223

14. Angela (1995)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama

Rebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.

Director: Rebecca Miller | Stars: Miranda Rhyne, Charlotte Eve Blythe, Anna Thomson, John Ventimiglia

Votes: 1,059

15. Permanent Vacation (1980)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie, Richard Boes

Votes: 10,726

16. The Naughty Room (2012)

Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Drama

Child abuse, drug abuse, adolescent masturbation, self pity, heartache, redemption and how to dispose of a soiled sock if you happen to be locked inside of a bathroom.

Director: Cosmo Jarvis | Stars: David Egan, Cosmo Jarvis, Tom Hannaford, Anita Scrivener

Votes: 311

17. Rocks (2019)

TV-MA | 93 min | Drama

A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.

Director: Sarah Gavron | Stars: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D'angelou Osei Kissiedu, Shaneigha-Monik Greyson

Votes: 5,542

18. Kotoko (2011)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama, Horror

When a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.

Director: Shin'ya Tsukamoto | Stars: Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Yûko Nakamura, Cocco, Eiichi Takahashi

Votes: 2,218

19. Fingers (1978)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Music

A dysfunctional young man is pulled between loyalties to his Italian mob-connected loan-shark father and his mentally-disturbed Jewish concert-pianist mother.

Director: James Toback | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tisa Farrow, Jim Brown, Michael V. Gazzo

Votes: 2,878

20. Pin Cushion (2017)

Not Rated | 82 min | Drama

When a socially awkward teen and her outcast mother become targets for the petty and cruel denizens of their small town, they seek refuge in an elaborate fantasy world of their own making.

Director: Deborah Haywood | Stars: Lily Newmark, Joanna Scanlan, Chanel Cresswell, Bethany Antonia

Votes: 1,181

21. Darlings! (1984)

101 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A peaceful family-life is suddenly disturbed when the children enter puberty. The children take over the house and ban their parents from their lives.

Director: Ruud van Hemert | Stars: Peter Faber, Geert de Jong, Akkemay Elderenbos, Frank Schaafsma

Votes: 2,363

22. Losing Chase (1996 TV Movie)

R | 93 min | Drama

Chase Phillips (Dame Helen Mirren), a lifetime resident of Martha's Vineyard, married Richard (Beau Bridges), and like the area, grew into the upper middle class. Her distaste for ... See full summary »

Director: Kevin Bacon | Stars: Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, Beau Bridges, Michael Yarmush

Votes: 921 | Gross: $0.03M

23. Little Sister (I) (2016)

91 min | Comedy, Drama

Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, returning to her childhood home in Asheville NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters.

Director: Zach Clark | Stars: Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy, Alex Karpovsky, Rhonda Hansome

Votes: 3,827

24. Rich Hill (2014)

Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama

Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of three boys living in an impoverished Midwestern town and the fragile family bonds that sustain them.

Directors: Andrew Droz Palermo, Tracy Droz Tragos | Stars: Alyssa Jewell, Andrew Jewell, Elizabeth Jewell, Willie Jewell

Votes: 2,507

25. Fear of Fear (1975 TV Movie)

91 min | Drama

Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle-class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not ... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Margit Carstensen, Ulrich Faulhaber, Brigitte Mira, Irm Hermann

Votes: 1,996

26. Teen Vamp (1989)

85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Murphy is a horny high-school boy. He has a crush on the cute blonde Conny Sutton, but she just laughs into his face. So he decides to call on the services of a prostitute. Unfortunately he... See full summary »

Director: Samuel Bradford | Stars: Clu Gulager, Karen Carlson, Beau Bishop, Angie Brown

Votes: 245

27. The Lookalike (1990 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 100 min | Mystery, Thriller

A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter.

Director: Gary Nelson | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Diane Ladd, Frances Lee McCain, Jason Scott Lee

Votes: 171

28. Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night (1977 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

A disturbed young mother with some serious psychological problems begins to take them out on her infant daughter.

Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: Susan Dey, John Vernon, Kevin McCarthy, Tricia O'Neil

Votes: 234

29. The Goblin (2017)

PG-13 | 67 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller

A boy imprisoned by an abusive recluse mother alone in a mansion in the 1920s begins to get ideas of his own when a goblin in his closet comforts him in the dark.

Director: Wyatt Michael | Stars: Robert Levey II, Nicole Hargrove, Josh Collins, Wyatt Michael

Votes: 69

30. Tato (1995)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama

A father, who is in the middle of a brutal custody battle with his mentally ill wife, fights relentlessly for the right to take care of his 7-year-old daughter.

Director: Maciej Slesicki | Stars: Boguslaw Linda, Dorota Segda, Ola Maliszewska, Teresa Lipowska

Votes: 1,659

31. Nurse on Wheels (1963)

85 min | Comedy, Romance

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrained mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to... See full summary »

Director: Gerald Thomas | Stars: Juliet Mills, Ronald Lewis, Joan Sims, Noel Purcell

Votes: 577

32. Sweet Dreams (2001)

110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Egon Vittori (Janko Mandic) is thirteen years old and does not have a record player. It is the beginning of the seventies and Yugoslavia seems to be the land of prosperity. Goods are being ... See full summary »

Director: Saso Podgorsek | Stars: Janko Mandic, Veronika Drolc, Iva Zupancic, Luka Tratnik

Votes: 148

33. Marilyn Monroe: Auction of a Lifetime (2017)

47 min | Documentary

A chronicle of the life of Marilyn Monroe, told through some of her most personal possessions as they are put up for auction.

Director: Patrick Reams | Stars: Lois Banner, Ellen Burstyn, Amber Butchart, Sarah Churchwell

Votes: 59

34. Nemmeno il destino (2004)

110 min | Drama

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Director: Daniele Gaglianone | Stars: Mauro Cordella, Fabrizio Nicastro, Giuseppe Sanna, Lalli

Votes: 194

35. Dom za nezhni dushi (1981)

79 min | Drama

A young actress in a country town is almost smashed under the burden of the wear and tear of life. She has problems with her parents, she is not happy with her love affairs, she faces ... See full summary »

Director: Evgeni Mihailov | Stars: Plamena Getova, Tzvetana Dyankova, Kiryakos Argiropulos, Grudi Kadiev

Votes: 25

36. I'll Fly Away (1991–1993)
Episode: Coming Home (1991)

Drama

The Bedfords are propelled into conflict at Thanksgiving when Gwen visits and Lilly's brother returns from the North.

Director: Mark Sobel | Stars: Sam Waterston, Regina Taylor, Jeremy London, Ashlee Levitch

37. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.2852 (2004)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Alice Troughton | Stars: Nigel Harman, Derek Martin, Lacey Turner, Michelle Ryan

38. Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–2011)
Episode: Identity Crisis (2009)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a successful businessman's long-lost brother, who holds a secret about the manner of their biological mother's death.

Director: Michael Smith | Stars: Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Eric Bogosian, Sam Trammell

Votes: 324

39. True Blood (2008–2014)
Episode: Beautifully Broken (2010)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Russell Edgington, the Vampire King of Mississippi, concocts a plan to consolidate his power; Eric remembers his past; Sam tests the strength of his family bonds; Tara finds an ally in shady vampire Franklin Mott.

Director: Scott Winant | Stars: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell, Ryan Kwanten

Votes: 1,632

40. Archie (2023)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2023)

TV-14 | 46 min | Biography, Drama

Cary receives a wake-up call when his relationship with Dyan falters.

Director: Paul Andrew Williams | Stars: Jason Isaacs, Harriet Walter, Laura Aikman, Laura McAlpine

Votes: 116