Movies Like Dementophobia
If you liked Dementophobia, a movie directed by Richard Hempton and Robert Vardaros, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
★ 6.9/10An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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Turtles All the Way Down (2024)
★ 7.2/10Aza confronts her potential for love, happiness, friendship, and hope while navigating an endless barrage of invasive, obsessive thoughts.
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
★ 7.6/10Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the…
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Every Breath You Take (2021)
★ 5.8/10A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter.
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Smile (2022)
★ 6.7/10After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
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Misery (1990)
★ 7.8/10After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write…
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David and Lisa (1962)
★ 7.2/10Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people…
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Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2/10World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Asylum (2005)
★ 6.1/10A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
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Gothika (2003)
★ 6.2/10After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband…
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Brain on Fire (2017)
★ 7/10Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
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Awakenings (1990)
★ 7.8/10Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled…
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Defendor (2009)
★ 6.4/10A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to…
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Dorothy Mills (2008)
★ 6/10When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her…
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The Unsaid (2001)
★ 6.6/10A doctor dealing with the aftermath of his son's death tries to help a troubled young man.
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Canary Black (2024)
★ 6.2/10Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the…
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Cherry (2021)
★ 7.3/10Cherry drifts from college dropout to army medic in Iraq—anchored only by his one true love, Emily. But after returning from the war with PTSD, his life spirals into drugs and crime as he struggles to find his place in…
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Faces in the Crowd (2011)
★ 6.1/10Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
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It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
★ 6.9/10A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
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The Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4/10A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.