A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), The Story of Adele H (1975), Melancholia (2011), The War of the Roses (1989), Thirteen (2003), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), Malina (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Emotional Breakdown movies.
Storyline: Peter Falk is a blue collar man trying to deal with his wife's mental instability. He fights to keep a semblance of normality in the face of her bizarre behavior, but when her actions affect their children, he has her committed.
Plot Keywords: family, marriage, mental illness, social pressure, working class, realism, dramatic conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Pepas's lover, Iván, leaves her and she tries to contact him to find out why he's left. In her search for Iván, she confronts his wife and son, who are as clueless as she is. Meanwhile; Candela, her friend, is afraid the police might be looking for her because of her ex-boyfriend, a muslim terrorist, and his criminal activities. As the plot develops, it is revealed that everyone's lives are more intertwined than they could have ever expected.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, spanish, female perspective, black comedy, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love. Actually, she is Adèle Hugo, the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet obsessive love and self-destruction is based upon the real diary of Adèle Hugo.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, romance, french film, literary adaptation, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the night of her wedding, Justine (Kirsten Dunst) is struggling to be happy even though it should be the happiest day of her life. It was an extravagant wedding paid for by her sister and brother-in-law who are trying to keep the bride and all the guests in line. Meanwhile, Melancholia, a blue planet, is hurtling towards the Earth. Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), Justine's sister, is struggling to maintain composure with fear of the impending disaster.
Plot Keywords: psychological drama, science fiction, disaster, marital crisis, depression, apocalypse, family conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far..
Plot Keywords: black comedy, divorce, psychological warfare, satire, middle class, materialism, power struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naive (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in school, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fueled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends.
Plot Keywords: rebellion, self-destruction, mother-daughter relationship, drug abuse, identity crisis, psychological trauma, social marginalization ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based very loosely on the intricate novel by Joanne Greenberg. A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality, even though reality isn't so great either.—Molly Malloy <mailcall@bluemarble.net>
Plot Keywords: mental illness, adolescent, trauma, fantasy world, self-redemption, family conflict, schizophrenia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A female writer and her relationships with two different men, one joyous and one introverted.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, german film, 1990s, literary adaptation, psychological drama, female perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sophie and Otto Bentwood are set in their ways. And unsettled in their hearts. They're Desperate Characters, trapped in a marriage that no longer works... yet unable to break free. In a performance widely cited as a career breakthrough, Shirley MacLaine portrays Sophie in this compelling grown-up drama that, in its own jolting way, is a love story.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, marital crisis, middle class, new york, psychological conflict, social alienation, literary adaptation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: musical, drama, psychological conflict, 1920s, golden age of hollywood, expressionism, stage performance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1936, the witty columnist Sheilah Graham leaves her noble British fiancé and travels in the Queen Mary from Southampton, England, to New York. She seeks out the editor of the North American Newspaper Alliance, John Wheeler, offering her services but he sends her to the Daily Mirror. Sheilah becomes successful and John offers a job in Hollywood to write a gossip column about the stars. When Sheilah meets the decadent writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, they immediately fall in love. Sheilah discovers that Scott accepts any job to financially support his wife Zelda that is in asylum, and his daughter at a boarding school. She opens her heart to him and tells the truth about her origins; but their relationship is affected by his drinking problem.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, romance, historical, literary, hollywood, writer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A self-destructive punk rocker struggles with sobriety while trying to recapture the creative inspiration that led her band to success.
Plot Keywords: musical, independent film, female lead, rock music, psychological drama, 1990s, self-destruction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Colin (Ray Winstone) is in agony, shattered by his wife's infidelity. However, he has friends who do more than stand by. They kidnap the wife's French lover and hold him prisoner so that Colin can restore his manhood with revenge. A kangaroo court takes place, and as the situation escalates, loverboy's life hangs in the balance as Colin wrestles with revenge, remorse, grief, and self pity, all the while egged on by his motley crew of friends who just want him to get on with it so they can get down to the pub.
Plot Keywords: crime, thriller, drama, black comedy, british film, violence, revenge ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Jill becomes a movie star, she soon discovers that her private life is destroyed by persistent fans that won't leave her alone. Her mother's ex-lover, Fabio, tries to protect her.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, french film, 1960s, celebrity life, privacy, emotional turmoil ...
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