Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "feigned-mental-illness"

1. Primal Fear (1996)

R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.

Director: Gregory Hoblit | Stars: Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, John Mahoney

Votes: 247,352 | Gross: $56.12M

2. The Falling (2014)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.

Director: Carol Morley | Stars: Maxine Peake, Maisie Williams, Florence Pugh, Anna Burnett

Votes: 7,955

3. Greedy (1994)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy

Rich, old uncle Joe is surrounded by relatives waiting/hoping for him to die while trying to look good and backstabbing the competition. What should he do?

Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, Nancy Travis, Olivia d'Abo

Votes: 15,978 | Gross: $13.15M

4. Five Golden Hours (1961)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy

A petty crook is doing all right in his chosen profession of gallantly consoling wealthy widows--until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness who knows all about get-rich-quick ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders, Kay Hammond

Votes: 300

5. Secret Agent (1964–1967)
Episode: A Room in the Basement (1965)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

To save a friend with sensitive information who is being held in the Romanian embassy in Geneva, Drake must break into the embassy, in defiance of the British ambassador, retrieve his friend, and avoid an international incident.

Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Jane Merrow, William Lucas, Michael Gwynn

Votes: 96

6. Perry Mason (1957–1966)
Episode: The Case of the Latent Lover (1964)

TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Roy Galen is the head of the probation department, so when his friend's husband is arrested, he agrees to help by asking to have him examined. The husband says Roy is having an affair with his wife, so when she is killed, he is charged.

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman

Votes: 235

7. The Rebel (1959–1961)
Episode: Yellow Hair (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

A mortally wounded soldier stumbles into Johnny's camp. Before he dies, he says only one thing: "Fort Concho." Johnny rides to the fort and discovers it empty of soldiers. The sole survivor... See full summary »

Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Nick Adams, Royal Dano, Rodolfo Acosta, Eddie Little Sky

Votes: 65

8. They Came from Outer Space (1990–1991)
Episode: Animal Magnetism (1991)

Comedy, Sci-Fi

Bo and Abe are fired from their new job and hauled to jail for ice cream embezzlement. Due to their odd behavior at the police station they are sent to a mental hospital.

Director: Dennis Donnelly | Stars: Stuart Fratkin, Dean Cameron, Allan Royal, Christopher Carroll

9. Midsomer Murders (1997– )
Episode: Secrets and Spies (2009)

TV-14 | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A number of murders near a government safe house in Midsomer appears to be connected to a group of British spies stationed in East Berlin during the Cold War.

Director: Renny Rye | Stars: John Nettles, Jason Hughes, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson

Votes: 823

10. NCIS: Los Angeles (2009–2023)
Episode: Disorder (2010)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The team must piece together events when a recently discharged Navy lieutenant, and intelligence officer, with PTSD witnesses a shooting.

Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Daniela Ruah, Eric Christian Olsen, Barrett Foa

Votes: 364

11. Born to Kill? (2005– )
Episode: Kenneth Bianchi & Angelo Buono Jr: The Hollywood Hillside Strangler (2012)

47 min | Documentary, Crime

In the late 1970s, cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. gained singular notoriety as The Hillside Strangler, killing ten young girls and women then dumping their naked bodies along embankments.

Director: Neil Edwards | Stars: Christopher Slade, Kenneth Bianchi, Roger W. Boren, Angelo Buono Jr.

Votes: 19

12. Hawaii Five-0 (2010–2020)
Episode: Hahai I Na Pilikua Nui (2017)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

McGarrett and Five-0 once again become entangled in the twisted mind games of serial killer Dr. Madison Gray when she stumbles into HPD covered in blood that matches Alicia Brown's, and claims amnesia.

Director: Roderick Davis | Stars: Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park

Votes: 476

13. Mafia Killers with Colin McLaren (2018– )
Episode: Vincent Gigante 'The Oddfather' (2018)

Documentary, Crime

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Director: Tim Conrad | Stars: Nick Christophers, Frank Costello, Vincent Gigante, Colin McLaren

Votes: 13