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86
8.6
/1148412/
84
/15790/
84
/11163/
4.4
/883949/
93
/135/
96
/14990/
84
/21/
cc age 16+

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
poster
81
7.9
/60678/
78
/1000/
76
/665/
4.0
/36400/
88
/32/
92
/2174/
79
/8/
cc age 8+

Harvey (1950)
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
poster
81
7.4
/360017/
73
/15196/
72
/8889/
3.8
/2787580/
99
/401/
79
/2221/
93
/52/
cc age 16+

Lady Bird (2017)
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
poster
MGM Plus
78
8.2
/1618088/
81
/41488/
82
/25315/
4.2
/3005114/
69
/263/
77
/26143/
63
/37/
cc age 18+

Shutter Island (2010)
World 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.
poster
Criterion Channel
77
75
7.3
/13874/
71
/287/
69
/280/
3.9
/22188/
94
/18/
82
/236/

Shock Corridor (1963)
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
poster
79
73
7.6
/9038/
74
/154/
71
/110/
3.8
/6532/
100
/10/
84
/157/
76
/8/

The Snake Pit (1948)
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
poster
Hoopla
76
72
7.5
/12571/
73
/206/
71
/194/
3.6
/9656/
85
/20/
81
/211/
78
/6/

The Nun's Story (1959)
After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
70
7.2
/9239/
69
/126/
69
/119/
3.6
/5258/
68
/31/
78
/144/
48
/8/

Frances (1982)
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
poster
68
6.4
/69158/
66
/2557/
64
/1535/
3.3
/115161/
78
/49/
67
/2328/
64
/21/

New Nightmare (1994)
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
poster
Pluto TV
68
7.3
/232092/
75
/5366/
76
/4054/
3.9
/1288178/
53
/113/
84
/8009/
51
/32/
cc age 17+

Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Set 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 thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
poster
76
67
7.0
/4127/
71
/42/
69
/82/
3.8
/2904/
86
/59/
80
/132/
85
/26/

Kings & Queen (2004)
Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
65
6.6
/25370/
69
/601/
64
/386/
3.3
/22186/
74
/31/
67
/734/
55
/5/
cc age 12+

High Anxiety (1977)
A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
poster
Disney Plus
63
6.8
/33619/
69
/1108/
67
/1056/
3.4
/57169/
59
/111/
71
/2612/
42
/11/
cc age 10+

Return to Oz (1985)
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
poster
60
6.1
/31390/
63
/2385/
62
/530/
3.5
/410202/
52
/208/
82
/124/
47
/43/
cc age 15+

Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
In 1989, a misunderstood teenager has a high school crush — who just happens to be a handsome corpse! After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness…and a few missing body parts along the way.
poster
65
59
7.0
/4046/
73
/241/
66
/166/
3.5
/2215/
50
/8/
84
/32/
42
/4/

55 Steps (2018)
The inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette Hughes, the lawyer appointed to her case.
poster
69
58
6.8
/3542/
67
/68/
64
/81/
3.5
/3414/
86
/7/
63
/35/

Lilith (1964)
Vincent Bruce, a war veteran, begins working as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge, a private psychiatric facility for wealthy people where he meets Lilith Arthur, a charming young woman suffering from schizophrenia, whose fragile beauty captivates all who meet her.
poster
Hoopla
55
6.1
/10548/
65
/250/
60
/137/
3.4
/30744/
32
/41/
58
/367/
49
/10/
cc age 15+

Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and pills — the beloved "dolls."
poster
Amazon Prime Video
63
48
6.6
/3898/
69
/89/
63
/72/
3.3
/3181/
52
/23/

Witness to Murder (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
poster
52
46
5.4
/7272/
56
/180/
57
/152/
2.7
/1768/
44
/161/

Madhouse (2004)
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
poster
50
40
5.3
/3189/
53
/87/
52
/86/
2.7
/3231/
38
/45/

The Dead Pit (1989)
The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.
poster
Hoopla
38
37
5.1
/15916/
55
/334/
53
/301/
2.4
/4945/
4
/113/
43
/435/
17
/27/
cc age 18+

Bless the Child (2000)
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
36
7.1
/1531/
66
/70/
62
/18/
3.6
/6545/
87
/12/

Lilies Not for Me (2025)
Haunted by a forbidden affair, a young man in a 1920s “conversion” clinic finds hope in a compassionate nurse who challenges the era’s cruel norms.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
44
36
4.9
/3768/
49
/66/
49
/66/
2.6
/2902/
25
/155/

Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
poster
62
35
6.3
/2875/
63
/36/
60
/32/
3.2
/953/

Cornelis (2010)
”Cornelis” is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden’s greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an exceptionally talented, but self-destructive artist’s intense life both on and behind the stage. A man who during his whole life was searching for love and confirmation.
poster
64
30
6.8
/1530/
66
/22/
66
/17/
3.3
/646/
56
/61/

Shadow on the Wall (1950)
Angered that her sister Celia has stolen her fiance, Dell Faring kills her and allows Celia's husband David, knocked out in an argument with Celia, to take the blame and end up on death row. Later Dell, finding out that David's young daughter Susan was witness to the crime and is undergoing psychiatric treatment, plans to eliminate her before her memory returns.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
55
30
5.1
/780/
55
/53/
59
/53/
2.7
/438/
56

The Twin (2017)
Jocelyn's boyfriend is perfect--except for his dangerous identical twin brother, Derek, who just escaped from a mental institution. When Derek unspools a twisted plan of revenge with Jocelyn in his crosshairs, her mother Ashley must act fast before she falls victim to a psychopath.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
54
18
5.9
/457/
49
/16/
52
/17/
57
/23/

Crazylove (2005)
Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her sister's impending wedding. But inside Letty there¹s an anxiety that¹s building. Suddenly the pressure of Letty's world overwhelms her and she suffers a devastating nervous breakdown. Institutionalized, she meets Michael, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of hospitals his entire life. Although major obstacles exist, Letty and Michael throw caution to the wind to pursue an intense new love as Letty finds herself torn between a safe past and a daring future...
poster
61
16
7.4
/314/
35
/5/
67
/23/
3.5
/309/

Sh-h-h-h-h-h (1955)
A mild-mannered man whose nerves are shot from incessant noise is sent to an exclusive, silent retreat with hilarious results.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
49
12
5.6
/1008/
47
/7/
61
/12/
3.1
/350/
21
/16/

The Caretakers (1963)
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
poster
30
?
3.8
/317/
25
/2/
28
/4/

Patient X (2009)
After twenty years, local police captures the murderer of the older brother of a young boy. Now a doctor, he must go back to his old town and face the murderers himself. He then discovers that the murderers are Aswangs (folkloric Filipino vampire-like creatures) and they pose a deadly threat not only to him but also for the entire town.
poster
62
?
6.0
/62/
55
/5/
70
/6/
3.3
/246/

Girasoli (2024)
1963. The young nurse Anna begins working in the juvenile ward of a mental hospital. There she meets Lucia, a fifteen-year-old schizophrenic. Against the backdrop of a struggle between Dr. Marie and the rigid Dr. Oreste to reform patient treatment, a relationship between Anna and Lucia develops, forcing them to make decisive choices for their respective lives.
poster
?
6.8
/28/

87 ore (2015)
N/A
poster
59
?
6.8
/137/
40
/2/
70
/2/

Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
poster
35
?
4.5
/246/
30
/2/
33
/6/
33
/2/

Sally (2000)
Jack is driving aimlessly on a road to nowhere with his imaginary girlfriend, Sally, when he meets Beth. The duo becomes a trio when escaped mental patient Bugs, also fixated on an imaginary woman named Sally, finds himself along for the ride with Jack and Beth. Disagreements between the new acquaintances coincide with a series of violent and criminal confrontations.
poster
63
?
6.4
/257/
60
/8/
65
/4/

Tweet Dreams (1959)
Warners' "economy cartoon," repackaging footage from earlier Tweety and Sylvester chases with new footage. In this one, Sylvester tells a psychiatrist of his frustration at not being able to catch Tweety, his repeated failures illustrated through past cartoons featuring the canary and puddy tat.
poster
?
5.9
/65/
30
/2/
64
/6/

Radio tulee hulluksi (1952)
Radio reporter Toivo Teräsvuori gets an idea for an experimental report using a hidden microphone, but he is reported as a madman talking to himself and is taken to the Houruniemi mental hospital. At the hospital, the volatile Toivo is considered insane, and even his wife Eila's testimony does not help the matter. Instead, Professor Piukka orders Toivo to undergo brain surgery.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
?
5.6
/250/
56
/21/
43
/6/
50
/20/
88
/6/

The Marijuana Conspiracy (2020)
In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.


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