Highest-Rated Movies about 'Catatonia', Sort by Popularity
Alan & Naomi (1992), Awakenings (1990), Institute Benjamenta (1995), Dumb and Dumber To (2014), The Empty Man (2020) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Catatonia movies.
#1. Alan & Naomi (1992)
Storyline: A Jewish boy (Lukas Haas) uses dolls to communicate with a war-shocked refugee girl (Vanessa Zaoui) in 1944 Brooklyn.
Plot Keywords: friend, jew, young boy, young girl, mother, father, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!#2. Awakenings (1990)
Storyline: 1969. Dr. Malcolm Sayer is hired as a clinical physician at a psychiatric hospital in the Bronx, despite he only having a research background. The job is not ideal on his side as he has difficulties relating to people which is the reason he has focused on research projects not involving human subjects, while the hospital hires him somewhat out of desperation in not finding anyone else with the qualifications who wants the job. Most of his patients are in a semi-catatonic state and are housed in what some of the orderlies coin the "garden" ward, where all they can do for the patients is water and feed them. He notices that some of the patients, despite their generally catatonic state, respond in unusual ways to certain stimuli. In doing some research, he also finds that some common bonds between these patients are that they suffered from encephalitis in the 1920s or 1930s, and that their physical states are like they have Parkinson's disease frozen in time. As such, he is able to ...
Plot Keywords: doctor, patient, emotional, inspiring, hospital, new york city, illness ...
Movie Details Click Here!#3. Institute Benjamenta (1995)
Storyline: Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: young man, headmaster, headmistress, student, brother, sister, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!#4. Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
Storyline: It's been 20 years and Harry Dunn has found something out - he has a daughter! Lloyd Christmas, his equally dim-witted friend, takes one look at a picture of her, develops a crush, and insists the two track her down. What ensues when Harry finally agrees is a bizarre encounter with an old lady and more hilarity because of their sheer stupidity.
Plot Keywords: idiot, friend, daughter, elderly person, nurse, counselor, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!#5. The Empty Man (2020)
Storyline: A series of mysterious disappearances in a small Midwestern town may be linked to a supernatural entity.
Plot Keywords: missing girl, cop, suspenseful, somber, eerie, chilling, bleak ...
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