Don't Go Breaking My Heart (1999), Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), Office Space (1999), K-PAX (2001), Somewhere in Time (1980), Road to Rio (1947), Inland Empire (2006), Trance (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hypnosis movies.
Storyline: Some years after having buried his beloved wife Ligea, Verden Fell meets and eventually marries the lovely Lady Rowena. Fell is something of a recluse, living in a small part of a now ruined Abbey with his manservant Kenrick as the only other occupant. He remains infatuated with his late wife and is convinced that she will return to him. While all goes well when first married, he returns to his odd behavior when they return to the Abbey from their honeymoon. The memories of Ligea continue to haunt him as well as her promise that she would never die.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, love interest, young woman, widower, spirit, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: As Europe looms on the edge of war in 1913, the family and members of the court of the Russian czar Nicholas come under the sway of a mysterious mystic named Rasputin. When Rasputin miraculously appears to cure the czar's son Alyosha of his hemophilia, the monk's reputation is cemented, particularly in the mind of the princess Natasha. Natasha's fiancé (and, later, husband) Prince Paul Chegodieff, however, suspects Rasputin is a charlatan who will cause the downfall of the royal family and perhaps of Russia itself.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: mystic, czar nicholas ii, child, prince, princess, doctor, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novitiate, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby. While searching for the answer that her supervisors want, Dr. Livingston finds herself inevitably drawn into searching for the truth about the baby's conception and death. Despite the lack of cooperation that she receives from her own organization and the church itself, she eventually discovers more than she may have bargained for.—brado.3
Plot Keywords: nun, psychiatrist, mother superior, dark, emotional, convent, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: fiancé, psychiatrist, amusing, creative, new york city, classroom, office ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Bank teller Vince Grayson wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but Vince finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story...until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing that mirrored room. Is doom closing in on Vince?—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: bank teller, brother-in-law, cop, wife, girlfriend, murderer, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: High-school senior Barbara Ann Greene has a lot to overcome to reach her dreams to be popular, get a job, find a husband, and maybe even be a movie star: she's poor, her parents are divorced, and her mother is a cocktail waitress. Right beside her, though, is her best friend and Svengali, Alan. He helps her get 12 cashmere sweaters, a job in the principal's office, spring break at Balboa, and more. Along the way, the satire bites teen mores, beach-blanket bikini movies, adults in charge, the country-club set, Christian-youth programs, older men's fantasies, and teen girls' innocence.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: teen girl, waitress, principal, genius, counselor, dark, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: judge, scientist, hypnotist, girl, student, monkey, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Thrown out of his monestary for licentious and drunken behaviour, Rasputin travels to St Petersburg to try his luck. Through a daliance with one of the czarina's ladies in waiting he soon gains influence at court with his powers of healing and of hypnotism. But he also makes enemies who wish to see him dead.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: rasputin, mystic, brooding, campy, intense, melodramatic, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Thirteen women who were schoolmates send to a swami for their horoscopes. Little do they realize that Ursula, a half-breed Asian, is using her hypnotic powers over the swami and them to lead them or their families to their deaths. It seems that she too went to their school, but was forced to leave by their bigotry, and is exacting revenge. Will she be stopped in time to save Laura's son, Bobby?—Robert Tonsing <rob_tonsing@msn.com>
Plot Keywords: young woman, leader, outcast, detective, son, hypnotist, eerie ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Milkman Clyde Williams (Sidney Poitier) and his best friend, Billy Foster (Bill Cosby), are members of a fraternal lodge, The Brothers and Sisters of Shaka, that needs money for the retirement home they sponsor. Since Clyde has a gift for hypnotism, they decide to fix an upcoming boxing match by hypnotizing the underdog fighter (Jimmie Walker). The scam works, and the men collect big winnings before a couple of mafia dons realize they've been tricked and decide to track Clyde and Billy down.
Plot Keywords: milkman, factory worker, boxer, wife, mobster, hilarious, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Megalomaniac and would-be world dominator Roxor has kidnaped Robert Regent, along with his death ray invention, in hopes of using it to degenerate humanity into mindless brutes, leaving himself as Earth's supreme intelligence. Faced with revealing the machine's secrets or allowing his family to die a horrible death at the hands of Roxor, Regent's only hope lies with the intervention of his brother-in-law, the be-turbaned yogi and magician Chandu, who has the power to make men see what is not there 'even unto a gathering of twelve times twelve'.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: magician, madman, inventor, sister, princess, daughter, campy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and teased. She develops a thing for Billy Zero, a new student, imagining he's her boyfriend. We see the day she loses Sonny and we watch her try to find him. In bits and pieces, we see what leads up to her riding in the back of a city bus wrapped in a shower curtain. Coming of age, or just surviving?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: teen girl, brother, mother, father, therapist, classmate, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Stage mentalist Gregor the Great becomes enraged when a drunken audience member belittles his act. When the man dies suddenly, Gregor convinces himself that his hypnotic powers are to blame. Guilt-ridden, he retires from performing to Valerie Monet's wax museum. He becomes increasingly stressed when he is pursued romantically by Valerie, her niece, and his former stage assistant, Maura Daniel. When Valerie mysteriously disappears, it is apparent that sinister forces are at work in the museum.—Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
Plot Keywords: hypnotist, sculptor, museum director, niece, fiancée, rival, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A frustrated thriller writer wants accurate crimes for his next book so he hypnotizes his assistant to make him commit the required crimes.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: author, killer, hypnotist, scotland yard agent, assistant, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only women who are physically beautiful. One day, however, he runs into self-help guru Tony Robbins, who hypnotizes him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal thereafter meets Rosemary, a largely obese woman whom only he can see as a vision of loveliness. But will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis?
Plot Keywords: bachelor, girlfriend, friend, self-help guru, neighbor, mother, quirky ...
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