Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime (1922), Maurice (1987), Tales of Terror (1962), Dead Again (1991), Whirlpool (1949), Dangerous Moves (1985), The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964), Thirteen Women (1932) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Hypnotist movies.
Storyline: Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.—Snow Leopard
Plot Keywords: hypnotist, gambler, police detective, businessman, murderer, dark, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two male English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up his forbidden love, Maurice (pronounced "Morris") and marries. While staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice finally discovers romance in the arms of Alec, the gamekeeper. Written from personal pain, it's E.M. Forster's story of coming to terms with sexuality in the Edwardian age.
Plot Keywords: homosexual, aristocrat, servant, wealthy woman, doctor, hypnotist, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe. A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.—David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: father, daughter, drunk, hypnotist, cat, rival, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mike Church is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing persons. He takes on the case of a mute woman who is suffering from a total amnesia and doesn't even know her name. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist, Margaret, by her husband Roman Strauss in the late 1940s. In an attempt to solve the mystery about her identity and her nightmares, Church accepts the help of an antiquary who arrives to offer his services as a hypnotist. The hypnosis sessions soon begin to reveal some surprises.
Plot Keywords: private investigator, woman, hypnotist, husband, wife, suspenseful, intricate ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The wife of a psychiatrist falls prey to a devious hypnotist when he discovers she's an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his former patients - now being treated by a real psychoanalyst's, found murdered, with her at the scene, suspicion points only one way.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: beautiful woman, wife, husband, hypnotist, police detective, suspenseful, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two masters of chess duel each other not only in their game but also in their different ideologies. The veteran Akiva is a Soviet Jew and ferocious Communist, master of his game but also dealing with a declining health while the young and restless genius Pavius has defected to the West to escape from the Communism tentacles. Their differences will be put to test while they're both competing in the World Chess Championship, with a huge prize at stake just as much as the political ideologies behind those characters.—Rodrigo Amaro
Plot Keywords: chess player, protégé, wife, hypnotist, defector, government official, suspenseful ...
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: 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: 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: Penniless, Baron Frankenstein, accompanied by his eager assistant Hans, arrives at his family castle near the town of Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature he was previously working on, he brings it back to a semblance of life but requires the services of a mesmerist, Zoltan, to successfully animate it. The greedy and vengeful Zoltan secretly sends the monster into town to steal gold and 'punish' the burgomaster and the chief of police, which acts lead to a violent confrontation between the baron and the townspeople.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>
Plot Keywords: victor frankenstein, assistant, hypnotist, police chief, priest, monster, frightening ...
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: The story of a genius who hypnotizes an artist's model into becoming a great concert singer, and how she escapes from his influence only by his death.
Plot Keywords: hypnotist, opera singer, creepy, campy, frightful, striking, opera house ...
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