Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972), The Innocents (1961), The Dark Knight (2008), Medea (1987), Sunset Blvd. (1950), Vertigo (1958), White Lightnin' (2009), Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Madness movies.
Storyline: Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.
Plot Keywords: wealthy man, lesbian, secretary, killer, girlfriend, detective, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug it is already too late...
Plot Keywords: scientist, murderer, lunatic, sexy woman, fiancée, dark, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German Army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans, and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts". Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead them out of town, but they are afraid to leave, and frolic about the streets in gay costumes.—Rick Gregory <rag.apa@email.apa.org>
Plot Keywords: soldier, mental patient, lunatic, amusing, cheeky, spirited, france ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Batman (Kevin Conroy) must prevent the Joker (Troy Baker) from destroying Gotham City, while battling a new batch of villains called the Suicide Squad.
Plot Keywords: batman, the joker, female assassin, action hero, tense, gotham city, fictional city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex and the dead king's son conspires to attack Macbeth and expose him for the murderer he is.—Jason Ihle <jrihl@conncoll.edu>
Plot Keywords: king, macbeth, lady, ghost, rival, brutal, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Penny Applebee's parents were divorced when she was quite young and she grew up with her mother. After her mother's death, the wheelchair-bound Penny has accepted her father's invitation to live with him. She arrives only to learn that her father is away though her stepmother - who she is meeting for the first time - proves to be quite welcoming. On her first night however, she sees a light in the summerhouse and upon investigation, sees her father sitting there, apparently dead. Others can find nothing there and tell her she must have imagined it. She later sees his body in library and then again in the pool. She comes to believe that her stepmother and her father's friend, Doctor Pierre Gerard, are plotting to drive her insane. She gets a sympathetic ear from Bob, the chauffeur, who feels there has to be some rational explanation for what has been happening.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: daughter, stepmother, father, doctor, chauffeur, paraplegic, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he's tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother - without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to 'share' her ?
Plot Keywords: doctor, twin, actress, patient, dark, chilling, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A small village is renowned for its "Ruby Glass" glass blowing works. When the foreman of the works dies suddenly without revealing the secret of the Ruby Glass, the town slides into a deep depression, and the owner of the glassworks becomes obssessed with the lost secret.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: business owner, artist, tow truck driver, prophet, townsperson, dreamy, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Philip Winthrop calls upon his fiancée, Madeline Usher, at her family home. His presence is unwelcome, especially to Madeline's brother, Roderick. Roderick explains that the Ushers are cursed, suffering from hereditary physical defects. By Madeline marrying Winthrop this would only likely continue the affliction. It soon becomes clear that something sinister is afoot: not only due to Roderick's determination to prevent Madeline from leaving but also due to the evil that seems to lurk in the house itself.
Plot Keywords: brother, sister, suitor, campy, creepy, dark, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hank, stranded on a deserted island and about to kill himself, notices a corpse washed up on the beach. He befriends it, naming it Manny, only to discover that his new friend can talk and has a myriad of supernatural abilities...which may help him get home.
Plot Keywords: man, corpse, girlfriend, father, family member, friend, quirky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The evil Prince Prospero is riding through the Catania village when he sees that the peasants are dying of Red Death plague. Prospero asks to burn down the village and he is offended by the villagers Gino and his father-in-law Ludovico. He decides to kill them, but Gino's wife, the young and beautiful Francesca, begs for the lives of her husband and her father and Prospero brings them alive to his castle expecting to corrupt Francesca. Propero worships Satan and invites his noble friends to stay in his castle that is a shelter of depravity against the plague. When Prospero invites his guests to attend a masked ball, he sees a red hooded stranger and he believes that Satan himself has attended his party. But soon he learns who his mysterious guest is.
Plot Keywords: prince, courtier, peasant, villager, stranger, satanist, chilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This fictional story is set in 13th century medieval India. a Princess of Sinhala(modern-day Sri Lanka) called Padmavati falls in love with already married Maharawal Ratan Singh, King of Chittor. Upon their marriage, Padmavati is crowned queen, taking the place of wife of Ratan Singh and they reside together in joy and splendor. Their perfect life takes an unfortunate turn when a banished royal priest Chetan convinces Sultan of Delhi Allauddin Khilji to attack Chittor and capture Padmavati for her beauty and luck she could bring him. Sultan Allaudin Khilji, convinced by the priest and driven by desire of ultimate power, prepares to attack Chittorgarh.
Plot Keywords: king, queen, tyrant, wife, uncle, brutal, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He's sacked after he's caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide, and a Captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.
Plot Keywords: anti-hero, native, captain, trader, dreamy, emotional, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When Dr. Martin (Robert Powell) goes on a job interview at a British insane asylum, he learns that he must interview the asylum's inmates in order to be considered for the position. Dr. Rutherford (Patrick Magee), who is wheelchair-bound because of an assault by an inmate, tells Dr. Martin that he will consider him for the position if he can discover which of the inmates is Dr. Starr, a former head doctor at the asylum who suffered a nervous breakdown.
Plot Keywords: doctor, psychiatrist, mental patient, creepy, dark, frightening, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.—Steve Hill <shill@harper.cc.il.us>
Plot Keywords: biologist, scientist, doctor, professor, servant, chilling, creepy ...
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