The Dead Center (2018), Marat/Sade (1967), Two Weeks in Another Town (1962), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Spider (2002), The Best of Youth (2002), Bird (1988), Shutter Island (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mental Institution movies.
Storyline: A 19 years old London girl received agressive psychiatric treatments for her schizophrenic behaviour by a doctor who still wants her family to insure the guard of the child without any regards to the facts that it is this family who's agravating her situation.—Jean-Marie Berthiaume <jiembe@videotron.ca>
Plot Keywords: mother, father, daughter, nurse, bleak, disheartening, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the late 80s, a new film star, Jia Hongsheng, emerged in China. Labeled the thug idol; he gained fame playing gangsters and heroes in a series of Chinese B movies. Jia went on to star in a stage version of "The Kiss of the Spider Woman." This movie explores his journey, from the cutting edge of China's artistic movement in the early 90s, through a period of conflict with himself and his parents, to a mental institution and finally to the quest to rediscover himself and his family.
Plot Keywords: movie star, mother, father, addict, friend, brooding, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist at Green Manors mental asylum. The head of Green Manors has just been replaced, with his replacement being the renowned Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck). Romance blossoms between Dr. Petersen and Dr. Edwards, but Dr. Edwards starts to show odd aversions and personality traits...
Plot Keywords: doctor, impostor, detective, psychoanalyst, dense, gripping, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A wealthy harridan, Violet Venable, attempts to bribe Dr. Cukrowicz, a young psycho-surgeon from a New Orleans mental hospital that is desperately in need of funds, into lobotomizing her niece, Catherine Holly. Violet wants the operation performed in order to prevent Catherine from defiling the memory of her son, the poet Sebastian. Catherine has been babbling obscenely about Sebastian's mysterious death that she witnessed while on holiday together in Spain the previous summer.
Plot Keywords: debutante, aunt, surgeon, patient, brooding, dark, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, their marriage, and her developing symptoms. The asylum staff are not demonized, but fear, ignorance, and regimentation keep Virginia in a state of misery as pipe-smoking Dr. Mark Kik struggles through wheels within wheels to find the root of her problem. Then a relapse plunges Virginia back into the harrowing 'Snake Pit.'—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: mental patient, husband, psychiatrist, disturbing, emotional, gripping, mental institution ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With her husband Eric at a medical congress in Chicago and their fourteen year old daughter at riding camp for the summer, psychiatrist Dr. Jenny Isaksson has emptied out their old house while their new house is being built, and has moved in with her grandparents in the house in which she grew up, she having temporarily assumed the role of senior physician at a psychiatric hospital filling in for a vacationing colleague. She is having a casual, meaningless affair with a man named Martin, while she believes that Tomas Jacobi, who she meets at a party, also is making sexual advances toward her. Regardless of if her assumption about Tomas is correct, the two become friends and frequent companions. In watching her grandmother lovingly take care of her ailing grandfather, remembering back to her childhood with her grandparents, spending time with Tomas, and processing an event associated with one of her more severe cases, that of a young woman named Maria, Jenny, in a fragile mental state, begins to have a nervous breakdown. In a semi-lucid state while conscious, and in semi-consciousness regarding reality when she dreams in her sleep, Jenny may begin to process her fragile mental state, especially if it is better to be alive or dead.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, grandmother, grandfather, patient, rapist, dark, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin in his 40s. After two years, the men are released and provided with a state-funded apartment and stipend with the hope they will be able to live on their own. Initially, the simple act of going around the corner for groceries is a challenge. Through a friendship born of desperate dependence, the skittish Elling and the boisterous, would-be lover of women, Kjell Bjarne, discover they can not only survive on the outside, they can thrive. But as their courage grows, the two find oddball ways to cope with society, striking up the most peculiar friendships in the most unlikely places.
Plot Keywords: son, mentally challenged person, friend, roommate, amusing, touching, charming ...
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: 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: In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she stays at a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write novels.—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: writer, mother, father, brother, sister, emotional, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This version of Dracula is closely based on Bram Stoker's classic novel. Young barrister Jonathan Harker is assigned to a gloomy village in the mists of eastern Europe. He is captured and imprisoned by the undead vampire Dracula, who travels to London, inspired by a photograph of Harker's betrothed, Mina Murray. In Britain, Dracula begins a reign of seduction and terror, draining the life from Mina's closest friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy's friends gather together to try to drive Dracula away.
Plot Keywords: lawyer, vampire, friend, nun, victim, fiancée, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Unable to cope with reality and the difficulty that comes with it, 18 year old Susanna, is admitted to a mental institution in order to overcome her disorder. However, she has trouble understanding her disorder and therefore finds it difficult to tame, especially when she meets the suggestive and unpredictable Lisa.
Plot Keywords: young woman, psychologist, friend, rival, parent, troubled youth, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This pseudo biographical movie depicts five years from 1885 on in the life of the Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). At this time, most of his colleagues refuse to cure hysteric patients, because they believe they're just simulating to gain attention. But Freud learns to use hypnosis to find out the reasons for the psychosis. His main patient is a young woman who refuses to drink water and is plagued repeatedly by the same nightmare.—Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Plot Keywords: psychiatrist, patient, mentor, wife, brooding, dreamy, inspiring ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Deepak Verma is framed for a Murder by GD Thakral even thou he is innocent his wife Aarti pleads to Thakral but it goes unanswered and Deepak is hanged till death,Aarti disappears after the incident her children Arun and Komal believe she is dead they both become homeless,Arun starts doing odd jobs and becomes a famous lawyer in the city and someday wants to fight a case opposite Thakral while Komal is still at college,Geeta comes to Arun to ask him to fight case of her sister Dr Asha ,Arun rejects at first but later risks his life and gives justice to Asha as he finds Asha was framed,Arun and Geeta start meeting and fall in love Komal be friend's Vicky,Vicky whose a spoil brat of Thakral,Asha 's husband Dinesh notices photo of Arun 's mother in his house and recollects that she is still alive and living in and asylum and suffering from mental disorder,Arun gets his mother home feeling she might get back to normal he enters a function which has Thakral has chief guest and insults him,Vicky now decides to take revenge of this insult and comforts Komal to get married to him this angers Arun, Geeta takes Komal to stay with her in Asha and Dinesh 's house,Vicky calls Komal and asks her to elope with him but Vicky's former girlfriend Indu reaches and tells Komal that Vicky is cheating her in a tiff Vicky kills Indu which is noticed by Dinesh and Asha meanwhile Arun reaches the spot to share good news that his mother is alright and he is shocked to see Indu being murdered, Vicky is arrested the same night and at Indu's funeral Arun notices that she is the daughter of Gupta who had tried hard to prove his father innocent and decides to give justice to Indu,Arun's long wait is now over as he wanted to battle opposite Thakral he tells him that he is son of Deepak whom he falsely acquitted now Thakral and Vicky will pay for their crimes after a lot of courtroom drama Arun proves that Vicky is guilty for Indu's murder and judge orders him to be hanged,Thakral being biggest lawyer in the city can't take this that he couldn't save his son and looses his mental balance and is put in asylum, Aarti now lives happily with her children.—alex.mjacko@gmail.com
Plot Keywords: lawyer, innocent man, son, widow, sister, wife, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charles Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He doesn't succeed at first, so he takes on another strategy, namely to build a Doomsday machine and demand that someone else kills Jacques Clouseau, or Dreyfus will use the machine to wipe out whole cities and even whole countries... With about 22 assassins from all over the globe on his tail, Clouseau decides to find Dreyfus alone and put him back in the mental asylum.
Plot Keywords: inspector clouseau, servant, spy, hit man, president, crazy person, cheeky ...
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