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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Drama
4.2/5 (with 4,744 votes)

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum(2018)

1h 34min | Horror, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 283 votes)

The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.

Directed by Jung Bum-shik - With Wi Ha-jun, Park Ji-hyun, Oh Ah-yeon

Mystery Men(1999)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 1min | Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
2.9/5 (with 365 votes)

When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari(1920)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 17min | Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime
4.0/5 (with 704 votes)

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Grave Encounters 2(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 389 votes)

Tortured by the ghosts of the demonized insane asylum that killed the crew of GRAVE ENCOUNTERS, film students fight to escape death as their own paranormal investigation goes terribly wrong in this horrifying sequel.

The Ninth Configuration(1980)

3.3/5 (with 56 votes)

Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. Although Kane's own grasp on sanity is questionable, he manages to engage Cutshaw in a series of thoughtful conversations about science and faith that deeply affect the lives of both men.

Grave Encounters(2011)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 33min | Thriller, Horror
3.1/5 (with 635 votes)

A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.

Spellbound(1945)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 51min | Mystery, Thriller, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 376 votes)

When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.

Dracula(1979)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 49min | Horror, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 105 votes)

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

The Debt(2010)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 53min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 377 votes)

Rachel Singer is a former Mossad agent who tried to capture a notorious Nazi war criminal – the Surgeon of Birkenau – in a secret Israeli mission that ended with his death on the streets of East Berlin. Now, 30 years later, a man claiming to be the doctor has surfaced, and Rachel must return to Eastern Europe to uncover the truth. Overwhelmed by haunting memories of her younger self and her two fellow agents, the still-celebrated heroine must relive the trauma of those events and confront the debt she has incurred.

An Angel at My Table(1990)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 38min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 58 votes)

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an impoverished family and experiences numerous tragedies while still in her youth, including the deaths of two of her siblings. Portrayed as an adult by Kerry Fox, Frame finds acclaim for her writing while still in a mental institution, and her success helps her move on with her life.

Directed by Jane Campion - With Kerry Fox

Shock Corridor(1963)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 41min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 110 votes)

With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.

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Asylum(1972)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 64 votes)

A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.

The Funhouse Massacre(2015)

1h 30min | Comedy, Horror
2.7/5 (with 64 votes)

Six of the worlds scariest psychopaths escape from a local Asylum and proceed to unleash terror on the unsuspecting crowd of a Halloween Funhouse whose themed mazes are inspired by their various reigns of terror.

Dogra Magra(1988)

1h 49min | Horror, Mystery, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.

The Incident(2012)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 25min | Horror, Thriller
2.8/5 (with 51 votes)

A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm.

The Butcher Boy(1998)

1h 50min | Comedy, Drama
3.4/5 (with 47 votes)

Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to madness, he tries to counter it with further insanity, with dire consequences.

Let's Scare Jessica to Death(1971)

1h 29min | Horror, Mystery, Drama
3.2/5 (with 69 votes)

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

Bates Motel(1987)

1h 35min | Horror, Comedy, Drama, TV Movie
2.2/5 (with 21 votes)

Alex West is a man who roomed with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Bates' California hometown and with a little help from a teenage runaway, Willie, Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen. Is someone trying to drive him away, or is the motel really haunted by the ghost of Norman's mother?

Eloise(2017)

1h 29min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 97 votes)

Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.

Directed by Robert Legato - With Eliza Dushku

The Creeping Flesh(1973)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 32min | Horror, Science Fiction
3.0/5 (with 44 votes)

A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil he is terrified that it will be passed on to their daughter. He tries to use the skeleton's blood to immunise her against this eventuality, but his attempt has anything but the desired result.

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell(1974)

3.0/5 (with 39 votes)

Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.

Lunacy(2005)

1h 58min | Comedy, Horror
3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

A man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.

Bedlam(1946)

1h 16min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 31 votes)

London, 1761. St. Mary's of Bethlehem, a sinister madhouse, is visited by wealthy people who enjoy watching the patients confined there as if they were caged animals. Nell Bowen, one of the visitors, is horrified by the deplorable living conditions of the unfortunate inhabitants of this godforsaken place, better known as Bedlam.

Silent Night, Bloody Night(1972)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 25min | Thriller, Horror, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 34 votes)

On Christmas Eve 1950, Wilfred Butler dies in a burning accident outside his mansion in East Willard, Massachusetts. The residence is bequeathed to his grandson, Jeffrey. Twenty years later, lawyer John Carter arrives in East Willard on Christmas Eve with his assistant and mistress Ingrid, having been charged by Jeffrey (now registered as a patient in a mental asylum) to sell the house. The house, the town, even Jeffrey himself — all hold dark secrets that will be brought to light.

Directed by Theodore Gershuny - With Patrick O'Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov, John Carradine

The Attic Expeditions(2001)

1h 40min | Horror, Mystery
2.6/5 (with 15 votes)

Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Ek, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.

Man Facing Southeast(1987)

3.8/5 (with 30 votes)

A new patient mysteriously appears in a psychiatric ward. He claims to come from another planet to study humans and their behavior. The alien is gentle but criticizes humans for their harsh treatment of each other. The assigned psychiatrist is himself unhappy, and affected by the patient's insight. But he is ordered to treat the patient according to institutional procedure.

Erotic Symphony(1980)

1h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Jess Franco film about a woman returning home from an insane asylum only to discover her husband is now living with a man. The two men eventually find a nun who's been raped and the three come up with a plot to kill the wife for her money.

Directed by Jesús Franco - With Lina Romay, Susan Hemingway, Fernando Pereira

The Monster(1925)

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

Frightmare(1974)

1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie, try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.

Directed by Pete Walker - With Rupert Davies, Leo Genn, Tommy Wright, Sheila Keith, Paul Greenwood
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