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Glass(2019)

PG-13
| 2h 9min | Thriller, Drama, Science Fiction
3.3/5 (with 3,936 votes)

In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

Shutter Island(2010)

R
| 2h 18min | Drama, Thriller, Mystery
4.1/5 (with 11,268 votes)

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

Girl, Interrupted(1999)

R
| 2h 7min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 1,639 votes)

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.

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

Grave Encounters(2011)

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.

God's Crooked Lines(2022)

3.7/5 (with 233 votes)

Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.

Bottle Rocket(1996)

R
| 1h 31min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 444 votes)

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

Directed by Wes Anderson - With Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, James Caan, Lumi Cavazos, Andrew Wilson, Héctor García Otero, ...

The Ward(2010)

R
| 1h 28min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 532 votes)

Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.

File 253(2015)

1h 19min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 27 votes)

In 2013 a psychiatric clinic which served for more than 50 years caring for patients in Mexico City was demolished. A few months before its demolition, four young men came to investigate the clinic, determined to discover the truth about rumors of strange and paranormal events, recording everything with which they encounter. Today, the whereabouts of these four young men are unknown, remaining only fragments of their recordings.

Directed by Abe Rosenberg

I Live in Fear(1955)

1h 43min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 44 votes)

Kiichi Nakajima, an elderly foundry owner, is convinced that Japan will be affected by an imminent nuclear war, and resolves to move his family to safety in Brazil. His family decides to have him ruled incompetent and Dr. Harada, a Domestic Court counselor, attempts to arbitrate.

Bird(1988)

R
| 2h 41min | Drama, Music
3.5/5 (with 129 votes)

Saxophone player Charlie Parker comes to New York in 1940. He is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

Howl(2010)

R
| 1h 24min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

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God Help the Girl(2014)

NR
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama, Music
3.3/5 (with 97 votes)

Eve is a catastrophe—low on self-esteem but high on fantasy, especially when it comes to music. Over the course of one Glasgow summer, she meets two similarly rootless souls: posh Cass and fastidious James, and together they form a group.

The Unseen(2016)

3.0/5 (with 18 votes)

A man, who years earlier mysteriously abandoned his family and isolated himself in a small northern town, returns for one last chance to reconnect with his troubled daughter. When she goes missing, he risks everything to find her, including exposing the fact that he is becoming invisible.

The Story of Piera(1983)

1h 45min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.

The Cobweb(1955)

2h 4min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.

Must Read After My Death(2007)

1h 13min | Documentary
2.3/5 (with 16 votes)

A grandmother dies and leaves behind hours of secret film and audio recordings as well as an envelope with the words “Must read after my death,” which reveal a dark history for her family to discover.

Directed by Morgan Dews

Inhabited(2003)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Horror
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

After Brad and Meg move to a detached house in need of major repairs after a fire and decades of neglect, they're happy that cheerful teenage son Tyler behaves normally, for puberty. Young daughter Gina's stories about sometimes evil 'fairies' are equally dismissed, but get worse. Self-appointed handyman warns Iver Hagen them for 'things worse than ghosts' and ever scarier things happen. Ma irrationally believes the house bad yet refuses long to have Gina examined by Dr. Werner, who has a patient Olive obsessed by similar trolls. By the time the pieces are fitted, it may be too late.

Touched with Fire(2016)

1h 42min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.1/5 (with 25 votes)

Two young poets with bipolar disorder begin a highly passionate, volatile relationship that threatens both their futures.

Directed by Paul Dalio - With Katie Holmes

The Soul Keeper(2003)

3.4/5 (with 27 votes)

Zurich, 1905. 19-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

A Wife's Nightmare(2014)

NR
| 1h 25min | Thriller, Drama, Mystery, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 14 votes)

Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.

Rats(2003)

1h 32min | Horror
2.1/5 (with 14 votes)

The Brookedale Psychiatric Hospital is a crumbling institution which barely has enough money to remain open. Formerly a prison, it sits atop a warren of tunnels and sewage system viaducts. But Brookdale has a secret - a secret known by only one person. There's something living in the tunnels - something that's developed a taste for human blood...

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.

Kummeli Goldrush(1997)

1h 36min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.

Assassin of the Tsar(1991)

1h 44min | History, Drama
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...

The People Next Door(1970)

R
| 1h 33min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.

White Lightnin'(2009)

R
| 1h 32min | Drama, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.

Directed by Dominic Murphy - With Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Muse Watson

Hospital of the Transfiguration(1979)

1h 30min | Drama, War
3.0/5 (with 5 votes)

The film is set toward the beginning of World War II, at a psychiatric hospital in the country. But this is an unusual hospital: there are several incurable schizophrenic cases, staff is bit strange and a writer has voluntarily entered the clinic because he is "peculiar" and a drug addict. Then, the occupying forces arrive...

Directed by Edward Zebrowski - With Piotr Dejmek

Little Murder(2011)

1h 38min | Drama, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.

The Ugly(1997)

R
| 1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 22 votes)

A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.

Directed by Scott Reynolds - With Paolo Rotondo, Jennifer Ward-Lealand
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