| Frances (1982) | 7.2 | |
| Crazy (2008) | 6.4 | |
| Pachhadlela (2004) | 7.7 | |
| Lies (1983) | 6.1 | |
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) | 8.2 |
Electroshock therapy movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant electroshock therapy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, suspense and tense films and TV shows about / with electroshock therapy, mental institution, flashback, psychiatric hospital, mental illness, shock treatment, death, fear, female nudity and murder plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as electroshock therapy: Bedlam (2015), Kings & Queen (2004), The Terror of Doctor Mabuse (1962), Ciao Manhattan (1972), Isadora (1968), Nora Roberts' Angels Fall (2007), Dead Sleep (1990), Trauma (1993), Brainstorm (2000), Black Butterflies (2011).
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List of electroshock therapy movies
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
George is haunted by the demons of his family's past and tortured by the voices inside his head. He makes one last attempt at recovery by contacting his dead mother's doctor. The doctor's orders; that he attend Bedlam Hospital for a ...
Style:
suspense, brutal, rough, scary, dark
Plot:
psychoanalysis, electroshock therapy, manic depression, schizophrenia, castration, mental patient, rape, pills, mentally unstable, brutality, mental institution, strong violent content ...
Time:
year 1964
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship ...
Style:
touching, serious, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
terminal illness, destiny, couples, insomnia, family relations, parents and children, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch, love and romance, single parent, chess ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
action thriller, detective, black and white, psychotronic
Plot:
master criminal, mad doctor, gang, criminal, hypnosis, police, psychiatric ward, insane asylum, psychiatric hospital, firefight, police investigation, criminal underworld ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The very sad tale of socialite & Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick (1943-1971) who effectively plays herself in a film that follows her life in a large part from the time she left Warhol's 'factory' and what the life of excess drugs did ...
Style:
mondo, independent film, experimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
electroshock therapy, counterculture, fashion, art, biopic, drug abuse, female nudity, free spirited, sexploitation, hippie, drug overdose, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
year 1972, 60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, california, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of ...
Style:
sexual, sad, historical drama, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
ballet, female nudity, women, dancer, dancing, children, biopic, art, girl, nude girl, unrequited love, passion ...
Time:
1920s, year 1900, 1890s, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
europe, russia, london, san francisco, florence ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman starts a new life in a small Wyoming mountain town after suffering a traumatic event on the other side of the country - but one day, she witnesses a murder in the woods......
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, exciting, emotional ...
Plot:
restaurant, murder, woman in danger, hidden identity, dishonesty, small town, cooking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, adultery, chef, disability, beautiful scenery ...
Place:
usa, wyoming
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A nurse uncovers the terrifying truth about a renowned doctor whose patients have become permanently maimed by his special dose of a drug called "Dead Sleep."
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, erotic ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, doctors and patients, investigation, mad scientist, murder, rehabilitation, experiment, hospital, electric shock, murderer, maniac ...
Time:
80s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when ...
Style:
psychological, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psycho killer, rain, murder, investigation, amateur detective, female killer, female serial killer, kidnapping, journalism, gory, danger, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
minneapolis minnesota
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The maconha cigarrete is just the final drop ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug addiction, youth, mental institution, teenage life, dysfunctional family, unsupportive parent, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family problems, society, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
south america, latin america, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Confronted by Apartheid and a father who was Minister of Censorship, Ingrid Jonker searched for a home, searched for love. With men like Jack Cope and André Brink she found much love, but no home. Later, in his first speech to the South African ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
apartheid, writers, fighting the system, writer's life, estrangement, family relations, lifestyle, downfall, parents and children, bittersweet, society, poet ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
africa, south africa, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Living in her family's secluded mansion, Audrina is kept alone and out of sight and is haunted by nightmares of her older sister, First Audrina, who was left for dead in the woods after an attack. As she begins to question her past and her ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, bleak, suspenseful, scenic ...
Plot:
nightmare, haunted by the past, overprotective father, intercourse, mansion, isolation, father daughter relationship, uncover truth, sex scene, house, forbidden love, dream ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Action
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Imprisoned for the brutal murder of her unfaithful boyfriend and his lover, Cassandra has engineered her escape and is now on the run having taken on a nurses identity. Arriving at a desolate country estate, Ravencrest, it at first appears to be a ...
Style:
suspense, tense, sensual, sexploitation film
Plot:
slave auction, lesbian, prison, lesbian rape, sexploitation, slave girl, kidnapping, kidnapped woman, sex slave, slavery, slave trade, hidden identity ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, crime drama ...
Plot:
electroshock therapy, mental institution, confined, claustrophobia, manipulation, murder mystery, female protagonist, paranoia, deception, body swapping, impostor, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style:
psychological, serious, thought provoking, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, fighting the system, freedom, human spirit, insanity, society, mental patient, mental disorder, nurse, psychiatrist, schizophrenia ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1963
Place:
oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Spain, the era of dictator Franco. Two female teachers are in love, but in those years and in that regime the love is not only forbidden but also a crime. To avoid their child been in prison, the parents of the one teacher, force her to be confined ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, touching, detective
Plot:
lesbian relationship, lesbian, electroshock therapy, forbidden love, lgbt, mother daughter relationship, mental illness, brainwashing, father daughter relationship, mental institution, gender, psychology ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Roo Marcus has just spent 8 years in a mental institution, and takes up bare-knuckle boxing and gets a job fighting in a gym run by Napoleon. Roo is often tormented by memories of shock treatment and inhumane conditions. His friends, Capser and ...
Style:
psychological, action drama, brutal, noir, psychological horror ...
Plot:
boxing, underground fighting, mental institution, trauma, redemption, electroshock therapy, violent, friendship, revenge, tough guy, anti hero, machismo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and ...
Style:
art film, art house, melancholic, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
alienation, psychoanalysis, neurosis, mental illness, existentialism, guilt, family conflict, mental breakdown, identity crisis, isolation, domineering mother, electroshock therapy ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
evil doll, serial killer, killer doll, supernatural, chucky, killer toy, electroshock therapy, murder, puppet, pandemic, halloween, danger ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Due to a job transfer, three friends move into a town where the bank they work at assigns them by way of living quarters a creepy mansion with a haunted history. One of the friends, Bharat (Bharat Jadhav), is prone to being possessed. The four ...
Plot:
ghost, revenge, exorcism, haunted house, black magic, possession, small town, fear, supernatural power, mansion, exorcist, bank ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, mental illness, macabre, murder, journalism, investigation, murder mystery, voice over narration, mental breakdown, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place:
mount fuji, america, africa, japan, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A retired cop becomes a DJ/celebrity at the Blueberry Hill disco-- he's the "Disco Godfather!" All is well until his nephew flips out on a strange new drug that's sweeping the streets, called "angel dust," or PCP. Disco ...
Style:
independent film, surreal, retro, black comedy, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, disco, martial arts, nightclub, vice squad, exploitation, drug, black cop, urban legend, electroshock therapy, intoxication, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, mind bending, dark ...
Plot:
travel, memory loss, murder mystery, amnesia, investigation, female protagonist, obsession, college campus, determination, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Time:
near future
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karen and Jack met in a mental hospital and fell in love. They set out to follow what Jack thinks is his destiny: killing Elvis Presley.
Style:
tense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
mental institution, lovers on the run, elvis presley, murderer, psychopath, male female relationship, social problems, couples, couple relations, love affair, attempted murder, murder ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Police officer Jane Rydert's life goes into a tailspin the day her older sister, Cassidy, shows up at her door after sixteen years of confinement in a psychiatric hospital.
Style:
contemplative, captivating, touching, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
mother daughter conflict, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, mental illness, suspicion, twists and turns, child in peril, sisters, family relations, police officer, disturbed individual, salvation ...
Place:
washington state
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mockumentary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, supernatural, found footage, halloween, insanity, death, abandoned building, danger, haunted house, ouija board, ghost, blood ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
vancouver, los angeles, canada
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, action thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
autism, accountant, assassin, mathematics, lone hero, organized crime, twists and turns, vigilante, justice, hitman, violence, gunfight ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 1989, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place:
washington d.c., chicago, illinois, new hampshire, germany ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A break-in and sabotage attempt occurs at a top secret research institute and the culprit is cornered and captured. The problem is that he's been badly injured and claims to have lost his memory entirely. A cat-and-mouse game ensues between ...
Style:
political, neo noir, exciting, mind bending, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, spy, paranoia, torture, sabotage, memory loss, research, government, chases and races, assassination, dishonesty, obsessive quest ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, clever, tense, political ...
Plot:
conspiracy, gulf war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, mind control, political corruption, assassin, politics, covert operation, senator, corporation, sniper ...
Time:
20th century, 2000s, year 2004, future, 90s ...
Place:
iraq, usa, new york, washington d.c.
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A thousand years ago, in England, the crazy monk Elmer wears a pair of wings and tries to fly from a high tower. He dies, and his soul is doomed to the eternity in hell for committing suicide. In the present days, in New Zeland, Elmer has the last ...
Style:
independent film, psychotronic
Plot:
supernatural being, insane asylum, invention, suitcase of money, inventor, junkyard, heaven, electroshock therapy, harbor, flying man, chase, bus ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, new zealand
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