Psychiatric nurse movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant psychiatric nurse movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, psychological, weird, cult classic and disturbing films and TV shows about / with psychiatric nurse, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, hospital, nurse, mental illness, doctor, female protagonist, psychopath and mental patient plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as psychiatric nurse: Ratched (2020), Don't Look in the Basement (1973), The Caretakers (1963), Valley of the Dolls (1967), Frances (1982), 55 Steps (2017), Fingersmith (2005), The Dead Pit (1989), Madhouse (2004), Kummeli Goldrush (1997).

List of psychiatric nurse movies

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 7.3
 70K
Ratched (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An origins story, beginning in 1947, which follows Ratched's journey and evolution from nurse to full-fledged monster tracking her murderous progression through the mental health care system.
Style: sexy, suspense, disturbing, tense, brutal ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, mental institution, lesbian relationship, strong sexual content, manipulative woman, lesbian romance, lobotomy, psychiatric nurse, nurse, mutilation, nymphomaniac, psycho killer ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: northern california
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Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style: scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, mental illness, hospital, mental institution, patient, danger, isolation, doctors and patients, obsession, mind game, losing-it hero, mad scientist ...
Time: 70s
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 5.6
 937
The Caretakers (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Style: psychotronic, serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing
Plot: medical, hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, psychopath, kitchen sink realism, medicine, nurse, kids in trouble, power relations, disability, terminal illness ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: europe, ireland
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Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young ladies in show business.
Style: cynical, cult classic, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: drug addiction, husband wife relationship, glamour, showbiz, price of fame, rise and fall, terminal illness, singer, porn actress, actress, psychiatric nurse, drinking ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, new york, new england ...
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 7.2
 9K
Frances (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Style: depressing, disturbing, compassionate, factual, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, hollywood, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, family relations, showbiz, rise to the top, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s
Place: california, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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 6.9
 4K
55 Steps (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 55 Steps is based a the inspiring true story of Eleanor Riese, a mental illness patient herself, who brings a class action suit to give competent mental patients the right to have a say in their medication while they’re in a hospital, and Colette ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, tense, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: mental patient, lawyer, female protagonist, female lawyer, mental health, opposites attract, female friendship, friendship, psychology, dishonesty, danger, society ...
Time: year 1991, year 1985
Place: san francisco
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 7.8
 10K
Fingersmith (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 181 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of two young women collide in Victorian England when a trio of 'fingersmiths' (pick-pockets) concoct an elaborate scam to defraud a young heiress of her inheritance. The story alternates between the twisting back alleyways of ...
Style: serious, realistic, costume drama, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lgbt, lesbian relationship, thief, gays and lesbians, psychiatric ward, fall in love, abuse, lgbtq, class differences, manipulation ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1860s, ancient times
Place: britain, london, england, europe
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 5.3
 3K
The Dead Pit (1989)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which ...
Style: slasher, independent film, retro, medical horror, creepy ...
Plot: zombie, mental illness, mental institution, psychopath, psychic, repressed memory, zombie attack, psychiatrist, insanity, holy water, amnesia, nightmare ...
Time: 80s
Place: california
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 5.4
 7K
Madhouse (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Style: scary, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, ghost, intern, murder, investigation, supernatural, ghost child, danger, doctors and patients, psychopath, who done it ...
Time: year 2004
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Kummeli Goldrush (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie
Plot: treasure hunt, lapland, nazi, golddigger, psychiatric hospital, gold rush, male homosexuality, brotherhood, unlikely friendships, friendship, nazi officer, mental institution ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: finland, europe, eastern europe
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 6.9
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Asylum (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Asylum is a British comedy series which was shown on Paramount Comedy Channel in 1996. Set in a mental asylum, it ran for one series of six episodes. Unlike traditional sitcoms or comedy television shows, it was to some extent an opportunity for ...
Style: dark comedy, sitcom, offbeat, humorous, not serious ...
Plot: confined, satire, psychiatric hospital, prisoner, psychiatric nurse, silly humor, fish out of water, power relations, misfit, losing-it hero, support group, disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In 1989, a misunderstood teenager has a high school crush — who just happens to be a handsome corpse! After a set of playfully horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a murderous journey to find love, happiness…and a few ...
Style: dark comedy
Plot: teenage girl, reanimated corpse, high school, death of mother, cemetery, social outcast, female protagonist, murder, body mutilation, coming of age, corpse, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 80s, victorian era, year 1989
Place: illinois
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 6.3
 3K
Cornelis (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: ”Cornelis” is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden’s greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an exceptionally talented, but self-destructive artist’s intense life both on and behind the stage. A man ...
Style: contemplative, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, factual ...
Plot: musician's life, looking for love, ambition, artists and showbiz, couple relations, private vs public, music, society, couples, biopic, rivalry, nordic ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, year 1943, year 1987, year 1975 ...
Place: rio de janeiro, stockholm sweden, netherlands, eastern europe
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The Marijuana Conspiracy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.
Style: independent film, period piece, psychedelic, psychological
Plot: human experiment, female protagonist, female friendship, lgbt history, anti conformist, alone in the world, women, interracial relations, eccentricity, captivity, psychiatric hospital, ptsd ...
Time: 70s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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 5.1
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Patient X (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After twenty years, local police captures the murderer of the older brother of a young boy. Now a doctor, he must go back to his old town and face the murderers himself. He then discovers that the murderers are Aswangs (folkloric Filipino ...
Plot: evil, madhouse, psychiatric nurse, child in peril, psychiatric ward, doctor patient relationship, little boy, disembowelment, man eating monster, strait jacket
Place: the philippines
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: 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 his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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 7.3
 13K
Shock Corridor (1963)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
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: mental institution, insanity, journalism, mental illness, murder, investigation, psychiatrist, murder mystery, macabre, serial killer, obsession, doctors and patients ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place: america, mount fuji, usa, africa, japan
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 4.5
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Sally (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Jack is driving aimlessly on a road to nowhere with his imaginary girlfriend, Sally, when he meets Beth. The duo becomes a trio when escaped mental patient Bugs, also fixated on an imaginary woman named Sally, finds himself along for the ride with ...
Style: sentimental, touching, melancholic, sincere, light ...
Plot: mental illness, doctor patient relationship, love, medication, mental institution, nurse, doctor, road trip, imaginary friend, autism, sex crime, blood ...
Place: minnesota
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Kings and Queen (2004)
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, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: terminal illness, adoption, family relations, parents and children, destiny, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, musician's life, life is a bitch, couples, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: france, paris france
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 6.7
 30K
Return to Oz (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
Style: fairy tale, surreal, cult classic, creepy, disturbing ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: witch, magic, princess, robot, stop motion, scarecrow, steampunk, halloween, fantasy world, psychiatry, danger, culture clash ...
Time: 1890s, 19th century, 80s, 1900s
Place: kansas, usa
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 6.4
 64K
New Nightmare (1994)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In this meta horror film, a demonic entity uses the fictional character of Freddy Krueger to enter the real world and torment "Elm Street" heroine Heather Langenkamp and her family.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, psychopath, filmmaking, blood, serial killer, monster, nightmare on elm street, hospital, alternate reality, supernatural horror, murder, writers ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio, los angeles, california
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 6.8
 3K
Lilith (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Lilith is a about a mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England, who seems to weave a magical spell all around her. A restless, but sincere young man with an equally obscure past is seemingly drawn into her web. As time passes, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspense, retro ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, hospital, couples, sex addict, mentally unstable, fall in love, incest, doctors and patients, femme fatale, love and romance, obsession ...
Time: 60s
Place: usa, maryland
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 6.6
 24K
High Anxiety (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, ...
Style: parody, spoof, funny, absurd, slapstick ...
Plot: medical, satire, murder, mental institution, false accusation, hotel, elevator, paranoid, insane asylum, going crazy, insane, psychopath ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: san francisco, california, usa, los angeles
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Bless the Child (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new ...
Style: demonic, suspense, satanic, intense, psychological ...
Plot: good versus evil, supernatural, demon, murder, kidnapping, chase, evil child, satanism, religious, apocalypse, custody, religions or cults ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, year 1999
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, vermont
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Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy
Plot: biopic, hollywood, mental illness, insane asylum, mental patient, couples, artists and showbiz, actor's life, state affairs, prodigy, politics, performer's life ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: washington d.c., seattle
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 6.0
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Crazylove (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Letty Mayer, young and beautiful, has a cherished job as a teacher, a successful attorney boyfriend, and a tight knit family that is excited about her sister's impending wedding. But inside Letty there¹s an anxiety that¹s building. Suddenly ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, independent film
Plot: schizophrenic, introspection, opposites attract, couple relations, couples, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, prodigy, hopes, doctors and patients, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nervous breakdown ...
Time: future
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
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 7.4
 325K
Lady Bird (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.
Style: thought provoking, art house, realistic, semi serious, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, first love, loss of virginity, prom, friendship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, teen angst ...
Time: year 2002, year 2017, 2010s, near future, year 2003 ...
Place: sacramento california, california, new york, usa
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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