Sanitarium movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant sanitarium movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out melancholic, suspense, serious, tense, psychotronic and weird films and TV shows about / with sanitarium, hospital, bare chested male, doctor, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, mental institution, friendship, nurse and obsession plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as sanitarium: The Road to Wellville (1994), Dark Woods II (2015), Year of Enlightment (1986), Murmur of the Heart (1971), Sanatorium (2013), Scarred Hearts (2016), My Thoughts Are Silent (2019), Legion (1990), The Exorcist III (1990), Valley of the Dolls (1967).
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
Style:
humorous, talky, witty, hilarious, surreal ...
Plot:
masturbation, eccentricity, male nudity, public nudity, sanitarium, doctor, doctors and patients, competition, countryside, cons and scams, couples, goofy hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 1900s, 19th century, 1890s ...
Place:
michigan, usa, america
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Genre: Horror
Country: Norway, Lithuania
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An old sanatorium is deteriorating in an isolated forest in the mountains. Five contract workers have taken on the task of tracking the huge building for hazardous waste before it's demolished. They realize that the job is more than a search ...
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
sanitarium, murderer, murder, killer, night, caretaker, violence, escapades, danger, chase, vengeance, blood ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
April, 1940. Manolo, 16 years old, and Jesus, who is just 8, are taken by their older brother Pepe, a lieutenant in the Army, to a sanatorium for children suffering from tuberculosis, situated on the border with Portugal. Once in the sanatorium, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sexual, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, sanitarium, teenage love, tuberculosis, brother, sexual content, teenage life, love and romance, hospital, youth, boy ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
Style:
sexy, touching, erotic, sentimental, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
incest, mother son incest, coming of age, sexual initiation, oedipus complex, mother son relationship, mother and son, self discovery, sex, exploring sexuality, sexuality, childhood ...
Time:
1950s, year 1954, 20th century, 50s, year 1971 ...
Place:
france, israel, europe, indochina, paris france ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
afterlife, found footage, ghost, mentally unstable, psychiatric ward, mental institution, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, hospital, danger, violence, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Romania, Germany, Belgium, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a ...
Style:
touching, sincere, disturbing, melancholic, medical drama ...
Plot:
hospital, sadness, summer, male objectification, disability, doctor, tuberculosis, love and romance, suffering, doctor patient relationship, bare chested male, male nudity ...
Time:
1930s, year 1937
Place:
black sea
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Twenty-five-year-old Vadym earns a living recording and selling all kinds of different sounds; nevertheless, he’d rather exchange his life in Kyiv for a better future in far-flung Canada. Thus, when he gets a generous job offer which might help ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, feel good, touching, absurd ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, mother and son, remote village, joke, animal, church, bird, unwed mother, overprotective mother, single mother, farming, humour ...
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This 'director's cut' of The Exorcist III was constructed by Shout! Factory and released in 2016. It is a cut of the film closer to author/director William Peter Blatty's original script, as studio Morgan Creek forced Blatty to ...
Style:
dark fantasy, psychological horror
Plot:
serial killer, dream, police detective, supernatural power, violence, blood, murder, back from the dead, decapitation, sanitarium, old man, insanity ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style:
demonic, frightening, satanic, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, violence, possession, exorcism, demon, blood, priest, investigation, murder, supernatural, police detective, decapitation ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1990, year 1998
Place:
virginia, washington d.c., usa, copenhagen, richmond virginia ...
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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, erotic, cult classic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, husband wife relationship, glamour, price of fame, singer, actress, sex, showbiz, drinking, psychiatric nurse, swimming pool, lawyer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, new england, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
Style:
southern gothic, sexy, sexual, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
military, murder, american south, voyeur, mental illness, stallion, adultery, voyeurism, sexuality, gay, stalking, boxing match ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
long island, georgia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Pakistan, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Having lived through traumatizing events during WWII, Father Lankester Merrin takes a sabbatical from the Church to conduct archaeological excavations in British-administered East Africa. Merrin unearths an ancient Byzantine church believed have ...
Style:
demonic, scary, suspenseful, creepy, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, demonic possession, good versus evil, devil, demon, exorcist, priest, church, massacre, black magic, gory, archeological dig ...
Time:
1940s, year 1949, 20th century, year 2004
Place:
kenya, africa, cairo egypt, east africa, iraq ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
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Style:
philosophical, art house, surreal, period drama, pre war
Plot:
sanitarium, tuberculosis, mountain, literary, isolation, melancholy, existential crisis, symbolism, mortality, existentialism, world war one, totalitarianism ...
Time:
1910s, pre world war one
Place:
swiss alps, alps
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths
Style:
disturbing, rough, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, zombie, psychopath, experiment gone awry, confined, mad scientist, doctors and patients, rescue, power relations, gory, isolation, danger ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A mad doctor runs a sanitarium in the desert, where his hunchbacked servant whips women who are chained in the basement and cuts the legs off bodies so they'll fit in the caskets.
Style:
psychotronic, independent film, perverse
Plot:
arizona desert, sanitarium, dungeon, possession, mad doctor, dismemberment, mutant, monster, hunchback, basement, murder, servant ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the midst of WW I, a doctor and a lawyer team up to turn a ramshackle old mountain chateau into a sanatorium/health spa that caters to the afflicted from most every stratum of European society, most of whom show up with false hope in their hearts ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, tragicomedy, satirical, art house ...
Plot:
world war one, european, mortality, sanitarium, hypocrisy, death, deception, secrets, macabre, social satire, intimate, deaf ...
Time:
1910s
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A serial killer escapes from a mental hospital and hides out in a small town. A local cop must catch him before he starts on another killing spree.
Style:
slasher, dark, tense, psychological thriller, sinister ...
Plot:
serial killer, stalking, escape, mental institution, sanitarium, manhunt, obsession, jealous lover, killing spree, cat and mouse, small town, paranoia ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Old and forgotten, comedian Aldo is brought by his sons into a nursing home called Reuma Park where he finds his old friends and partners Giovanni and Giacomo.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, satirical, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
escape, satire, friendship, retirement home, sanitarium, escapades, elderly man, elderly, problem, old man, mortality, nostalgia ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The movie is based on Iwaszkiewicz's autobiographic story and focuses on main character's (Janek's) close relationship with a woman named Ola and a man named Arek. It takes place in a small village called Marona which is situated by ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, reflective, poetic, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, longing, small village, sanitarium, unrequited love, loneliness, friendship, lake, bittersweet, intimate, literary, autobiography ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The '60s, Romania. Serafim, a young doctor, is sent to the Hospital in Palilula, a small town lost somewhere on the country map, after the death of the previous pediatrician, Mr. Pantelică.
Style:
surreal, absurd, allegory, atmospheric, poetic ...
Plot:
magic realism, hospital, satire, small town, isolation, social commentary, quarantine, sanitarium, loneliness, macabre, remote village, bare chested male ...
Time:
60s
Place:
romania
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In what appears to be an inexplicable incident, a man drives up to a resort hotel in midwinter, throws away his car keys, enters, and proceeds to agitate everyone he meets with his urgency -- a message he is somehow unable to communicate. Then he ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, suspense, sinister, tense ...
Plot:
renaissance, snow, winter, mountain, alienation, isolation, obsession, symbolism, character study, slow burn, tourist, suspicion ...
Place:
poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Hungary, Germany
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the life one of the greatest Hungarian aristocrats - Count Széchenyi - who was born with extra-ordinary mental and spiritual talents. In the years ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, captivating, epic, dramatic ...
Plot:
aristocracy, aristocrat, biopic, storytelling, monarchy, monarch, rich man, historical figure, lifestyle, patriotism, redemption, political intrigue ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, 1830s, 1860s
Place:
hungary, central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, reflective, melancholic ...
Plot:
saint, religion, faith, healing, nun, catholic saint, miraculous event, religious faith, religious, virgin mary, pilgrimage, tuberculosis ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
An architect and his wife are staying in an empty castle in California. They are joined by an unhappily married lawyer and his wife. Things start getting strange when they spot a half man/half beast prowling around the house and keep seeing a ...
Style:
suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse, psychotronic
Plot:
mysterious disappearance, lawyer, corpse, architect, freak, insanity, sanitarium, mansion, haunted, virus, mental patient, intruder ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future. Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator. Once again, the resistance has ...
Style:
exciting, apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, kids, adult
Plot:
artificial intelligence, terminator, time travel, robot, man versus machine, cyborgs, dystopia, apocalypse, androids and robots, cyberpunk, chase, time traveler ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, near future, year 1997 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, persia, america, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, teenager, suicide attempt, unrequited love, high school football, true love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future ...
Place:
kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, 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, cult classic, surreal, creepy, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, horror for children
Plot:
witch, psychiatry, magic, scarecrow, halloween, robot, stop motion, steampunk, fantasy world, sorcerer, mirror, danger ...
Time:
1900s, 1890s, 19th century, 80s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, usa
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, emotional, cult classic ...
Plot:
hollywood, coming of age, tomboy, secret relationship, marriage proposal, nervous breakdown, movie star, rags to riches, showbiz, naive young woman, mental breakdown, gay husband ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1936
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, arizona
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Style:
funny, satirical, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
advertising, marketing, advertising agency, advertising executive, mental institution, insanity, female psychiatrist, sanitarium, group therapy, fired from the job, mental patient, mental disorder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Molly, former baby prostitute "Angel" from Sunset Boulevard, has managed to leave her street life with help of Lt. Andrews. She studies law at an university and aims to become attorney. When she learns that Andrews was shot during a failed ...
Style:
independent film, action adventure, cult classic, fast, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prostitution, revenge, bare breasts, female nudity, female protagonist, vigilante, nudity, teenage prostitute, woman in jeopardy, shootout, intimidation, baby ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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