Lobotomy movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant lobotomy movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, weird and cult classic films and TV shows about / with lobotomy, mental institution, murder, psychiatric hospital, violence, mental illness, blood, insanity, female nudity and hospital plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, Australia and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as lobotomy: Ratched (2020), Frances (1982), Session 9 (2001), Sucker Punch (2011), Hellhole (1985), Prison Ship (1986), Fortress (1992), The Ward (2010), Population 436 (2006), Mechanical Violator Hakaider (1995).
Best films
New films
| Shutter Island (2010) | 8.2 | |
| Princess (2010) | 6.2 | |
| Clara (2008) | 5.5 | |
| Terminal (2018) | 5.4 | |
| Cowboys & Aliens (2011) | 6.0 |
List of lobotomy movies
79K
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, bloody ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian relationship, strong sexual content, mental institution, lesbian romance, manipulative woman, lobotomy, psychiatric nurse, mutilation, nymphomaniac, psycho killer, nurse ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
northern california
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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, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, rich and poor, mother daughter relationship, hollywood, insanity, biopic, actor's life, women, lobotomy, courtroom, domineering mother, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 1958 ...
Place:
california, usa, seattle, manhattan new york city, new york
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67K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological horror, dark, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, macabre, psychology, twists and turns, haunted, mental illness, hospital, ghost, insanity, transformation, murder, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
Is relevant?
260K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.
Style:
surreal, sexy, atmospheric, modern fairy tale, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
alternate reality, steampunk, imagination, lobotomy, escape from reality, surrealism, escape, violence, murder, sexual abuse, girl gang, dream ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
vermont
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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: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying ...
Style:
sensual, cult classic, medical horror, psychotronic, grindhouse ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, women in prison, amnesia, mad doctor, serial killer, prison, medical, lesbianism, women's prison, murder, death of mother, lobotomy ...
Time:
year 2016
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two women who have been unjustly confined to a prison planet plot their escape, all the while having to put up with lesbian guards, crazed wardens and mutant rodents.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, futuristic, light, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
prison, women in prison, alien, femme fatale, female prisoner, outer space, spacecraft, women's prison, spaceship, lesbian, female bonding, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Is relevant?
32K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A futuristic prison movie. Protagonist and wife are nabbed at a future US emigration point with an illegal baby during population control. The resulting prison experience is the subject of the movie. The prison is a futuristic one run by a private ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, cyber, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, dystopia, escape, desert, prisoner, maximum security prison, violence, overpopulation, isolation, pregnancy, strong sexual content, dream ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1992, year 2017, 80s
Is relevant?
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
mental institution, psychiatric ward, supernatural, ghost, brutality, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, haunted, mental illness, doctors and patients, murder, hospital ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 60s, 80s ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A census-taker (Sisto) is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, twisted, scary, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
brainwashing, small town life, religions or cults, isolation, danger, small town, curses spells and rituals, hanged woman, religious fundamentalism, conspiracy, sect, social experiment ...
Time:
year 2000
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 51 min.
Story:
In the far future, peace and violence walk hand in hand. The citizens of Jesus Town, a false utopia ruled by the iron fist of Gurjev and his cyborg enforcer Michael, long for a savior from their veil of peace. While a small band of rebels search for ...
Style:
cult classic, action packed, bleak, grim, mecha
Plot:
androids, anti hero, dystopia, cyborgs, cyberpunk, moral ambiguity, post apocalyptic, rebellion, identity crisis, vigilante, underground movement, dark future ...
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A casual encounter in a train will lead Helga Pato to a circle of insanity, perversion and trash, a lot of trash.
Style:
non-linear, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, absurd ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mental illness, female rapist, dog sex, first sexual experience, zoophilia, bestiality, videotaping, split personality, dark humor, family relations, train travel, child abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
kosovo, paris france, madrid
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The sequel to the Rick Sloane classic from the 1980's, "Hobgoblins."
Style:
psychotronic, spoof, parody
Plot:
tiny, monster, gremlin, little creatures, fear, ptsd, girl scout, psychiatric patient, insane asylum, psychiatric hospital, car theft, bare chested male ...
Time:
2000s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dr. Natalio has been infected, by mistake, by a virus of his own creation. Now his only hope is to make an antidote out of the bodily fluids of a simpleton.
Plot:
hallucination, sex, chainsaw, dual role, robot, grandfather grandson relationship, resurrection, lobotomy, teddy bear, brain transplant, mad scientist, mushroom ...
Place:
galicia
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
College students exploring an abandoned insane asylum accidentally shatter canisters holding the cremains of former mental patients. Inhaling the dusty ash filling the air, they're soon possessed by the souls once held within them. One is a ...
Style:
serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, college, buddies, supernatural, youth, mentally unstable, misfit, obsession, mental illness, psychiatric ward, dangerous friend ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, atmospheric ...
Plot:
locked door, kidnapping, crazy, secrets, locked room, inheritance, isolation, psychopath, treasure hunt, investigation, claustrophobia, torture chamber ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, scotland yard
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two brothers end up separated for one of them has mental issues. Meanwhile one of the two follows his dream in becoming a magician. Filled with surrealism and slaspstick moments the film is a speechless adventure of emotions providing laughters and ...
Style:
humorous, stylized, offbeat, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
magician, surrealism, mental disorder, minimal dialogue, mental institution, siblings relations, family relations, imaginary, rescue, psychiatric patient, journey, brother ...
Place:
holland
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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, medical horror, independent film, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychopath, psychic, nightmare, mental institution, zombie, supernatural power, psychiatrist, repressed memory, zombie attack, insanity, holy water, trauma ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and lures prostitutes into a hotel ...
Style:
horror comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, black comedy, psychotronic ...
Plot:
prostitute, hooker, frankenstein, killed during sex, female objectification, brain transplant, man hits a woman, exploitation, monster, female monster, pimp, cocaine ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city, australia
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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
Is relevant?
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:
slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, cult classic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, losing-it hero, isolation, murder, mental illness, mental institution, patient, danger, obsession, doctors and patients, mind game, mad scientist ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
mental institution, cult leader, mental illness, illness, psychiatry, character study, ethical dilemma, doctor, social problems, unconventional method, moral ambiguity, alienation ...
Time:
1950s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Happier than the rest of us?
Style:
psychological, realistic, tense, captivating
Plot:
mental health, childhood trauma, mental institution, mental illness, patient, treatment, depression, schizophrenia, suicide attempt, doctor, delusion, nurse ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 80s, 50s
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Pinocchio 964 is a memory-wiped sex slave who is thrown out by his owners for failure to maintain an erection. It is unclear in what ways he has been modified beyond having no memory and being unable to communicate. He is discovered by Himiko while ...
Style:
cyber, futuristic, disturbing, surreal, experimental ...
Plot:
extreme, body horror, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, exploitation, memory loss, androids, subway, amnesia, pinocchio, biopunk ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
Style:
retro, biting, cynical, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
writers, psychiatrist, mental illness, adultery, writer's block, housewife, sexual attraction, voyeur, psychopath, 007, poet, estrangement ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 608 min.
TV show
Story:
Stephen King's take on the masterpiece series by Lars von Trier. The story takes place in a hospital in Lewiston, Maine, built on the site of a Civil War-era mill fire in which many children died.
Style:
medical horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
hospital, stephen king, ghost, supernatural, losing-it hero, psychic power, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, supernatural power, arson ...
Place:
maine
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Australia, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Steve Clark is a newcomer in the town of Cradle Bay, and he quickly realizes that there's something odd about his high school classmates. The clique known as the "Blue Ribbons" are the eerie embodiment of academic excellence and clean ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, teen, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
high school, violence, teenager, brainwashing, paranoia, insanity, twists and turns, bullying, small town, mind control, mind game, making love ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa
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Genre: Crime, Family, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Cool Cat is the coolest cat in town. All the kids love him. Except for the bully Butch, who hates Cool Cat for his coolness. He terrorizes Cool Cat, his friends and family with threats, taunting, and the internet. Can Cool Cat face his fears and ...
Style:
black comedy, cult classic, anime, underground film, experimental ...
Plot:
interracial family, mental illness, bullying, cyberbullying, furry, copyright, lobotomy, surrealism, graffiti, meme, child, schizophrenia ...
Is relevant?
44K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Cube Zero is the third film in the trilogy yet this time instead of a film about people trapped in a deadly cube trying to get out we see it from the eyes of someone who is controlling the cube and the torture of the victims inside. When the nerd ...
Style:
clever, surreal, surprise ending, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
trap, parallel world, survival, torture, mathematics, chess, elevator, video surveillance, time machine, isolation, escape room, rescue ...
Time:
future, 2000s
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
27K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Hong Kong, Hungary, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress lead dangerous double lives. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, breathtaking, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, waitress, femme fatale, disguise, master of disguise, master criminal, stripper, female secret agent, hitman, murderer, teacher ...
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