Psychiatric patient movies and TV shows – page 5

List of psychiatric patient movies

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Mental: It Can Be Your Love Story (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 147 min.
Story: An underworld mafia steals valuable mineral resources and sell them over to international crime organization . Simi (Nusrat Imrose Tisha); a news reporter finds out and exposes the whole criminal chain to the media, despite all threats from them. An ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, romantic
Plot: smuggling, uncover truth, mafia, love affair, relationships, male female relationship, criminal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, news report, love and romance, reporter ...
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Patient Seven (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, ...
Style: anthology, psychological, brutal, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: mental patient, serial killer, psychiatrist, doctor, police, vampire, corpse, possession, hallucination, death, ghost, demon ...
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Someone Behind the Door (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A brain doctor (Anthony Perkins) with an unfaithful wife (Jill Ireland) brings home an amnesiac (Charles Bronson) and gets him to commit murder.
Style: slasher, serious, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Plot: amnesia, vengeance, infidelity, affair, manipulation, rivalry, murder, memory loss, doctor patient relationship, psychological manipulation, doctor, mental patient ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
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Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style: twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, insanity, mental patient, psychiatrist, plot twist, madhouse, doctor, doctors and patients, macabre, conspiracy ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1900
Place: england, britain, usa, tuscany
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Murder by Decree (1979)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, gothic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sherlock holmes, serial killer, jack the ripper, murder, conspiracy, private detective, secret society, danger, psychic, anarchist, american civil war, killer ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, year 1979, 1880s, 1800s
Place: england, europe, london
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Melvin Goes to Dinner (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Marital infidelity, religion, a guy in heaven wearing a Wizards jersey, anal fetishes, cigarettes and schizophrenia, ghosts, and how it's going to get worse before it gets better.
Style: humorous, witty, melancholic, philosophical, cult classic ...
Plot: infidelity, friendship, fetish, self discovery, life philosophy, character study, introspection, buddies, couple relations, dialogue, food, adultery ...
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 4.6
 5K
The In Crowd (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, entertaining, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, psychopath, obsession, murder, mentor, female protagonist, mind game, social differences, storytelling, redemption, lifestyle, youth ...
Time: 90s
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I'll Be There (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), from a long forgotten love affair.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: estrangement, parents and children, family problems, musician, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, loneliness, teenage daughter, single parent, unfulfillment, singleness, family in crisis ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, europe
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Man Facing Southeast (1986)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: psychological, philosophical, surreal, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: insanity, mental illness, alien, mental institution, transformation, ufo, hospital, mental disorder, psychiatrist, waking up, illness, invasion ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: argentina, latin america
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 6.6
 30K
From Beyond (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of scientists have developed the Resonator, a machine which allows whoever is within range to see beyond normal perceptible reality. But when the experiment succeeds, they are immediately attacked by terrible life forms.
Style: scary, lovecraft, demonic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot: body horror, mad scientist, transformation, supernatural, monster, experiment, zombie, gory, laboratory, another dimension, murder, obsession ...
Time: year 2016
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Frontier of the Dawn (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane and kills herself.
Style: atmospheric, serious, black and white, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: love and romance, couples, haunted by the past, tragic love, obsession, love affair, fall in love, european, unfulfillment, longing, jealousy, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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 5.0
 2K
Disturbed (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: murder, exodus, patient, suicide, rape, injection, caucasian, nurse, mental patient, african american, couples, psychopath ...
Time: 80s
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 6.0
 5K
Crazy People (1990)
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, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: advertising, mental illness, marketing, advertising agency, advertising executive, mental institution, business, insanity, office work, talk show host, mental disorder, illness ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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Chattahoochee (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom drama, mental institution, social decay, injustice, life is a bitch, male pubic hair, male nudity, hospital, price of justice, prodigy, fighting the system, rebellion ...
Time: year 1989, 50s, 1950s, year 1952, year 1955 ...
Place: florida, usa, miami, korea
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 5.9
 5K
Brain Dead (1990)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!
Style: surreal, black comedy, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, hallucination, nightmare, experiment, insanity, delusion, experiment gone awry, psychiatrist, surrealism, corporation, doctors and patients, obsession ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: indonesia
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Maangamizi: The Ancient One (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tanzania, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with her Tanzanian lover. There, she meets a sometimes catatonic patient, Samahe, who seems to be in communication with another reality. In their ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, allegory ...
Plot: mental institution, doctors and patients, hopes, mental illness, nursing, second chance, new beginning, african american, craziness, friendship, faith, secret past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, tanzania
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The Creeping Flesh (1973)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he has brought back from New Guinea contains it in a pure form. Convinced that his wife, a Folies Bergere dancer who went insane, manifested this evil ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: skeleton, monster, creature, mad scientist, reincarnation, murder, laboratory, corpse, scientist, 666, insane asylum, body horror ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place: europe, england
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 3.9
 796
Ecstasy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: ECSTASY is a contemporary and relevant film about how drugs transcend all borders of society and affect every facet of our lives. But when it leaves it takes away your soul. A new party drug arrives on the rave scene in a college town and is ...
Style: touching, cerebral, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: lifestyle, depression, college, sexual promiscuity, drug abuse, youth, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, sex, drug addiction, drug ...
Time: 21st century
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Mister Buddwing (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Style: retro, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot: amnesia, memory loss, grief, amnesiac, couples, disorder, chases and races, uncover truth, couple relations, mysterious character, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city
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 7.6
 6K
Titus (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min.
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Story: Titus is an American dark comedy sitcom that debuted on Fox in 2000. The series was created by its star, Christopher Titus, Jack Kenny, and Brian Hargrove. This sitcom was based on Christopher's stand-up comedy act, more specifically his ...
Style: humorous, tragicomedy, cynical, not serious, witty ...
Plot: comedian, dysfunctional family, childhood, suicide, mechanic, family problems, siblings relations, dark humor, parents and children, workplace romance, suburban life, father son relationship ...
Time: y2k, 90s
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 6.2
 129
The Day We Met (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After being called for his mandatory yearly Israeli army reserve duty, Arik Schwartzman finds himself looking for a uniform wearing serial rapist. He is aided by Natalie, a young female soldier who looks for her lost father.
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Plot: occupation, israeli, danger, soldier, army investigation, military, law enforcement, military base, woman in danger, military life, israeli army, attempted rape ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: israel
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 6.6
 1K
Some Voices (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Schizophrenic Ray tries to adjust to the outside world after being released from an institution.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, erotic, mysterious ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, hallucination, brother brother relationship, love and romance, couples, family relations, misfit, mental disorder, fall in love, restaurant, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england
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The Steam Experiment (2009)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A deranged scientist locks 6 people in a steam room and threatens to turn up the heat if the local paper doesn't publish his story about global warming.
Style: tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, mind game, human nature, danger, psychopath, race against time, mad scientist, trapped, law enforcement, kidnapped, survival, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: michigan
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The Illusionist (1983)
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: silent, experimental, stylized, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: surrealism, magician, mental disorder, minimal dialogue, mental institution, siblings relations, family relations, rescue, imaginary, photograph, bus, father ...
Place: holland
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Ghosts... of the Civil Dead (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The inmates and guards of a modern, clean and efficient maximum security wing are slowly and increasingly brutalized until they erupt in violence. Dark and macabre, and based in truth, the story is told in a traditional dramatic style combined with ...
Style: disturbing, sad, cult classic, independent film, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, men's rights, prison sex, lgbt, sociology, exodus, philosophy, prison life, gay subtext, against humanity, life is a bitch, rebellion ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: australia, usa
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Into the Mirror (2003)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Woo Yeong-min retired from the police force after trying to save his partner and causing his death. After a series of mysterious deaths in the shopping mall in which his uncle has allowed him to work as a security guard prior to its reopening, he ...
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghost, supernatural, shopping mall, murder, investigation, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, danger, loss of partner, murder mystery, haunted house, doppelganger ...
Place: seoul, asia, korea
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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Recently released from a mental hospital, Ricky ties up Marina, a film star he once had sex with and keeps her hostage.
Style: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, romantic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, stockholm syndrome, porn star, obsessive love, porn actress, kidnapping, female masturbation, sex, love and romance, bdsm, nudity, porn actor ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
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 6.8
 290
Drei Herren (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Misters Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, all living peacefully in a lunatic asylum in Austria, are about to spend their summer in a special camp for those who are challenged by life. When their driver suffers a heart-attack near a little village, the three ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: psychiatry, scientist, autism, freedom, fat man, trio, mental patient, remote village, trip, fool, bus, funeral ...
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Scream Bloody Murder (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A disturbed boy kills his father with his farm tractor and his arm is mangled in the process. He's taken to a mental hospital where he's outfitted with a hook to replace his lost hand and, years later, he's eventually released from ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher, controversial, cult classic, disturbing ...
Plot: oedipus complex, kidnapped woman, exploitation, serial killer, mental institution, mental illness, home invasion, stepfather, dismemberment, violent, mental disorder, psychopath ...
Time: 70s
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 4.2
 530
Future Shock (1994)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing horrific psychic forces in the process.
Style: anthology, tech noir, dark fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Plot: virtual reality, psychic, psychic power, telekinesis, psychiatrist, psychiatric patient, love interest, murder suspect, agoraphobia, paranoia, dark humor, revenge ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
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