| K-PAX (2001) | 7.4 | |
| Girl, Interrupted (1999) | 7.3 | |
| Session 9 (2001) | 6.4 | |
| On the Edge (2001) | 6.9 | |
| Shock Corridor (1963) | 7.3 |
Mental institution movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mental institution movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense and weird films and TV shows about / with mental institution, mental illness, psychiatric hospital, hospital, insanity, psychiatric ward, psychology, mental disorder, illness and power relations plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mental institution: Girl, Interrupted (1999), Stonehearst Asylum (2014), Manic (2001), The Night Buffalo (2007), It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010), Endless Love (1981), Homesick (2005), Committed (2011), Unsane (2018), Ratched (2020).
Best films
New films
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, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
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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, suspense, gothic, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, mental patient, insanity, plot twist, psychiatrist, edgar allan poe, madhouse, doctors and patients, doctor, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1800s, year 1900
Place:
england, britain, usa, oxford university, tuscany ...
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11K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, independent film, depressing, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, depression, self harm, addiction, mental health, manic, psychology, therapy, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
new jersey, california
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the ...
Style:
bleak, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
mental institution, abuse, torture, journalist, female reporter, investigative reporter, fish out of water, violence, investigative journalism, psychiatrist, social problems, violent ...
Time:
victorian era, 1880s, 1800s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Unable to cope with the fact that his girlfriend cheated on him with his best friend, a twenty-two year old schizophrenic sets an elaborate revenge plan into motion before taking his own life. Gregorio has been in and out of mental hospitals for ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, sexual, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
betrayal, love triangle, haunted by the past, couples, destructive relationship, human nature, rivalry, youth, dishonesty, life is a bitch, friendship, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Style:
touching, funny, sentimental, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatric ward, coming of age, mental institution, adolescence, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, suicidal, psychiatry, anxiety ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two young kids fall in love with each other. But the passion is too consuming for the parents of Jade. The parents try to stop them from seeing each other. But when this doesn't work, David burns down the house and is sent away. This ...
Style:
erotic, intense, sexual, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, young lovers, first love, mental institution, arson, obsession, sex scene, mental illness, love, love story, voyeur ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
chicago, new york
Is relevant?
529
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
17-year-old Sami has an accident which resulted in him reluctantly sent to closed psychiatric hospital. Sami refuses to speak or show his feelings, even when the nurse Taneli is trying everything in order to understand how the crash really happened. ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, touching, suspenseful, sexy
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, mental breakdown, mother son incest, forbidden love, sex with mother, mental illness, parent child relationship, broken family, roommate, suicide attempt, mental health ...
Is relevant?
619
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Dr. Dupont arrives at a mental facility to apply for a staff position. World famous Dr. Quilly interviews her, and has her sign papers. She is thrilled to get the job, and is shown her room. However, confusion with her room being on the same floor ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, uncover truth, danger, rescue, rehabilitation, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, wrongfully committed, mind game, psychiatric hospital, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
53K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, medical horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, stalking, mental institution, maniac, psychiatric ward, mental patient, sexual assault, psychopath, stalker, murder, mental illness, mental disorder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
portugal, pennsylvania, boston
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
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
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Like most kids, Ned idolized his father and dreamed of following in his footsteps. Unfortunately, his father was a two-bit crook who spent most of his life in jail. Without a family of his own, Ned falls in with the Aryan Brotherhood. Soon after, ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, touching, atmospheric, multicultural ...
Plot:
interracial relations, mental institution, neo nazism, mental illness, fall in love, society, misfit, opposites attract, love affair, skinhead, interracial romance, abandoned building ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspenseful, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental institution, paranoia, losing-it hero, mental illness, mentally unstable, investigation, murder, hospital, stalking, uncover truth, obsession, mind game ...
Is relevant?
268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, nurse, murder, mistaken identity, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, 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:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Is relevant?
124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Is relevant?
175K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, cerebral, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
hospital, mental illness, mental institution, illness, doctors and patients, medical, fighting illness, doctor, medicine, catatonia, disability, patient ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, america, usa
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92K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, mind twisting, confusing ...
Plot:
suicide, obsession, twists and turns, death, surrealism, guilt, unfulfillment, suicide attempt, mental illness, depression, parallel universe, psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.
Style:
sexy, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctors and patients, dishonesty, uncover truth, missing person, power relations, investigation, gay, mental health, dialogue, homosexual love, destruction ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 21st century
Place:
usa, africa
Is relevant?
523
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, psychiatric ward, cons and scams, mental institution, murder, working undercover, hospital, clinic, power relations, dishonesty, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Mental is a television series produced by Fox's subsidiary Fox Telecolombia, which aired in the summer and fall of 2009 on FOX international channels for Latin America, Europe and Asia, starring Chris Vance and Annabella Sciorra. Mental was ...
Style:
realistic, medical drama, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
psychology, medical, hospital, prodigy, mental disorder, mental institution, fighting illness, delusion, treatment, doctors and patients, workplace situations, mentally unstable ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
Style:
psychological, touching, talky, sincere, cerebral ...
Plot:
mental institution, mentally unstable, borderline personality disorder, human nature, friendship, life is a bitch, love and romance, haunted by the past, mental health, suicide attempt, depression, psychiatric ward ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been ...
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental institution, scientific research, winter, psychopath, characters in danger, society, strong female presence, peril, woman in danger, haunted by the past, clergy, race against time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm
Style:
suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
blackout, mental institution, survival, isolation, trapped, psychopath, insanity, security guard, confinement indoors, danger, escapades, friendship ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, washington state
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, psychopath, convict, woman in danger, obsession, violence spree, isolation, serial killer, murder, night, evil wins, female detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
124K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, enigmatic, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, mental institution, time loop, amnesia, supernatural, hallucination, destiny, memory loss, disorder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
vermont, iraq
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 ...
Is relevant?
204K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatrist, manipulation, murder, patient, sleepwalking, twists and turns, doctor, mental patient, mental institution, deception ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, future, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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