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1. The Sinner (2017–2021)
TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Detective Ambrose employs some unusual tactics and a deep capacity for empathy to solve his cases. His boundless dedication is driven by his dark past, leading him into powerful and often dangerously intimate bonds with his suspects.
Stars: Bill Pullman, Jessica Hecht, Dohn Norwood, Adam LeFevre
Votes: 138,993
2. Death Becomes Her (1992)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
When a fading actress learns of an immortality treatment, she sees it as a way to outdo her long-time rival.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis, Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini
Votes: 131,310 | Gross: $58.42M
3. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
R | 127 min | Biography, Drama
A directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy
Votes: 211,313 | Gross: $28.87M
4. Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Not Rated | 124 min | Drama, Romance
The love of high school sweethearts Deanie and Bud is weighed down by the oppressive expectations of their parents and society in smalltown Kansas in 1928, threatening the future of their relationship.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle, Audrey Christie
Votes: 22,642 | Gross: $8.72M
5. Return to Oz (1985)
PG | 113 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.
Director: Walter Murch | Stars: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie
Votes: 30,356
6. Changeling (2008)
R | 141 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
After Christine's son goes missing, she reaches out to the LAPD to find him. But when they try to pass off an impostor as her son to quieten public protests, she refuses to accept him or give up hope.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan, Gattlin Griffith
Votes: 265,269 | Gross: $35.74M
7. Side Effects (I) (2013)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Votes: 197,133 | Gross: $32.17M
8. Thoroughbreds (2017)
R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks
Votes: 46,417 | Gross: $2.83M
9. The Ward (2010)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh
Votes: 44,875
10. Leatherface (2017)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Sam Strike, Vanessa Grasse
Votes: 27,836
11. Gothika (2003)
R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A psychiatrist awakens as a patient in a mental institution, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory, a vengeful spirit manipulates her.
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton
Votes: 119,183 | Gross: $59.69M
12. Unsane (2018)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple
Votes: 49,926 | Gross: $7.73M
13. Don't Say a Word (2001)
R | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret...
Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Skye McCole Bartusiak
Votes: 57,073 | Gross: $55.00M
14. Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977)
R | 94 min | Adventure, Horror
Photojournalist Emanuelle is joined by an anthropologist, two female missionary workers and a treacherous hunter's party in a search for an Amazon cannibal tribe long thought extinct.
Director: Joe D'Amato | Stars: Laura Gemser, Gabriele Tinti, Nieves Navarro, Donald O'Brien
Votes: 3,278
15. 55 Steps (2017)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama
When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on... See full summary »
Director: Bille August | Stars: Hilary Swank, Helena Bonham Carter, Johan Heldenbergh, Cynthia Hoppenfeld
Votes: 3,645
16. The Secret Scripture (2016)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance
A woman keeps a diary of her extended stay at a mental hospital.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Theo James, Rooney Mara, Laurence O'Fuarain, Eric Bana
Votes: 8,476
17. I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Not Rated | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. Eventually, she falls for a man who thinks he can steal people's souls.
Director: Park Chan-wook | Stars: Lim Soo-jung, Rain, Park Byeong-eun, Kim Byeong-Ok
Votes: 25,896
18. Frances (1982)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Jessica Lange, Jonathan Banks, Bonnie Bartlett, James Brodhead
Votes: 8,569 | Gross: $5.00M
19. The Snake Pit (1948)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Mystery
A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm
Votes: 8,430 | Gross: $10.00M
20. Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance
After a frantic suicide attempt, Veronika awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
Director: Emily Young | Stars: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen, Florencia Lozano
Votes: 13,165
21. The Dead Pit (1989)
R | 95 min | Horror
The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.
Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson, Stephen Gregory Foster, Danny Gochnauer
Votes: 2,916
22. Instinct (1999)
R | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
When noted anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell, who left society to live in the jungle, is imprisoned for murder, it's up to young psychiatrist Theo Caulder to get through to him.
Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney
Votes: 34,288 | Gross: $34.10M
23. Lilith (1964)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama
A war veteran gets work at a mental institution, where he meets the beautiful and eccentric Lilith.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter
Votes: 3,169
24. Shock Corridor (1963)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, Mystery
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best
Votes: 13,058
25. An Angel at My Table (1990)
R | 158 min | Biography, Drama
Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.
Director: Jane Campion | Stars: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn
Votes: 8,685 | Gross: $1.05M
26. Bad Dreams (1988)
R | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
The lone survivor of a suicide cult wakes from a thirteen-year coma in a psychiatric ward, where other patients suddenly start dying under mysterious and gruesome circumstances.
Director: Andrew Fleming | Stars: Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Dean Cameron
Votes: 4,353 | Gross: $9.80M
27. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
R | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy
A disturbed, institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Bibi Andersson, Kathleen Quinlan, Ben Piazza, Lorraine Gary
Votes: 1,555
28. Daddy's Deadly Darling (1973)
R | 80 min | Horror
The owner of a roadside diner, and his new helper, kill people and feed them to pigs.
Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Toni Lawrence, Jesse Vint, Catherine Ross, Paul Hickey
Votes: 1,481
29. Mental (2012)
Not Rated | 116 min | Comedy, Drama
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.
Director: P.J. Hogan | Stars: Toni Collette, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, Rebecca Gibney
Votes: 5,200 | Gross: $0.02M
30. The Escort (1997 Video)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A escort lady rents a guest room from a couple in order to get close to the wife and have her revenge for perceived injustice.
Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Shauna O'Brien, Landon Hall, Scott Coppola, Gregory O'Rourke
Votes: 221
31. Frankie & Alice (2010)
R | 101 min | Biography, Drama
A drama centered on a go-go dancer with multiple personality disorder who struggles to remain her true self and begins working with a psychotherapist to uncover the mystery of the inner ghosts that haunt her.
Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Halle Berry, Stellan Skarsgård, Phylicia Rashad, Chandra Wilson
Votes: 5,844 | Gross: $0.69M
32. Tender Is the Night (1962)
Approved | 142 min | Drama
A Psychiatrist and his life with a patient he helped to recover.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell
Votes: 899
33. Shock (1946)
Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw
Votes: 3,298
34. Home Before Dark (1958)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama
Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 1,269
35. Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
R | 105 min | Drama
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressful workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising ... See full summary »
Director: Jerry Schatzberg | Stars: Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors, Barry Morse
Votes: 922
36. Asylum of Satan (1972)
PG | 80 min | Horror
A young woman is brought to an asylum to receive special treatment from a mysterious doctor. Dr. Spector does more than just run the hospital -- he offers his patients as sacrifices to Satan.
Director: William Girdler | Stars: Charles Kissinger, Carla Borelli, Nick Jolley, Louis Bandy
Votes: 504
37. Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh (1996 Video Game)
M | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Curtis Craig, a totally normal man begins to hear strange voices. Could it be that he is an insane killer..?
Director: Andy Hoyos | Stars: Paul Morgan Stetler, Monique Parent, Ragna Sigrun, Paul T. Mitri
Votes: 417
38. Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992 TV Movie)
PG | 120 min | Drama
In the second dramatic case for lawyer Harmon Cobb, he defends an incarcerated woman who is refused release from a mental institution.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan, Susan Blakely, Ariana Richards
Votes: 272
39. Murdered: Soul Suspect (2014 Video Game)
M | Crime, Fantasy, Horror
A detective, murdered by a serial killer, returns as a ghost and must combine his investigative skills with powerful supernatural abilities to uncover the shocking link between his own death and a series of killings terrifying the town of Salem.
Director: Yosuke Shiokawa | Stars: Jason Brooks, Cassidy Lehrman, Travis Willingham, Tiffany Espensen
Votes: 1,362
40. No Place to Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story (2015)
Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, Crime
The far-reaching effects of cyberbullying, rape culture and victim blaming - all borne by one girl, Rehtaeh Parsons.
Director: Rama Rau | Stars: Rehtaeh Parsons, Leah Parsons, Glen Canning, Selena Ross
Votes: 450
41. The Cracker Factory (1979 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Suicidal suburban housewife drifts in and out of asylums.
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Natalie Wood, Perry King, Peter Haskell, Shelley Long
Votes: 260
42. Elizabeth Blue (2017)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, is coping with ongoing episodes of schizophrenia.
Director: Vincent Sabella | Stars: Anna Schafer, Ryan Vincent, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kathleen Quinlan
Votes: 156 | Gross: $0.07M
43. Opium: Diary of a Madwoman (2007)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A drug-addicted doctor (Thomsen) who works in an asylum discovers that one of his patients (Stubo) is a gifted writer.
Director: János Szász | Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Kirsti Stubø, Zsolt László, Enikö Börcsök
Votes: 1,189
44. Hot Blooded Woman (1965)
75 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A psychotic woman in love is taken to extreme actions by sexual frustration, an unfaithful husband, and jealous rivals.
Director: Dale Berry | Stars: Gregg Pappas, Bob Brown, Bill Thurman, Dale Berry
Votes: 80
45. Sanitarium (1998 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Drama, Horror
After a horrific car crash your character ends up in an asylum. You must find out how you came to be there and recover your identity.
Director: Martin Stoltz | Stars: Frank Schurter, Stephen Bennett, Brad Broman, Amanda Crocker
Votes: 490
46.
The Hitchhiker (1983–1991)
Episode:
When Morning Comes
(1990)
TV-MA | 27 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Married sleazy advertising executive and music producer Bob Ames finds gorgeous, seductive Cathie Marks hiding in his cabin in the woods during a rainstorm. Is she a dream come true or something more sinister and dangerous?
Director: Ivan Nagy | Stars: Nicholas Campbell, Page Fletcher, Pamela Bowman, Tabitha Herrington
Votes: 110
47.
Night Visions (2001–2002)
Episode:
Cargo/Switch
(2002)
TV-14 | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
The new cargo officer becomes too emphatic towards the plight of a group of mysterious Eastern-European stowaways. / A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder enters her mind to defeat her other personalities.
Directors: Tobe Hooper, Jefery Levy | Stars: Johnny Cuthbert, Micah Gardener, Cameron Gilley, Brent Glenen
Votes: 98
48.
Picket Fences (1992–1996)
Episode:
Remembering Rosemary
(1992)
47 min | Crime, Drama, Family
On Halloween, the only witness to a 10-year-old suicide case breaks her silence to announce "murder" which sends Maxine off to dig into a local history of the victim's life. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly
Votes: 99
49.
Sleepwalkers (1997–1998)
Episode:
Night Terrors
(1997)
TV-14 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Kate and Nathan, who's being haunted by the memories of their dead partner McCaig, investigate the night terrors of a young boy who's being influenced during sleep by a smiling trickster. The boy's missing sister turns out to be the key.
Director: Kristoffer Tabori | Stars: Naomi Watts, Abraham Benrubi, Bruce Greenwood, Harry Groener
Votes: 16
50.
Special Unit 2 (2001–2002)
Episode:
The Web
(2001)
Action, Comedy, Crime
Something is seducing and killing young men, and the Special Unit 2 Squad suspects a young woman of being a 'spider mutant' link. A young girl is also attacked by the creature and is taken ... See full summary »
Director: John T. Kretchmer | Stars: Michael Landes, Alexondra Lee, Richard Gant, Danny Woodburn
Votes: 49