Mental Institution Movies, Movies about Mental Institution

Here we've displayed a list of the best Mental Institution films : The Dead Center(2018), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975), The Best of Youth(2002), Shutter Island(2010), Sling Blade(1996), Random Harvest(1942), Miracle on 34th Street(1947), Harvey(1950), Family Life(1971), Suddenly, Last Summer(1959), Spellbound(1945), Face to Face(1975) ... ...

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The Dead Center

The Dark Knight with a twist. It's based on The Joker memes from the internet.

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

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The Best of Youth

An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.

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Shutter Island

In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.

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Sling Blade

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

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Random Harvest

An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.

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Miracle on 34th Street

When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

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Harvey

Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows.

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Family Life

A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.

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Suddenly, Last Summer

A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.

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Spellbound

A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.

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Face to Face

A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.

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The Snake Pit

A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.

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Elling

When his mother, who has sheltered him his entire 40 years, dies, Elling, a sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and... See full summary »

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An Angel at My Table

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.

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King of Hearts

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula

The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.

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Girl, Interrupted

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.

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Freud

An examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.

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Meri Jung

Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle.

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The Pink Panther Strikes Again

Charles Dreyfus (Herbert Lom), who has finally cracked over Inspector Jacques Clouseau's (Peter Sellers') antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

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David and Lisa

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people.

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Ministry of Fear

Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot, and tries to stop it.

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A Child Is Waiting

Psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of the Crawthorne State Training Institute, one of the first boarding schools for developmentally challenged children. Dr. Clark is sympathetic ... See full summary »

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It's Kind of a Funny Story

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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Kings and Queen

Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.

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High Wall

After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.

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Captain Newman, M.D.

In 1944, an Army doctor is in charge of a neuropsychiatric ward at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona, and he must deal with a variety of tough cases.

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The Ninth Configuration

A former marine arrives at a mental asylum housed in a remote castle to run it. There he attempts to rehabilitate the patients by letting them act out their craziest fantasies and desires.

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Household Saints

Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.

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