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) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
93 Minutes
Poorna Jagannathan Jeremy Childs Bill Feehely Rachel Agee J. Thomas Bailey Bridget Berger Brandon Boyd Jared Carter Harry P. Castros Shane Carruth
psychiatrist mental patient chilling creepy gripping mental institution amnesia possession haunting revenge 21st century
The Dark Knight with a twist. It's based on The Joker memes from the internet.
Drama
USA
1975
133 Minutes
Jack Nicholson Louise Fletcher Brad Dourif William Redfield Michael Berryman Peter Brocco Dean R. Brooks Alonzo Brown Scatman Crothers Danny DeVito Christopher Lloyd
anti-hero nurse native american mentally challenged patient bleak gutsy powerful mental institution oregon boat abuse rebellion conformity mental illness rivalry transformation 1960s
A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Drama
Italy
2002
358 Minutes
Luigi Lo Cascio Alessio Boni Adriana Asti Sonia Bergamasco Fabrizio Gifuni Maya Sansa Valentina Carnelutti Jasmine Trinca Andrea Tidona Lidia Vitale Camilla Filippi
doctor brother mental patient photographer wife mother mellow italy family home mental institution street library family politics class distinctions marriage social change activism growing up transformation
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers, from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2010
138 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Mark Ruffalo Ben Kingsley Max von Sydow Michelle Williams Emily Mortimer Patricia Clarkson Jackie Earle Haley Ted Levine John Carroll Lynch Elias Koteas
marshal psychiatrist wife patient brooding dark eerie thrilling island mental institution massachusetts missing persons mental illness murder quest mystery discovery 1950s
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.
Drama
USA
1996
136 Minutes
Billy Bob Thornton Dwight Yoakam J.T. Walsh John Ritter Lucas Black Natalie Canerday James Hampton Robert Duvall Rick Dial Brent Briscoe Christy Ward
mentally challenged young boy mother boyfriend father somber powerful bleak endearing offbeat arkansas small town mental institution small-town life mental illness violence abuse redemption sacrifice rescue
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.
Drama
USA
1942
124 Minutes
Ronald Colman Greer Garson Philip Dorn Susan Peters Reginald Owen Henry Travers Margaret Wycherly Bramwell Fletcher Arthur Margetson Jill Esmond Marta Linden
veteran showgirl fiancée sibling doctor government official emotional passionate england mental institution music hall household small town amnesia world war i car crash inheritance election relationships love
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.
Comedy, Other, Drama
USA
1947
96 Minutes
Maureen O'Hara John Payne Edmund Gwenn Gene Lockhart Natalie Wood Porter Hall William Frawley Thelma Ritter Jack Albertson Jerome Cowan Philip Tonge
santa claus lawyer daughter event coordinator wealthy man charming endearing touching new york city department store courtroom mental institution christmas faith childhood court battles discovery love quest 1940s
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.
Comedy
USA
1950
104 Minutes
James Stewart Josephine Hull Cecil Kellaway Peggy Dow Charles Drake Victoria Horne Jesse White William Lynn Wallace Ford Nana Bryant Grace Mills
alcoholic sister doctor manager daughter judge winsome cheery charming lighthearted small town bar family home mental institution mental illness family small-town life nonconformity imagination discovery
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.
Drama
UK
1971
105 Minutes
Sandy Ratcliff Bill Dean Grace Cave
mother father daughter nurse bleak disheartening intense london mental institution mental illness abortion rebellion family depression aimless youth growing up escape 1970s
A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
UK|USA
1959
114 Minutes
Elizabeth Taylor Montgomery Clift Katharine Hepburn Albert Van Dekker Mercedes McCambridge Gene Raymond Mavis Villiers Patricia Marmont Joan Young Maria Britneva Sheila Robbins
debutante aunt surgeon patient brooding dark melodramatic mental institution new orleans house mental illness betrayal family history death trauma family dysfunction discovery mystery forbidden love 1930s
A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
111 Minutes
Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck Michael Chekhov Leo G. Carroll Rhonda Fleming John Emery Norman Lloyd Bill Goodwin Steven Geray Donald Curtis Wallace Ford
doctor impostor detective psychoanalyst dense gripping suspenseful intricate vermont new york city mental institution ski resort amnesia psychoanalysis murder love deception quest love mystery
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Drama
Sweden
1975
136 Minutes
Liv Ullmann Erland Josephson Gunnar Björnstrand Aino Taube-Henrikson Kari Sylwan Sif Ruud
psychiatrist grandmother grandfather patient rapist dark creative uneasy mental institution house sweden mental breakdown suicide psychoanalysis memory discovery transformation 1970s
A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown.
Drama
USA
1948
108 Minutes
mental patient husband psychiatrist disturbing emotional gripping mental institution united states household mental illness marriage romance childhood psychoanalysis fall love transformation 1940s
A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
Comedy, Drama
Norway
2001
84 Minutes
Per Christian Ellefsen Sven Nordin Per Christensen Jørgen Langhelle Marit Pia Jacobsen Hilde Olausson Ola Otnes
son mentally challenged person friend roommate amusing touching charming offbeat apartment mental institution restaurant oslo, norway friendship mental illness phobias poetry roommates adventure discovery transformation
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 »
Biography
New Zealand|Australia|UK|USA
1990
158 Minutes
Kerry Fox Alexia Keogh Karen Fergusson Iris Churn Kevin J. Wilson Melina Bernecker Glynis Angell Sarah Smuts-Kennedy Colin McColl Martyn Sanderson David Letch
writer mother father brother sister emotional moving new zealand household mental institution writers mental illness family janet frame depression growing up discovery underdog 1980s
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.
Comedy
France|Italy
1966
102 Minutes
Alan Bates Geneviève Bujold Pierre Brasseur Jean-Claude Brialy Françoise Christophe Julien Guiomar Micheline Presle Michel Serrault Adolfo Celi Daniel Boulanger Palau
soldier mental patient lunatic amusing cheeky spirited france small town mental institution madness war mental illness dangerous assignment bomb quest discovery 1910s
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.
Horror
UK|USA
1992
123 Minutes
Gary Oldman Winona Ryder Anthony Hopkins Keanu Reeves Richard E. Grant Cary Elwes Billy Campbell Sadie Frost Tom Waits Monica Bellucci Michaela Bercu
lawyer vampire friend nun victim fiancée frightening creepy passionate suspenseful dark transylvania garden mental institution cemetery romania estate seduction sex supernatural
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.
Drama
Germany|USA
1999
127 Minutes
Winona Ryder Angelina Jolie Clea DuVall Brittany Murphy Elisabeth Moss Jared Leto Jeffrey Tambor Vanessa Redgrave Whoopi Goldberg Mary Kay Place Jillian Armenante
young woman psychologist friend rival parent troubled youth brooding dark raw engaging tense bleak mental institution tunnel home mental breakdown mental illness medicine psychosis suicide
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the late 1960s.
Biography
USA
1962
140 Minutes
Montgomery Clift Susannah York Larry Parks Susan Kohner Eileen Herlie Fernand Ledoux David McCallum Rosalie Crutchley David Kossoff Joseph Fürst Alexander Mango
psychiatrist patient mentor wife brooding dreamy inspiring vienna mental institution paris sigmund freud psychoanalysis dreams ambition mental illness discovery transformation underdog 1880s
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.
Drama
India
1985
163 Minutes
Nutan Behl Anil Kapoor Amrish Puri Javed Jaffrey Girish Karnad Kamal Kapoor
lawyer innocent man son widow sister wife melodramatic sad tense india beach courtroom mental institution murder family false accusations execution vengeance law quest
Two top lawyers battle against each other while the whole city witnesses the battle.
Comedy
UK|USA
1976
103 Minutes
Peter Sellers Herbert Lom Colin Blakely Leonard Rossiter Lesley-Anne Down Burt Kwouk André Maranne Byron Kane
inspector clouseau servant spy hit man president crazy person cheeky hilarious frenetic germany england mental institution oktoberfest castle paris doomsday machine retribution investigation murder plot blackmail
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.
Drama
USA
1962
94 Minutes
young man girl mother psychiatrist eerie dark intense mental institution city house mental illness family dysfunction trust maturing love discovery transformation 1960s
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.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
85 Minutes
Ray Milland Marjorie Reynolds Carl Esmond Hillary Brooke Percy Waram Dan Duryea Alan Napier Erskine Sanford Thomas Louden Aminta Dyne Rita Johnson
spy patient nazi detective psychic girl chilling dark crafty mental institution london fair train espionage world war ii paranoia escape 1940s
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.
Drama
USA
1963
102 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Judy Garland Gena Rowlands Steven Hill Bruce Ritchey Gloria McGehee Paul Stewart Lawrence Tierney Elizabeth Wilson Barbara Pepper John Marley
teacher principal mentally challenged son mother father melodramatic emotional mental institution family home mental retardation parenthood education growing up transformation 1960s
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 »
Comedy, Drama
USA
2010
100 Minutes
Ryan Fleck Keir Gilchrist Zach Galifianakis Emma Roberts Viola Davis Lauren Graham Jim Gaffigan Zoë Kravitz Aasif Mandvi Jeremy Davies Karen Chilton
teen boy mental patient teen girl doctor mentor endearing emotional amusing mental institution prep school suicide mental illness friendship meaning of life self-discovery therapy fall transformation rise 2010s
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Comedy, Drama
France
2004
150 Minutes
Emmanuelle Devos Mathieu Amalric Catherine Deneuve Maurice Garrel Nathalie Boutefeu Jean-Paul Roussillon Magalie Woch Hippolyte Girardot Noémie Lvovsky Elsa Wolliaston Geoffrey Carey
father daughter grandchild ex-lover fiancé emotional grenoble, france mental institution family home paris family terminal illness love marriage mental illness transformation quest 2000s
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.
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
99 Minutes
Robert Taylor Audrey Totter Herbert Marshall Dorothy Patrick H.B. Warner Warner Anderson Moroni Olsen John Ridgely Morris Ankrum Elisabeth Risdon Vince Barnett
veteran doctor lawyer nurse mental patient dark suspenseful mental institution innocence love murder amnesia pursuit rise 1940s
After a brain-damaged man confesses to murder and is committed, Dr. Ann Lorrison tries to prove his innocence.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1963
126 Minutes
Gregory Peck Tony Curtis Bobby Darin Angie Dickinson Eddie Albert James Gregory Bethel Leslie Robert Duvall
psychiatrist captain war hero soldier commander mental patient playful emotional endearing sad mental institution psychiatrist's office post-traumatic stress disorder world war ii guilt psychiatry affair suicide transformation sacrifice
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.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1980
108 Minutes
Stacy Keach Scott Wilson Ed Flanders Jason Miller Neville Brand George Di Cenzo Moses Gunn Robert Loggia Joe Spinell Alejandro Rey Tom Atkins
colonel captain psychiatrist astronaut mental patient cheeky quirky profound uneasy washington state mental institution castle post-traumatic stress disorder existential crisis faith disillusionment psychiatry insanity discovery fall
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.
Comedy
USA
1993
124 Minutes
Tracey Ullman Vincent D'Onofrio Lili Taylor Judith Malina Michael Rispoli Victor Argo Michael Imperioli Rachael Bella Illeana Douglas Joe Grifasi
butcher wife mother-in-law daughter father law student emotional uneasy inspiring little italy, n.y. apartment college mental institution butcher shop new york city family roman catholicism italian-americans marriage assimilation
Unsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy.