American Psychiatric Hospital Movies

List of the best American movies about psychiatric hospitals, selected by visitors to our portal: Sucker Punch, You're Next, Slumber, Sanitarium, Another Happy Day, Leatherface, Sanatorium, Arthur Newman, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, 10 Days in a Madhouse.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:50

    A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:34

      When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:01

      A sleep doctor tries to protect a family from a demon that feeds on people in their nightmares.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA

      A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they may just get their answer the hard way when members of the team mysteriously disappear, leaving behind unnerving evidence.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama, detective, biography, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      Nellie Bly, a 23 year-old reporter for Joseph Pulitzer, goes undercover in the notorious Blackwell's Island women's insane asylum in order to expose corruption, abuse and murder.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      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.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA

      When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA

      Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical manic highs to suicidal depressive lows, until they have to choose between sanity and love.

      Markimdb: 3.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:19

      In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted' institution, famous for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness. Electroshock, insulin therapy, and lobotomies were commonplace. Once inside, the filmmakers quickly discovered that they were not alone.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:30

      Twenty years ago in the sleepy mining town of Valentine Bluffs, a fatal mining disaster occurred on Valentine's Day while some of the crew was decorating for a party. The sole survivor of the accident killed the remaining crewmembers and warned the town not to celebrate Valentine's Day again. When a group of teenagers decides to defy that order, a murderous maniac in mining gear begins dispatching townsfolk in bloody and creative ways.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:32

        A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        A team of paranormal investigators go on one last job to a haunted mental institution where children have reportedly gone missing. While searching for evidence of what is haunting the abandoned building, they stumble upon clues that reveal what made the former head doctor snap and go on a killing spree through the halls decades earlier. Unfortunately, the more they uncover, the more they struggle to make it out of the asylum alive because something inside wants that mystery to stay dead and buried.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrecomedy
        CountryFrance, Belgium, USA
        Duration01:35

        A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        A married woman's affair comes back to haunt her when her obsessed lover infiltrates every part of her life.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        Laurel Canyon focuses on Sam and Alex, a pair of upper-middle class lovebirds from the East Coast who relocate to Los Angeles. Enter Jane, Sam's estranged mother, a successful record producer, who's more than willing to put the couple up in her lavish digs. As Sam and Alex settle in at Jane's, they gradually lose their straight-and-narrow approach to life and begin to experiment.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryAustralia, USA

        A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:01

        A high school student falls asleep while sitting in class. When he wakes up, all time is frozen, except for him.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

          A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, detective
          CountryUSA

          It's four years later, and a new group of students has been placed in Saturday detention at the infamous and prestigious Crestview Academy. When Siouxsie, sophomore 'undercrust,' crashes the party to avenge her sister's death, a Saturday detention reserved for the privileged seniors of Crestview Academy turns into a date in hell. It's not long before a naïve pussycat lover, gay drug dealer, smokin' hot preacher's daughter, squeaky-clean senator's son, and the uninvited younger outsider find themselves locked-up in school with no way out, wondering who (or what) has set them up. Hilarity and suspense ensue while each 'bad kid' pits one against the other, and one by one each falls victim to absurdly gruesome 'accidents' while trying to escape.

          Markimdb: 4.5
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:19

          Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryRepublic of Ireland, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, France, USA
          Duration01:46

          Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure, family, cartoon, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:16

          Based on the hit video game series, Batman must find a bomb planted by the Joker while dealing with a mysterious team of villains called, The Suicide Squad.

          Markimdb: 3.1
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA

          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 Porter. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness she’s awakened within him.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography
          CountryAustralia, USA
          Duration01:55

          Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom, India, USA

          London-raised Ronnie returns to his home in India to discover his mother Suleka has died in mysterious circumstances. As he uncovers a series of similar past murders, Ronnie's own inner-darkness come to light.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
          CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom
          Duration01:53

          Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
          CountryHong Kong, China, USA
          Duration01:55

          Wanted criminal "Helios" and his assistant stole a quantity of uranium and plan to produce weapons of mass destruction. They are planning to trade with a terrorist organization in Hong Kong. Chief Inspector Lee Yinming and Inspector Fan Kaming lead the Counter Terrorism Response Unit of the Hong Kong Police Force. Along with a Chinese senior official, a physics professor, and two South Korean weapon experts, they hope to defuse a crisis sufficient to destroy the world.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genreaction, melodrama, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:06

          Karen and Jack met in a mental hospital and fell in love. They set out to follow what Jack thinks is his destiny: killing Elvis Presley.

          Markimdb: 4.2
          Genrehorror
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:23

          In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrecomedy, crime, detective
          CountryGermany, USA
          Duration01:25

          A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at a bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genredocumentary
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:39

          Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium. Keanu Reeves explores the development of cinema and the impact of digital filmmaking via in-depth interviews with Hollywood masters, such as James Cameron, David Fincher, David Lynch, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Steven Soderbergh, and many more.

          Markimdb: 8.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:00

          A young fresh-faced Hill staffer gets her first job in Washington, D.C. and discovering two things: 1. The government has stopped working, and 2. alien spawn have come to earth and eaten the brains of a growing number of Congressmen and Hill staffers.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:21

          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!

          Markimdb: 5.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:41

          Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica Pierce is erroneously convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family. But when her psychiatrist introduces a new therapeutic “tool” to facilitate his patients’ group sessions — an all-too-familiar “Good Guy” doll with an innocently smiling face — a string of grisly deaths begins to plague the asylum, and Nica starts to wonder if maybe she isn’t crazy after all. Meanwhile, Andy Barclay, Chucky’s now all-grown-up nemesis from the first three Child’s Plays, races to Nica’s aid. But to save her he’ll have to get past Tiffany, Chucky’s long-ago bride, who will do anything, no matter how deadly or depraved, to help her beloved evil devilish doll.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:30

          Everybody has the sibling who is always just a little bit behind the curve when it comes to getting his life together. For sisters Liz, Miranda and Natalie, that person is their perennially upbeat brother Ned, an erstwhile organic farmer whose willingness to rely on the honesty of mankind is a less-than-optimum strategy for a tidy, trouble-free existence. Ned may be utterly lacking in common sense, but he is their brother and so, after his girlfriend dumps him and boots him off the farm, his sisters once again come to his rescue. As Liz, Miranda and Natalie each take a turn at housing Ned, their brother's unfailing commitment to honesty creates more than a few messes in their comfortable routines. But as each of their lives begins to unravel, Ned's family comes to realize that maybe, in believing and trusting the people around him, Ned isn't such an idiot after all.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
          CountryFrance, Spain, USA, Belgium
          Duration01:57

          Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genredrama, family
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Inspired by a true story, “Beyond the Blackboard” is about a 24-year-old first-time teacher who makes a difference in the lives of the homeless children she teaches in a shelter’s makeshift classroom. Set in 1987 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this movie tells the story a brand-new teacher and Mom who is given a tougher than expected teaching job and winds up teaching homeless children in a school that is housed in a room and called, literally, The School with No Name. She has some personal prejudicial hurdles to cross before she is able to be a true teacher for these children and of course there are hurdles like the lack of books and supplies.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryIndia, USA
          Duration02:52

          To avenge his father's death, a circus entertainer trained in magic and acrobatics turns thief to take down a corrupt bank in Chicago. Two cops from Mumbai are assigned to the case.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA, France, Belgium
          Duration01:25

          A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrecomedy, sport
          CountryUSA

          Jimmy Price is a reckless man-child on the last leg of his career as a doubles tennis player. When his latest partner drops him, he realizes he's officially burned all of his bridges on the pro circuit. He decides to make one last ditch effort to revive his career, reaching outside of the tennis world and convincing his childhood partner -- his estranged brother Darren, now an apathetic substitute teacher - to team up with him. The mismatched pair, with the help of a unique 11-year-old named Barry, make an unlikely run at a grand slam tournament and are forced to re-discover their game, and their brotherhood.

          Markimdb: 4
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:21

          A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where to be found and the towns people act like they haven't seen him in years. They also say that the killer never existed and the murders never happened. However, when the kids start digging around to get their own answers, they find out that the stories maybe more real than the townspeople are letting on!

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryUSA

          Beautiful aspiring rock star Jude is stuck in a rut - relegated to recording commercial jingles and lost in a series of one night stands. When she is evicted from her Brooklyn apartment, she is forced to move into the Hamptons home of her wealthy - and selfish - father Paul Lombard, an over-the-hill, Sinatra-esque crooner angling for a musical comeback.




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