Movies about psychiatric hospitals

Movies about psychiatric hospitals
List of the best movies about psychiatric hospitals selected by visitors to our portal: The Ward, Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story, It's Kind of a Funny Story, Ingrid Goes West, Sanitarium, I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK, 10 Days in a Madhouse, Arthur Newman, Eloise, The Awakening.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

    A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA

    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 inside. The movie is an account of actual events surrounding Nellie’s stay beginning after she has undergone treatment, leaving her with no recollection of how she came to the asylum or her real identity.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

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

    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: 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: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:45

    Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task - to cure Young-goon’s mental problem and have her eat real food.

    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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:42

      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.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama, military, music
      CountryRussia, France
      Duration01:59

      The war film that's not a war film. A film about the mental institution which backdrop is the Chechen war. A story about the patients living in an institution during the war on the border of Chechnia and Russia during the war. The patients have to continue living their day to day life after being invaded twice over, and they have to deal with their sicknesses.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:25

      Stephanie, a dedicated mother and popular vlogger, befriends Emily, a mysterious upper-class woman whose son Nicky attends the same school as Miles, Stephanie's son. When Emily asks her to pick Nicky up from school and then disappears, Stephanie undertakes an investigation that will dive deep into Emily's cloudy past.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, Spain
      Duration01:28

      A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama
      CountrySpain

      After a magical night together, Adri voluntarily turns himself into the psychiatric institution where Carla lives.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama, biography
      CountryIceland, Norway, Germany, Sweden, Denmark
      Duration01:40

      The story of an Icelandic man and his slow descent into madness. Along his journey he meets Dagný, the initial cause of his breakdown. Other people he meets in the asylum have been committed for various reasons, such as signing cheques for Adolf Hitler and, believing themselves to be writing songs for the Beatles and telepathically transmitting to the band.

      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: 6.1
      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: 3.6
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        Five dangerous patients, suffering from extreme phobias at a government testing facility, are put to the ultimate test under the supervision of a crazed doctor and his quest to weaponize fear.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genremelodrama, drama, military, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:16

        The life of celebrated but reclusive author, J.D. Salinger, who gained worldwide fame with the publication of his novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

        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: 5.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved murders that happened many years ago in the housing projects when the rookie cop was just a kid. These letters bring back bad memories and old secrets that begin to threaten his career and break up his family.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.

        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: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA, Canada, Mexico
        Duration01:36

        Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

        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: 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: 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: 4.5
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Emily and Nate Weaver leave the city for the rural comfort of Nate’s ancestral home in the country. Once there, Emily is plagued by horrifying visions and haunted by the ghosts inhabiting their isolated new home. When Nate’s behavior undergoes a strange and fearful metamorphosis, Emily fears she might be the latest target in a murderous tradition.

        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: 5.1
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA

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

        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: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom

        A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, her tail is chopped off and she's thrown into a mental home where no one believes she is a mermaid.

        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: 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: 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: 6.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:15

        When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and terrifying events that had once tested her sanity and threatened her safety. A frightening entity with a mysterious attachment to their mother, Sophie, has reemerged.

        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: 4.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:05

        Taking place years after The Haunting of Molly Hartley, who now, as an adult, has fallen under the possession of an evil spirit and must be exorcised by a fallen priest before the devil completely takes her.

        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: 5
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        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 parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, western
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        Bank robber Graham Dorsey spends a few hours with beautiful widow Amanda Starbuck, in which time his gang takes part in a disastrous holdup. Learning of his comrades' demise, Dorsey goes on the lam. Believing her short-term lover was killed by the law, Amanda decides to make the most of having had a liaison with the supposedly deceased desperado by writing a book about him. Much to his confusion, the still-living Dorsey watches as his name becomes legendary.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:54

        The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is also struggling against alcoholism. Into his life comes the famous gossip columnist.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which cracks the seal to the Dead Pit, freeing the evil doctor to continue his work.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        In 1974, Terry commits a murder and pins it on his twin brother, Todd. Ten years later, Todd escapes from a mental institution on the same day as Terry’s murderous instincts resurface.

        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.




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