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, Patient Seven, You Shall Not Sleep, Glass, The Attic Expeditions, K-PAX, Unsane, Stonehearst Asylum, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

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

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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: 5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySpain, Argentina, Uruguay
    Duration01:59

    In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without sleep, they reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the secrets of the place and the energies that inhabit it. When Bianca, a young, promising actress, joins the cast, competing for the lead role, she must survive not only the intensity of the work and her cast mates, but the unknown force that is pulling them towards a tragic outcome.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, China
    Duration02:09

    In a series of escalating encounters, security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:40

    Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor in an attempt to learn the whereabouts of a powerful occult book. As other patients start to disappear, Trevor begins to wonder who and where he really is.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, drama, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration02:00

    Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

    Markimdb: 8.7
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.

    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: 5.2
    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: 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: 2.6
    Genrehorror
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:28

    Lisa Templeton begins a new job as a cleaner at High Hopes Hospital, a mental institution in Amityville, Long Island. Initially delighted to get the job, Lisa soon realises that all is not as it seems. Intimidated by staff and the psychotic ramblings of the patients, she is further unnerved by apparent supernatural occurrences on the night shift. To preserve her sanity Lisa must uncover the mysterious history of the institution and it's inmates. But the truth is far more terrifying than she could ever imagine.

    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: 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
      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: 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: 7.3
        Genredrama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend, Barrett convinces the doctors at the institution to commit him. Once inside, he begins his investigation -- and gradually loses his mind.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:40

        Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a variety of illnesses.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, fantasy, musical, adventure, family, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:53

        Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:50

        Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased serial killer. It eventually leads him to a catatonic patient in a psychiatric hospital who has recently started to speak, claiming he is the The Gemini and detailing the murders, but bears a striking resemblance to Father Damien Karras.

        Markimdb: 8.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryEgypt

        Psychiatrist Dr. Yehia returns to El-Abbaseya Hospital five years after the death of his family. His return coincide with the arrival of a new patient, Sherif, a friend from college, who is accused of murder.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, fantasy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy's decided to herald his return by invading the kids' dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.

        Markimdb: 2.3
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        In 1968, in the Ravenside Military Hospital in a military facility in Pennsylvania, the army loses control of an experiment of a lethal bacteriologic weapon that changes the DNA and transforms human beings into zombies. A group of soldiers is sent to the hospital to eliminate the infected staff and interns but private DeLuca steals a test tube with the virus and hides it inside a vacuum flask. He is transformed into a zombie and killed but the vacuum flask falls in the grass. In the present days, a group of patients in the mental institution Ravenside Memorial Hospital finds the vacuum flask and later when one of them opens the vessel, the culture tube drops on the floor of a bathroom contaminating the group and their Dr. Donwynn.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genredrama, crime
        CountryDenmark, Sweden

        Helen, a priest, is approached by scientist Lisbeth with a desperate plea for help. A young man, who has been sent to a high security psychiatric ward after having killed an old couple, has attempted suicide while rambling about God. Having been part of an experiment attempting to humanize inmates by assigning them pets, the young man has suddenly gone ballistic. Fearing that he will attempt suicide again priest and scientist must now confront their mutual animosities while trying to grasp the truth. In a race against time the two women begin a shocking journey deeper and deeper into the sick mind of a young man's soul.

        Markimdb: 2.8
        Genrefantastic, action
        CountryUSA

        Hundreds of massive intergalactic robots appear in all of the world's major capitals with an ultimatum: Prove the value of human civilization or be destroyed.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genredocumentary
        CountryRussia
        Duration01:50

        How is it possible to feel someone elses pain? The hero of this film is an autistic boy. His life is divided between an apartment with peeling walls on the outskirts of a large city, and a mental hospital. Anton comes into the frame when he is on the point of becoming a patient at a residential neuropsychiatric institution, a place where people with the sort of diagnosis that he has do not live long. The author, the camera, the hero. The distance between them shrinks with every passing minute, and the author has to enter the shot and become a character in the story. However, it is not a story about how one person helped another, but about how one person recognized herself in another. About how there is Another who lives in each of us and must be destroyed every day inside of us in order to survive.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration01:35

        In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. After 35 years, Evan escapes from a mental institution and returns to town for revenge, killing off residents one by one. When Jennifer and her friends break into the Rendell house out of morbid curiosity, Evan notices Jennifer has a heart condition similar to his mother and decides to make her his final victim.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genredrama
        CountryFrance
        Duration01:32

        An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, Christine's father ships her off to a home for emotionally disturbed children, temporarily putting space between her and Gilles. Luckily for them, though, she escapes and the couple contemplate running away together.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. Although Kane's own grasp on sanity is questionable, he manages to engage Cutshaw in a series of thoughtful conversations about science and faith that deeply affect the lives of both men.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountrySpain
        Duration01:47

        During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrecomedy
        CountryFrance, Belgium

        A psychiatric hospital patient pretends to be crazy. In charge of caring for this patient, a caregiver will begin to doubt the mental state of his "protégé".

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:50

        Rachel Keller must prevent evil Samara from taking possession of her son's soul.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:37

        A group of strangers wake up in an abandoned hospital to find themselves stalked by a supernatural force with sinister intentions.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountrySpain, France, Portugal
        Duration01:41

        Set in Catalonia, Painless weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the '60s, an asylum attempts to rehabilitate children who feel no pain, by teaching them physical suffering. In the second, in the present time, a brilliant neurosurgeon who needs a bone marrow transplant, discovers this dark past when he searches for his biological parents.

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