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1. Death Wish (1974)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats
Votes: 43,989 | Gross: $22.00M
2. Lansky (2021)
R | 119 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated by the Feds, who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangster reveals the untold truth about his life as the boss of the National Crime Syndicate.
Director: Eytan Rockaway | Stars: Harvey Keitel, Sam Worthington, John Magaro, Minka Kelly
Votes: 10,130
3. The Ward (2010)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An institutionalized young woman becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Amber Heard, Mamie Gummer, Danielle Panabaker, Laura-Leigh
Votes: 44,850
4. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
PG | 88 min | Action, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic world that has embraced ape slavery, Caesar, the son of the late simians Cornelius and Zira, surfaces after almost twenty years of hiding out from the authorities, and prepares for a slave revolt against humanity.
Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy
Votes: 35,805 | Gross: $9.81M
5. Unsane (2018)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple
Votes: 49,885 | Gross: $7.73M
6. Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
Not Rated | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
A detective is assigned to protect a princess who prophecies the Earth's end with the arrival of a powerful space monster. Mothra and her fairies must persuade Godzilla and Rodan to set aside their differences or face the invader alone.
Director: Ishirô Honda | Stars: Yôsuke Natsuki, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi, Akiko Wakabayashi
Votes: 7,902
7. Shock (1977)
R | 93 min | Horror
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband, who possesses their young son.
Directors: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava | Stars: Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr., Ivan Rassimov
Votes: 4,662
8. Shock Corridor (1963)
Approved | 101 min | Drama, Mystery
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best
Votes: 13,042
9. The Story of Piera (1983)
105 min | Biography, Drama
This erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti.
Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Marcello Mastroianni, Angelo Infanti
Votes: 840
10. The Snake Pit (1948)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Mystery
A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm
Votes: 8,415 | Gross: $10.00M
11. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Votes: 13,656
12. Howl (2010)
R | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
As Allen Ginsberg talks about his life and art, his most famous poem is illustrated in animation while the obscenity trial of the work is dramatized.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: James Franco, Todd Rotondi, Jon Prescott, Aaron Tveit
Votes: 13,400 | Gross: $0.62M
13. Night Train to Terror (1985)
R | 98 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Night Train to Terror" is a 1985 horror anthology movie where God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals.
Directors: John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, Gregg G. Tallas | Stars: Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin, Stacey Lyons, Linda Maderas
Votes: 2,822
14. Chattahoochee (1989)
R | 98 min | Biography, Drama
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.
Director: Mick Jackson | Stars: Gary Oldman, Dennis Hopper, Frances McDormand, Pamela Reed
Votes: 2,418 | Gross: $0.26M
15. Family Life (1971)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave, Malcolm Tierney
Votes: 2,069
16. Shock (1946)
Passed | 70 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A psychologically distraught woman is committed to a private sanitarium by the man she witnessed commit a murder.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw
Votes: 3,293
17. Shock Treatment (1973)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A French businesswoman goes to a remote and popular rejuvenation clinic after a breakup, and begins to suspect the treatment methods used by the head doctor, and slowly uncovers the horrible secret behind the clinic's success.
Director: Alain Jessua | Stars: Alain Delon, Annie Girardot, Robert Hirsch, Michel Duchaussoy
Votes: 1,773
18. Cosi (1996)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Lewis is a young Sydney amateur theater director at his first experience: he is offered a job with a Governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Joffe | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths
Votes: 2,239
19. Bettie Page Reveals All (2012)
R | 101 min | Documentary, Biography
The world's greatest pinup model and cult icon, Bettie Page, recounts the true story of how her free expression overcame government witch-hunts to help launch America's sexual revolution.
Director: Mark Mori | Stars: Bettie Page, Hugh Hefner, Olivia de Berardinis, Dita Von Teese
Votes: 1,630 | Gross: $0.10M
20. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
55 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Yoshiki Arizono, Tadanobu Asano, Masakatsu Funaki, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 2,709
21. Home Before Dark (1958)
Not Rated | 136 min | Drama
Simmons is magnetic as Charlotte, her lovely, delicate face reflecting the inner turmoil of a woman battling for sanity after she walks out of a mental institution.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Votes: 1,268
22. Tarnation (2003)
Unrated | 88 min | Documentary, Biography
Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8 film, answering machine messages, video diaries, early short films, and more - culled from nineteen years of his life.
Director: Jonathan Caouette | Stars: Jonathan Caouette, Renee Leblanc, Adolph Davis, Rosemary Davis
Votes: 6,708 | Gross: $0.59M
23. Thenali (2000)
164 min | Comedy, Drama
A neurotic Sri Lankan patient crashes his psychotherapist's family vacation in Kodaikanal.
Director: K.S. Ravikumar | Stars: Kamal Haasan, Jayaram, Jyotika, Devayani
Votes: 2,524
24. Shock Treatment (1964)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An actor hired to locate $1 million in stolen loot endures the rigors of an insane asylum.
Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Lauren Bacall
Votes: 611
25. Insanitarium (2008 Video)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
After he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths.
Director: Jeff Buhler | Stars: Jesse Metcalfe, Kiele Sanchez, Peter Stormare, Kevin Sussman
Votes: 4,849
26. Victim (I) (2010)
74 min | Horror, Thriller
A young man finds himself held captive by a mysterious doctor and his brutish henchman.
Directors: Matt Eskandari, Michael A. Pierce | Stars: Stephen Weigand, Bob Bancroft, Brendan Kelly, Jelly Howie
Votes: 5,192
27. The Firing Line (1988)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action
An American military advisor becomes disillusioned by the brutality and corruption of the Central American government which hired him. When his shift in sympathies becomes known, he's ... See full summary »
Director: Jun Gallardo | Stars: Reb Brown, Shannon Tweed, Kahlena Marie, Mel Davidson
Votes: 389
28. The Black Cat (1966)
73 min | Horror
A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him.
Director: Harold Hoffman | Stars: Robert Frost, Robyn Baker, Sadie French, Scotty McKay
Votes: 439
29. Dilwale (1994)
Not Rated | 172 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A police officer finds out the truth about a mental patient and helps him bring the perpetrators to justice.
Director: Harry Baweja | Stars: Ajay Devgn, Suniel Shetty, Raveena Tandon, Gulshan Grover
Votes: 3,174
30. The Seduction of Dr. Fugazzi (2009)
Not Rated | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
Dr. Anna Fugazzi seems to have the perfect life, but her deepest, darkest secret is beginning to resurface and only Detective Rowland can bring her back from the edge.
Director: October Kingsley | Stars: October Kingsley, Faye Dunaway, Jeff Van Atta, Craig Banks
Votes: 485
31. Wild Tango (1993)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a military regime.
Director: Marcelo Piñeyro | Stars: Fernán Mirás, Cecilia Dopazo, Imanol Arias, Antonio Birabent
Votes: 1,755
32. Los placeres ocultos (1989)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A beautiful female psychiatrist is brutally raped by someone disguised in a strange and exotic fashion - and left for dead at the foot of a precipice. Will someone find her and save her life?
Director: René Cardona Jr. | Stars: Sonia Infante, Humberto Zurita, Angela Alatriste
Votes: 79
33. Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
The love story between British writer, Christopher Isherwood (whose book 'The Berlin Stories' inspired the musical and film Cabaret) and Don Bachardy, American portrait artist.
Directors: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi | Stars: W.H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Ted Bachardy, James Berg
Votes: 989 | Gross: $0.21M
34. Tender Loving Care (1998 Video Game)
Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Interactive movie about a worried husband who hires a beautiful psychiatrist to nurse his delusional wife and help her deal with the death of their child in a car accident. However, the nurse starts playing mind games. Or is he losing it?
Director: David Wheeler | Stars: David Arthur, Marie Caldare, Brandy Carson, Kim Chadick
Votes: 50
35. Fuga (2006)
110 min | Drama, Music, Thriller
A film about a classical composer who goes insane.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Benjamín Vicuña, Gastón Pauls, Francisca Imboden, María Izquierdo
Votes: 1,219
36. Prinsessa (2010)
104 min | Biography, Drama
Princess tells the true story of former cabaret dancer Anna Lappalainen's redemptive struggle with insanity, who checked in to Finland's Kellokoski Psychiatric Hospital in 1945.
Director: Arto Halonen | Stars: Katja Küttner, Samuli Edelmann, Krista Kosonen, Peter Franzén
Votes: 1,157
37. Kartavya (1995)
Action, Drama, Thriller
Karan and his mother live a happy life and he is soon to be married to Kajal. But on the day of his engagement, he discovers his mother is not his biological mother.
Director: Raj Kanwar | Stars: Sanjay Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Moushumi Chatterjee, Aruna Irani
Votes: 86
38. El infierno de todos tan temido (1981)
108 min | Drama, Thriller
A writer finds himself amid a spiral of violence, alcohol and his leftist ideologies, eventually being locked down in an asylum, where he leads a rebellion.
Director: Sergio Olhovich | Stars: Manuel Ojeda, Diana Bracho, Delia Casanova, Jorge Humberto Robles
Votes: 55
39. Cuando tejen las arañas (1979)
100 min | Drama
A girl experiences a process of humiliation surrounded by beings who have lost the concept of moral values.
Director: Roberto Gavaldón | Stars: Alma Muriel, Carlos Piñar, Raquel Olmedo, Alfredo Leal
Votes: 61
40. Vinodam (1996)
Comedy
Ashta Lakshmi (Ravali) is the only daughter of Bangaram (Kota Srinivasa Rao), a wealthy miser. She meets four friends who live carefree lives, living in a rented house owned by Chintamani (... See full summary »
Director: S.V. Krishna Reddy | Stars: Meka Srikanth, Ravali, Mohammad Ali, Babu Mohan
Votes: 112
41. The Fabulous Fraud (1948)
11 min | Short, Biography, Drama
The story of Dr. Anton Mesmer, the man who discoverd hypnotism.
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: John Baragrey, John Nesbitt, Phyllis Morris, Marcia Mae Jones
Votes: 93
43. Synnergist (1996 Video Game)
M | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Journalist Tim Machin finds work with a sleazy tabloid. He's to cover a bizarre murder case. This takes him to a bar, where he meets a nice girl. However, he then receives visions of another reality and soon becomes the murder suspect.
Director: Karthik Bala | Stars: Jeff Baskin, Ross Goldenberg, Ken Klam, Guha Bala
44. Central State Hospital Time Capsule Film (1958)
6 min | Documentary, Short
Star: Clifford Williams
45.
American Experience (1987– )
Episode:
Partners of the Heart
(2002)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
During World War II and the era of staunch racial segregation, a Black carpenter's son named Vivien Thomas, who had a talent for surgery, along with a white surgeon named Dr. Alfred Blalock... See full summary »
Directors: Bill Duke, Andrea Kalin | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Courtney B. Vance, Beau James, Christopher Haley
Votes: 52
46.
Mission: Impossible (1966–1973)
Episode:
Shock
(1967)
TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Wilson, a U.S. ambassador stationed in a neutral country, has been abducted by an intelligence operative of an Eastern Bloc nation. An impostor has been put in Wilson's place. Briggs & Co. ... See full summary »
Director: Lee H. Katzin | Stars: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus
Votes: 286
47.
The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode:
The Grell
(1999)
TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An alien slave belonging to the species Grell rescues his owner's family after their plane is shot down in an attack by the Grell rebellion.
Director: Jorge Montesi | Stars: Ted Shackelford, Maurice Dean Wint, Britt McKillip, Blair Slater
Votes: 245
48.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Sun Makers: Part Two
(1977)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Captured by the authorities, the Doctor finds himself restrained in a Correction Centre where he's to be prepped for painful shock treatments, making him unable to return within a given ... See full summary »
Director: Pennant Roberts | Stars: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Richard Leech, Henry Woolf
Votes: 434
49.
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Episode:
The Deadly Assassin: Part Two
(1976)
TV-PG | 25 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The Doctor is arrested for the President's murder and struggles to avoid his immediate execution.
Director: David Maloney | Stars: Tom Baker, Bernard Horsfall, George Pravda, Erik Chitty
Votes: 601