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1. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
R | 133 min | Drama
In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
Votes: 1,074,628 | Gross: $112.00M
2. 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: 44,178 | Gross: $22.00M
3. What About Bob? (1991)
PG | 99 min | Comedy
A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo
Votes: 74,594 | Gross: $63.71M
4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Votes: 70,227
5. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
R | 155 min | Drama, Romance
Although wife and mother Mabel is loved by her husband Nick, her mental illness places a strain on the marriage.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, Fred Draper, Lady Rowlands
Votes: 28,803 | Gross: $13.34M
6. Dream Lover (1993)
R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A successful businessman tries to uncover what is wrong with his wife.
Director: Nicholas Kazan | Stars: James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Fredric Lehne, Bess Armstrong
Votes: 6,106 | Gross: $0.26M
7. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans
Votes: 13,933 | Gross: $0.57M
8. The Chosen (1977)
R | 105 min | Horror
Robert's in charge of constructing a nuclear power plant in the Middle East. Will it be instrumental in prophecies of antichrist's apocalypse?
Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli, Anthony Quayle
Votes: 1,612
9. Blaze (1989)
R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.
Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain
Votes: 4,182 | Gross: $19.13M
10. Not Fade Away (2012)
R | 112 min | Drama
Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.
Director: David Chase | Stars: John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will Brill, Brahm Vaccarella
Votes: 4,957 | Gross: $0.61M
11. Autumn Leaves (1956)
Approved | 107 min | Drama
A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene
Votes: 3,204
12. A Page of Madness (1926)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nemoto
Votes: 4,590
13. Come Back to Me (2014)
R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Sarah and Josh are married suburbanites. After a car accident, Sarah suffers blackouts. As her life spirals she hides a camera in her home and unlocks a horrific secret with far-reaching consequences.
Director: Paul Leyden | Stars: Jon Abrahams, Andrew Beckham, Jeanette Branch, Caroline Clements
Votes: 5,303 | Gross: $0.00M
14. Trick or Treats (1982)
R | 91 min | Horror
A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.
Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Jacqueline Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver, David Carradine
Votes: 1,534
15. Tom & Viv (1994)
PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton
Votes: 1,877 | Gross: $0.54M
16. Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Karl Malden, Norma Moore, Adam Williams
Votes: 2,165
17. The Boy Who Cried Bitch (1991)
105 min | Drama, Thriller
A psychotic 12 year old makes life hell for his emotionally frail mother.
Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Harley Cross, Karen Young, Jesse Bradford, J.D. Daniels
Votes: 442
18. The Locket (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond
Votes: 3,069
19. Fear No More (1961)
80 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A woman recently released from psychiatric care is accused of the murder of a woman found dead in her compartment. Arrested and taken off the train, she escapes custody and flees to her apartment, where she finds another murder victim.
Director: Bernard Wiesen | Stars: Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding, Helena Nash
Votes: 359
20. El 7º día (2004)
96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
In an isolated village in Extremadura (Spain), the Jiménez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence.
Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: José Garcia, Eulàlia Ramon, Yohana Cobo, Irene Escolar
Votes: 1,474
21. Mr. Sycamore (1975)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
Director: Pancho Kohner | Stars: Jason Robards, Sandy Dennis, Jean Simmons, Robert Easton
Votes: 196
22. The Governor's Wife (2008 TV Movie)
R | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Ann Danville steps up her manipulation as she tries to retain control over her son Nathan and the Danville estate.
Director: David Burton Morris | Stars: Marilu Henner, Emily Bergl, Matt Keeslar, Scout Taylor-Compton
Votes: 410
23. The Body Disappears (1941)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Comedy about an invisible man.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Jeffrey Lynn, Jane Wyman, Edward Everett Horton, Herbert Anderson
Votes: 575
24.
Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode:
Screamer
(1974)
TV-14 | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ... See full summary »
Director: Shaun O'Riordan | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Donal McCann, Frances White, Jim Norton
Votes: 206
25.
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode:
Taboo
(2006)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a baby boy is discovered in the rubbish, detectives Benson and Stabler use a t-shirt found at the scene to trace the crime back to a well-to-do college student.
Director: Arthur W. Forney | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal
Votes: 1,031
26.
Profit (1996–1997)
Episode:
Healing
(1996)
45 min | Crime, Drama
As a secret merger boils, Profit realizes he has under estimated Sykes and must deal with him, Joanne, and a polygraph.
Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Sherman Augustus, Lisa Blount, Lisa Darr
Votes: 70
27.
Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode:
Mute Witness to Murder
(1990)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Young woman Suzy looks out of the window of her apartment and witnesses a man murdering a woman in the apartment directly across from hers. Suzy is so traumatized by what she sees that ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Simpson | Stars: Richard Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Reed Birney, Kristine Nielsen
Votes: 960
28.
The Tick (2001–2002)
Episode:
Arthur, Interrupted
(2002)
TV-G | 207 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Arthur's family has him committed.
Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Patrick Warburton, David Burke, Liz Vassey, Nestor Carbonell
Votes: 174
29.
Fingersmith (2005)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2005)
Not Rated | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Sue knows she cannot tell Maud the truth - that she loves her or that Rivers is planning to send her to a madhouse.
Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Rupert Evans
Votes: 101
30.
Who Killed Sara? (2021–2022)
Episode:
Ratones de laboratorio
(2022)
TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Worried about her treatment, Sara attempts to expose Reinaldo. Chema is admitted to the Medusa Center. Cesar reveals crucial information to Alex.
Director: Mauricio Lule | Stars: Manolo Cardona, Ginés García Millán, Carolina Miranda, Ximena Lamadrid
Votes: 35
31.
Perdona nuestros pecados (2023)
Episode:
Voy a borrarle la memoria
(2023)
Drama
Directors: Santiago Barbosa Lobatón, Jorge Robles | Stars: Jorge Salinas, Erika Buenfil, César Évora, Sabine Moussier
32.
Scandalous Overtures (2014– )
Episode:
Johannes Brahms & Clara Schumann: Did They or Didn't They?
(2015)
8 min | Reality-TV
A tragic love story: As Schumann the husband, wasted away from illness did the relationship between his wife and Brahms remain platonic? Their own words tell us how they loved and supported... See full summary »
Star: Robert Greenberg
33.
Another Period (2013–2018)
Episode:
Little Orphan Garfield
(2018)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, History
Lillian runs into someone she knows inside the Sanitarium. But when Lillian discovers her game, she shakes things up. Beatrice and Frederick search for their mystery love from the ball, oblivious how close to home they are.
Director: Jeremy Konner | Stars: Michael Ian Black, Beth Dover, Donna Lynne Champlin, Alice Hunter
Votes: 63
34.
Ozark (2017–2022)
Episode:
BFF
(2020)
TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ruth isn't happy about Marty and Wendy's plan to bury the hatchet with Frank Jr. The Byrdes make a difficult decision about Ben. Maya is reprimanded.
Director: Alik Sakharov | Stars: Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner
Votes: 5,133