Films set in psychiatric hospitals

An Angel at My Table

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1990 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Based on the autobiographical work of New Zealand writer Janet Frame, this production depicts the author at various stage of her life. Afflicted with mental and emotional issues, Frame grows up in an...

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K-PAX

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7.4

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.

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Batman: Assault on Arkham

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller sends her newly-formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum and recover vital information stolen by the Riddler.

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Girl, Interrupted

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she st...

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Shock Corridor

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 7.3

With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been...

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The Great Gatsby

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 7.2

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see throu...

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Out of Mind, Out of Sight

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness. The...

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The Professor and the Madman

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal...

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David and Lisa

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1962 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally distur...

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