Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "institution"

1. Glass (2019)

PG-13 | 129 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities.

Director: M. Night Shyamalan | Stars: James McAvoy, Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy

Votes: 274,228 | Gross: $111.05M

2. The Lobster (2015)

R | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman

Votes: 297,295 | Gross: $8.70M

3. Good Time (2017)

R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

Directors: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Buddy Duress

Votes: 140,479 | Gross: $2.03M

4. Martyrs (2015)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A woman and her childhood friend seek out revenge on those who victimized and abused them.

Directors: Kevin Goetz, Michael Goetz | Stars: Troian Bellisario, Bailey Noble, Kate Burton, Caitlin Carmichael

Votes: 6,929

5. Level 16 (2018)

Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

In a highly regimented boarding school, a pair of students discover that things are not as they seem.

Director: Danishka Esterhazy | Stars: Katie Douglas, Celina Martin, Sara Canning, Peter Outerbridge

Votes: 16,264

6. Vampire Academy (2022)

TV-MA | 47 min | Drama, Fantasy

In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women's friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society.

Stars: Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, Kieron Moore, Jonetta Kaiser

Votes: 9,074

7. Soft & Quiet (2022)

R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Playing out in real time, an elementary school teacher organizes a mixer of like-minded women, when she encounters a woman from her past, leading to a volatile chain of events.

Director: Beth de Araújo | Stars: Stefanie Estes, Olivia Luccardi, Dana Millican, Melissa Paulo

Votes: 10,233

8. The Miracle Worker (1962)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson

Votes: 20,522 | Gross: $5.45M

9. Anne of Avonlea (1987)

TV-G | 58 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Anne Shirley accepts a teaching position at a girls boarding school in a town dominated by a rich and belligerant family determined to make her life miserable.

Stars: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Marilyn Lightstone, Schuyler Grant

Votes: 10,205

10. Bad Santa 2 (2016)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.

Director: Mark Waters | Stars: Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox, Christina Hendricks

Votes: 28,527 | Gross: $17.78M

11. The Journey of Natty Gann (1985)

PG | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

In the 1930s, a tomboy runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, where he has found work.

Director: Jeremy Kagan | Stars: Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Jed, Ray Wise

Votes: 6,898 | Gross: $2.14M

12. Mermaid Down (2019)

91 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

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.

Director: Jeffrey Grellman | Stars: Meggan Kaiser, Phillip Andre Botello, Alexandra Bokova, Jessica Honor Carleton

Votes: 11,143

13. Reel Savages (1977)

109 min | Crime, Horror

After producing a successful underground snuff movie in which the lead actress is raped and killed, Brazilian Miguel returns to São Paulo pretending to be American director Michael Tracey ... See full summary »

Director: Cláudio Cunha | Stars: Carlos Vereza, Rossana Ghessa, Canarinho, Nadir Fernandes

Votes: 85

14. Do You Like Brahms? (2020)

65 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A drama about the dreams and love of classical music students who find their own happiness after wandering between talent and reality.

Stars: Park Eun-bin, Kim Min-jae, Kim Sung-cheol, Park Ji-hyun

Votes: 1,318

15. Hider in the House (1989)

R | 108 min | Thriller

A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

Director: Matthew Patrick | Stars: Gary Busey, Mimi Rogers, Michael McKean, Kurt Christopher Kinder

Votes: 1,911

16. Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Returned home to his long-estranged mother upon a request from her deathbed, a man raised by his parents in an orphanage has to confront the childhood memories that have long haunted him.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Gretchen Krich, Sullivan Brown, Maya Lawson, Jake Morgan-Scharhon

Votes: 3,716 | Gross: $0.23M

17. Full-Time Magister (2016– )

TV-14 | 20 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A family with a struggling father and disabled sister. However, when everyone can only have one major element, Mo Fan can do much more.

Stars: Gui Niang, Su Wan, Beichen Liu, Xianglong Meng

Votes: 555

18. Zousa monahos, horis agapi (1971)

100 min | Drama

A talented but struggling musician arrives in bustling Athens along with his band with dreams of a better life, and finds love and success; however, fate has a tragic future in store for him. Can anyone live alone without love?

Director: Apostolos Tegopoulos | Stars: Nikos Xanthopoulos, Mary Evangelou, Giannis Vogiatzis, Eleni Zafeiriou

Votes: 55

19. Prime Suspect (1989)

89 min | Thriller

The only witness to a young woman's murder has a nervous breakdown, is institutionalized, and escapes, tracking down the murderer.

Director: Bruce Kimmel | Stars: Robert F. Lyons, Susan Strasberg, Frank Stallone, Billy Drago

Votes: 136

20. The Marijuana Conspiracy (2020)

124 min | Drama

In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.

Director: Craig Pryce | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Hannah Vandenbygaart, Daniel DeSanto, Craig Burnatowski

Votes: 207

21. Cries from the Heart (1994 TV Movie)

93 min | Drama

Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at his school.

Director: Michael Switzer | Stars: Patty Duke, Melissa Gilbert, Bradley Pierce, Markus Flanagan

Votes: 321

22. Rabid Dogs (2015)

Not Rated | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.

Director: Éric Hannezo | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Virginie Ledoyen, Guillaume Gouix, François Arnaud

Votes: 1,935

23. Sorteper - det kan du selv vaere (1980 TV Special)

48 min

Every few years from 1880 through 1979, boys named Carl enter a long-term health facility while poor girls named Hanne work to help their families survive.

Director: Christian Hartkopp | Stars: Carl Quist Møller, Susse Brodersen, Lone Lindorff, Leif Sylvester

24. Roda, tsanta kai kopana (1982)

96 min | Comedy

A major hit in the Greek cinemas at the time, this comedy by Omiros Efstratiadis is about a bunch of teenagers who make things difficult for their teachers.

Director: Omiros Efstratiadis | Stars: Stamatis Gardelis, Yorgos Rigas, Steve Douzos, Teta Konstada

Votes: 946

25. Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971)

GP | 110 min | Drama, Romance

Bruce Pritchard is paralyzed in a soccer game, rejected by his family, and placed in a nursing home. Angry and depressed, he finds hope with a nurse. Can Bruce find a life outside the home?

Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Bernard Lee

Votes: 673

26. Out of Control (2002 TV Movie)

90 min | Crime, Drama

Powerful, moving drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.

Director: Dominic Savage | Stars: Joanne Adams, Marvin Benoit, Mark Benton, Teon Blake

Votes: 194

27. Anna to the Infinite Power (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Anna Hart is one of a series of clones created to uncover the secrets of Anna Zimmerman, who was close to conquering world hunger when she died years ago.

Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Dina Merrill, Martha Byrne, Mark Patton, Donna Mitchell

Votes: 576

28. Promise (1986 TV Movie)

97 min | Drama, Family

When his mother dies, Bob not only inherits her house, but also the custody of his younger brother, who suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy. At the age of 21, Bob promised to look after... See full summary »

Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: James Garner, James Woods, Piper Laurie, Peter Michael Goetz

Votes: 489

29. Brennpunkt: Instukids (2024– )

30 min | Documentary

In Norwegian child welfare institutions, many children and young people have come for help, but instead became drug addicts. They often themselves 'Instukids' on the net. Some of them tell ... See full summary »

Stars: Tuva Skei Tønset, Linnea Hansen, Anne Kokkin

Votes: 14

30. The Sugar Experiment (2023)

92 min | Biography, Drama, History

The film is inspired by a controversial experiment that took place in Sweden in 1948.

Director: John Tornblad | Stars: Amanda Malmberg, Isak Bruno, Elisabeth Ehde Torbjörnsdotter, Henrik Norman

Votes: 263

31. Roda tsanta kai kopana (2011)

Comedy

Picking up nearly 30 years after the last movie, the students, now adults, get to work at the school they once attended. Now, Bilias and the rest of the crew will have to face the same things they once used to do to their own teachers.

Director: Omiros Efstratiadis | Stars: Kostas Voutsas, Steve Douzos, Eleni Filini, Nena Chronopoulou

Votes: 783

32. All About My Father (2010)

81 min | Drama

One father desires his son and the son conceives a murderous design to the father. Another father allows his teenage son to marry to boyfriend. Unlike the immature son, his boyfriend ... See full summary »

Directors: Sang-woo Lee, Lee Sang-Woo | Stars: Kim Hun, Sang-woo Lee, Lee Sang-woo

Votes: 18

33. O roz gatos (1985)

TV-14 | 98 min | Comedy

During the day, he is a polite and chaste high-school scholar. But, when he sleepwalks at night under a different personality, he becomes the cool guy in his dreams, utterly unaware of his scandalous shenanigans, and his double identity.

Director: Yiannis Hartomatzidis | Stars: Sotiris Moustakas, Panos Mihalopoulos, Efi Pikoula, Mihalis Moustakas

Votes: 878

34. We Only Live Once (1958)

111 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A bank teller discovers an accounting error and becomes rich.

Director: Giorgos Tzavellas | Stars: Yvonne Sanson, Dimitris Horn, Vasilis Avlonitis, Hristos Tsaganeas

Votes: 1,808

35. The Haunted House (1921)

Unrated | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Horror

A bank clerk ends up in a seemingly haunted house that is actually a thieves' hideout.

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline

Votes: 3,654

36. Zito i trella (1962)

78 min | Comedy

Romaios' uncles conspire to get the control of his mother's wealth. They decide to send him in a supervised trip to Kos island to prove that he is an incurable teddy-boy. However, things get crazy along the way..

Director: Panos Glykofrydis | Stars: Thanasis Vengos, Sonia Zoidou, Dimitris Nikolaidis, Giannis Vogiatzis

Votes: 66

37. A Law-Abiding Citizen (1974)

89 min | Comedy, Drama

A meek employee is at a crossroads: forsake his principles to marry into money or lead a humble existence with the love of his life. But the injurious effects of oppression wear him down. What will it take to be a law-abiding citizen?

Director: Errikos Thalassinos | Stars: Sotiris Moustakas, Dionysis Papagiannopoulos, Vangelis Kazan, Nora Katseli

Votes: 222

38. Horror (2003)

R | 77 min | Horror

This visually arresting chiller concerns a group of runaway teens that escape from a drug rehab and encounter demonic forces in a rural farmhouse.

Director: Dante Tomaselli | Stars: Kreskin, Lizzy Mahon, Danny Lopes, Vincent Lamberti

Votes: 1,134

39. Delusional (I) (2014)

Horror

Delusional takes place in a mental institution, where bizarre situations take place.

Director: Cammie Pavesic | Stars: Perry King, Kim Kopf, Tuesday Knight, Tracy Brooks Swope

40. Larry (1974 TV Movie)

80 min | Drama

"Larry" is a true story about a man wrongly confined the California State Mental Hospital at Camarillo for 26 years, who is discovered to have average intelligence and released, and with ... See full summary »

Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Frederic Forrest, Tyne Daly, Michael McGuire, Robert Walden

Votes: 135

41. Dada me to zori (1959)

94 min | Comedy

After returning from a masquerade, much to his surprise, a wandering textile salesman stumbles upon an abandoned and helpless baby. Will he find his parents--and if not--will the poor child finally find a loving foster family?

Director: Stelios Zografakis | Stars: Mimis Fotopoulos, Georgia Vasileiadou, Lili Papayanni, Periklis Hristoforidis

Votes: 45

42. Thilyko thiriotrofeio (1984)

88 min | Comedy

The crazy misbehavior of students in their final year of a girls' college, constantly upsetting their teachers.

Director: Nikos Zervos | Stars: Sofia Aliberti, Takis Hrysikakos, Kostas Tsakonas, Steve Douzos

Votes: 109

43. Stairway to Light (1945)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Drama, History

The story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Phillipe Pinel, whose initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.

Director: Sammy Lee | Stars: John Nesbitt, Harry Cording, Lotte Palfi Andor, Dewey Robinson

Votes: 271

44. The Right-Minded Madman (1968)

87 min | Comedy

A wretch employee wins a lot of money in the lottery and loses his mind. When he comes out of the mental hospital, he finds out that things at his home have changed radically.

Director: Kostas Karagiannis | Stars: Labros Konstadaras, Smaro Stefanidou, Despoina Stylianopoulou, Ketty Panou

Votes: 667

45. Alias John Preston (1955)

Approved | 71 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

John Preston meets Sally who agrees to marry him. Then, Preston begins to have dreams about Sylvia, a woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles. He seeks help from Doctor Walton.

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Betta St. John, Alexander Knox, Christopher Lee, Sandra Dorne

Votes: 279

46. Teenland (2014)

Not Rated | 30 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

Depressed Sally, 17, is locked up at Teenland. A pink, prison-like institution for teens who are so fucked emotionally that they have developed supernatural powers. Everything changes when ... See full summary »

Director: Marie Grahtø Sørensen | Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Frederikke Dahl Hansen, Thomas W. Gabrielsson, Sonja Richter

Votes: 93

47. Bluebird (2004)

77 min | Drama, Music

Merel, a talented young girl, is suddenly getting bullied at school.

Director: Mijke de Jong | Stars: Elske Rotteveel, Kees Scholten, Elsie de Brauw, Jaap Spijkers

Votes: 591

48. Dead Man Working (2016 TV Movie)

88 min | Drama, Thriller

Much to everyone's surprise, a powerful financier at the peak of his career jumps off the bank's rooftop. As the markets react violently, it's up to his protégé to shed light on this obscure case. Was it a suicide or a premeditated murder?

Director: Marc Bauder | Stars: Benjamin Lillie, Wolfram Koch, Jördis Triebel, Manfred Zapatka

Votes: 192

49. Rorschach (1993)

Thriller

A psychologist feigns mental illness to test validity of psych diagnoses and treatment in an asylum. When the experiment is done, though, he cannot convince the facility he is not mentally ill and does not belong there.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Doug Kruse, Arthur Roberts

50. No Mercy, No Future (1981)

110 min | Drama

Doctors say that Veronika, a woman in her 20s, is schizophrenic. She is compliant, which makes her an easy target for men. She's religious, believing she is God's favorite child; she ... See full summary »

Director: Helma Sanders-Brahms | Stars: Elisabeth Stepanek, Nguyen Chi Danh, Karl Heinz Reimann, Jorge Reis

Votes: 138