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

1. Inside Daisy Clover (1965)

Approved | 128 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A tomboy turned movie star deals with the cruelty of Hollywood.

Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon

Votes: 4,282

2. Michael Clayton (2007)

R | 119 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.

Director: Tony Gilroy | Stars: George Clooney, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe

Votes: 174,158 | Gross: $49.03M

3. Side Effects (I) (2013)

R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Votes: 197,222 | Gross: $32.17M

4. Mommy (I) (2014)

R | 139 min | Drama

A widowed single mother, raising her violent son alone, finds new hope when a mysterious neighbor inserts herself into their household.

Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Anne Dorval, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Suzanne Clément, Patrick Huard

Votes: 61,885 | Gross: $3.49M

5. Premonition (I) (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A depressed woman learns that her husband was killed in a car accident the previous day, then awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home; then awakens the day after that to find that he's dead.

Director: Mennan Yapo | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Julian McMahon, Amber Valletta, Shyann McClure

Votes: 81,759 | Gross: $47.85M

6. The Fly (1958)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall

Votes: 25,691 | Gross: $3.00M

7. Reign Over Me (2007)

R | 124 min | Drama

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.

Director: Mike Binder | Stars: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler

Votes: 99,637 | Gross: $19.66M

8. 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: 28,745 | Gross: $13.34M

9. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson

Votes: 75,005

10. Welcome to Me (2014)

R | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

When Alice Klieg wins the Mega-Millions lottery, she immediately quits her psychiatric meds and buys her own talk show.

Director: Shira Piven | Stars: Kristen Wiig, James Marsden, Linda Cardellini, Wes Bentley

Votes: 19,664 | Gross: $0.61M

11. 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: 49,958 | Gross: $7.73M

12. Gulliver's Travels (1996)

PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

An Englishman returns after nine years abroad and tells strange stories of the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the flying island Laputa and the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses.

Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Robert Hardy

Votes: 7,164

13. Delirious (1991)

PG | 96 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.

Director: Tom Mankiewicz | Stars: John Candy, Mariel Hemingway, Emma Samms, Raymond Burr

Votes: 9,544 | Gross: $5.55M

14. Titicut Follies (1967)

Unrated | 84 min | Documentary

Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside the Massachusetts Correctional Institution Bridgewater where people stay trapped in their madness.

Director: Frederick Wiseman

Votes: 5,116

15. Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)

Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's reclusive life, as she waits for a visit from her brother, Paul Claudel.

Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Jessica Errero, Robert Leroy, Jean-Luc Vincent

Votes: 3,940 | Gross: $0.02M

16. Everything Calls for Salvation (2022– )

TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Drama

A young man spends a week in a psychiatric ward, where he meets five other patients and must contend with research-happy doctors and cynical nurses.

Stars: Federico Cesari, Ricky Memphis, Fotinì Peluso, Andrea Pennacchi

Votes: 1,749

17. Thirst (1957)

Not Rated | 146 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Vijay, a talented but indigent poet, struggles for love and recognition in this selfish world.

Director: Guru Dutt | Stars: Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha, Rehman Khan

Votes: 7,285

18. Europe '51 (1952)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.

Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina

Votes: 4,795

19. I'll Never Forget You (1951)

90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A scientist obsessed with the past transports himself back in time to 18th-century London, where he falls in love with a beautiful young woman.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie, Dennis Price

Votes: 1,072

20. In the Name of the Italian People (1971)

103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A judge investigates the death of a young woman, possibly a murder. He suspects a famous industry tycoon with high political connections. But to what extent do the latter's lies and frauds influence the magistrate's opinion?

Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani, Yvonne Furneaux

Votes: 1,705

21. The Grandfather (1998)

PG | 151 min | Drama

After his son dies, an elderly man comes back to Spain from the US and hopes to find out which of his granddaughters is true and which one is bastard.

Director: José Luis Garci | Stars: Fernando Fernán Gómez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Agustín González

Votes: 2,087 | Gross: $0.05M

22. Going Away (2013)

TV-14 | 95 min | Drama

Baptiste is a solitary type. A teacher in southern France, he never stays more than three weeks in the same job. One Friday, he finds himself in charge of Mathias, one of his pupils, who ... See full summary »

Director: Nicole Garcia | Stars: Pierre Rochefort, Louise Bourgoin, Dominique Sanda, Déborah François

Votes: 931 | Gross: $0.01M

23. Zenith (2010)

93 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller

A retro-futuristic thriller, about two men in two time periods, whose search for the same grand conspiracy leads them to question their own humanity.

Director: Vladan Nikolic | Stars: Peter Scanavino, Jason Robards III, Ana Asensio, Didier Flamand

Votes: 1,323

24. 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: 574

25. Lost Souvenirs (1950)

135 min | Drama

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an... See full summary »

Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Bernard Blier, Pierre Brasseur, Suzy Delair, Danièle Delorme

Votes: 180

26. Urgences (1988)

105 min | Documentary

Documentary filmed in the psychiatric ward of the Hôtel-Dieu, a large hospital in Paris. The patients arrive on their own, or with considerable help from the police, but all of them are in need of medical attention.

Director: Raymond Depardon

Votes: 206

27. À l'ombre de la République (2011)

100 min | Documentary

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Directors: Stéphane Mercurio, Edie Laconi | Stars: Marine Calazel, Jean-Marie Delarue, Xavier Dupont, Lucie Montoy

Votes: 21

28. Mental Hospital (1953)

19 min | Short

Mental hospitals in Oklahoma are populated with people from a variety of backgrounds, who are treated for a variety of psychiatric issues. Patient treatments may include counseling, insulin... See full summary »

Director: Layton Mabrey

Votes: 64

29. Der Fall Mollath - In den Fängen von Justiz, Politik und Psychiatrie (2013 TV Movie)

44 min | Documentary

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Directors: Monika Anthes, Eric Beres | Stars: Gustl Mollath, Edward Braun, Eduard Spitzer, Petra Maske

30. The Rockford Files (1974–1980)
Episode: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers: Part 1 (1977)

TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jim helps a friend (Strother Martin) of Rocky's who's being forced off his property.

Director: Jerry London | Stars: James Garner, Noah Beery Jr., Joe Santos, Strother Martin

Votes: 308

31. Empire (2015–2020)
Episode: We Got Us (2020)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Music

After Andre's breakdown, Cookie and Lucious have him committed to a treatment facility; Becky struggles to balance her personal and professional life; Hakeem and Maya find themselves in a difficult situation after a night in Las Vegas.

Director: Clement Virgo | Stars: Terrence Howard, Bryshere Y. Gray, Trai Byers, Gabourey Sidibe

Votes: 114

32. The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1968–1969)
Episode: The Little People (1968)

Adventure, Animation

Huck, Tom and Becky are tossed off their raft during a sea storm and find themselves in the land of Lilliput.

Director: Wally Burr | Stars: Michael Shea, Lu Ann Haslam, Kevin Schultz, Ted Cassidy

Votes: 16

33. The New York Times Presents (2020– )
Episode: Controlling Britney Spears (2021)

TV-MA | 70 min | Documentary

Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become "an oppressive and controlling tool against her." This investigation reveals much of how it worked, including an intense surveillance apparatus that monitored her every move.

Director: Samantha Stark | Stars: Britney Spears, Felicia Culotta, Liz Day, Edan Yemini

Votes: 444

34. Servant (2019–2023)
Episode: Commitment (2022)

TV-MA | 28 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Dorothy and Frank hatch a plan to get Leanne out of the Turner household for good.

Directors: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Stars: Lauren Ambrose, Toby Kebbell, Nell Tiger Free, Rupert Grint

Votes: 691

35. Perdona nuestros pecados (2023)
Episode: ¡Yo no estoy loca! (2023)

Drama

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Directors: Santiago Barbosa Lobatón, Jorge Robles | Stars: Jorge Salinas, Erika Buenfil, César Évora, Sabine Moussier

36. Perdona nuestros pecados (2023)
Episode: Voy a borrarle la memoria (2023)

Drama

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Directors: Santiago Barbosa Lobatón, Jorge Robles | Stars: Jorge Salinas, Erika Buenfil, César Évora, Sabine Moussier

37. The Knick (2014–2015)
Episode: The Golden Lotus (2014)

TV-MA | 44 min | Drama, History

The Knick continues its slide into wrack and ruin, instigated by the recent riot and the cocaine shortage. Dr. Thackery is caught in a compromising position and Lucy in her efforts to help ... See full summary »

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Clive Owen, André Holland, Jeremy Bobb, Juliet Rylance

Votes: 1,099

38. Ordeal by Innocence (2018)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2018)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

With no option but to tell the complete truth, Arthur makes a confession and is able to present irrefutable evidence that he is telling the truth about Jack's alibi.

Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Luke Treadaway, Anthony Boyle, Matthew Goode, Ella Purnell

Votes: 505

39. Ordeal by Innocence (2018)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (2018)

TV-MA | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

At Sunny Point, justice has fallen out of the hands of the law, and Leo and Gwenda's wedding becomes a theatre of brutal revenge.

Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Matthew Goode, Luke Treadaway, Bill Nighy, Morven Christie

Votes: 496

40. Ray Donovan (2013–2020)
Episode: Dream On (2018)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama

Ray struggles to get the help he so desperately needs, causing Bridget to learn some hard truths about her father. Ray makes a move to save both Novak's campaign and Mac's life. Mickey sees an opportunity to recoup some of his losses.

Director: Denise Di Novi | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Eddie Marsan, Dash Mihok, Kate Moennig

Votes: 786

41. Dirty John (2018–2020)
Episode: No Fault (2020)

TV-14 | 47 min | Crime, Drama

Dirty John Season 2: The Betty Broderick Story is set in 1980s. Housewife Betty thinks she can't be divorced by her rich lawyer husband Dan without her consent. She's wrong.

Director: Maggie Kiley | Stars: Christian Slater, Amanda Peet, Rachel Keller, Michael Rispoli

Votes: 599