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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: 1,073,135 | Gross: $112.00M
2. Kings Row (1942)
Passed | 127 min | Drama
The dark side and hypocrisy of provincial American life is seen through the eyes of five children as they grow to adulthood at the turn of the century.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Robert Cummings, Ronald Reagan, Betty Field
Votes: 5,044
3. Quills (2000)
R | 124 min | Biography, Drama
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Director: Philip Kaufman | Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael Caine
Votes: 56,750 | Gross: $7.06M
4. Fingersmith (2005)
Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In Victorian England, Sue, a young thief, participates in a scam to defraud a rich heiress by becoming her maid. Things take an unexpected turn and Sue's plan goes horribly wrong.
Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Rupert Evans
Votes: 9,621
5. The Skulls (2000)
PG-13 | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A senior at an ivy league college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and comes at a price.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb
Votes: 33,717 | Gross: $35.05M
6. Frances (1982)
R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Jessica Lange, Jonathan Banks, Bonnie Bartlett, James Brodhead
Votes: 8,582 | Gross: $5.00M
7. Imaginary Friend (2012 TV Movie)
86 min | Thriller
A talented artist is haunted by the presence of a childhood imaginary friend, and her psychiatrist husband wants to have her committed to a mental institution.
Director: Richard Gabai | Stars: Lacey Chabert, Ethan Embry, Amanda Schull, Paul Sorvino
Votes: 1,307
8. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama
After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard
Votes: 4,827
9. Morgan! (1966)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
After his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: David Warner, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Stephens, Irene Handl
Votes: 2,111
10. The Flesh of the Orchid (1975)
110 min | Drama, Thriller
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Bruno Cremer, Edwige Feuillère, Simone Signoret
Votes: 695
11. The Master and Margaret (1972)
95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A writer and his assistant are working on a biblical story about Pontius Pilate who convicted Jesus of Nazereth, while the Satan (here called Woland) and his lieutenants are harassing the writer duo in various ways.
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Mimsy Farmer, Alain Cuny, Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic
Votes: 791
12. Dancing in the Dark (1995 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
Anna suffers an attack and an abuse by her father-in-law. But when she overcomes her fear and tells the story her husband, he does not believe her but sets her under psychatric treatment.
Director: Bill Corcoran | Stars: Victoria Principal, Nicholas Campbell, Dawn Greenhalgh, Geraint Wyn Davies
Votes: 227
13. The New Life of Paul Sneijder (2016)
114 min | Drama
Following a rare accident, Paul Sneijder opened his eyes to the reality of his life as a "senior manager" in Montreal: his work no longer interested him, his wife annoyed him and deceived ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Vincent | Stars: Thierry Lhermitte, Géraldine Pailhas, Pierre Curzi, Guillaume Cyr
Votes: 567
14. The Kindness of Strangers (2006 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama
Ellie and Joe Farrelly are a busy couple bringing up a teenage son while running a large building company. When they suddenly have twins, a stranger comes into their life at just the time when they need help the most.
Director: Tony Smith | Stars: Julie Graham, Hermione Norris, Neil Pearson, Gillian Hanna
Votes: 126
15. Yara (1998)
96 min | Drama
Director: Yilmaz Arslan | Stars: Yelda Reynaud, Halil Ergün, Nur Sürer, Özay Fecht
Votes: 232
16. Tie naisen sydämeen (1996)
109 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Pentti Anttila is a journalist who accidentally ends up in to a mental institution. There he meets a woman who claims that she is being kept there by force. Penttilä starts to investigate ... See full summary »
Director: Pekka Parikka | Stars: Timo Torikka, Satu Silvo, Peter Franzén, Merja Larivaara
Votes: 47
17.
NewsRadio (1995–1999)
Episode:
Our Fiftieth Episode
(1997)
TV-PG | 23 min | Comedy, Romance
After a scuffle and being arrested - all over a parking ticket - Bill is committed for psychiatric evaluation. With Bill gone, things quickly fall apart on air.
Director: Tom Cherones | Stars: David Foley, Stephen Root, Andy Dick, Maura Tierney
Votes: 335