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51. The Last Shaman (2016)
77 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
James gives himself 12 months before he has 'a license to kill himself', he sets off to the amazon rainforest with hopes of finding a shaman who can save his life.
Director: Raz Degan | Stars: Guillermo Arevalo, James Freeman
Votes: 2,027 | Gross: $0.02M
52. The Scribbler (I) (2014)
R | 88 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young woman is facing her destructive multiple personalities using an experimental new procedure known as "The Siamese Burn."
Director: John Suits | Stars: Katie Cassidy, Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku
Votes: 5,153
53. Isadora (1968)
M/PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A biography of the 1920s dancer Isadora Duncan, who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitude and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, James Fox, Jason Robards, John Fraser
Votes: 2,626
54. I Met a Girl (II) (2020)
108 min | Drama, Romance
An aspiring musician embarks on an epic, cross-country journey to find the woman of his dreams - who may be all in his head.
Director: Luke Eve | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Joel Jackson, Lily Sullivan, Zahra Newman
Votes: 1,576
55. The Fifth Floor (1978)
R | 90 min | Thriller
College disco dancer is wrongly committed to an insane asylum.
Director: Howard Avedis | Stars: Bo Hopkins, Dianne Hull, Patti D'Arbanville, Sharon Farrell
Votes: 572
56. 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: 3,208
57. Helen (2009)
R | 120 min | Drama
A talented professor is forced to come to terms with her clinical depression.
Director: Sandra Nettelbeck | Stars: Ashley Judd, Goran Visnjic, Lauren Lee Smith, Alexia Fast
Votes: 2,215
58. Crazy (II) (2008)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Inspired by the life of Hank Garland, CRAZY is the story of a legendary guitar player who emerged from Nashville in the 1950's.
Director: Rick Bieber | Stars: Waylon Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison, Scott Michael Campbell
Votes: 837
59. Population 436 (2006 Video)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A census-taker (Sisto) is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
Director: Michelle MacLaren | Stars: David Ames, Leigh Enns, Susan Kelso, Rick Skene
Votes: 13,543
60. Come Play with Me (1968)
M/PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological battle between them.
Director: Salvatore Samperi | Stars: Lisa Gastoni, Lou Castel, Gabriele Ferzetti, Luisa De Santis
Votes: 300
61. Bicho de Sete Cabeças (2000)
74 min | Drama
A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs... See full summary »
Director: Laís Bodanzky | Stars: Rodrigo Santoro, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis, Dani Nefussi
Votes: 6,412
62. Cosi (1996)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Lewis is a young Sydney amateur theater director at his first experience: he is offered a job with a Governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Joffe | Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Barry Otto, Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths
Votes: 2,254
63. The Caretakers (1963)
Approved | 97 min | Drama
Medical drama about mentally-ill patients and their professional caregivers, as well as the new group-therapy sessions aiming to replace the traditional physical restraint and electroshock treatments.
Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Diane McBain, Joan Crawford
Votes: 942
64. 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: 2,164
65. Behind the Lines (1997)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
Based on Pat Barker's novel of the same name, "Regeneration" tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum for emotional troubles. Two of those soldiers are England's most important WW1 poets.
Director: Gillies MacKinnon | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce
Votes: 2,503 | Gross: $0.02M
66. Black Butterflies (2011)
Not Rated | 100 min | Biography, Drama
In Apartheid-torn South Africa, poet Ingrid Jonker (Carice van Houten) struggles tragically in search of love and a sense of home.
Director: Paula van der Oest | Stars: Carice van Houten, Liam Cunningham, Rutger Hauer, Graham Clarke
Votes: 2,357
67. Family Life (1971)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave, Malcolm Tierney
Votes: 2,093
68. Amnesiac (2014)
TV-MA | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A misery-esque tale of a man who wakes up in bed after an accident, suffering from memory loss. He begins to suspect that his wife isn't really his real wife and soon finds himself a prisoner in the house.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Kate Bosworth, Wes Bentley, Olivia Rose Keegan, Shashawnee Hall
Votes: 3,918
69. The Guest (1963)
105 min | Drama
While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw, Harold Pinter
Votes: 995
70. Electric Dragon 80.000 V (2001)
55 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A violent, guitar-playing, electrically charged boxer faces off against an electronic wizard half-merged with a metallic Buddha.
Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Yoshiki Arizono, Tadanobu Asano, Masakatsu Funaki, Masatoshi Nagase
Votes: 2,719
71. The Manor (I) (2018)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
A troubled teen visits her twisted relatives at a remote resort. As the girl loses touch with reality, sudden violence tears the family apart - literally.
Director: Jonathon Schermerhorn | Stars: Christina Robinson, Rachel True, Kevin Nash, Sully Erna
Votes: 255
72. Ciao Manhattan (1972)
R | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
This parallels the life of Andy Warhol Factory star Edie Sedgwick. The film chronicles "Susan Superstar's" (Sedgwick) glory days in the late 1960s through her inevitable downfall and the tragic addiction that would claim her life only weeks after filming wrapped in 1971.
Directors: John Palmer, David Weisman | Stars: Edie Sedgwick, Wesley Hayes, Isabel Jewell, Jeff Briggs
Votes: 1,201
73. Midnight Ride (1990)
R | 93 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin Mckay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.
Director: Bob Bralver | Stars: Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill, Savina Gersak, Robert Mitchum
Votes: 1,150
74. Chained Fury: Lesbian Slave Desires (2003 Video)
80 min | Action
Imprisoned for the brutal murder of her unfaithful boyfriend and his lover, Cassandra has engineered her escape and is now on the run having taken on a nurses identity. Arriving at a ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl | Stars: Marcela Hodna, John Comer, Eva Nemeth, Vladimirá Kopalová
Votes: 135
75. Kings & Queen (2004)
Unrated | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.
Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc, Olivier Rabourdin
Votes: 4,023 | Gross: $0.29M
76. Disco Godfather (1979)
R | 98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Rudy Ray Moore's fourth in a series of cult favorites finds him playing an ex-cop called back into action to stop an angel dust producer. The angel dust hallucinations alone are well worth the price of admission!
Director: J. Robert Wagoner | Stars: Rudy Ray Moore, Carol Speed, Jimmy Lynch, Jerry Jones
Votes: 1,796
77. Angels Fall (2007 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A chef moves to a small town in Wyoming after her Boston restaurant is shut down because of a fatal shooting.
Director: Ralph Hemecker | Stars: Heather Locklear, Johnathon Schaech, Gary Hudson, Derek Hamilton
Votes: 1,960
78. You Should Meet My Son! (2010)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A fish-out-of-water comedy about a conservative Southern mom who discovers that her only son is gay. Determined that he won't go through life alone, she sets out to find him a husband.
Director: Keith Hartman | Stars: Joanne McGee, Carol Goans, Stewart Carrico, Ginger Pullman
Votes: 1,896
79. The Marker (2017)
80 min | Crime, Thriller
Noir thriller about a criminal seeking redemption by tracking down the daughter of the woman he killed. Along the way he is haunted by his guilt in the guise of the woman's ghost.
Director: Justin Edgar | Stars: Frederick Schmidt, Ana Ularu, John Hannah, Struan Rodger
Votes: 508
80. Displacement (I) (2016)
112 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A young physics student must find a way to reverse a deadly quantum time anomaly and solve the murder of her boyfriend while battling short-term memory loss and time slips caused by the event.
Director: Kenneth Mader | Stars: Courtney Hope, Susan Blakely, Bruce Davison, Christopher Backus
Votes: 481
81. The Reconstruction of William Zero (2014)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A geneticist wakes up from an accident with only fragments of his memory is forced to relearn who he is via his twin brother. But as he digs deeper, he discovers he might not be who he thought at all.
Director: Dan Bush | Stars: Conal Byrne, Amy Seimetz, Scott Poythress, Lake Roberts
Votes: 1,206 | Gross: $0.00M
82. A Hole in One (2004)
97 min | Comedy
When her brother Bobby returns from World War II mentally damaged, Anna must deal with her parents, who don't acknowledge her brother's existence once he's admitted to a mental hospital. ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Ledes | Stars: Michelle Williams, Meat Loaf, Tim Guinee, Louis Zorich
Votes: 293
83. Be Here to Love Me (2004)
Not Rated | 99 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.
Director: Margaret Brown | Stars: Joe Ely, Guy Clark, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 1,420 | Gross: $0.13M
84. Big Shot's Funeral (2001)
PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, ... See full summary »
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Kwan, Paul Mazursky, You Ge
Votes: 2,412 | Gross: $0.00M
85. Lies (1983)
R | 100 min | Drama, Thriller
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
Directors: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat | Stars: Ann Dusenberry, Gail Strickland, Bruce Davison, Clu Gulager
Votes: 226
86. The Terror of Doctor Mabuse (1962)
88 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
German Police Inspector Lohmann investigates a string of crimes resembling Dr. Mabuse's M.O. but Mabuse is in Professor Polland's care inside an insane asylum.
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Gert Fröbe, Senta Berger, Helmut Schmid, Charles Regnier
Votes: 612
87. Jack Brown Genius (1996)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
A thousand years ago, in England, the crazy monk Elmer wears a pair of wings and tries to fly from a high tower. He dies, and his soul is doomed to the eternity in hell for committing ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Hiles | Stars: Timothy Balme, Nicola Murphy, Marton Csokas, Stuart Devenie
Votes: 269
88. Isola: Multiple Personality Girl (2000)
94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a woman, able to read the thoughts of others, comes to help survivors of the 1995 Kobe earthquake, she encounters a girl with Multiple Personality Disorder whose dangerous 13th personality, Isola, must be stopped.
Director: Toshiyuki Mizutani | Stars: Yoshino Kimura, Yû Kurosawa, Ken Ishiguro, Makiko Watanabe
Votes: 379
89. Dead Sleep (1990)
R | 86 min | Mystery, Thriller
Young nurse investigates suspicious deaths in a psychiatric ward.
Director: Alec Mills | Stars: Linda Blair, Tony Bonner, Andrew Booth, Christine Amor
Votes: 339
90. Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
The love story between British writer, Christopher Isherwood (whose book 'The Berlin Stories' inspired the musical and film Cabaret) and Don Bachardy, American portrait artist.
Directors: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi | Stars: W.H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Ted Bachardy, James Berg
Votes: 990 | Gross: $0.21M
91. Le tueur (1972)
87 min | Crime, Drama
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.
Director: Denys de La Patellière | Stars: Jean Gabin, Fabio Testi, Uschi Glas, Jacques Richard
Votes: 525
92. Bedlam (2015)
R | 102 min | Horror, Thriller
George is a haunted man. He enters Bedlam Hospital for a guaranteed recovery, but it is a world darker than even his demons could conjure. Once, he fought for sanity, now he fights to survive. Welcome to Bedlam.
Director: Chew Barker | Stars: Guy Edmonds, John Boxer, Peter McAllum, Cassandra Swaby
Votes: 286
93. Frontier of the Dawn (2008)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover. She ends the relationship, but slowly goes insane.
Director: Philippe Garrel | Stars: Louis Garrel, Laura Smet, Clémentine Poidatz, Olivier Massart
Votes: 1,293
94. 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
95. Trembling Before G-d (2001)
Not Rated | 94 min | Documentary
A cinematic portrait of various gay Orthodox Jews who struggle to reconcile their faith and their sexual orientation.
Director: Sandi Simcha Dubowski | Stars: Shlomo Ashkinazy, Steve Greenberg, Nathan Lopes Cardozo, Naomi Mark
Votes: 948 | Gross: $0.62M
96. Killers 2: The Beast (2002 Video)
R | 87 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
After a routine drug deal turns bad, Heather is arrested and taken to a mental institution. Inside the asylum, Heather's mind plays tricks on her, and she becomes convinced that a plot is under way to murder her.
Director: David Michael Latt | Stars: Kim Little, D.C. Douglas, Nick Stellate, Melissa Reneé Martin
Votes: 314
97. The Shock Doctrine (2007)
6 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Drawing surprising connections between market methods and CIA torture techniques developed in the 1950s, the film explores how well-known events of the recent past have been theaters for the shock doctrine, from Pinochet's coup in Chile, to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to the war in Iraq today.
Director: Jonás Cuarón | Star: Naomi Klein
Votes: 878
98. Walk a Mile in My Pradas (2011)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
A magic Christmas ornament turns two men's lives upside down when homophobic Tony starts preferring men two weeks before his wedding and his gay co-worker Steve finds himself blossoming into a ladies' man.
Director: Joey Sylvester | Stars: Nathaniel Marston, Tom Archdeacon, Tom Arnold, Mike Starr
Votes: 424
99. Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1995)
91 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A biography of the Portuguese-Brazilian singer Carmen Miranda, whose most distinctive feature was her tutti frutti hat. She came to the US as the "Brazilian Bombshell" and was a Broadway and Hollywood star in the 1940s.
Director: Helena Solberg | Stars: Helena Solberg, Eric Barreto, Cynthia Adler, Mario Cunha
Votes: 311
100. Curio Shop (2014)
19 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
An epic post-apocalyptic tale about two brothers who struggle to avenge the wrongs done to their family.
Directors: Eric S. Anderson, Scott Crane | Stars: Scott Crane, Christopher Sweeney, James Murray, Brittany Slattery
Votes: 32