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The Shrike (1955)
, 1h28Directed by José Ferrer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors José Ferrer, June Allyson, Edward Platt, Joy Page, Mary Hayley Bell, Leigh Whipper
Successful stage director Jim Downs (Ferrer) is driven to a mental breakdown by his domineering wife Ann (June Allyson). Institutionalized, he confides in Dr. Bellman (Kendall Clark) and Dr. Barrow (Isabel Bonner), and he finds a kindred spirit in Charlotte Moore (Joy Page).
The Long Wait (1954)
, 1h34Directed by Victor Saville
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans, Peggie Castle, Mary Ellen Kay, Shirley Patterson
Johnny McBride is badly hurt while hitch hiking and loses his memory when the car he is riding in crashes. Two years later, a clue leads him to his old home town, where he finds he is a murder suspect. McBride tries to clear his name of the presumed murder charges. Thugs working for the local mob boss try to end his meddling.
Witness to Murder (1954)
, 1h23Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White, Harry Shannon, Claire Carleton
Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck), while looking out her bedroom window, witnesses a young woman being strangled to death. The woman reports the killing to the police, but when the man named Albert Richter (George Sanders) notices detectives arriving downstairs, he moves the body. When the police show up to his door, Richter acts nonchalant, and when no body is found, the police are convinced that the woman saw something in her dreams.
Knock on Wood (1954)
, 1h43Directed by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank, Alvin Ganzer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Political films
Actors Danny Kaye, Mai Zetterling, Torin Thatcher, David Burns, Leon Askin, Abner Biberman
Jerry Morgan (Kaye) is a ventriloquist who is having trouble with love: just when his relationship with a woman gets around to marriage, his dummy turns jealous and spoils everything. Jerry's manager Marty threatens to quit unless Jerry sees a psychiatrist, Ilse Nordstrom (Zetterling), who tries to discover the source of his problem. The two of them eventually fall in love.
Man in the Dark (1953)
, 1h10Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Edmond O'Brien, Audrey Totter, Nick Dennis, Horace McMahon, Ted de Corsia, William Tannen
Steve Rawley is serving a 10-year prison sentence from a Christmas Eve factory robbery that netted $130,000. He is offered an immediate parole if willing to undergo an experimental procedure by Dr. Marsden, a brain surgeon.
Él (1953)
, 1h32Directed by Luis Buñuel
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Luis Beristáin, Rafael Banquells, Fernando Casanova
The film opens in a church where a man named Francisco sees an attractive young woman from across the room. They have seen each other many times before, and she seems reluctant to engage him. She leaves the church and escapes Francisco, despite his attempt to chase after her. Another day, Francisco finds her again in the church. He works up the courage to speak with her, but she seems uninterested, and insists that they can never speak to each other again. Francisco follows her to a restaurant and sees her meeting with Raul, a close friend of his.
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
, 2h2Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Melodrama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Théâtre, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre de Tennessee Williams
Actors Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis
Under mysterious circumstances, Blanche DuBois, an aging highschool teacher, leaves her home in Auriol, Mississippi to travel to New Orleans to live with her sister, Stella Kowalski. She arrives on the train and boards a streetcar named "Desire" and reaches her sister's home in the French Quarter where she discovers that her sister and brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski, live in a cramped and dilapidated two-room apartment in an old New Orleans tenement. Blanche and Stella are all that remain of an old aristocratic family. Blanche discloses that the family estate, Belle Reve, has been lost to creditors, and that she wants to stay with Stella and Stanley for a while. Blanche seems lost and broke, with nowhere to go. Stella welcomes her with an open heart.
Sweet Madness (1951)
, 1h30Directed by Jean-Paul Paulin
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Louis de Funès, Marthe Mercadier, André Gabriello, Frédéric Duvallès, Pierre-Louis, Christine Carrère
Atteint de folie douce, le président d'une importante société distribue les bénéfices de la dite société à ses employés et en garde une partie pour lui. Il assurera le bonheur de trois de ses employés et se mariera avec une de ses compagnes de l'asile d'où il s'est évadé.
A Tale of Five Cities (1951)
, 1h26Directed by Emil-Edwin Reinert, Montgomery Tully, Irma von Cube, Romolo Marcellini, Wolfgang Staudte
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Bonar Colleano, Anne Vernon, Barbara Kelly, Gina Lollobrigida, Karin Himboldt, Claire Gérard
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
, 1h50Directed by Billy Wilder, Charles C. Coleman, Gerd Oswald
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Noir, Romance
Themes Films about films, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about television, Mise en scène d'un scénariste, Films about psychiatry
Actors William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Fred Clark
At a Sunset Boulevard mansion, the body of Joe Gillis floats in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death.
Harvey (1950)
, 1h44Directed by Henry Koster
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Charles Drake, Peggy Dow, Cecil Kellaway, Fess Parker
Elwood P. Dowd (Stewart) is a middle-aged, amiable (and somewhat eccentric) individual whose best friend is an invisible 6' 3.5" tall rabbit named Harvey. As described by Dowd, Harvey is a pooka, a benign but mischievous creature from Celtic mythology who is especially fond of social outcasts (like Elwood). Elwood has driven his sister and niece (who live with him and crave normality and a place in society) to distraction by introducing everyone he meets to his friend, Harvey. His family seems to be unsure whether Dowd's obsession with Harvey is a product of his (admitted) propensity to drink or perhaps mental illness.
Shadow on the Wall (1950)
, 1h24Directed by Pat Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau, Kristine Miller, John McIntire, Tom Helmore
Child Susan Starrling (Gigi Perreau) is the sole witness to a killing, but the shock causes her to suffer amnesia about the event. Her father David (Zachary Scott) is convicted of first degree murder of his wife. However, psychiatrist Caroline Cranford (Nancy Davis) is convinced she can cure the young girl and begins to suspect that another person is guilty.
The Woman with No Name (1950)
, 1h24Directed by Ladislao Vajda
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Patrick Troughton, Helen Cherry, Leslie Phillips, Richard Burton
Yvonne Winter is an amnesiac, a victim of the wartime bombing of the London hotel where she's staying. At a country hospital she meets the pilot, Lake Chamerd, who saved her life. They fall in love and plan to marry, but he's killed on active duty. Yvonne's real husband hires detectives to find her, and she's brought home and starts to piece together her past. But not everything she finds there brings her happiness.
, 1h22Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Annabella, Paul Bernard, Maria Casarès, Daniel Lecourtois, Édouard Delmont, France Ellys
Un homme, après une bagarre, croit avoir tué son cousin, et cache le corps. Le mort n'était qu'évanoui, mais lorsqu'il reprend connaissance, il est devenu amnésique. Lorsqu'elle le revoit, la femme qui l'aimait le prend pour un fantôme.
Home of the Brave (1949)
, 1h28Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Théâtre, Transport films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Douglas Dick, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges, James Edwards, Frank Lovejoy, Steve Brodie
Undergoing psychoanalysis by an Army psychiatrist (Corey), paralyzed Black war veteran Private Peter Moss (Edwards) begins to walk again only when he confronts his fear of forever being an "outsider."