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Breaking Dawn (2004)
, 1h24Directed by Mark Edwin Robinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Kelly Overton, James Haven, Sarah-Jane Potts, Hank Harris, Edie McClurg, Kathryn Joosten
Dawn, a young medical student is charged with uncovering the murder of a mental patient's mother. The patient, Don, holds many secrets and disturbs Dawn with his insane ramblings. As Dawn continues to investigate the murder, she believes Don's paranoia is out of control at the mention of a menacing figure named Malachi. She begins to question whether Malachi exists when she is stalked by a mysterious figure or if her imagination and Don's craziness are affecting her judgement.
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
, 1h55Directed by Kim Jee-woon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about altered memories, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Ghost films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Im Soo-jeong, Moon Geun-young, Kim Kap-soo, Yeom Jeong-a
The movie opens in a mental institution where a girl named Su-mi is being treated for shock and psychosis. She is questioned by a doctor who asks if she can speak about the day that led her to being admitted to the hospital.
Maniacal (2003)
, 1h22Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Mary Ann Springer
While his sister Janet is out with friends one night in 1994, the disturbed Gilbert Gill uses a hammer to wound his alcoholic father and kill his sexually abusive stepmother before being arrested by Officer Spiegel. Gilbert is placed in the Hitchberg Sanitarium, where he is tormented by hallucinations of his stepmother.
Gothika (2003)
, 1h38Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., Charles Dutton, John Carroll Lynch, Penélope Cruz, Bernard Hill
Psychiatrist Dr. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) works at a mental hospital and has a car accident after trying to avoid a girl (Kathleen Mackey) on a road during a stormy night while driving back home. She rushes to try to help the girl. The girl turns out to be a ghost and possesses Miranda's body by burning her after she extends her hand to the girl. Miranda loses consciousness. Miranda next wakes up in the very hospital she works for, but as a patient treated by her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham (Robert Downey, Jr.). Drugged and confused, she remembers nothing of what happened after the car accident. To her horror, she learns that her husband Douglas (Charles S. Dutton) was brutally murdered and that she is the primary suspect. While Miranda copes with her new life in the hospital, the ghost uses her body to carry out messages (most noticeably, she carves the words "not alone" into Miranda's arm), which leads her former colleagues to believe Miranda is suicidal and is inflicting the wounds on herself.
, 1h25Directed by Ken Russell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Comedy horror films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Ken Russell
Rock star Roddy Usher (played by James Johnston) is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. During his time there he is given various shock treatments by Nurse Smith (Marie Findley) and Dr Calahari (Ken Russell), resulting in a series of bizarre and nightmarish adventures.
House of Fools (2002)
, 1h44Directed by Andreï Kontchalovski
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Julia Vysotskaya, Bryan Adams, Evgueni Mironov, Maria Politseymako, Cecilie Thomsen
En 1996, dans un hôpital psychiatrique situé en Ingouchie, près de la frontière avec la Tchétchénie, les patients se trouvent livrés à eux-mêmes lors de la première guerre. Tous les soirs, Janna et les autres malades regardent un train passer, féérique et illuminé. Cette jeune femme se rêve à bord de ce train avec le "fiancé" qu'elle s'est imaginé, le chanteur canadien Bryan Adams. Un soir, le train ne passe pas et le lendemain, c'est le chaos. Le directeur de l'hôpital a disparu. Des combattants tchétchènes débarquent, puis les Russes contre-attaquent... Dans cette folie meurtrière, Janna est la seule à apporter un peu de douceur et de joie lorsqu'elle joue de l'accordéon.
They're Watching Us (2002)
, 1h42Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Icíar Bollaín, Francisco Algora, Massimo Ghini, Margarita Lozano, Manuel Lozano, Carmelo Gómez
Gómez plays a detective, Juan García, who takes over the case of a missing businessman, after the previous investigating officer suffers a mental breakdown. As García is drawn further into the case he uncovers a whole series of disappearances, with apparent links to the supernatural.
Don't Say a Word (2001)
, 1h53Directed by Gary Fleder
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Michael Douglas, Sean Bean, Brittany Murphy, Guy Torry, Jennifer Esposito, Famke Janssen
In 1991, a gang of thieves steal a rare $10-million gem, but, in the process, two of the gang double-cross their leader, Patrick Koster (Sean Bean) and take off with the precious stone.
K-PAX (2001)
, 2h1Directed by Iain Softley
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films based on science fiction novels, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard, David Patrick Kelly, Celia Weston
After claiming he is an extraterrestrial from the planet 'K-PAX', 1,000 light years away in the Lyra constellation, prot (uncapitalized and pronounced with a long O) is committed to the Psychiatric Institute of Manhattan. There, psychiatrist Dr. Mark Powell attempts to cure him of his apparent delusions. However, prot is unwavering in his ability to provide cogent answers to questions about himself, K-PAX and its civilizations. Dr. Powell introduces him to a group of astrophysicists, to whom prot displays a level of knowledge that puzzles them.
Brainstorm (2001)
, 1h14Directed by Laís Bodanzky
Origin Bresil
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Rodrigo Santoro, Caco Ciocler, Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis, Gero Camilo
The film opens as Mr. Wilson reads a letter he has received from his son Neto, in which Neto declares his contempt for his father. It is followed by a flashback to explain the story; Neto, a São Paulo middleclass teenager, has a troubled relationship with his father and his mother, Meire.
Manic (2001)
, 1h42Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel, Michael Bacall, Don Cheadle, Elden Henson, Blayne Weaver
After brutally beating another teen with a baseball bat during a baseball game, Lyle Jensen, an impulsive and aggressive teen, is admitted to the juvenile psychiatric ward of a hospital along with other troubled teens: Tracy, Chad, Michael, Kenny, and Sara. Lyle is placed in a room with Kenny, a reticent 13-year-old, and form some semblance of a sibling relationship. Lyle has problems adjusting to the confinements of the institution and it is Dr. David Monroe's job to get them to talk in group therapy sessions.
Session 9 (2001)
, 1h40Directed by Brad Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Ghost films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie
Actors David Caruso, Peter Mullan, Paul Guilfoyle, Josh Lucas, Brendan Sexton III, Larry Fessenden
Gordon Fleming is the owner of a small asbestos removal company. The stresses of work and being a new father are causing problems between him and his wife, Wendy. He is in a desperate financial bind and makes a bid to remove the asbestos of the Danvers State Hospital, closed fifteen years ago, within one week. His team consists of Mike, a law school dropout who is knowledgeable about the asylum's history; Phil, who is filled with bitterness after losing his girlfriend and finds solace in smoking marijuana; Hank, whom Phil lost his girlfriend to; and Jeff, Gordon's nephew, who suffers from severe nyctophobia.
Poetical Refugee (2001)
, 2h10Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, La précarité, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bruno Lochet, Aure Atika, Virginie Darmon, Mustapha Adouani
Like Voltaire‘s Candide in his eponymous novel, Jallel, a young North-African man, dreaming of better prospects, immigrates illegally to France. He struggles at first as he is unable to find work and finds it difficult to make friends. But soon he gets to sell fruits in the underground, albeit illegally. He also makes some new friendsand then falls in love. But his dreams of success remain unrealized as he comes to discover and share the solidarity of the other outcasts going from one encounter to the other, making his way through Paris, from hostels to immigrant aid societies and social welfare groups, living among the excluded and the destitute.
Girl, Interrupted (2000)
, 2h7Directed by James Mangold
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Elisabeth Moss
In April 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), a depressed and unmotivated girl is checked into Claymoore psychiatric hospital, after having a nervous breakdown and taking an overdose of aspirin. She denies the accusation from many that she was attempting to commit suicide, claiming that she was only trying to get rid of her headache. Susanna's mother and father, along with the nurses and therapists, are surprised when Susanna confesses that she does not actually want to go to college and would like to become an independent, free spirited writer.
Angels of the Universe (2000)
, 1h40Directed by Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Origin Islande
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Ingvar E. Sigurðsson, Baltasar Kormákur
Englar Alheimsins, which has often been called an Icelandic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, is the story of an Icelandic man named Páll (Ingvar E. Sigurðsson). After his girlfriend leaves him he's slowly turning into a state of madness and depression. His parents decide to send him to a mental hospital where he meets Óli (Baltasar Kormákur), who believes he's the songwriter for The Beatles, Viktor (Björn Jörundur Friðbjörnsson), who signs cheques with the signature of Adolf Hitler, and other special characters. The movie depicts his struggle, in and out of the mental hospital.