Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "committed-to-a-mental-institution"

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: 1,075,844 | Gross: $112.00M

2. 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: 28,869 | Gross: $13.34M

3. What About Bob? (1991)

PG | 99 min | Comedy

A successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.

Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo

Votes: 74,673 | Gross: $63.71M

4. Death Wish (1974)

R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks. In self-defense, the vengeful man kills muggers on the mean streets after dark.

Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats

Votes: 44,240 | Gross: $22.00M

5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Not Rated | 67 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover

Votes: 70,320

6. Dream Lover (1993)

R | 103 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A successful businessman tries to uncover what is wrong with his wife.

Director: Nicholas Kazan | Stars: James Spader, Mädchen Amick, Fredric Lehne, Bess Armstrong

Votes: 6,124 | Gross: $0.26M

7. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans

Votes: 13,943 | Gross: $0.57M

8. Not Fade Away (2012)

R | 112 min | Drama

Set in suburban New Jersey in the 1960s, a group of friends form a rock band and try to make it big.

Director: David Chase | Stars: John Magaro, Jack Huston, Will Brill, Brahm Vaccarella

Votes: 4,958 | Gross: $0.61M

9. Blaze (1989)

R | 120 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

Director: Ron Shelton | Stars: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin, Gailard Sartain

Votes: 4,185 | Gross: $19.13M

10. The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)

PG | 99 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by their ancestor, a dark-haired, red-robed woman who is said to take seven lives every hundred years.

Director: Emilio Miraglia | Stars: Barbara Bouchet, Ugo Pagliai, Marina Malfatti, Marino Masé

Votes: 3,243

11. 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: 3,209

12. The Chosen (1977)

R | 105 min | Horror

Robert's in charge of constructing a nuclear power plant in the Middle East. Will it be instrumental in prophecies of antichrist's apocalypse?

Director: Alberto De Martino | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Simon Ward, Agostina Belli, Anthony Quayle

Votes: 1,616

13. Tom & Viv (1994)

PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

In 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discreet husband.

Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Willem Dafoe, Miranda Richardson, Rosemary Harris, Tim Dutton

Votes: 1,880 | Gross: $0.54M

14. A Page of Madness (1926)

Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa | Stars: Masuo Inoue, Ayako Iijima, Yoshie Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nemoto

Votes: 4,600

15. The Boy Who Cried Bitch (1991)

105 min | Drama, Thriller

A psychotic 12 year old makes life hell for his emotionally frail mother.

Director: Juan José Campanella | Stars: Harley Cross, Karen Young, Jesse Bradford, J.D. Daniels

Votes: 443

16. Come Back to Me (2014)

R | 96 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

Sarah and Josh are married suburbanites. After a car accident, Sarah suffers blackouts. As her life spirals she hides a camera in her home and unlocks a horrific secret with far-reaching consequences.

Director: Paul Leyden | Stars: Jon Abrahams, Andrew Beckham, Jeanette Branch, Caroline Clements

Votes: 5,304 | Gross: $0.00M

17. Trick or Treats (1982)

R | 91 min | Horror

A baby sitter is stuck watching over a young brat on Halloween night who keeps playing vicious pranks on her. To add to her trouble the boy's deranged father has escaped from an asylum and is planning on making a visit.

Director: Gary Graver | Stars: Jacqueline Giroux, Peter Jason, Chris Graver, David Carradine

Votes: 1,534

18. 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: 2,165

19. The Locket (1946)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond

Votes: 3,070

20. Fear No More (1961)

80 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A woman recently released from psychiatric care is accused of the murder of a woman found dead in her compartment. Arrested and taken off the train, she escapes custody and flees to her apartment, where she finds another murder victim.

Director: Bernard Wiesen | Stars: Mala Powers, Jacques Bergerac, John Harding, Helena Nash

Votes: 364

21. Mr. Sycamore (1975)

G | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.

Director: Pancho Kohner | Stars: Jason Robards, Sandy Dennis, Jean Simmons, Robert Easton

Votes: 196

22. El 7º día (2004)

96 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

In an isolated village in Extremadura (Spain), the Jiménez and Fuentes families have a violent history of land disputes, jealousy, envy, and violence.

Director: Carlos Saura | Stars: José Garcia, Eulàlia Ramon, Yohana Cobo, Irene Escolar

Votes: 1,477

23. The Governor's Wife (2008 TV Movie)

R | 95 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Ann Danville steps up her manipulation as she tries to retain control over her son Nathan and the Danville estate.

Director: David Burton Morris | Stars: Marilu Henner, Emily Bergl, Matt Keeslar, Scout Taylor-Compton

Votes: 410

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: 576

25. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: Screamer (1974)

TV-14 | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ... See full summary »

Director: Shaun O'Riordan | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Donal McCann, Frances White, Jim Norton

Votes: 206

26. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Taboo (2006)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When a baby boy is discovered in the rubbish, detectives Benson and Stabler use a t-shirt found at the scene to trace the crime back to a well-to-do college student.

Director: Arthur W. Forney | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal

Votes: 1,033

27. Profit (1996–1997)
Episode: Healing (1996)

45 min | Crime, Drama

As a secret merger boils, Profit realizes he has under estimated Sykes and must deal with him, Joanne, and a polygraph.

Director: Robert Iscove | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Sherman Augustus, Lisa Blount, Lisa Darr

Votes: 70

28. Smallville (2001–2017)
Episode: Shattered (2003)

TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

While Lex continues to investigate the dark past of his father, he meets Morgan Edge with a new face after plastic surgery, and collects evidence to send Lionel Luthor to prison for the ... See full summary »

Director: Kenneth Biller | Stars: Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III

Votes: 1,387

29. Tales from the Crypt (1989–1996)
Episode: Mute Witness to Murder (1990)

Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Young woman Suzy looks out of the window of her apartment and witnesses a man murdering a woman in the apartment directly across from hers. Suzy is so traumatized by what she sees that ... See full summary »

Director: Jim Simpson | Stars: Richard Thomas, Patricia Clarkson, Reed Birney, Kristine Nielsen

Votes: 963

30. The Tick (2001–2002)
Episode: Arthur, Interrupted (2002)

TV-G | 207 min | Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi

Arthur's family has him committed.

Director: Dean Parisot | Stars: Patrick Warburton, David Burke, Liz Vassey, Nestor Carbonell

Votes: 174

31. Fingersmith (2005)
Episode: Episode #1.2 (2005)

Not Rated | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Sue knows she cannot tell Maud the truth - that she loves her or that Rivers is planning to send her to a madhouse.

Director: Aisling Walsh | Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Rupert Evans

Votes: 101

32. Who Killed Sara? (2021–2022)
Episode: Ratones de laboratorio (2022)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Worried about her treatment, Sara attempts to expose Reinaldo. Chema is admitted to the Medusa Center. Cesar reveals crucial information to Alex.

Director: Mauricio Lule | Stars: Manolo Cardona, Ginés García Millán, Carolina Miranda, Ximena Lamadrid

Votes: 35

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

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

34. Scandalous Overtures (2014– )
Episode: Johannes Brahms & Clara Schumann: Did They or Didn't They? (2015)

8 min | Reality-TV

A tragic love story: As Schumann the husband, wasted away from illness did the relationship between his wife and Brahms remain platonic? Their own words tell us how they loved and supported... See full summary »

Star: Robert Greenberg

35. Another Period (2013–2018)
Episode: Little Orphan Garfield (2018)

TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, History

Lillian runs into someone she knows inside the Sanitarium. But when Lillian discovers her game, she shakes things up. Beatrice and Frederick search for their mystery love from the ball, oblivious how close to home they are.

Director: Jeremy Konner | Stars: Michael Ian Black, Beth Dover, Donna Lynne Champlin, Alice Hunter

Votes: 63

36. Ozark (2017–2022)
Episode: BFF (2020)

TV-MA | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ruth isn't happy about Marty and Wendy's plan to bury the hatchet with Frank Jr. The Byrdes make a difficult decision about Ben. Maya is reprimanded.

Director: Alik Sakharov | Stars: Jason Bateman, Laura Linney, Sofia Hublitz, Skylar Gaertner

Votes: 5,138