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The Snake Pit

The Snake Pit

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1948 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, sh...

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Cured

Cured

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Mentally ill. Deviant. Diseased. And in need of a cure. These were among the terms psychiatrists used to describe gay women and men in the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s. And as long as they were “sick...

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Suddenly, Last Summer

Suddenly, Last Summer

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1959 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to c...

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K-PAX

K-PAX

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

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Love & Mercy

Love & Mercy

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.4

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior...

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Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1963 IMDB Rating: 7.3

With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been...

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Take Shelter

Take Shelter

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

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Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

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Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1999 IMDB Rating: 7.3

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she st...

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Quills

Quills

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Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 7.2

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The...

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Like Crazy

Like Crazy

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They ar...

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