lunatic asylum movies

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8.421 / 10

Drama

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other...

Session 9 (2001)
6.16 / 10

Horror, Mystery

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

Red Beard (1965)
8.085 / 10

Drama

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Birdy (1984)
7.142 / 10

Drama

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and...

House on Haunted Hill (1999)
5.591 / 10

Horror

An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a decrepit former mental institution.

The Professor and the Madman (2019)
7.2 / 10

History, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over...

Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2019)
7.3 / 10

Thriller

An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious...

I'm a Cyborg, but That's OK (2006)
7.09 / 10

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly...

Love Crazy (1941)
7.141 / 10

Comedy, Romance

Circumstance, an old flame and a mother-in-law drive a happily married couple to the verge of divorce and insanity.

Maniacts (2001)
5.9 / 10

Horror, Thriller, Comedy

Two serial killers meet and fall in love in an asylum for the criminally insane. Upon escaping their corrupt captors, they flee to the country to try...

A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
6.4 / 10

Drama

Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in an asylum with his sanity restored. But he is disturbed to find that everything has changed: his...

Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard (1963)
6.4 / 10

Crime, Mystery, Thriller

The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes...

Malice (2023)
8 / 10

Horror, Thriller

Keo Sinn and her university friends find themselves tormented by the ancient curse of the vengeful Nu Gui. As the malevolent spirit unleashes havoc,...

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse (1964)
5.7 / 10

Crime, Thriller

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

Up! Up! To the sky (2008)
4 / 10

Comedy, Drama

Echo Of The Past: The Terrence Tower (2012)
10 / 10

Documentary, History

A historical documentary documenting the rise, function, and abandonment of a 17 story building that once housed The Rochester Psychiatric Center. ...

The Shadowed Mind (1988)
5 / 10

Horror, Thriller

A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the...

Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark (2019)
10 / 10

Documentary, History, TV Movie

The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing new life as it undergoes restoration and...