Tag Archives: mental institution

House on Haunted Hill

IMDB Rating: 5.10
14042 votes

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When an eccentric millionaire offer a group of opposites $1,000,000 to spend the night in a so called "Haunted House" with a murderous past, they figure it is a quick way to get quick money and leave. All of them are sure it is some made up story just to mess with their heads a little and test their courage. But, once they stay in the house they start to think about the mistake they made in coming there when mysterious things start to happen.
Actors
Stephen H. PriceGeoffrey Rush
Evelyn Stockard-PriceFamke Janssen
Eddie BakerTaye Diggs
Also posted in 1999, Horror, Thriller | Comments (8)

The Gingerbread Man

IMDB Rating: 5.60
3849 votes

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Lawyer Rick Magruder has a one-night-stand affair with caterer Mallory Doss. He becomes hooked on her, and when he learns her nut-case father Dixon is threatening her, he puts the weight of his law firm behind Mallory, has Dixon arrested and subpoenas her ex-husband Pete to testify against Dixon in court. Dixon is sent to an asylum, but escapes from there and the lives of many people are in danger.
Actors
Rick MagruderKenneth Branagh
Mallory DossEmbeth Davidtz
Clyde PellRobert Downey Jr.
Also posted in 1998, Thriller | Comments (0)

What Dreams May Come

IMDB Rating: 6.30
13496 votes

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Soul mates Chris ('Robin Williams (I)' (qv)) and Annie ('Annabella Sciorra' (qv)) couldn't be happier, having married each other and had two wonderful children. Unforutnately, tragedy strikes when they lose them both in a car accident, and then again for Annie many years later when Chris is killed in another accident. What Chris finds is a Paradise unlike anything he ever imagined, where he is guided by Albert ('Cuba Gooding Jr.' (qv)), the first doctor he interned under and is helped to see his children once again. Unfortunately, when Annie takes her life in despair, she does not venture to the same plane of existence. Taking it upon himself to rescue her, Chris ventures into the pit of Hell with Albert and a Tracker ('Max von Sydow' (qv)) to save his wife from the damnation she doesn't even know she is forcing on herself. This is a beautiful story that reminds us that love is stronger than death.
Actors
Chris NielsenRobin Williams
Albert LewisCuba Gooding Jr.
Annie Collins-NielsenAnnabella Sciorra
Also posted in 1998, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (3)

Conspiracy Theory

IMDB Rating: 6.40
17570 votes

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Jerry Fletcher is a man in love with a woman he observes from afar. She works for the government. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of that government. He has conspiracy theories for everything, from aliens to political assassinations. But soon, one of his theories finds itself to be accurate. But which one? Some dangerous people want him dead and the only person he trusts is that woman he loves but does not know.
Actors
Jerry FletcherMel Gibson
Alice SuttonJulia Roberts
Dr. JonasPatrick Stewart
Also posted in 1997, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Final Analysis

IMDB Rating: 5.60
2632 votes

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A psychiatrist (Gere) has an affair with his patient's sister (Basinger) who is married to a Greek mobster (Roberts). The mobster is a tyrant over his wife. The psychiatrist wants her to get a divorce, but she is afraid of what her husband would do. She has a medical condition that becomes apparent when she drinks. One night she drinks anyway and attacks her husband. The psychiatrist uses his professional pull to try and help her out of the consequences of her actions, but becomes uncertain if she is telling him the truth.
Actors
Dr. Isaac BarrRichard Gere
Heather EvansKim Basinger
Diana BaylorUma Thurman
Also posted in 1992, Drama, Romance, Thriller | Comments (0)

Hellbound: Hellraiser II

IMDB Rating: 5.80
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After having her father and perverse stepmother killed by the cenobites, Kirsty Cotton (Ashley Lawrence) is sent to a psychiatric hospital. Even after trying to convince the authorities of what really happened with her family, nobody believes in her version of the history and they decide to place her in the institute, so that she rests and relaxes a little bit. The hospital is commanded by a brilliant and strange psychiatrist, Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham), who has been looking for the key for another dimension for a long time. The only person who believes in Kirsty is a young and kind assistant of Dr. Channard, called Kyle MacRae (William Hope). Following Kirsty's version of the story, Channard put his hands on the bloodstained mattress where her stepmother Júlia (Clare Higgins, from the first Hellraiser) died, Channard decides to resurrect her, killing his patients and offering them as food for Júlia. She returns without skin, and she decides to help Channard to bring the forces of the evil, but the plans of the two will be disturbed by Kirsty, who wants to end at once with the cenobites, and for Kyle, who doesn't want to see Kirsty being hurt...
Actors
Julia CottonClare Higgins
Kirsty CottonAshley Laurence
Dr. Philip Channard/Channard CenobiteKenneth Cranham
Also posted in 1988, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Airplane II: The Sequel

IMDB Rating: 5.70
7554 votes

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Years have passed since Ted Striker heroically saved many lives by avoiding a plane crash. Working as a test pilot for a new Lunar Shuttle, he gets innocently sent into a mental ward after a crash of the badly constructed, computer-navigated spaceship. When he hears that the exactly same type of shuttle is scheduled for a moon flight soon, he breaks out to hinder the launch. Aboard, Ted finds his ex-ex Elaine Dickinson working as stewardess again and her fiancé Simon, a member of the committee that wants the Mayflower I to be launched. In flight, the ship's computer ROK 9000 takes control, killing the crew. Ted and Elaine manage to switch it off, and now it is up to Ted again to save the passengers' lives - if there only wouldn't be these flashbacks to the war and these people who know Ted and have no faith in his abilities at all.
Actors
David Paymer
Ted StrikerRobert Hays
Elaine DickinsonJulie Hagerty
Also posted in 1982, Comedy, Sci-Fi | Comments (0)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

IMDB Rating: 8.80
81467 votes

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McMurphy, a man with several assault convictions to his name, finds himself in jail once again. This time, the charge is statutory rape when it turns out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen, and was, in fact, fifteen (or, as McMurphy puts it, "fifteen going on thirty-five"). Rather than spend his time in jail, he convinces the guards that he's crazy enough to need psychiatric care and is sent to a hospital. He fits in frighteningly well, and his different point of view actually begins to cause some of the patients to progress. Nurse Ratched becomes his personal cross to bear as his resistance to the hospital routine gets on her nerves.
Actors
Randle Patrick McMurphyJack Nicholson
Nurse Mildred RatchedLouise Fletcher
HardingWilliam Redfield
Also posted in 1975, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)
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