1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Director- Stanley Kubrick
Alex DeLarge, the Ludwig van Beethoven fan, and leader of an anarchic quartet of thugs have been sentenced to fourteen years in prison. For an unfettered life of sex, violence, and murder in the poor streets of futuristic Britain. As a result, the once-swaggering juvenile delinquent has the opportunity to earn his release by participating in the government’s experimental de-conditioning program. It promises to drain one’s damaging anti-social inclinations from one’s mind after two years in prison. However, the cure is sometimes worse than the sickness.
2. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Director- Milos Forman
McMurphy, a man with a string of assault charges behind him, is back in jail. When it emerges out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen and was, in fact, fifteen, he is charged with statutory rape. Rather than serving his term in prison, he persuades the guards that he is insane and needs psychiatric treatment, and he is admitted to a hospital. He blends in terrifyingly well, and his unique perspective actually causes some of the patients to improve. As his resistance to the hospital routine grate on her nerves, Nurse Ratched becomes his own cross to bear.
3. Girl,Interrupted (1999)
Director- James Mangold
McMurphy, a man with a string of assault charges behind him, is back in jail. When it emerges out that his girlfriend had lied about being eighteen and was, in fact, fifteen, he is charged with statutory rape. Rather than serving his term in prison, he persuades the guards that he is insane and needs psychiatric treatment, and he is admitted to a hospital. He blends in terrifyingly well, and his unique perspective actually causes some of the patients to improve. As his resistance to the hospital routine grate on her nerves, Nurse Ratched becomes his own cross to bear.
Liza Rowe is a psychopath who irritates the personnel, including Nurse Valerie Owens, and has the most influence on the other girls in the facility. Susanna’s boyfriend Tobias Jacobs is concerned that she seems too comfortable living with her institutionalized pals. Lisa has a history of escaping, so acquiring access to personal medical papers is not a problem for her.
4. Shutter Island (2010)
Director- Martin Scorsese
Troubled US Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, head to Ashecliffe Hospital, Shutter Island’s fortress asylum for the criminally ill. In order to investigate the inexplicable disappearance of a demented child-murderer. Soon, inexplicable nuances of medical negligence appear behind the gloomy purgatory’s thick stone walls. Implying that the institution’s cryptic top psychiatrists must be concealing something. Then, in the dark off-shore prison, a violent storm trapped patients and investigators alike. Also, triggering Teddy’s severe headaches and grisly recollections from the past.
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Director- Robert Weine
Dr. Caligari secures a permit to set up his tent exhibit starring Cesare the 23-year-old Somnambulist who has slept for 23 years at a fair in the village of Hostenwall. Francis and his friend Alan pay a visit to the famed show, and Alan asks Cesare to tell him his future in his trance-like state. Cesare prophesies that he will die that night, and when Alan is discovered dead the next morning, it appears to be the latest in a series of similar crimes. Frances is even more desperate to locate his friend’s killer after Cesare attempts to kidnap his fiancée. He follows him to a mental institution, but not everything is as it seems.
6. Don’t Say A Word (2001)
Director- Gary Fleder
A group of daring burglars pulled off the ultimate robbery in 1991, stealing a rare $10 million emerald. A decade later, the tranquil life of Dr. Nathan Conrad, a distinguished Manhattan psychiatrist, is shattered when a cruel member of the same gang kidnaps his beloved little daughter, Jessie, and demands an unexpected reward. If the good doctor wants to see his child again, he’ll have to do everything he can to extract a crucial six-digit number from Elisabeth Burrows’ confused mind: a problematic young patient with a history of violence and unsuccessful therapies.
