🏷 Discover The Best Psychiatric Ward Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Step into the World of Mental Health: Uncovering the Best Movies and TV Shows Set in Psychiatric Wards

Delve into the complex world of mental health with our curated list of movies and TV shows that take you inside the walls of psychiatric wards. From gripping dramas to thought-provoking documentaries, we've got you covered. Get ready to explore the human psyche and uncover the truth behind the locked doors.

It's Okay to Not Be Okay
Cast
Kim Soo-hyun Kim Soo-hyun
Seo Yea-ji Seo Yea-ji
Oh Jung-se Oh Jung-se
Park Gyu-young Park Gyu-young
8.5 1.5K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 16
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected – a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.
Plot:  post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), illustrator, brotherhood, romcom, romance, dark comedy, psychiatric hospital, antisocial personality disorder, ...
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Daily Dose of Sunshine
8.2 134 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 12
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  A kind-hearted nurse working in psychiatry goes above and beyond to be a ray of light for those under her care, despite the challenges coming her way.
Plot:  nurse, hospital, doctor, mental illness, psychiatric ward, mental health, healing, psychiatric nurse, ...
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Shutter Island
Cast
Leonardo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio Mark Ruffalo Mark Ruffalo
Ben Kingsley Ben Kingsley
Max von Sydow Max von Sydow
8.2 26.0K votes
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 138 min.
Audience: R
Story:  World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Plot:  island, based on novel or book, concentration camp, hurricane, investigation, psychiatric hospital, mental institution, escaped patient, ...
Time:  world war ii, 1950s
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My Mad Fat Diary
Cast
Sharon Rooney Sharon Rooney
Nico Mirallegro Nico Mirallegro
Jodie Comer Jodie Comer
Dan Cohen Dan Cohen
7.9 150 votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 16
Story:  Set in 1996 in Lincolnshire, the show tells the tragic and humorous story of a very troubled young girl Rae, who has just left a psychiatric hospital, where she has spent four months after attempting suicide, begins to reconnect with her best friend Chloe and her group, who are unaware of Rae's mental health and body image problems, believing she was in France for the past four months.
Plot:  overweight, northern england, dark comedy, psychiatric hospital, group of friends, unlikely lovers, body image, teen drama, ...
Time:  1990s
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Girl, Interrupted
Cast
Winona Ryder Winona Ryder
Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie
Clea DuVall Clea DuVall
Brittany Murphy Brittany Murphy
7.6 4.2K votes
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Duration: 127 min.
Audience: R
Story:  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 struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Plot:  based on novel or book, escape, suicide attempt, identity, insanity, female friendship, based on true story, borderline personality disorder, ...
Time:  1960s
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Maniac
Cast
Emma Stone Emma Stone
Jonah Hill Jonah Hill
Sonoya Mizuno Sonoya Mizuno
Justin Theroux Justin Theroux
7.3 1.0K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction
Country: United States of America
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
Audience: TV-MA
Story:  Two strangers are drawn to a mysterious pharmaceutical trial that will, they're assured, with no complications or side-effects whatsoever, solve all of their problems, permanently. Things do not go as planned.
Plot:  schizophrenia, computer, surrealism, dark comedy, psychiatric hospital, miniseries, mental disorders, drug trial, ...
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Patch Adams
7.3 3.5K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: United States of America
Duration: 115 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
Plot:  based on novel or book, nurse, based on true story, psychiatric hospital, hospital, doctor, suicidal thoughts, medical school, ...
Time:  1970s, 1960s
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Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
Cast
Wi Ha-jun Wi Ha-jun
Park Ji-hyun Park Ji-hyun
Oh Ah-yeon Oh Ah-yeon
Moon Ye-won Moon Ye-won
7.3 956 votes
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story:  The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.
Plot:  asylum, camera, insane asylum, crew, paranormal, psychiatric hospital, paranormal investigation, ghost, ...
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Silver Linings Playbook
Cast
Bradley Cooper Bradley Cooper
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence
Robert De Niro Robert De Niro
Jacki Weaver Jacki Weaver
7.2 12.7K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: United States of America
Duration: 122 min.
Audience: R
Story:  After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
Plot:  depression, infidelity, dancing, friendship, philadelphia, pennsylvania, based on novel or book, italian american, ...
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I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
Cast
Lim Soo-jung Lim Soo-jung
Rain Rain
Oh Dal-su Oh Dal-su
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Lee Yeong-mi
7.0 603 votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Audience: 15
Story:  Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.
Plot:  grandparent grandchild relationship, submachine gun, lunatic asylum, patient, psychiatrist, psychiatric ward
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
6.9 2.5K votes
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: United States of America
Duration: 102 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
Plot:  depression, suicide, based on novel or book, coming of age, teen movie, psychiatric ward, woman director, based on young adult novel
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Glass
Cast
James McAvoy James McAvoy
Bruce Willis Bruce Willis
Samuel L. Jackson Samuel L. Jackson
Sarah Paulson Sarah Paulson
6.7 9.1K votes
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 129 min.
Audience: PG-13
Story:  In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
Plot:  philadelphia, pennsylvania, superhero, villain, sequel, psychiatric hospital, comic book shop, super power, ...
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Howl
Cast
James Franco James Franco
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Todd Rotondi
Jon Prescott Jon Prescott
Aaron Tveit Aaron Tveit
6.4 198 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Duration: 84 min.
Audience: R
Story:  It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.
Plot:  freedom, poetry, literature, psychiatric hospital, male homosexuality, counter-culture, gay theme
Time:  1950s
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Grave Encounters
6.3 1.7K votes
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Audience: 15
Story:  A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style:  haunting
Plot:  insane asylum, paranormal, psychiatric hospital, ghost hunting, paranormal investigation, labyrinth, mental asylum, found footage, ...
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The Exorcist III
6.3 872 votes
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: United States of America
Duration: 110 min.
Audience: R
Story:  On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.
Style:  whimsical
Plot:  death penalty, based on novel or book, religion and supernatural, suspicion of murder, investigation, exorcism, doomed man, halloween, ...
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Gothika
6.2 2.6K votes
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: United States of America
Duration: 98 min.
Audience: R
Story:  After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Plot:  rape, insanity, married couple, car crash, paranormal, confusion, murder, psychiatric hospital, ...
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Die My Love
Cast
Jennifer Lawrence Jennifer Lawrence
Robert Pattinson Robert Pattinson
Sissy Spacek Sissy Spacek
LaKeith Stanfield LaKeith Stanfield
6.1 579 votes
Genre: Drama
Country: United States of America
Duration: 119 min.
Audience: R
Story:  After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.
Plot:  husband wife relationship, based on novel or book, pregnancy, dark comedy, surrealism, rural area, female protagonist, car accident, ...
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The Ward
Cast
Amber Heard Amber Heard
Mamie Gummer Mamie Gummer
Danielle Panabaker Danielle Panabaker
Jared Harris Jared Harris
5.7 1.3K votes
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Duration: 89 min.
Audience: R
Story:  Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.
Plot:  farm, nurse, electric shock, orderly, psychiatric hospital, disappearance, mental illness, duringcreditsstinger
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Hellhole
Cast
Ray Sharkey Ray Sharkey
Judy Landers Judy Landers
Mary Woronov Mary Woronov
Marjoe Gortner Marjoe Gortner
4.9 34 votes
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror
Country: United States of America
Duration: 96 min.
Audience: R
Story:  An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!
Plot:  amnesia, experiment, sexploitation, mental institution, mad doctor, doctor, psychiatrist, lesbian sex, ...
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