Movies tagged with the "mental-institution" keyword

Genres: Comedy | Sci-Fi | Actors: David Paymer, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Chad Everett, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors, William Shatner, Raymond Burr, John Vernon, Stephen Stucker, Kent McCord, James A. Watson Jr., John Dehner, Rip Torn, Sonny Bono, Directors: Ken Finkleman,  Plot Summary: The hero of an unlikely airplane disaster must overcome his own inadequacies, improbable accidents and his former girlfriend in order to save a space shuttle from destruction in this spoof sequel of the disaster parody Airplane!

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Genres: Sci-Fi | Actors: Megan Lee Ethridge, Mark Elias, Griff Furst, Marissa Morse, Patrick Thomassie, Jilon Ghai, Bobby James, Claudia Katz, Edwin Craig, Angela Landis, Deirdre Schwiesow, Alisha Seaton, Amanda Weier, Robert Lucchesi, Scott Evans, Directors: Eric Forsberg,  Plot Summary: Written and directed by Eric Forsberg, this unabashedly low-budget sci-fi flick has a young woman being abducted by aliens on a camping trip—and then going through an even harder ordeal when she wakes up in a brutal military hospital for the rehabilitation of abductees.

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Genres: Action | Comedy | Actors: James Belushi, Sheryl Lee, Kyle Chandler, Frank John Hughes, Ned Bellamy, Mark Carlton, Mac Davis, Jon Polito, David Bickford, Timo Flloko, Joe Luis Garcia, John Bigham, Chris Barnes, Cameron Corley, Kevin Cooney, Directors: David L. Corley,  Plot Summary: Tony wants to be a hitman for the Mafia, but first he has to learn from a master. Enter Stevie California-cool, eats veggie burgers and quotes Neitzche. Tony may not agree with Stevie's style, but he has to complete his training so he can go back and kill the Mafia's accountant, who's about to turn state's evidence. His final test: kill whoever is randomly picked out of the yellow pages. His target: Angel Chaste. Angel works the graveyard shift at a mortuary. She thinks a doll is her baby. Her mother left when she was little. Basically, Angel has PROBLEMS. When Tony, Angel and Stevie collide, it will change all of their lives.

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Genres: Horror | Thriller | Actors: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert, Kristen Cloke, Andrea Martin, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Crystal Lowe, Oliver Hudson, Jessica Harmon, Leela Savasta, Kathleen Kole, Karin Konoval, Robert Mann, Dean Friss, Cainan Wiebe, Directors: Glen Morgan,  Plot Summary: Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she'd come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father's brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he'd witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a "new" family. As Billy's mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother's head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye... but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy's progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding... until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together ...but tonight they're about to get a surprise visitor... and it's not Santa.

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Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller | Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Melora Walters, Amy Smart, Elden Henson, William Lee Scott, John Patrick Amedori, Irene Gorovaia, Kevin Schmidt, Jesse James, Logan Lerman, Sarah Widdows, Jake Kaese, Cameron Bright, Directors: Eric Bress,  J. Mackye Gruber,  Plot Summary: Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single working mom and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evans' friends and mom hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble, something bad always seems to happen during these blackouts. As Evan grows up he has less of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick!

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Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley, Kasi Lemmons, Vanessa Williams, DeJuan Guy, Carolyn Lowery, Barbara Alston, Sarina C. Grant, Michael Culkin, Stanley DeSantis, Marianna Elliott, Ted Raimi, Ria Pavia, Mark Daniels, Directors: Bernard Rose,  Plot Summary: Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is writing a paper on urban legends when she hears about the Candyman (Tony Todd), who was once an ex-slave-turned-artist name Daniel Robitaille, who had an affair his client's daughter. Robitaille's right hand was sawn off, he was covered in honey, and stung to death by bees. If anyone says the word "Candyman" five times in a mirror, he'll appear behind that person, a bloody hook as a replacement for his hand, and kill him. A series of unsolved murders is happening in the Cabrini Green projects and Helen is using this to help with her paper. The residents say the Candyman is to blame, but Helen doesn't believe it. Until she meets the man with a hook for a hand. Now, he's begun to murder her friends and no one believes her. Can Helen clear her name and stop the Canydman from killing anyone else?

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Genres: Mystery | Romance | Thriller | Actors: Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Steve Kahan, Terry Alexander, Alex McArthur, Rod McLachlan, Michael Potts, Jim Sterling, Rich Hebert, Brian J. Williams, G.A. Aguilar, Cece Neber Labao, Saxon Trainor, Directors: Richard Donner,  Plot Summary: 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.

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Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller | Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Breckin Meyer, Nathaniel Marston, Cliff De Young, Arthur Senzy, Endre Hules, Mark Conlon, William Newman, Rod Britt, Brogan Roche, Tony Genaro, Jason Filardi, John Kapelos, Darin Mangan, Directors: Plot Summary: Sarah Bailey, a sixteen year old troubled teenager with a painful past and a history of suicidal tendencies and hallucinations, moves to L.A. with her father and stepmother to start a new life - and is enrolled into a Catholic school. It is at school that she comes into contact with three unlikely friends, Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle, all who are socially outcast with various problems in their lives that they wish they could fix. Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle dabble in occult practices, and when they notice Sarah has the powers of a natural witch, they talk her into joining their coven. When Sarah joins, they soon realize that with a fourth witch in the coven they can begin to cast spells they couldn't before, and begin to amend all the things wrong in their lives - but like everything else in life - things come with a price.

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Genres: Drama | Romance | Thriller | Actors: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman, Eric Roberts, Paul Guilfoyle, Keith David, Robert Harper, Agustin Rodriguez, Rita Zohar, George Murdock, Shirley Prestia, Tony Genaro, Katherine Cortez, Wood Moy, Corey Fischer, Directors: Phil Joanou,  Plot Summary: Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married (to a gangster). She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him. To avoid spoilers, someone dies, but who did what and why ?

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Genres: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller | Actors: A.J. Cook, Ali Larter, Michael Landes, Tony Todd, Terrence 'T.C.' Carson, Jonathan Cherry, Keegan Connor Tracy, Lynda Boyd, James Kirk, David Paetkau, Justina Machado, Sarah Carter, Alex Rae, Shaun Sipos, Andrew Airlie, Directors: David R. Ellis,  Plot Summary: Kimberly Corman, 19, was just taking a trip with her friends.. But when she escapes a horrific car accident, she finds herself in Death's path of destruction. Now, Kimberly, along with the other survivors, must find a way to save themselves...

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Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Actors: Charles S. Dutton, Halle Berry, Robert Downey Jr., John Carroll Lynch, Bernard Hill, Penélope Cruz, Dorian Harewood, Bronwen Mantel, Kathleen Mackey, Matthew G. Taylor, Michel Perron, Andrea Sheldon, Anana Rydvald, Laura Mitchell, Amy Sloan, Directors: Mathieu Kassovitz,  Thom Oliphant,  Plot Summary: A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the institution where she works, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory - and her freedom - a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

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Genres: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Actors: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graham Greene, Doug Hutchison, Sam Rockwell, Barry Pepper, Jeffrey De Munn, Patricia Clarkson, Harry Dean Stanton, Dabbs Greer, Eve Brent, Directors: Frank Darabont,  Plot Summary: Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

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