Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "psychiatric-nurse"

1. Lisa Frankenstein (2024)

PG-13 | 101 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness - and a few missing body parts.

Director: Zelda Williams | Stars: Kathryn Newton, Liza Soberano, Jenna Davis, Trina LaFargue

Votes: 14,997

2. Shutter Island (2010)

R | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 1,459,089 | Gross: $128.01M

3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

R | 133 min | Drama

In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.

Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco

Votes: 1,073,478 | Gross: $112.00M

4. Lady Bird (2017)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama

In 2002, an artistically inclined 17-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.

Director: Greta Gerwig | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges

Votes: 329,853 | Gross: $48.96M

5. Girl, Interrupted (1999)

R | 127 min | Biography, Drama

A directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.

Director: James Mangold | Stars: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy

Votes: 211,678 | Gross: $28.87M

6. Return to Oz (1985)

PG | 113 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.

Director: Walter Murch | Stars: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie

Votes: 30,405

7. New Nightmare (1994)

R | 112 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?

Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Jf Davis, Miko Hughes

Votes: 64,273 | Gross: $18.09M

8. Valley of the Dolls (1967)

PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Film version of Jacqueline Susann's best-selling novel chronicling the rise and fall of three young women in show business.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate

Votes: 9,757 | Gross: $44.43M

9. Fingersmith (2005)

Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

In Victorian England, Sue, a young thief, participates in a scam to defraud a rich heiress by becoming her maid. Things take an unexpected turn and Sue's plan goes horribly wrong.

Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Sally Hawkins, Imelda Staunton, Rupert Evans

Votes: 9,626

10. 55 Steps (2017)

PG-13 | 115 min | Biography, Drama

When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on... See full summary »

Director: Bille August | Stars: Hilary Swank, Helena Bonham Carter, Johan Heldenbergh, Cynthia Hoppenfeld

Votes: 3,654

11. Harvey (1950)

Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: James Stewart, Wallace Ford, William H. Lynn, Victoria Horne

Votes: 58,273

12. High Anxiety (1977)

PG | 94 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller

A psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.

Director: Mel Brooks | Stars: Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Harvey Korman

Votes: 23,906 | Gross: $31.06M

13. Frances (1982)

R | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Director: Graeme Clifford | Stars: Jessica Lange, Jonathan Banks, Bonnie Bartlett, James Brodhead

Votes: 8,584 | Gross: $5.00M

14. The Forgotten (1973)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a remote asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.

Director: S.F. Brownrigg | Stars: Bill McGhee, Jessie Lee Fulton, Robert Dracup, Harryette Warren

Votes: 3,522

15. Bless the Child (2000)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Cody, a little girl abandoned by her mother and raised by her aunt, a nurse, is kidnapped. The girl's guardian, aided by an F.B.I. agent, learn that Cody has supernatural abilities, and the abductees are a Satanic cult willing to do anything to gain them.

Director: Chuck Russell | Stars: Kim Basinger, Jimmy Smits, Rufus Sewell, Holliston Coleman

Votes: 15,405 | Gross: $29.37M

16. The Nun's Story (1959)

Approved | 149 min | Drama

After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.

Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft

Votes: 11,715 | Gross: $12.80M

17. Lilith (1964)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama

A war veteran gets work at a mental institution, where he meets the beautiful and eccentric Lilith.

Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter

Votes: 3,192

18. Shock Corridor (1963)

Approved | 101 min | Drama, Mystery

Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best

Votes: 13,084

19. The Snake Pit (1948)

Approved | 108 min | Drama, Mystery

A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm

Votes: 8,437 | Gross: $10.00M

20. The Dead Pit (1989)

R | 95 min | Horror

The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.

Director: Brett Leonard | Stars: Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson, Stephen Gregory Foster, Danny Gochnauer

Votes: 2,923

21. Madhouse (2004)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.

Director: William Butler | Stars: Joshua Leonard, Jordan Ladd, Natasha Lyonne, Lance Henriksen

Votes: 6,958

22. Witness to Murder (1954)

Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill, Jesse White

Votes: 3,437

23. The Caretakers (1963)

Approved | 97 min | Drama

Medical drama about mentally-ill patients and their professional caregivers, as well as the new group-therapy sessions aiming to replace the traditional physical restraint and electroshock treatments.

Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Diane McBain, Joan Crawford

Votes: 940

24. Crazylove (2005)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An institutionalized woman falls in love with a schizophrenic after having a nervous breakdown.

Director: Ellie Kanner | Stars: Reiko Aylesworth, Bruno Campos, JoBeth Williams, Meat Loaf

Votes: 428

25. The Marijuana Conspiracy (2020)

124 min | Drama

In 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.

Director: Craig Pryce | Stars: Julia Sarah Stone, Hannah Vandenbygaart, Daniel DeSanto, Craig Burnatowski

Votes: 207

26. Kings & Queen (2004)

Unrated | 150 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Geoffrey Carey, Thierry Bosc, Olivier Rabourdin

Votes: 4,017 | Gross: $0.29M

27. Shadow on the Wall (1950)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A woman impulsively murders her sister after discovering she has been having an affair with her fiancé, and later plans on killing the little girl who may have witnessed the crime.

Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Ann Sothern, Zachary Scott, Gigi Perreau, Nancy Reagan

Votes: 1,432

28. Cornelis (2010)

101 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Biographical account of singer and composer Cornelis Vreeswijk including his breakthrough and his marital problems.

Director: Amir Chamdin | Stars: Hans-Erik Dyvik Husby, Malin Crépin, Helena Af Sandeberg, David Dencik

Votes: 2,663

29. Will There Really Be a Morning? (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 180 min | Biography, Drama

This biopic depicts troubled actress Frances Farmer's Seattle childhood, college years, political involvement, show business success, doomed love affair with playwright Clifford Odets, and her eventual mental breakdown.

Director: Fielder Cook | Stars: Susan Blakely, Lee Grant, Royal Dano, Joe Lambie

Votes: 128

30. Sally (2000)

R | 79 min | Drama, Romance

An imaginary dream woman is the object of desire for a drifter and an escaped mental patient.

Director: David Goldsmith | Stars: Michael Weston, Rachael Leigh Cook, David Goldsmith, Fatmir Haskaj

Votes: 235

31. Patient X (2009)

PG | 108 min | Horror, Thriller

After twenty years, local police captures the murderer of the older brother of a young boy. Now a doctor, he must go back to his old town and face the murderers himself. He then discovers ... See full summary »

Director: Yam Laranas | Stars: Richard Gutierrez, Cristine Reyes, TJ Trinidad, Miriam Quiambao

Votes: 304

32. 87 ore (2015)

75 min | Documentary

Un uomo viene prelevato dalla spiaggia di un campeggio del Cilento da un singolare dispiegamento di forze: carabinieri, polizia municipale e guardia costiera. Luomo viene convinto a uscire ... See full synopsis »

Director: Costanza Quatriglio

Votes: 26

33. Sh-h-h-h-h-h (1955)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A mild-mannered man whose nerves are shot from incessant noise is sent to an exclusive, silent retreat with hilarious results.

Director: Tex Avery | Star: Daws Butler

Votes: 279

34. Weyburn: An Archaeology of Madness (2004)

90 min | History

This program brings to life the fascinating and stigmatized history of the Weyburn Mental Hospital. Join a group of artists, performers, musicians, psychiatric nurses, former patients and ... See full summary »

Directors: Richard Diener, Steve Wolfson

35. Radio tulee hulluksi (1952)

95 min | Comedy, Thriller

The ambitious radio reporter Toivo Teräsvuori (Hannes Häyrinen) is disappointed when ordered to report on an agricultural show in Mäntsälä. He convinces his superior to let him report using... See full summary »

Director: Matti Kassila | Stars: Hannes Häyrinen, Ritva Arvelo, Uljas Kandolin, Kaarlo Halttunen

Votes: 62

36. Tweet Dreams (1959)

7 min | Animation, Family, Short

Sylvester realizes he has a fixation with Tweety and seeks help from a psychiatrist.

Directors: Friz Freleng, Robert McKimson | Stars: Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, June Foray

Votes: 225

37. Durdom (2006– )

600 min | Crime, Fantasy, Mystery

A young nurse goes to work at a mental hospital. One of the patients is found murdered, and the resulting investigation reveals many hidden secrets.

Stars: Tatyana Arntgolts, Kirill Pletnyov, Vladimir Goryanskiy, Aleksey Grishin

Votes: 20

38. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000–2015)
Episode: Committed (2005)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When the inmate Robbie Garson is found dead inside his room, Grissom, Sara and Capt. Brass investigate the murder. They learn that the inmates are criminally insane and rapists, and they ... See full summary »

Director: Richard J. Lewis | Stars: William Petersen, Marg Helgenberger, Gary Dourdan, George Eads

Votes: 789

39. Police Rescue (1989–1996)
Episode: The Getting of Wisdom (1996)

Crime, Drama

Joe, the new guy, rescues a woman with psychological problems and gets a little too involved with her.

Director: Tony Tilse | Stars: Gary Sweet, Sonia Todd, Steve Bastoni, John Clayton

40. EastEnders (1985– )
Episode: Episode #1.1369 (1996)

TV-PG | 28 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Geoff Feld | Stars: Lindsey Coulson, Michael French, Paul Nicholls, Steve McFadden

41. Victoria Derbyshire (2015–2020)
Episode: Episode #6.1 (2020)

News

Victoria talks to the family of a child with a genetic disorder that accelerates ageing, a forensic linguist about the Cypriot false rape claim case and the psychiatric nurse bringing a legal case against gender reassignment treatment.

Director: Carolyn Wilshire | Stars: Victoria Derbyshire, Susana Pavlou, Christine Tizzard, Andrea Nini

42. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Beyond Good and Evil: Part 1 (2014)

TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Lewis' reputation is jeopardized when the very first case that he solved as a DI is reopened for appeal and new murders are committed with the original weapon.

Director: David Drury | Stars: Susan Wooldridge, Priyanga Burford, Alec Newman, Richie Campbell

Votes: 498

43. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)
Episode: Beyond Good and Evil: Part 2 (2014)

TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Several suspects are caught in lies and an unexpected death leads the detectives to the solution.

Director: David Drury | Stars: Kevin Whately, Angela Griffin, Joe Dixon, Clare Holman

Votes: 420

44. WPC 56 (2013–2015)
Episode: From the Shadows (2015)

TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Events take a bad turn when DI Sawyers missing suspect makes a violent reappearance. The net tightens around Briggs as Coulson recruits Fenton to do his dirty work. Annie and Tommy play cupid. Claudia Jessie and Oliver Rix.

Director: Lisa Clarke | Stars: Claudia Jessie, Charles De'Ath, Olly Rix, James Barriscale

Votes: 121

45. Who Do You Think You Are? (2004– )
Episode: Amanda Holden (2016)

57 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The actress looks into rumoured French ancestry on her mother's side of the family, uncovering a Napoleonic-era cross-Channel romance. Amanda also seeks answers to the tragic death of her paternal grandfather.

Director: Russell England | Stars: Amanda Holden, Cherie Lunghi

Votes: 48