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Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his … girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem ... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodramab moviecult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | communisminsanityracismincestmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | africapolice stationjapanurban setting |
| Characters: | psychiatristnurseafrican americanpolice |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | undercover reporterbuddha statuefaked insanitypsychiatric nursepolice reportlovers posing as siblingsreference to euripidesunsolved murdersome sceens in colorends with quotationsexual hysteriareference to robert e. leecolor sequenceleaking waterbegins with a quotation …hearing characters thoughtsdrawing on a wallbegins with a quotehydrotherapyreference to benjamin franklinpersonality disordershock therapycatatonic statearms racefeather boapulitzer prizegettysburgfetishistkorean war veteranmount fujipersonality changefake illnessnative tribeblack & white to colorcatatoniadiagnosispassenger trainmale singerdefectornymphomaniahide and seekbuddhareference to shakespeare's hamletku klux klandreamingacoustic guitarpsychiatric hospitalpsychotherapychewing gumstrait jackethallwaywhistlingshoutingmental breakdownwoman cryingcafeteriamental patientdormitorypipe smokingplaying pianolooking at self in mirrordressing roomasylumshadowmental hospitalthunderstormbackstageobesitymental institutionambitionfemale singerassaultreference to william shakespearewaterfallwitnessundercoverpay phonefantasy sequencestripteasescreamingracial slurdream sequencefoot chasereporterscientistbrawlvoice over narrationsurprise endingsingingdancingfight (See All) |
McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble and is sentenced by the court. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy pleads insanity and is sent to a ward for the mentally unstable. Once here, McMurphy both endures and stands witness to the abuse and degradation of t …he oppressive Nurse Ratched, who gains superiority and power through the flaws of the other inmates. McMurphy and the other inmates band together to make a rebellious stance against the atrocious Nurse. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | insanity |
| Characters: | nurse |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | psychiatric nursefake illnesspsychiatric hospitalchewing gummental patientasylummental hospitalmental institutionwitnessracial slurbrawlsurprise endingdancing |
Dr. Miranda Grey is a psychiatrist who works in a penitentiary, in the mental institution sector. She is married with Dr. Douglas Grey, the chief of department where Dr. Pete Graham also works. Chloe Sava, a patient of Dr. Miranda formerly abused by her stepfather, claims that she is frequently rape …d by the devil in her cell. After leaving the asylum in a stormy night, Dr. Miranda has a car accident, and when she wakes up, she is an inmate of the institution, being accused of an horrible crime and having no memory of the incident. (Read More)
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | psychiatristnursepolice |
| Story: | catatoniapsychiatric hospitalmental breakdownmental patientasylummental hospitalthunderstormmental institutionpay phonefantasy sequencescreamingfoot chasereportersurprise endingfight |
Unable to cope with reality and the difficulty that comes with it, 18 year old Susanna, is admitted to a mental institution in order to overcome her disorder. However, she has trouble understanding her disorder and therefore finds it difficult to tame, especially when she meets the suggestive and un …predictable Lisa. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | insanityracismincest |
| Characters: | psychiatristnurse |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | psychiatric nursemental hospitalmental institutionscreamingracial slurvoice over narration |
Lawrence Talbot's childhood ended the night his mother died. His father sent him from the sleepy Victorian hamlet of Blackmoor to an insane asylum, then he goes to America. When his brother's fiancee, Gwen Conliffe, tracks him down to help find her missing love, Talbot returns to his father's estate … to learn that his brother's mauled body has been found. Reunited with his estranged father, Lawrence sets out to find his brother's killer... and discovers a horrifying destiny for himself. Someone or something with brute strength and insatiable blood lust has been killing the villagers, and a suspicious Scotland Yard inspector named Aberline comes to investigate. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Story: | passenger trainreference to shakespeare's hamletpsychotherapystrait jacketmental patientasylummental institutionreference to william shakespearewaterfalldream sequencefoot chasesurprise ending |
It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there …as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddy's shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | psychiatristnurse |
| Story: | psychiatric nursepsychotherapymental patientpipe smokingasylummental hospitalmental institutionwitnessfantasy sequenceracial slurdream sequencefoot chasesurprise endingfight |
A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediate …ly kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him. (Read More)
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police stationurban setting |
| Characters: | psychiatristpolice |
| Story: | hide and seekpsychiatric hospitalmental patientmental institutionracial slurfoot chasebrawlsurprise endingsingingfight |
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police stationurban setting |
| Characters: | psychiatristpolice |
| Story: | assaultundercoverracial slurfoot chasebrawlsurprise endingfight |
A couple of days before 1899 Christmas, the Oxford new graduate Dr. Edward Newgate arrives at the Stonehearst Asylum to complete training for his specialty of asylum medicine. He is met by armed men who take him to Dr. Silas Lamb, who welcomes his help and takes him under his wing. Edward is shocked … to see the methods that Dr Lamb uses to run this asylum. He becomes infatuated with Eliza Graves, one of the patients who is a lady of status and does not seem to belong. One night, Edward overhears a knocking from the bowels of the facility and is shocked to find that everything is not as it seems in this place and that his uneasy feelings may be justified. What will Edward Choose? (Read More)
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Characters: | psychiatristnurse |
| Story: | mental patientpipe smokingplaying pianoasylummental institutiondancingfight |
Forever alone in a crowd, failed comedian Arthur Fleck seeks connection as he walks the streets of Gotham City. Arthur wears two masks -- the one he paints for his day job as a clown, and the guise he projects in a futile attempt to feel like he's part of the world around him. Isolated, bullied and …disregarded by society, Fleck begins a slow descent into madness as he transforms into the criminal mastermind known as the Joker. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | urban setting |
| Characters: | psychiatristnurseafrican americanpolice |
| Story: | mental breakdownmental patientdressing roommental hospitalmental institutionassaultpay phonefantasy sequencefoot chasesurprise endingsingingdancingfight |
After the death of her ill mother in a fire, the young teenager Anna tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Ten months later, Anna still cannot remember what had happened on the night her mother died. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, however, discharges her telling … that she has resolved her issues. Her father and successful writer, Steven, brings her back home in an isolated mansion nearby the coast. Anna finds that her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers, is her stepmother now. Anna meets her beloved sister, Alex, swimming in the sea. She discovers that Steven has not delivered the letters and CDs that Alex had sent to her. As time moves on, Anna is haunted by ghosts and she believes that Rachel killed her mother. Alex and Anna decide to look for evidence to prove that Rachel is the murderer and Anna discovers the truth about the fire in the boat house. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | psychiatristnursepolice |
| Story: | mental patientshadowmental hospitalmental institutionscreamingbrawlsurprise endingfight |
In 1966, in North Bend, Oregon, the runaway Kristen is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Kristen is introduced to Dr. Gerald Stringer, who uses experimental therapy. Then she meets the inmates Emily, Sarah, Zoey and Iris and t …he tough nurse Lundt. During the night and in the shower later, Kristen sees the ghost of a woman and she learns that she is Alice Leigh Hudson, a mysterious wicked intern that has disappeared. When Iris is ready to go home, she is attacked by the ghost of Alice in the basement and murdered. She vanishes and the inmates decide to seek Iris out. Then Sarah is abducted by the Alice and also killed; the next one is Emily. Meanwhile Kristen escapes from her room and meets Zoey, expecting to protect her. However, Zoey is kidnapped by Alice and Kristen runs to Dr. Stringer's office. She snoops his desk and finds a report with the truth about Alice. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Characters: | psychiatristnursepolice |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | psychiatric hospitalstrait jacketmental patientasylummental hospitalscreamingsurprise endingdancing |
Det. John Hobbes is convinced that when killer Edgar Reese is executed, all of his troubles are over. But when people he knows and people on the street start to sing the same tune that Reese sang in the gas chamber, and those same people taunt him, he is told that maybe the cursed fallen angel Azaze …l is behind it all. Azazel is cursed to roam the Earth without a form, and he can switch bodies by any contact, making him hard to track. When Hobbes is forced to kill a man possessed by Azazel, he must clear his name while protecting his family and others from the evil, vengeful Azazel. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police stationurban setting |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | passenger trainwhistlingobesityassaultwitnessfoot chasevoice over narrationsurprise endingsinging |
When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for p …ennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Characters: | psychiatrist |
| Story: | pulitzer prizemale singerdreamingstrait jacketmental hospitalreference to william shakespeareundercoverreportervoice over narrationsingingdancing |
Emily Taylor, despite being reunited with her husband from prison, becomes severely depressed with emotional episodes and suicide attempts. Her psychiatrist, Jonathan Banks, after conferring with her previous doctor, eventually prescribes an experimental new medication called Ablixa. The plot thicke …ns when the side effects of the drug lead to Emily killing her husband in a "sleepwalking" state. With Emily plea-bargained into mental hospital confinement and Dr. Banks' practice crumbling around him, the case seems closed. However, Dr. Banks cannot accept full responsibility and investigates to clear his name. What follows is a dark quest that threatens to tear what's left of his life apart even as he discovers the diabolical truth of this tragedy. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | psychiatristnurse |
| Story: | diagnosismental patientmental hospitalmental institutionwitnessscreamingreportervoice over narrationsurprise ending |
An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who … he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Characters: | psychiatristpolice |
| Story: | psychiatric hospitalmental breakdowndormitoryasylummental institutionpay phonescientistsurprise ending |
Serpico is a cop in the 1960s-early 1970s. Unlike all his colleagues, he refuses a share of the money that the cops routinely extort from local criminals. Nobody wants to work with Serpico, and he's in constant danger of being placed in life threatening positions by his "partners". Nothing seems to …get done even when he goes to the highest of authorities. Despite the dangers he finds himself in, he still refuses to 'go with the flow', in the hope that one day, the truth will be known. (Read More)
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police stationurban setting |
| Characters: | nurseafrican americanpolice |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | racial slurfoot chasereporterdancing |
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest violence. If he goes through the … program, his sentence will be reduced and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that he had a hand in creating. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | psychiatristnursepolice |
| Story: | shock therapystrait jacketfantasy sequencereporterbrawlvoice over narrationsurprise endingsingingfight |
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | incestmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | nurse |
| Story: | whistlinglooking at self in mirrormental institutionracial slurdream sequencefoot chasesurprise endingsingingdancing |
Two years after the events of Scream, Sidney Prescott and Randy are attending Windsor college. They are trying to get on with their lives...Until a new Ghostface killing spree begins. With the help of Dewey and Gale, Sidney must find out who's behind the murders. As the body count goes up, the list …of suspects goes down. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | cafeteriapay phonescreamingracial slurfoot chasereporterbrawlsurprise endingsinging |
A psychic who can read minds picks up the thoughts of a murderer in the audience and soon becomes a victim. An English pianist gets involved in solving the murders, but finds many of his avenues of inquiry cut off by new murders, and he begins to wonder how the murderer can track his movements so cl …osely. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | psychiatristpolice |
| Story: | drawing on a wallhallwayplaying pianoshadowmental hospitalwitnessscreamingreportersurprise endingsinging |
In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal wh …o has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. But is either willing to turn on their friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | racismmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | psychiatristafrican americanpolice |
| Story: | whistlingreference to william shakespearewitnessundercoverscreamingracial slurbrawlsurprise endingsingingfight |
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends …up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End. The fact that this town exists as a figment of Cane's twisted imagination is only the beginning of Trent's problems. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | psychiatristpolice |
| Story: | strait jacketasylummental institutionpay phonefoot chasesurprise ending |
Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond is oddly motivated to help. The killer is searching for his stash of cash. Cates and Hammond who have the Black-white, cop-crook thing … to work out make surprisingly good partners as they navigate through the city looking for their suspect. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | racismmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Story: | pay phoneracial slurbrawlsurprise endingsingingfight |
Kevin Lomax, a ruthless young Florida attorney that never lost a case, is recruited by the most powerful law firm in the world. In spite of his mother's disagreement, which compares New York City to Babylon, he accepts the offer and the money that comes along. But soon, his wife starts feeling homes …ick as she witnesses devilish apparitions. However, Kevin is sinking in his new cases and pays less and less attention to his wife. His boss and mentor, John Milton, seems to always know how to overcome every problem and that just freaks Kevin right off. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanityincestmurder |
| Characters: | nurseafrican americanpolice |
| Story: | acoustic guitarmental breakdownambitionwitnessreportersurprise endingsingingdancing |
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.
| Themes: | racismmurder |
| Characters: | african american |
| Story: | catatonic statestrait jacketmental hospitalmental institutionracial slursurprise ending |
James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe star in a dynamic and thrilling twist on a legendary tale. Radical scientist Victor Frankenstein (McAvoy) and his equally brilliant protege Igor Strausman (Radcliffe) share a noble vision of aiding humanity through their groundbreaking research into immortality. But … Victor's experiments go too far, and his obsession has horrifying consequences. Only Igor can bring his friend back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation. (Read More)
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | nursepolice |
| Story: | screamingdream sequencefoot chasescientistbrawlvoice over narrationsurprise endingdancingfight |
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in the computer generated parallel world his company has created (which looks like the 30's wi …th seemingly real people with real emotions). Fuller is murdered in our real world the same night, and his colleague is suspected. Douglas discovers a bloody shirt in his bathroom and he cannot recall what he was doing the night Fuller was murdered. He logs into the system in order to find the letter, but has to confront the unexpected. The truth is harsher than he could ever imagine... (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | begins with a quotationthunderstormfemale singerpay phonescientistbrawlsurprise endingdancingfight |
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. (Read More)
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Characters: | nurseafrican american |
| Story: | psychiatric hospitalmental hospitalmental institutionscreamingracial slurbrawlsurprise endingfight |
The twenty-one year-old Timothy "Tim" Allen Russell is discharged from a mental institution by his psychiatric Dr. Shawn Graham completely healed from a childhood trauma where his father purportedly tortured and killed his mother before being killed himself by Tim. His sister Kaylie welcomes him in …the parking area and brings him home. Then she tells that they need to destroy an ancient mirror that she has found through working at an auction house. She then steals the mirror and the reluctant Tim follows his sister and has fragmented recollections from their childhood, going back to when his father Alan buys a mirror for the home office of their new family home. Kaylie and Tim see a woman with their father in his office and the behaviors of Alan and Marie change, ending in a family tragedy. Kaylie blames the mirror and now she wants to destroy it with Tim. Will they succeed? (Read More)
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Characters: | psychiatrist |
| Story: | psychiatric hospitalmental patientlooking at self in mirrorasylummental hospitalmental institutiondream sequencefoot chasesurprise endingfight |
After hearing a popular DJ rail against yuppies, a madman carries out a massacre in a popular New York bar. Dejected and remorseful, the DJ strikes up a friendship with Parry, a former professor who became unhinged and then homeless after witnessing his wife's violent death in the bar shooting. The …DJ seeks redemption by helping Parry in his quest to recover an item that he believes is the Holy Grail and to win the heart of the woman he loves. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Characters: | psychiatrist |
| Story: | catatonic statecatatoniastrait jacketmental patientmental institutionassault |
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police stationurban setting |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Story: | racial slurfoot chasebrawlvoice over narrationsurprise endingfight |
A frustrated and clumsy bank clerk overhears the conversation of three coworkers in the toilet about a fix in a horse race, and bets a large amount. He loses the bet and owes the money to the dangerous and powerful mobster Fingers. A gangster who works for Fingers has the ability of foreseeing piece …s of the future; he is assigned to collect money for the boss, with his troublemaker nephew Tony, and is beaten up by a gang. The manager of pop-star Trista loses her contract to Fingers without her agreement and she is threatened by the gangster. A dedicated doctor seeks a blood donor that might have a rare blood type to save the life of his secret and unrequited passion, a beautiful epidemiologist who's married to a friend. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | independent film |
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | urban setting |
| Characters: | nursepolice |
| Story: | begins with a quotationbegins with a quotedressing roombackstagefoot chasevoice over narrationsingingdancingfight |
Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hots …hot who's soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it's an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum's weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy's a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in ways he predicts. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | nursepolice |
| Story: | ambitionfemale singerassaultwitnesspay phonesurprise endingsingingfight |
Los Angeles, 1928. A single mother returns from work to find her nine-year-old son gone. She calls the LAPD to initiate a search. Five months later, a boy is found in Illinois who fits the description; he says he's her son. To fanfare and photos, the LAPD reunite mother and son, but she insists he's … not her boy. The cops dismiss her as either a liar or hysterical. When she joins a minister in his public criticism of the police, they in turn use government power to silence and intimidate her. Meanwhile, a cop goes to a dilapidated ranch to find a Canadian lad who's without legal status; the youth tells a grisly tale. There's redress for murder; is there redress for abuse of power? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Characters: | nursepolice |
| Story: | mental breakdownmental hospitalwitnessscreamingreportervoice over narrationsingingfight |
A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's se …cret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | melodrama |
| Themes: | murder |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | african american |
| Story: | dressing roomwitnesspay phonescreamingracial slurbrawlsingingdancingfight |
In Brooklyn, amid drug deals, violence, casual racism, poverty, housing projects, and corrupt cops, we follow three officers: Tango, African-American, working undercover, believing he's earned a promotion to a desk job but told he has to set up the bust of an ex-con who saved his life; Sal, who'll c …ommit murder to get cash; and, Eddie, the precinct's oldest beat cop, a week to go before retirement, assigned to mentor an earnest rookie. Can this end well for any of the three? (Read More)
| Themes: | racismmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | undercoverracial slurfoot chase |
At the offices of a Japanese corporation, during a party, a woman, who's evidently a professional mistress, is found dead, apparently after some rough sex. A police detective, Web Smith is called in to investigate but before getting there, he gets a call from someone who instructs him to pick up Joh …n Connor, a former police Captain and expert on Japanese affairs. When they arrive there Web thinks that everything is obvious but Connor tells him that there's a lot more going on. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police stationjapan |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | foot chasescientistbrawlsurprise endingfight |
From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harr …owing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Characters: | psychiatristnurse |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | shock therapypsychiatric hospitalmental institutionfoot chasescientistdancing |
Set against the backdrop of 1977 Los Angeles, The Nice Guys opens when single father and licensed PI Holland March (Gosling) is hired to investigate the apparent suicide of famous porn star Misty Mountains. As the trail leads him to track down a girl named Amelia (Qualley), he encounters less licens …ed and less hands-off private eye Jackson Healey (Russell Crowe) and his brass knuckles, both hired by the young hippie. However, the situation takes a turn for the worse when Amelia vanishes and it becomes apparent that March wasn't the only party interested. As both men are forced to team up, they'll have to take on a world filled with eccentric goons, strippers dressed as mermaids and even a possible government conspiracy. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | urban setting |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Story: | witnessundercoverpay phonefantasy sequenceracial slurdream sequencefoot chasebrawlvoice over narrationsurprise endingdancingfight |
Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther …Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy. (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | korean war veteranwitnesspay phoneracial slurfoot chasefight |
Set in the year 1999 during the last days of the old millennium, the movie tells the story of Lenny Nero, an ex-cop who now deals with data-discs containing recorded memories and emotions. One day he receives a disc which contains the memories of a murderer killing a prostitute. Lenny investigates a …nd is pulled deeper and deeper in a whirl of blackmail, murder and rape. Will he survive and solve the case? (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | racismmurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | undercoverpay phoneracial slurfoot chasebrawlsurprise endingfight |
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars. Part of his initiation includes a bloody assault on a hick bar.
| Subgenre: | cult filmindependent film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | police |
| Story: | assaultpay phonescreamingfoot chasebrawlsurprise endingfight |
A serial killer in the San Francisco Bay Area taunts police with his letters and cryptic messages. We follow the investigators and reporters in this lightly fictionalized account of the true 1970's case as they search for the murderer, becoming obsessed with the case. Based on Robert Graysmith's boo …k, the movie's focus is the lives and careers of the detectives and newspaper people. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | police |
| Period: | 1960s |
| Story: | personality changemental institutionwitnesspay phonescreamingreporter |
Kate and John Coleman are rebuilding their troubled marriage after the loss of their baby. The couple decide to adopt a child. When they meet the nine-year-old Estonian girl, Esther, at the St. Marina Orphanage, they immediately fall in love with the well-educated orphan. Their young son, Daniel, is … hostile to his new sister; but their deaf mute daughter, Max, is enchanted with her - at first. Eventually, Kate begins to feel that Esther is manipulative and possibly even psychologically disturbed. John refuses to listen to his wife's misgivings. Kate calls Sister Abigail at the orphanage, and the nun informs her that Esther has a troubled and mysterious history. Kate delves further into Esther's past and discovers she is not what she claims to be. (Read More)
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Characters: | psychiatrist |
| Story: | personality disorderhide and seekplaying pianolooking at self in mirrormental hospitalscreamingdream sequencesurprise ending |
John Murdoch awakens alone in a strange hotel to find that he has lost his memory and is wanted for a series of brutal and bizarre murders. While trying to piece together his past, he stumbles upon a fiendish underworld controlled by a group of beings known as The Strangers who possess the ability t …o put people to sleep and alter the city and its inhabitants. Now Murdoch must find a way to stop them before they take control of his mind and destroy him. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police stationurban setting |
| Characters: | psychiatristpolice |
| Story: | female singerfoot chasescientistvoice over narrationsurprise endingfight |
Detective Virgil Tibbs is caught up in the racial tension of the US South when he is arrested after the murder of a prominent businessman. Tibbs was simply waiting for his next train at the station in Sparta, Mississippi and the confusion is soon resolved but when local police chief Gillespie learns … that Tibbs is the Philadelphia PD's number one homicide expert, he reluctantly asks for his assistance. The murdered man, Mr. Colbert, had come to Sparta from the North to build a new factory and his wife and business associates immediately point the finger at Endicott, the most powerful man in the county and the one who had the most to lose if a major new employer comes to the area. Tibbs' life is clearly in danger but he perseveres in a highly charged and racially explosive environment until the killer is found. (Read More)
| Themes: | racismmurder |
| Locations: | police station |
| Characters: | african americanpolice |
| Story: | passenger trainchewing gumracial slurfoot chasesurprise ending |
The classic stage hit gets the Hollywood treatment in the story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a com …edy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places. (Read More)
| Themes: | insanity |
| Characters: | psychiatristnurse |
| Story: | psychiatric nursemental institutionsingingdancing |
David Kirmani,a medical professional, lives in an apartment with his sweetheart, Erica Bain, a radio host, and his dog. They usually take the dog out for a stroll in nearby Central Park and let him run and fetch. One day while at the park they let the dog run without a leash, and when he does not re …turn or respond to their calls, they frantically search for him. They eventually find him being held by three men who want a reward. When David refuses, they start to molest Erica and David intervenes. Two of the men assault the couple, while the third uses a camcorder to film this incident. Erica is knocked unconscious, and regains her senses several days later in a hospital. She is told the shocking news that David was killed and the dog is missing. A traumatized Erica returns home to try and regain her life. She also visits the police station but does not get much help. Fearful of a repeat of this type of incident, she gets an unlicensed gun and carries it with her all the time. One day she witnesses some youths terrorizing subway passengers, forcing them to get off at the next station. When they approach her, she shoots them dead. She uses her gun several more times, always gunning down people committing violent crimes. One day she is summoned to the police station to identify a man who may have been responsible for David's death and the assault on herself. She does recognize him, but refuses to identify him. Subsequently she finds out his whereabouts and plans to avenge her lo… (Read More)
| Themes: | murder |
| Mood: | neo noir |
| Locations: | police stationurban setting |
| Characters: | nurseafrican americanpolice |
| Story: | personality changeshadowassaultreportersurprise endingfight |
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancee Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens h …im for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murderer, and starts spying on him and Dr. Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed, but softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another murder, he abducts her. Jane's father awakens because of the noise, and he and some servants follow the fleeing Cesare. When Cesare cannot outrun his pursuers anymore, he gently places Jane down on the ground, and runs away. Francis and the police investigate the caravan of Dr. Caligari, but the doctor succeeds in slipping away. Francis pursues the fleeing Dr. Caligari, and sees him disappear into a madhouse. Francis enters the madhouse, where he is sure he will find the truth behind all these mysterious events. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | cult film |
| Themes: | insanitymurder |
| Characters: | psychiatristpolice |
| Story: | mental breakdownmental patientasylummental institutionsurprise ending |
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