1. Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari, 1920). Silent black and white cinema, which is considered the first film in the horror genre in the history of cinema. Main characters - Lunatic Cesar, Beauty Jane and Mysterious Dr. Caligari, Head of the psychic host, in which the first two are treated. However, it is understood that everything that happens is nothing more than the fruit of patient patients, the viewer is only possible by the end of the picture.
2. Warely Waiting (A Child Is Waiting, 1963). A film about a children's psychological, where Judy Garland (Misa Minselli's mother and one of the brightest actresses of his time) plays a human teacher who is trying to build human relations with mentally retarded children, contrary to the Dragon methods reigning in the hospital.
3. Flying over the cuckoo jack (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, 1975). The cult film Milos Forman, adaptation of the novel of the Ken Kizi. The action takes place in the hospital for the weakness, where the patient is impaired, and in fact the criminal recidivist and merryman Mcarmy (Jack Nicholson) falls to avoid imprisonment. Soon he undermines the totalitarian regime that reigns in the institution: under his sensitive leadership, patients start playing sports and gambling, arrange parties, go fishing - in a word, they begin to live in a normal life, which is completely not satisfied with the doctors who will soon distort Macmerphi.
4. Nuts, 1987). The story of another imaginary madman, Claudia Drayer, who uses a mental hospital with the same noble goal as the hero of the previous film - as an alternative to prison: a former girl from a prosperous family, and now the call girl is suspected of murder. However, in contrast to McMurphy from "Flying over the nest of the cuckoo", it soon begins to wonder if it did not care about and really crazy? Luxurious Barbra Streisand (Main role absorption) - Perhaps the main thing about what to watch this film.
5. Rain Man (Rain Man, 1988). Thin, sad and funny film director Barry Levinson. Ambitious Yap-Charlie (Tom Cruise), aimed at a multi-million inheritance that just had already had his father, suddenly finds out that he kept all his older son Raymond (Dustin Hoffmann), the genius-autistist, for many years who was in a psycho-chief. Charlie takes Raymond from a hospital with a solid intention to take away half of the inheritance from him, but soon there is a truly warm relationship between the brothers. Nevertheless, at the end of the film Raymond returns to the hospital, because there he feels better than in the aggressive world beyond. Perhaps this is the only film about madness, where the return of a positive hero in the hospital becomes Happy Ande!
6. Silence of the lambs, 1991). In this film, as in the new picture of the Scorsese, a psychuclearieucan appears not simple, but specialized: only insane criminals come there. Among them - Hannibal Lecturer (Anthony Hopkins), a former psychiatrist and a serial killer, who helps the main heroine Clairis Starling (Jody Foster) in search of another serial killer. The film producers were so confident in his failure that it was almost immediately started to spread through video rental shops, and not through cinemas - however, as a result, the film gathered entire five awards of the American Film Academy - except for him, it was only a two-story paintings in history.
7. Constant life (Girl, Interrupted, 2000). The film based on the memoirs of the writer Susanna Kasesen, who spent a year and a half in American psycho-chief at the end of the 1960s. It is played by Winon Rider in the film, and her friends on the psychbolenitsa - Brittany Murphy and Angelina Jolie. With such a number of seductive women in the frame, the film could not not get out beautiful and melodramatic (and not terrible and tense), for which Susanna Kasesen himself rigidly criticized him - but the audience fell desperately.
8. Madness (ASYLUM, 2005). The plot of the film is based on the name of the novel of Patrick McGrath. The action takes place in a psychiatric hospital in the British outback at the end of the 1950s, where the prominent psychiatrist Max Raphael came to work with Wife Stella (Natasha Richardson) and Son. Stella soon begins a passionate novel with one of the patients, former sculptor Edgar Stark (Marton KSOCAS), who, as she later finds out, once killed his wife from jealousy. At the same time, the Stella itself is interested in another hospital officer, Peter Clee Psychiatrist (Ian McKelllen). Happi-End, of course, with such a situation, it is not necessary to expect, but one and a half hours of sensual and in English bizarre love melodrama are provided.
9. Away from her (Away from Her, 2007). Piercing, quiet and beautiful film Canadian director Sarah Pole. There are no horrors of mental hospitals here - there are quiet sincere dialogs, endless snowy landscapes under the soundtrack of soft and sad indie songs. Julie Christie plays an elderly woman, 50 years old who lived in a happy marriage with his beloved husband. Her heroine begins to lose memory and finds himself in a psycho-chief, one of the rules of which states: "There are no meetings with friends and family in the first 30 days." For a month, a woman forgets her husband and all the previous life and focuses his attention and love on another patient, unexpectedly gaining a new life.
10. Cursed Island (Shutter Island, 2010). The new film Martin Scorsese, the mystical thriller based on the novel of Dennis Lehäin's novel. The federal Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo Di Caprio) arrives at the island, where there is a closed hospital for mentally ill criminals. The goal of Daniels is to investigate the disappearance of one of the patients, but he will have to do a lot of other shocking discoveries and even start doubting in its own mental health ... The first work of the speed in the triller genre, the fourth collaboration of the Scorsese and Dae Caprio and also the adaptation of the novel Dennis Lhaene (the author of well-known books "Farewell, Baby, Farewell" and "Mysterious River", for which the films of the same name were withdrawn) - It is not surprising that the "island of the damned" is considered one of the most anticipated movie cattle!