Films like The Professor and the Madman

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   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

   Film · 1975 · also drama

   A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cru...

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2. 2

   Stuart: A Life Backwards

   Film · 2007 · also drama

   Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity...

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   Birdy

   Film · 1984 · also drama

   Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a me...

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   The Silence of the Lambs

   Film · 1991 · also drama

   Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a vio...

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   Shutter Island

   Film · 2010 · also drama

   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 compromi...

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   Girl, Interrupted

   Film · 1999 · also drama

   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 Al...

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   Naked Lunch

   Film · 1991 · also drama

   Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. B...

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8. 8

   Cracks

   Film · 2009 · also drama

   Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.

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   Neverwas

   Film · 2005 · also drama

   Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at...

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    Reversal of Fortune

    Film · 1990 · also drama

    Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

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