The Studio

We’re not talking college hoops–in honor of Shutter Island, Martin Scorsese’s box office hit set at a hospital for the criminally insane, here’s a list of other movies–most of which feature award-winning performances–set in asylums:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) The classic adaptation of Ken Kesey’s book, which earned Oscars for Best Picture, Actor and Actress:

Bedlam (1946) Boris Karloff plays the doomed overseer of London’s St. Mary’s of Bethlehem Asylum. (Note that our DVD copy is bundled with another Karloff horror classic, Isle of the Dead.)

Girl, Interrupted (1999) Angelina Jolie won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as a troubled young woman in a 1960s psychiatric hospital.

12 Monkeys (1995) Not to be outdone, Angelina’s better half Brad Pitt earned a Golden Globe award in his portrayal of an insane man at the heart of Terry Gilliam’s twisted futuristic thriller.

The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for her performance as a woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder.