"Island of the Damned" is a film from the category with an unexpected ending. Detective Edward Daniels and his partner Chuck Oul are sent to the island where the hospital for the mentally ill is located in order to investigate the escape of one of the prisoners. There is no way from the island, so the disappearance of this patient is an inexplicable mystery.
List of movies similar to Shutter Island
1) Secret Window, 2004
A writer named Mort Rainey is looking for inspiration away from people, so he leaves for a country house with no neighbors around, which means there are factors that could prevent him from tuning in.
Suddenly, a strange stranger appears on Mort's doorstep, who claims that the previously published story of Mort, in fact, he stole from this gentleman. The stranger even presents some evidence that he wrote this story before him. Mort manages to find out that the stranger is lying, but documents are needed to prove it. While he is looking for them, an annoying gentleman comes to him almost every day, and even worries the protagonist's wife.
How the film is similar to Isle of the Damned: an enclosed space in which the action takes place; unexpected ending of the plot.
2) Abode of the Damned, 2014
Edward arrives at a mental hospital as a doctor. He is a little surprised by the situation in the hospital - some moments seem too free to him, and in some areas, on the contrary, excessive cruelty is allowed. Everything falls into place when Edward realizes that the head physician has been kidnapped by the sick, and other madmen are playing his role and all the hospital workers ...
What it looks like: the same place of action - a closed psychological hospital, an unexpected turn of events.
3) Medicine for health, 2016
Lockhart goes to the sanatorium as a doctor's assistant, as his escort, but already leaving the sanatorium, he gets into an accident, and returns with a broken leg as a patient of this institution. From the very beginning, it seems to him an unusual situation, but the deeper he learns its secrets, the more terrible it becomes for him to remain there.
What it looks like: a medical institution far from people, the main character is locked in this institution and cannot leave it until he reveals the secret.
4) Others, 2001
Grace Stewart lives in a huge mansion with her two children. One day all the servants disappear from the house, but new people come who claim that many years ago they already worked in this house. Children have an unusual disease - they cannot stand daylight, so all windows are always covered with curtains. But the house is restless due to the constant appearance of otherworldly souls.
What it looks like: an unexpected outcome that completely changes the roles of the actors: victims and torturers change places.
5) Gone Girl, 2014
Nick and Amy are supposed to have a 5-year marriage anniversary, but the man finds his wife missing when he comes home. Following the traces of the struggle in the house, it becomes clear to him that the matter is not clean. However, the police, after analyzing the evidence, declare that it was Nick himself who fought with his wife. Now he must find evidence that he did not commit a crime against his wife.
What it looks like: an unexpected outcome, deep psychologism.
6) Fight Club, 1999
The narrator meets Tyler Durden on the plane, after which his life changes dramatically. First they start living together, then they share one girl, then Tyler opens Fight Club and starts doing completely crazy things, but why all the cuffs go to his newfound friend.
What it looks like: an unexpected denouement, a sharp change in the roles of the characters.
7) Sixth Sense, 1999
Malcolm Crowe is a child psychiatrist. Now he is dealing with a difficult case: the child sees dead people, the doctor can do nothing to help him, but tries to understand.
What it looks like: an unexpected denouement, a sharp change in the roles of the characters.
8) Remember 2000
Leonardo Shelby wakes up and every morning does not remember what happened yesterday. He has to restore his memory from the tattoos on his body, which he now does often. The purpose of his life is to find the murderer of his wife.
What it looks like: a sharp change in the roles of the characters, an unexpected denouement.
9) Beginning, 2010
Cobb is engaged in stealing memories from people and inspiring them with thoughts in their sleep. But he is constantly disturbed by his dead wife, the image of which haunts him incessantly even in other people's dreams.
What it looks like: a journey into the human mind.
10) Seven, 1995
William Somerset is a senior detective who was about to retire, but a murder occurs that will definitely entail others. The killer kills people for their mortal sins. Will Somerset investigate the case or leave it to a young partner?
What it looks like: an unexpected outcome, a psychological investigation.
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