brainwashing

Ticket to Heaven | Canada
Genre
IMDB
7 (829 votes)
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.

The Manchurian Candidate | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
7.9 (76406 votes)
Budget
80,000,000.00$
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | United States of America
Genre
IMDB
8.3 (809,405 votes)
Budget
20,000,000.00$
Joel is stunned to discover that hs girlfriend Clementine has had her memories of their tumultous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contracts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwaik, to have Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel's memories progressively disappear, he begins to rediscover their earlier passion. From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to escape the procedure. As Dr. Mierzwiak and his crew chase him through the maze of his memories, it's clear that Joel just can't get her out of his head. So he starts smuggling her away into parts of his memory where she doesn't belong which alters other things about his memories as well…

Обитаемый остров | Russia
Genre
IMDB
5.1 (5199 votes)
Budget
36,500,000.00$
The year of 2157. Cosmonaut Maxim Kamerrer is forced to land on a planet Saraksha. Soon he finds out that a civilization similar to the 20th century Earth civilization exists here. After a nuclear blast, the planet was stricken by an ecological crisis and its society is full of social problems and the peace is very unstable… Cast: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Yuri Kutsenko, Sergei Garmash, Anna Mikhalkova, Andrei Merzlikin, Aleksei Serebryakov, Vasiliy Stepanov Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk Script: Marina Dyachenko, Sergei Dyachenko

Genre
IMDB
6.6 (130057 votes)
Budget
30,000,000.00$
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.