One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975
Directed by Miloš Forman
Jack Nicholson, Brad Dourif, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, William Redfield
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 cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.