# Spellbound (1945)

> At a psychiatric asylum, a doctor risks her career and heart to decode a new colleague’s fractured identity before suspicion turns fatal.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/movie/2415

## Facts

- Runtime: 111 min
- Genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
- Director: Alfred Hitchcock
- Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, Norman Lloyd, Bill Goodwin
- TMDB rating: 7.4/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038109/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: mild
- Mood: tense, romantic, eerie, classic cinema night, hitchcock marathon

## Synopsis

A psychiatrist's world unravels as she becomes entangled in a web of mystery and romance.

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