Mental Institution Movies

Short film about the life and career of the notorious Brazilian writer Lima Barreto.

17-year-old Sami has an accident which resulted in him reluctantly sent to closed psychiatric hospital. Sami refuses to speak or show his feelings,...

An enigmatic mental patient who claims to be the second coming of Jesus Christ changes the life of a psychiatrist who has lost his faith.

Enter the imaginative world of acclaimed sculptor Rolanda Polonsky, who had been a resident of Netherne Psychiatric Hospital in Coulsdon, Surrey for...

Two bodies and one mind, this is the extraordinary story of one pair of conjoined twins in today's world.

With unique and exclusive testimonies from doctors, nurses, loved ones, and patients we go behind closed doors to examine a high security psychiatric...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

In 2004 the Oregon State Hospital, former site of the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, revealed the existence of thousands of corroded copper...

After a schizophrenic man named Bobo kills two men in self-defence, his lawyer instructs him to turn himself over to the police, who, in turn, place...

Dawn Xavier and Roland Michaels, break into one of Georgia's highly secured mental institutions to rescue Dawn's husband, Shannon Xavier; taking him...

‘Dead Harbor’ deals with the people who were living in worst asylums at that time – institutions in which the society was throwing...

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid...

The complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.

An escaped mental patient dies in 1984 at the home of her former doctor. But that was just the beginning.

The film opens as Elise is getting released from a mental institution after 12 years of being locked up. She witnessed her mother drown and...

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

In the idyllic town of Mills falls, a daring group of kids stumble upon a dark secret at a farmhouse that left one dead, and the rest forever...

Radio reporter Toivo Teräsvuori gets an idea for an experimental report using a hidden microphone, but he is reported as a madman talking to...