Mental Patient Movies

A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was...

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in...

About the young film critic Gerd, who dream of interviewing actors like Jean Gabin and Jean-Louis Barrault and to one day direct a movie.

After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter...

Two bumbling crooks are caught stealing a couple of diamond rings. Rather than get sent to jail, they convince the judge to send them to a mental...

A doctor unrelentingly tries to convince a phobic guy to come out of his isolation room.

This is the story of actress Frances Farmer, her struggles with mental illness and involuntary confinement in an insane asylum.

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

Ayu, who lives by herself heard the news about four mental patients who ran away from the asylum. Soon, a man named Aman comes to deliver a goodies...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane...

Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.

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

The violent hallucinations of an incarcerated psychiatric patient.

While in a mental ward, Johnny, a young amnesia-ridden man, befriends Laura, a blind middle-aged woman. However, as their friendship develops, so do...

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions...

A tv play about the Swedish poet Gustaf Fröding. Flashbacks from his life in a mental hospital.

What starts out as a fantasy, could just be reality.

As part of his final psychotherapy treatment, a mental patient is allowed to return to the basement of his deserted childhood home, so he can finally...

A historical documentary documenting the rise, function, and abandonment of a 17 story building that once housed The Rochester Psychiatric Center. ...