Movies: Mental patient

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions about the condition and treatment of its subjects. (archive.org) “Abstract: This film describes and demo...

Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide....

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....

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 institution instead. But the asylum turns out to be a haunted place, and the two are left to uncover the...

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

Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find their way to the nearest bus-load of stranded schoolgirls....

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

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 argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds u...

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 feelings far more than that. Against the rules of the ward, the pair set out to elope at any cost. An...

A historical documentary documenting the rise, function, and abandonment of a 17 story building that once housed The Rochester Psychiatric Center. This film tells the story of the building through historical footage, interviews of former staff and p...

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

During the winter season, a family camping in the woods, and a group of camp counselors training in the same forest both find themselves being killed one by one by an unhinged psycho....

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

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended fam...

‘Dead Harbor’ deals with the people who were living in worst asylums at that time – institutions in which the society was throwing a way all those who they wanted to get rid off and marginalize: psychiatric patients, alcoholics, old people who no one...

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 bag ordered by Nurul. Ayu tells Aman there is no such person as Nurul, but rain makes him stay a while...

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 face his fears involving the death of his younger brother....

The violent hallucinations of an incarcerated psychiatric patient....