Mental Institution Movies

A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl whose parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised,...

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

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

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

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...

A Filipino comedy movie starring Anjo Yllana in the title role.

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

1975 documentary about 11-year-old serial arsonist Michael 'Mini' Cooper, followed by Cooper and the film's director Franc Roddam in conversation...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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.