Mental Institution Movies

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

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

A fringe dream seeks out hosts for its short-lived dance of the fantastic.

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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