Based on true events, a carefree young woman is trapped in an infinite loop of incarceration and escape, from a 1950’s mental hospital.
"PRA/EY" features a woman (Lia Scott Price) confined in a mental hospital who tries to convince a psychiatrist (Jennifer Cannon) not to pray to a Guardian Angel (Brandon Murphy Barnes), since there are deadly consequences to doing so. The moral of the story? You never know what your Guardian Angel really is.
Enter the imaginative world of acclaimed sculptor Rolanda Polonsky, who had been a resident of Netherne Psychiatric Hospital in Coulsdon, Surrey for 26 years when this film was made. One of the positive aspects of her illness, described in the film as a schizophrenia, is that it "tapped a deep source of mystical vision and human feeling" which finds expression in her work.
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.
A 1978 short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story of a woman's mental breakdown.
A film that delves into one of Australia's Worst Civil and Human rights claims. Sue became a ward of the State as a baby and went on to be admitted into the worst mental asylums in the country.
After escaping from an asylum, a brutal maniac becomes obsessed with a young couple on a holiday. On his path of devastation, he maims and kills his prey by carving their faces out.
Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, has been sent to the furthest reaches of Transylvania to help an old count with his move to the more populated Nilbog.
After a former mental asylum is converted into a haunted house attraction, a former inmate returns and starts murdering patrons.
A generation ago, Dr Max Warick was researching a mysterious experimental drug which was scientifically proven to cure certain types of madness. But as the most deranged test subjects miraculously regained their sanity, the control patients, who were given no drugs at all, suffered horrific consequences. Because no one could find the cause of such deadly side effects, the experiments were stopped. But now twenty years later, a new set of hospital officials are about to release the drug into the marketplace. And the only man who can prevent this terror from eating away at the masses has since traded in his lab coat for a straight jacket.
The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills turn into nightmares as members of the group go missing without a sound, cell phones mysteriously vanish, corridors turn into mazes, walls appear where doors once stood, flashlights fail and something or someone begins toying with the group. Days later, when five of the six friends turn up missing, the lone survivor must go through the recovered footage in order to clear his name and find out what happened to his friends
Vetri (Ajmal), Professor (Mano) and Ganesh run away from Chennai to Ooty, where they meet a lawyer Sujatha (Radhika Apte). For Sujatha it is love at first sight as she falls for Vetri. Sujatha discovers after an accident that police are on their trail and they are accused in a murder case after escaping from a mental health institute.
A study of the mental breakdown of a doctor in a remote rural village. He believes himself intellectually superior to everyone except for a political prisoner in a mental ward. This is a metaphor on life under repressive governments, conformity versus individual expression.
The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
Fashion model Emanuelle is experiencing psychotic freakout every time she has sex. Haunted by memories of sexual abuse from the men in her life, including her father, she turns to Dr. Gardner, who offers help while she resides at his mental health center.
A psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashbacks they are telling what did they do before they ended up in asylum.
A doctor from provincial town in Tsardom of Russia meets his former student in Ward 6, where the story takes place. Impressed by his rebellious spirit and clever remarks, he tends to spend more time with him while also indulging in meditation, only to be ridiculed by his fellow colleagues. Based on a Chekhov's work of the same title.
Meet Martha Tennant. She has made a healthy profit and a respected business from the delicious food she provides for the country club. She also proves a dab hand at harbouring escaped prisoners from the nearby institution for the criminally insane. When latest escapee Dan stumbles into her world she believes she has, at last, found the young man of her dreams. Keeping him housed away from prying eyes and well fed, it soon becomes apparent that there is alot more to Martha than meets the eye...
A patient at a private clinic for sufferers of sexual dysfunction begins a tentative affair with one of the other patients while a killer stalks the institution.