The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing new life as it undergoes restoration and adaptation to a modern use.
Maud Nycander has over one and a half years, filmed a psychiatric emergency ward at St. Göran's Hospital in Stockholm.
I 1928 er Los Angeles' politi præget af korruption og magtmisbrug. Det opdager Christine Collins, da hendes søn Walter en dag forsvinder sporløst. Fem måneder senere annoncerer politiet, at Walter er fundet i god behold. Desværre er det ikke sandt - for drengen, som Christine får hjem, er ikke hendes søn. Men politiet bryder sig ikke om negativ omtale, og da Christine gør opmærksom på, at drengen ikke er Walter, bliver mareridtet kun værre.
The concert was recorded with a black-and-white video camera and a single microphone on June 13, 1978.
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
A young photographer Thun and his girlfriend Jane discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after fleeing the scene of an accident. As they investigate the phenomenon, they find other photographs contain similar supernatural images, that Thun's best friends are being haunted as well, and Jane discovers that her boyfriend has not told her everything. It soon becomes clear that you can not escape your past.
Celia Kasse er fanget i et voldeligt og kontrollerende forhold med en rig og dygtig forsker, men en mørk nat flygter hun og holder sig skjult. Men da Cecilias voldelige eks begår selvmord og efterlader hende en stor del af sin store formue, begynder hun at tro, at selvmordet var arrangeret. Da en række uhyggelige tilfældigheder får dødbringende konsekvenser og truer de personer, hun holder mest af, begynder Cecilia at tvivle på sin forstand, mens hun desperat forsøger at bevise, at hun bliver jaget af en, som ingen kan se.
Jaime, a poem of suffering and loneliness, describes the existence and pictorial work of a man isolated in a psychiatric hospital.
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.
Sommerferien er lige startet, og alt tegner lyst og godt, da den unge pige Skunk bliver vidne til et overfald på sin gade og dermed drages ind i en konflikt, der har forgreninger ud til alle beboerne i området. Et område, hvor mistro konstant får ny næring, når beskyldningerne begynder at flyve til højre og venstre. Den sorgløse barndom er pludselig forbi, den spirende kærlighed og nye venskaber må stå last og brast med de voksnes håbløse dispositioner.
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.
Li (Sam Hui) works at a sanitarium as a male nurse, and Ah Tim (Michael Hui) is a handy man. One day, a bearded old man is sent into the sanitarium with a large bag. Ah Tim manages to steal the bag, and finds antique fragments inside. When the old man dies, the pair learn from his daughter that there is a sunken vessel that is loaded with much more than they already have, so they decide to go after the sunken treasure.
A misunderstood youth is incorrectly placed in a mental hospital.
Kristen har livagtige mareridt om en forbrændt mand med metalkløer, der forsøger at myrde hende. Den plagede pige ender på en psykiatrisk afdeling med andre unge, der også drømmer om manden. Den nu voksne Nancy har haft samme problemer, så hun underviser gruppen i at bekæmpe den forfærdelige, men meget virkelige drømmeverden.
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.
Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.