Mental Patient Movies

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

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 f...

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...

Four mental patients - who, due to unauthorized experiments, believe they're living in a dream and have shed all moral imperatives - escape and find t...

A reluctant serial killer grapples with his base desires and longs for his own death, as a small town Detective closes in on his trail to stop the kil...

A historical documentary documenting the rise, function, and abandonment of a 17 story building that once housed The Rochester Psychiatric Center. Th...

A doctor unrelentingly tries to convince a phobic guy to come out of his isolation room.

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 ba...

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

The violent hallucinations of an incarcerated psychiatric patient.

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...

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

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing film that raises questions abou...

‘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...

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

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

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