Mental Asylum Movies

A 1977 short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story of a woman's mental breakdown.

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...

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...

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

Based on true events, a carefree young woman is trapped in an infinite loop of incarceration and escape, from a 1950’s mental hospital.

The concert was recorded with a black-and-white video camera and a single microphone on June 13, 1978.

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.

Winter, 1915. Confined by her family to an asylum in the South of France - where she will never sculpt again - the chronicle of Camille Claudel's...