Mad World (2016)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 41M
Director : Wong Chun
Sinopsis
An absentee father and his bipolar son are forced to live together as they struggle with a recent family tragedy. The tension and anxiety boil as they live and try to cope in a tiny apartment. As time passes, they realize their shared pain is not their only source of grief, as they find the outside world is a cruel and unjust place.
Diez extraños se ven atrapados por una terrible tormenta: un conductor de limusinas, una estrella de televisión de los años 80, un policía que escolta a un asesino, una prostituta, una pareja de recién casados y una familia en crisis; todos se cobijan en un lúgubre motel. Pero el alivio de haber encontrado refugio pronto se ve sustituido por el miedo cuando los diez viajeros empiezan a morir un por uno. Si quieren sobrevivir, tendrán que descubrir el secreto que les ha reunido en ese lugar.
A short film shot with a £0 budget based on the pre-title sequence format. A protagonist who suffers from an undiagnosed dissociative identity disorder (DID) is caught breaking into an old building, but what did she want? What was she doing there? What were the guards doing there?
Los Weston viven en una gran mansión en las afueras de Pawhuska, en Oklahoma. La desaparición del padre en extrañas circunstancias hace que la familia se reúna y que todas sus miserias salgan a la luz. Adaptación al cine de la obra de teatro del mismo título, ganadora del Premio Pulitzer en 2008.
Poco después del final de la era Brézhnev, un policía psicópata viola y secuestra a la hija de un miembro de la nomenklatura y se vuelve loco.
An absentee father and his bipolar son are forced to live together as they struggle with a recent family tragedy. The tension and anxiety boil as they live and try to cope in a tiny apartment. As time passes, they realize their shared pain is not their only source of grief, as they find the outside world is a cruel and unjust place.
Una mujer con trastorno borderline de la personalidad gana la lotería y decide gastar el dinero en efectivo en su propio talk show para la televisión por cable, de esa manera su personalidad y obsesión con ser famosa empiezan a alejarla de sus amigos y familiares.
Faced with the challenging behaviour of their kids, more and more parents in America are turning to psychoactive medication to help them cope, even though the drugs, and sometimes the diagnoses, remain controversial. Louis travels to one of America's leading children's psychiatric treatment centres, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to get to know the diagnosed children and hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.
El colapso esquizofrénico de Fan Kwok Sang llevó a la muerte accidental de su esposa Wai Ling, y fue internado en un hospital psiquiátrico hace tres años. Ahora Fan está listo para ser lanzado, con el Dr. Chow Ming Kit respondiendo por él a pesar de que sus objetos principales. Sin embargo, a Fan le resulta difícil hacer frente a su nueva vida. Algo malo le sucede y Chow se obsesiona al tratar de defender a su paciente y salvar su propia reputación.
Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in Crownsville, MD.
This Italian film takes a chilling, nonexploitative look into the mind of a nice young man who compulsively rapes beautiful women. The rapes are graphically presented and may be disturbing to some viewers. Outwardly Luca seems to be a normal, quiet 20-year old. His mother is frequently gone. Trouble begins when Luca becomes obsessed with Valeria, the beauty who works in the next building. He begins spying on her, and then secretly filming her with his camcorder. He tries to get to know her, but she ignores him. Unable to stand her constant refusal, the frustrated young man accosts her on dark street and rapes her. The first rape was almost accidental; he encountered her on the street and he hurt her. Unfortunately, he liked the violence and begins raping every attractive woman he sees. He is particularly violent with Lorena, a jewelry saleswoman whom he beats up in a park before violating her.
Jon Richardson investigates OCD. Is he simply a demanding perfectionist or does he have obsessive compulsive disorder?
Dora Maar, a world-class photographer who began her artistic career in the French Surrealist scene of the 30s, lived in the shadow of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, her lover between 1935 and 1943, with whom she maintained a chaotic, even violent, relationship. Fortunately, she survived Picasso's abusive behavior and its sequels to find a new path, the best one, the one that is worth to be told, in spite of Picasso.
A shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities.
Hikikomori; Uno de cada diez jóvenes japoneses sufre esta extraña enfermedad. Los hikikomori son adolescentes y adultos jóvenes que se ven abrumados por la sociedad japonesa y se sienten incapaces de cumplir los roles sociales que se esperan de ellos, reaccionando con un aislamiento social. Los hikikomori a menudo rehúsan abandonar la casa de sus padres y puede que se encierren en una habitación durante meses o incluso años. La mayoría de ellos son varones, y muchos son también primogénitos. Este tipo de problemas se centran (aunque bien, no son exclusivos) en las clases media-alta y alta, donde el joven posee cuarto propio, lo cual es considerado un lujo en Japón.
When Aaron, an ex-fighter, turns to music after years of being knocked around and left with permanent mental disabilities, he falls for Jana, an off-centered Bulgarian immigrant living in New York. While he recognizes that she is as crazy as he is, Jana does not share the same opinion. But her brother, Bobby, an up and coming wannabe fighter, decides to convince her she is that crazy in order to get Aaron in the ring against him.
A young woman is struggling with her mental health, as it begins to slowly push her over the edge.
En un hospital psiquiátrico latinoamericano, una mujer abandonada por su familia y un hombre encarcelado a la fuerza, comparten la misma tristeza y soledad. Ambos se enfrentarán a un amor más allá de cualquier explicación.
In the apartment of Anna, who, judging by her testimony to the investigation, was on a business trip, a fire broke out at night. The son was saved, but as a result of a nervous shock he was speechless. The investigation, the mother and father of the child will find out the true cause of the tragedy.