A hedonistic bachelor - he is his rich family's black sheep - falls for a suicidal mental patient.
Um arquiteto, Max Klein, e uma jovem mãe, Carla, são passageiros num avião que sofre um violento acidente. Ambos sobrevivem, mas o filho de Carla morre na acidente. Para Max, o acidente foi o momento para colocar de lado todos os seus temores e encontrar a tranquilidade e paz. Passa a ver o mundo de uma maneira completamente diferente, aproveitando todos os momentos e pormenores que a vida tem. Relutante em deixar esse estado de êxtase, Max não consegue perceber que está se afastando cada vez mais da sua mulher. Para Carla, a sua vida acabou no momento em que o seu filho morreu no fatal acidente. Duas pessoas que nunca iriam se conhecer em qualquer outra circunstância, Max e Carla iniciam uma amizade.
Um monarca britânico do século 18 ama sua devotada rainha, mas uma doença afeta gravemente sua mente.
Um funcionário de um escritório (Christian Slater) planeja matar seus companheiros de trabalho de diversas maneiras nesta sátira escura.
Charlie é um jovem que tem dificuldades para interagir em sua nova escola. Com os nervos à flor da pele, ele se sente deslocado no ambiente. Sua professora de literatura, no entanto, acredita nele e o vê como um gênio. Mas Charlie continua a pensar pouco de si… até o dia em que dois amigos, Patrick e Sam, passam a andar com ele.
"Through rare historical and contemporary footage and interviews with more than 160 doctors, attorneys, educators, survivors and experts on the mental health industry and its abuses, this riveting documentary blazes the bright light of truth on the brutal pseudoscience and the multi-billion dollar fraud that is psychiatry" - The Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. Thoroughly enraptured, he forsakes his career in medicine for life as a playboy, until one day Dick is charmed by Rosemary Hoyt, an American traveling abroad. The thought of Dick possibly being attracted to someone else sends Nicole on an emotional downward spiral that threatens to consume them both.
Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Man-child Nicholas, a fugitive from justice, also lives there and is terrorizing them - and he's interested in Millie. One day widower John Woolfolk, sailing on his yacht, happens upon the island. Soon he and Millie fall in love. Will jealous Nicholas stand for this?
MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema- verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.
Lise, a mentally unbalanced middle-aged woman, travels from her home in London to Rome, Italy where she embarks on a fatal destiny that she had helped to arrange for herself — a premeditated search for someone, anyone, with whom she could form a dangerous liaison.
Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced to share a room with the newly admitted Richard, the boys become locked in a battle of wills.
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
Uma ex-funcionária de escritório desempregada à procura de emprego flutua uma frágil linha de sanidade enquanto luta para encontrar amizade e companhia. Sua apreensão ténue da realidade flutua ainda mais quando um homem que ela conheceu num restaurante e com quem começou um caso é chamado para ir para a Índia para uma comissão. A última gota ocorre quando ela é despejada e se muda para um hotel desprezível. Começa então a procurar sexo ocasional em locais pouco ortodoxos apenas para ter o contacto humano.
A man has an accident while out riding his horse and soon discovers that he now has a split personality, and that his alternate is helping a criminal to rob his house.
Pipsa has fallen prey to a shady scientist Kalevi. Pekko tries to save her.
True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.
Well-educated, New Hampshire mother, Linda Bishop, was determined to stay free of the mental health system after her early release from a 3 year commitment to New Hampshire State Hospital. Instead, she became a prisoner of her own mind, a fate which she documents in one of the most evocative and chilling accounts of mental illness and of our systemic failure to protect those suffering from it.
This black-and-white Norwegian film is a great rarity: a film with comic elements set in a mental ward which does not overstep the bounds of common sense or good taste.
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always believed and begins to piece together the times and dates of her husband's frequent absences, her fears begin to take hold, and her sanity deteriorates.
