Nobody's Perfekt (1981)

A chegada de uma garota que encobre seu corpo para esconder suas queimaduras agita a vida da excêntrica família Weiss: o pai Stafford é analista e treinador, fez fortuna com seus manuais de autoajuda; A mãe Cristina se dedica a cuida da carreira de seu filho Benjie, de 13 anos, uma estrela infantil.

Desiludido por problemas pessoais e profissionais, o biólogo Friedrich von Kammacher decide viajar para o exterior a fim de recuperar a alegria de viver. Durante sua jornada aventureira, ele encontrará duas mulheres muito diferentes, uma das quais será a chave de seu destino.

A landmark documentary style short film that features compelling and dramatic first-person accounts of people living with, and recovering from, Borderline Personality Disorder. The production also features family members as well as leading clinicians, including Otto F. Kernberg, MD; Marsha Linehan, PhDl John Gunderson, MD; Wayne Fenton, MD; and Perry Hoffman, PhD, who put their stories into a broader social and medical context.

O jovem ator de telenovelas James decide se aposentar por causa de uma doença mental incurável. Ele pretende, antes de morrer, escrever uma longa biografia contando toda a sua carreira em detalhes. Enquanto não consegue concluir a obra, James vive em uma mesma casa com sua irmã Patricia, também vítima de problemas mentais, e com o travesti Catherine.

A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is psychotic, delusional and has a hefty appetite. In fact, her killing spree began 13 years before with the murder of her grandmother, who had forced her to go on a diet. Now that she's tasted the home-cooked fare at the halfway house, she'll do absolutely anything to get more.

Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the arrival of Greg's stunning and mysterious sister, Laura. Jan's paranoia deepens as she suspects that Greg's and her sister's relationship is too close. In her desperation, she confides her fears to the landlord but his weird reaction only creates more confusion.

Em 1944, três expoentes da literatura beatnik, os colegas Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac e Lucien Carr, exploram ideias ousadas, que desafiam o seu tempo. O assassinato de David Kammerer, um professor apaixonado por Lucien, transformará a vida dos três amigos, que são acusados de serem os responsáveis por sua morte.

O viúvo Coronel Dr. Khurana, é o dono de um sanatório particular e pai de Tanvi, umas das médicas do hospital. Tanvi, cuida da paciente nº 36, uma mulher chamada Shobhna Mathur, com muito carinho, quase como uma mãe. Passado um tempo, Shobhna, recebe alta, mas é incapaz de se lembrar dos carinhos de Tanvi. Isso abala Tanvi, fazendo com que ela decida manter distância afetiva de qualquer outro paciente, especialmente o novo paciente n º 36, que foi admitido por uma ordem judicial. Circunstâncias fazem Tanvi e Anand, se aproximarem, de tal modo que eles se apaixonam, mas o pai de Tanvi, com seu jeito disciplinador escolheu um pretendente para ela e não está disposto a assumir o risco de Tanvi, se casar com um doente mental, especialmente um como Anand, que foi preso e acusado de matar sua noiva.

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of the legend. Relations with her mother have deteriorated since she moved to Sweden. Helena blames her mother for abandoning her father. Helena and her mother meet again as Helena's mental health deteriorates and in order to cope, she must face reality through her mother's memoirs. Helena becomes intensely involved in the story and relives it by imagining herself in her mother's place.

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to understand the enigma that each one of them represents and, without ever imposing anything on them, invent the solutions that will help them to live in peace, case by case. Through their stories, 'Like an Open Sky' reveals their singular vision of the world to us.

Jonas Elrod woke up one day with the ability to see and hear angels, demons and ghosts. Filmed over the course of three years, this documentary follows Jonas and his girlfriend as they try to understand the phenomenon.

Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant seaman job to the rocky coasts of his home? Perhaps he couldn't cut manage to march in his father's footsteps in that job. His mother doesn't seem to mind, and lets him stay at her bed and breakfast hotel. His sister still seems to have the hots for him, just as she does for his (and her) old boyfriend Jean-Louis, who has just shown up. Even his mother seems to find him sexy. All these people appear eager to get their hands on his body, but he's too wrapped up in what's going on inside his head to notice.

Adam é um professor de história que leva uma vida monótona, até que descobre a existência de Anthony, um ator de pouco destaque que é fisicamente idêntico a ele. A partir de então, Adam cria uma verdadeira obsessão pelo seu sósia, e passa a persegui-lo em busca de respostas.

A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.

A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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.

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues to be haunted by dreams of a lost twin and chants the eerie phrase "Do I stand before the king?" It is the elder brother that seems doomed to lose himself in his brother's insanity.

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to share their experiences with stunning frankness. The result is two remarkable documentaries: the first, NCR: Not Criminally Responsible, premiered at Hot Docs in the spring of 2013 and follows the story of a violent patient released into the community. The second film, Out of Mind, Out of Sight, returns to the Brockville Mental Health Centre to profile four patients, two men and two women, as they struggle to gain control over their lives so they can return to a society that often fears and demonizes them.