Mad World (2016)
Mad World
Gênero : Drama
Runtime : 1H 41M
Director : Wong Chun
Sinopse
O filme narra a história de um ex-analista financeiro que sofre de um transtorno bipolar grave. Logo após ter alta de um hospital psiquiátrico, é enviado para a custódia de seu pai, um motorista de caminhão que não tem nem um pouco de empatia pela situação do filho. Seus dias vão se tornar uma luta diária contra o fracasso e, principalmente, contra a ignorância dos que o rodeiam.
Uma violenta tempestade faz com que um grupo de pessoas busque abrigo em um motel desolado, gerenciado por um jovem bastante nervoso. De início todos se sentem aliviados por encontrarem um lugar para ficar em meio à tempestade, mas logo entram em pânico ao perceber que, um a um, todos estão sendo assassinados em nome de um misterioso segredo que une a presença de todos naquele 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?
Barbara, Ivy e Karen são três irmãs que são obrigadas a voltar para casa e cuidar da mãe viciada em medicamentos e com câncer, após o desaparecimento do pai delas. O encontro provoca diversos conflitos e mostra que nenhum segredo estará protegido. Enquanto tenta lidar com a mãe, Barbara ainda terá que conviver com os problemas pessoais, com difíceis relações com o ex-marido e com a filha adolescente.
União Soviética, 1984. A filha do líder do partido comunista local desapareceu sem deixar rastros ao sair de uma discoteca. Na mesma noite, é cometido um assassinato cruel na periferia da cidade. Ambos os casos são investigados pelo capitão da polícia local.
O filme narra a história de um ex-analista financeiro que sofre de um transtorno bipolar grave. Logo após ter alta de um hospital psiquiátrico, é enviado para a custódia de seu pai, um motorista de caminhão que não tem nem um pouco de empatia pela situação do filho. Seus dias vão se tornar uma luta diária contra o fracasso e, principalmente, contra a ignorância dos que o rodeiam.
Alice Klieg (Kristen Wiig) ganha uma fortuna na loteria. Ela imediatamente compra um horário em um canal de TV, vai para um cassino e cria um talk show, que tem como principal tema sua prórpia vida. Mas Alice não é uma pessoa muito fácil, ela tem transtornos de personalidade e desde que foi premiada parou de tomar medicamentos e ir à terapia.
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.
Fan Kwok Sang's schizophrenic breakdown led to the accidental death of his wife Wai Ling, and he was committed to a psychiatric hospital three years ago. Now Fan is ready to be released, with Dr. Chow Ming Kit vouching for him even though his senior objects. However, Fan finds it hard to cope with his new life. Something bad happens to him and Chow becomes obsessed in trying to defend his patient, as well as save his own reputation.
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.
In Japan, a million young men have shut the door on real life. Almost one man in ten in his late teens and early twenties is refusing to leave his home – many do not leave their bedrooms for years on end.
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.
Uma jovem bailarina recebe seu pai em casa, após anos em que ele esteve internado em um hospital psiquiátrico. A relação entre os dois começa a se desenvolver de uma forma misteriosa - e perigosa.
A young woman is struggling with her mental health, as it begins to slowly push her over the edge.
In a Latin American psychiatric hospital, a woman abandoned by her family and a man incarcerated by force, they share the same sadness and loneliness. Both will face a love beyond any explanation.
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.