Mental (2008)

Neste documentário emocionante, uma estudante de 28 anos cursando o doutorado em Harvard registra sua própria luta contra a síndrome de fadiga crônica.

Do sucesso mundial à queda cruel. Pessoas próximas a Britney Spears e advogados avaliam sua carreira, enquanto ela batalha com o pai no tribunal sobre quem deve controlar sua vida.

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in Crownsville, MD.

Three perspectives on loneliness, how it feels and how it can be survived: “If I could just dance with somebody once more.”

Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estranged 12-year-old daughter (Rylie Behr) and her cantankerous elderly grandfather (Tom Bower). Her return home is turbulent and a rough, unwelcome transition in which Kathy must come to terms with her diagnosis and its implications on her identity, while also realizing that her family was happier when she was gone. Conflict with her family intensifies as she struggles to keep her head above water, putting her self-worth and well-being to the ultimate test.

Em resposta à pressão política da senadora Lillian DeHaven, a Marinha Americana dá início a um programa de integração de mulheres aos seus serviços. O programa começa com uma única candidata, a tenente Jordan O'Neil, escolhida especificamente devido à sua feminilidade. Jordan passa a fazer parte de um treinamento severo sob o comando de John James Urgayle, que pressiona a novata até que ela ganhe o respeito do superior com sua determinação.

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.

A história de um canalizador da cidade de Boston, nos Estados Unidos, que é forçado a voltar para a cidade de Manchester, no Reino Unido, após descobrir que o seu irmão morreu. Já em terras inglesas, vai ter de tomar conta do sobrinho de 16 anos, mas acaba por lidar com uma tragédia secreta do seu passado.

Quando o reservado e solitário adolescente Fenix ​​(Chase Hudson), conhece a popular colegial Scarlett (Sydney Sweeney), os dois formam um vínculo que molda o resto de sua vida. Um drama musical com a música de Machine Gun Kelly. A produção é protagonizada pelos atores Sydney Sweeney e Chase Hudson, além das participações de Trippie Redd, Blackbear e Iann Dior. A narração ficou por conta de Machine Gun Kelly e Travis Barker, baterista do Blink-182, com quem produziu o disco. A direção é do próprio Colson Baker (MGK) acompanhado do rapper Mod Sun.

Um pai instável, mas bem intencionado, foge com seu filho trans para ajudá-lo a viver de forma autêntica, longe da mãe que não o aceita. A detetive de polícia que os persegue, terá sua determinação testada à medida que aprende sobre a família.

Uma atriz teatral de sucesso sofre uma crise emocional e para de falar. Uma enfermeira é designada a cuidar dela em uma casa reclusa, perto da praia, onde as duas permanecem sozinhas. Para quebrar o silêncio, a enfermeira começa a falar incessantemente, narrando diversos episódios relevantes de sua vida, mas quando descobre que a atriz usa seus depoimentos como fonte de análise, a cumplicidade entre as duas se transforma em embate.

O terrível ser do inferno Pinhead está de volta para assolar a humanidade com seu terrores e sadismo. Dessa vez, sua vítima é Trevor (Dean Winters), um homem de negócios que se envolve com as forças malígnas após um acidente de carro. Com a esposa desaparecida e fortes dores de cabeça, ele passa a ter alucinações, mas fará o que for preciso para descobrir o paradeiro da sua amada. Porém, sua esposa, Kirsty (Ashley Laurence), já tem uma história passada com Pinhead.

Um funcionário de um escritório (Christian Slater) planeja matar seus companheiros de trabalho de diversas maneiras nesta sátira escura.

Nesta íntima e épica história de amor filmada através de duas décadas, a indomável matriarca Fox Rich batalha para criar seus seis filhos e manter junta a família, à medida que ela luta pela liberação do marido da Penitenciária Estadual de Louisiana, conhecida como Angola.

After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.

While former paramedic Emily tries to live a low-key life to cope with her PTSD, her new roommate has other plans, and a long-held vendetta against medical personnel.

Cunningham Hall, uma vez respeitada clínica psiquiátrica, agora é uma relíquia em decomposição com muitos pacientes e muito pouco orçamento. Mas quando um jovem estudante de medicina motivado chamado Clark Stevens concorda em entrar no centro de saúde mental como estagiário para se formar, ele logo perceberá que se tornou parte da equipe de um manicômio. Clark logo começa a se preocupar com as condições em que os pacientes vivem, com horríveis alucinações e tendências suicidas. Mas Clark também começa a questionar sua própria sanidade quando começa a ver a figura perturbadora de um jovem, que parece querer avisá-lo sobre algo.

Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming.

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from what ME/CFS has been known as a mystery illness, delegated to the psychological realm, until now. A scientist in the only neuro immune institute in the world may have come up with the answer. An important human drama, plays out on the quest for the truth.

The class of a normal German school travel to a small village in Poland near the sea where no action of any kind can take place. Due to this fact they focus on themselves. Especially one girl, Isa, has to choose between two boys who are fighting against each other. Then a final "test" is made to come to a decision... a test with final results.

The same day of their marriage, Jean's wife dies of a strange ailment in the middle of surgery. Afflicted by the loss, the young man abandons his medical studies and takes refuge in the memories of his time of courtship. At the same time that this happens, a wave of murders shakes the city with the same pattern of behavior: the victims are surgery students whose bodies have had both hands amputated.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Year after year, just after the monsoon season has finished, thousands of families travel to a bleak desert in Gujerat, India, where they will stay for an endless eight months and extract salt from the earth, using the same painstaking, manual techniques as generations before them. Director Farida Pacha spent a season with one of these families, observing the very particular rhythms of their lives.

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

Villagers in Turkey's Black Sea village of Camburnu struggle with the government's decision to turn their community into a garbage dump.

A series of 32 short scenes, uniformly set in West German instructional and training classes, that show various tasks among the citizenry being done solely as the result of exhaustive preparation - everything from women preparing to give birth, to strippers stripping, to policemen making arrests. Farocki uses the material to savagely dissect the West German mode of life. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi

Paul Otlet was a Belgian, *1868, died 1944, who perfected the Dewey Classification system as "the Universal Decimal Classification", in his lifetime alone totalling 17 million index cards of human knowledge.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

It is 1980. Sadatomo is at a secondary school in a small town. His parents barely take any notice of him. The strict teacher Kobayashi has hung up a 'humanity index' in the classroom, divided into the categories 'delinquents', 'scum' and 'people'. In each category he has hung name-cards of pupils. One day Kobayashi finds out that Sadatomo and his friends have stolen some things from a shop for fun. Their fathers are informed and as punishment, the children have to write a 'self-critical' essay of no less than thirty pages. For the first time, Sadatomo is beaten by his father. Shocked, he writes a piece entitled 'I am an onion', in which the teacher thinks he can detect a first sign of humanity. That is the start of a confusing situation in which it gets hard to distinguish lies, truth, justified self-criticism and opportunist wheeler dealing, even for the boys.

The film follows William, thirty-ish, out of work and looking for a new life after apparently having been thrown out of his previous one. He meets up with Noelle, who seems intrigued by his restlessness - until her economist boyfriend shows up. Yet plot details do little to convey the power of the film, which lay in its capturing the anarchic texture of William's life - a life whose lack of direction was read as a rebuke of the Swiss myth of orderliness and self-satisfaction. With his roots in documentary, Soutter excelled at creating a loose, vibrant cinema, full of quick zooms and dynamic hand-held shots, with dialogue that often alternated between outright quotations and stylized interviews.

Farmer Ivan Dunaev gets up early. He feeds his piglets, does paperwork, fixes the tractor, and weighs the meat he'll take in his old pickup truck to the market to sell. He has a wife, a teenage daughter, and a young son. And he loves to hunt. His world revolves around these things. Then, one day, two new workers, Lyuba and Raya, on work release from the local prison colony, arrive on the farm. Ivan doesn't notice it at first, but something begins to change.

This tragic drama shows a young man fettered by Bushido, the way of the Samurai, who tried to escape the chains of his position, but was being forced to die. When the Tokugawa Shogunate ruled the land, Tatsuno castle in Wakisaka Clan's home of Harima held an established custom, the inspection of the arms warehouse. The Government Inspector Okuno Magodayu found a slight bit of dirt on the point of a spear and mentioned it with disdain. Ezaki Shinpachi heard it and started an argument with him. Magodayu then sent a a letter of challenge to him because he felt insulted by a low-ranking underling without a title. As it turned out Magodayu was killed. Since then, Shinpachi and the Okuno family have had continuous revenge duels. The tension mounts as this story builds to an extremely violent climax, when blood must pay for blood if the clan is to survive!

Four nights in Caracas. A documentary essay about chaos and civilization.

The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.

Can and his girlfriend, Jale, live with their young daughter, Meral, in a tough Turkish neighbourhood of Berlin and barely manage to scrape enough money together for their existence. Can is a small-time dealer and errand-boy for drug boss Hakan, who has to keep his customers supplied within his narrowly staked out territory. Jale, who works in the ware-house of a department store, has been pressing Can to give up this activity. Can, also fed up with his situation, sees a bright new beginning for himself and his family when Hakan offers him the prospective chance to run a bar on his very own. But Can has little control over the pressures that gradually begin to build up around him and soon finds himself floundering in quicksand.

A recreation of one day at the Canto Grande prison in Peru, following women guerrillas from the Maoist Shining Path movement in their morning marches to their bedtime chants. Kept isolated in their own cellblocks, the guerrillas refused to acknowledge that were imprisoned. Their cellblocks were another front in the People's War: "shining trenches of combat". This film shows the intense indoctrination and belief system of the brutal Latin American insurgency.

A presidential advisor discovers that the President has assembled a secret army of vigilantes to suppress dissent and is setting up concentration camps in which to imprison protestors, hippies and other "social undesirables."

A performance artist works tirelessly to fulfill her dream of adopting Sudanese twins, placing her marriage and career at risk in this documentary.