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Paco (2010)
, 2h8Origin Argentine
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Norma Aleandro, Luis Luque, Andrea Galante, Sofía Gala, Claudio Rissi
The film is named after the protagonist Francisco Black aka "Paco" (Tomás Fonzi), a college student who starts using cocaine paste, a cocaine byproduct known as "paco".
The Black Sheep (2010)
, 1h33Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Théâtre, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Maya Sansa, Giorgio Tirabassi, Teresa Saponangelo
Le héros du film, Nicola a été interné dès son enfance dans un asile psychiatrique, celui où, jadis, sa mère le fut aussi. Il était alors un témoin encombrant, ayant assisté à un forfait perpétré par ses frères. Depuis lors, il a sombré dans sa propre "folie", si peu déraisonnable qu'elle soit pourtant...
City of Scars (2010)
, 30minutesDirected by Aaron Schoenke (Pronounced "Shern-Ca")
Genres Action
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Batman films, Superhero films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Kevin Porter, Christopher Parker
The Joker escapes from Arkham Asylum, causing a nurse to be taken to intensive care after spraying some of his lethal gas in her face. Upon arriving in Gotham City, he kidnaps Councilman Johnson and his son shortly after brutally murdering the Councilman's wife. Determined not to let his archenemy murder anyone else, Batman hunts him through the city. After Councilman Johnson is found dead while his son remains in The Joker's captivity, Batman questions whether his crusade against evil does more bad than good. Batman tracks The Joker to a carnival, where he thwarts the villain's plot of bombing a ferris wheel. He then races to the location of The Joker and the councilman's son, but when the young boy kills The Joker with his own gun, Batman debates if his greatest nemesis' death is a step toward Gotham's peace, or rather a sign that things are getting worse.
Vincent Wants to Sea (2010)
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Road movies, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Florian David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Katharina Müller-Elmau, Heino Ferch, Tim Seyfi
Vincent, un jeune homme souffrant du syndrome de la Tourette qui vient de perdre sa mère, est placé dans un institut par son père, un politicien autoritaire. Là, vincent fait la connaissance de Marie, une anorexique, et d'Alexandre, animé d'un trouble obsessionnel compulsif. À trois, ils vont voler la voiture de la directrice de l'établissement, le Dr Rose, et rouler vers Trieste en Italie, où Vincent s'est promis de jeter en mer les cendres de sa mère.
Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
, 1h40Directed by Emily Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Sarah Michelle Prinze, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen, Melissa Leo, David Thewlis, Erica Gimpel
After attempting suicide, Veronika (Sarah Michelle Gellar) awakens inside a mysterious mental asylum. Under the supervision of an unorthodox psychiatrist who specializes in controversial treatment, Veronika learns that she has only weeks to live.
, 1h23Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Ghost films, Serial killer films, Rape and revenge films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Danielle Harris, Bill Moseley, Nate Dushku, Billy Magnussen, Josh Segarra
In 1978, Mary Mattock has her first period, and due to menstrual psychosis, murders her parents with a hatchet. Deemed mentally unfit, Mary is placed in Kings Park Psychiatric Center, where she is raped and impregnated by a guard in 1989. This incident is covered up, and after being told her child was a stillbirth, Mary goes on a rampage through the hospital. The police find Mary wandering the grounds, and open fire on her after she throws the severed head of her rapist at them, ending her killing spree. "Mary Hatchet" subsequently becomes a folklore figure, with local youngsters celebrating the Mischief Night-esque "Blood Night" in her name.
Skeleton Crew (2009)
, 1h33Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Snuff films in fiction, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Ghost films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Markku Peltola, Karoliina Blackburn
In the 1970s, a mental institution near the border of Russia and Finland was shut down when it was discovered that main administrator Doctor Andersson (who had taken to calling himself "The Auteur") had filmed himself torturing patients to death. Most of the doctor's films were confiscated, though the rooms in which they were developed and screened were never found.
, 1hOrigin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Films about pedophilia, Documentary films about law, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Documentary films about child abuse, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Films about child abuse
Actors Louis Theroux
The Turn of the Screw (2009)
, 1h29Directed by Tim Fywell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Ghost films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Michelle Dockery, Dan Stevens, Eva Sayer, Mark Umbers, Corin Redgrave, Wendy Albiston
The film's story is told in a series of flashbacks interspersed with discussions between Ann (Dockery), a patient in a sanatorium, and Dr Fisher (Stevens), a sceptical and atheistic psychiatrist. Despite the suggestion of his superior (Redgrave) that he focus upon soldiers who have returned from the First World War, Fisher wishes to help Ann if he can.
Changeling (2008)
, 2h21Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Historical, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about capital punishment, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Angelina Jolie, Jeffrey Donovan, John Malkovich, Jason Butler Harner, Riki Lindhome, Colm Feore
In Los Angeles in 1928, single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) returns home to discover her nine-year-old son, Walter (Gattlin Griffith), is missing. Reverend Gustav Briegleb (Malkovich) publicizes Christine's plight and rails against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for its incompetence, corruption and the extrajudicial punishment meted out by its "Gun Squad" led by Chief James E. Davis (Feore). Several months after Walter's disappearance, the LAPD tells Christine that he has been found alive. Believing the positive publicity will negate recent criticism of the department, the LAPD organizes a public reunion. Although "Walter" (Devon Conti) claims he is Christine's son, she says he is not. Captain J. J. Jones (Donovan), the head of the LAPD's Juvenile Division, insists the boy is Walter and pressures Christine into taking him home "on a trial basis".
Berlin Calling (2008)
, 1h49Directed by Hannes Stöhr
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Corinna Harfouch, Maximilian Mauff, Megan Gay, Mehdi Nebbou
Berlin techno DJ and producer Martin Karow (nicknamed Ickarus) is touring the techno clubs of the world with his girlfriend Mathilde while working on a new studio album that he plans to release soon. In order to be able to work and party day and night, Ickarus takes all kinds of drugs, mainly supplied by his friend Erbse at the clubs in Berlin. After consuming a PMA-containing ecstasy tablet, Ickarus goes into a drug-induced psychosis, eventually finding himself naked in a Berlin hotel where his antics attract the attention of the hotel staff. He is taken to a psychiatric hospital in Berlin, which puts his album and upcoming live performances in danger.
Insanitarium (2008)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Lobotomie
Actors Jesse Metcalfe, Kiele Sanchez, Peter Stormare, Kevin Sussman, Olivia Munn, Carla Gallo
The film follows a man, Jack (Jesse Metcalfe), faking insanity in order to save his sister, Lily (Kiele Sanchez), who has been involuntarily institutionalized. The siblings soon find that the strange doctor at the asylum, Mr. Gianetti (Peter Stormare), has been testing an experimental compound, orphium, on the patients that seems to be turning them into flesh-eating zombies; Loomis (Kurt Caceres), another patient, spreads the infection. The two siblings band together with a terminally paranoid man, Dave (Kevin Sussman), and a helpful nurse, Nancy (Olivia Munn), in the hopes of finding a way out of the asylum. They are attacked by most of the prisoners and staff, who kill Nancy; while on the 4th floor, they encounter the doctor, who gives Dave an icepick lobotomy, incapacitating him; he attempts to get Jack too, but ends up being infected by Loomis. At the end of the film, as the two siblings are in a police car heading to the asylum to investigate, the officers (Mark Kelly & Sharon Schaffer) accidentally let the patients escape into the outside world. It ends with a panning shot, revealing the city below the asylum's hillside location.
Séraphine (2008)
, 2h5Directed by Martin Provost
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Peinture, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Geneviève Mnich, Adélaïde Leroux, Anne Bennent, Serge Larivière
The film follows the life of a middle-aged housekeeper, Séraphine Louis, who has a remarkable talent for painting. Untaught and following what she regards as religious inspiration she finds great appreciation in the beauty found in nature, especially her daily walks to work where she proudly and humbly stops to gaze at trees. In the beginning, it is noted that she stops to collect soil from plants as well as some blood from a dead pig. Later, in her small home lit by candles she is seen using these same ingredients while creating her art. At one point when her art begins to be seen, she is asked how she achieves the unusual effect in her "rouge" (reds). She replies that she prefers to keep that a secret.
The Number 23 (2007)
, 1h35Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about mathematics, Psychologie, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Butcher, Danny Huston
The plot involves an obsession with the 23 enigma, which is the idea that all incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, or to some number connected to 23.
Halloween (2007)
, 1h50Directed by Rob Zombie
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, L'enfance marginalisée, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Films about school violence
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, Tyler Mane, Scout Taylor-Compton, Brad Dourif, Danielle Harris
On Halloween in Haddonfield, Illinois, having already shown signs of psychopathic tendencies, 10-year-old Michael Myers (Daeg Faerch) murders a school bully. Later that night, he murders his older sister Judith (Hanna R. Hall), his mother’s abusive boyfriend Ronnie (William Forsythe), and Judith's boyfriend Steve (Adam Weisman). Only his baby sister, Angel Myers, is spared. After one of the longest trials in the state’s history, Michael is found guilty of first degree murder and sent to Smith's Grove — Warren County Sanitarium under the care of child psychologist Dr. Samuel Loomis (Malcolm McDowell).