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A Fan's Notes (1972)
, 1h30Directed by Eric Till
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Jerry Orbach, Burgess Meredith, Rosemary Murphy, Conrad Bain, Jackie Burroughs
Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
, 1h48Directed by Peter Ustinov
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Beau Bridges, George Raft, Leon Ames
Billy Breedlove (Beau Bridges) is an orderly at a Texas psychiatric hospital. He simultaneously falls under the spell of two people: a blonde waitress at a local diner named Jimmie Jean Jackson (Elizabeth Taylor) and an allegedly sociopathic hospital patient named Hammersmith (Richard Burton), who is restrained in a straitjacket within a locked cell.
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.
, 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.
Jaime (1974)
, 35minutesDirected by António Reis
Origin Portugal
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Jaime Fernandes, ouvrier agricole, est interné à 38 ans pour schizophrénie. À la fin de sa vie, il se met à dessiner au stylo à bille.
The Cracker Factory (1995)
Directed by Burt Brinckerhoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Natalie Wood, Perry King, Shelley Long, Vivian Blaine, Marian Mercer, Juliet Mills
Alcoholic Cleveland housewife Cassie Barrett is institutionalized in a psychiatric ward after experiencing a nervous breakdown in the supermarket. We learn this is the latest in a series of hospitalizations from which Cassie emerges supposedly in control of her life but actually still teetering on the edge. During this latest stay, she develops a romantic crush on psychiatrist Edwin Alexander and a close relationship with night supervisor Tinkerbell, both of whom help her take steps toward facing her inner demons and learning to live with sobriety.
The Mist (1980)
, 2h11Directed by Balu Mahendra
Genres Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Pratap K. Pothen, Shobha, N. Viswanathan, Mohan, Bhanu Chander, Ganthimathi
Chandru (Pratap K. Pothen), the managing director of an export company in Bangalore, has a hatred for prostitutes since childhood, as he was the victim of a prostitute who ruined his family by taking his father away from his mother. Raghunath (N. Viswanathan) is a police inspector who knows Chandru and his mother. Raghunath's son Ravi (Bhanu Chander) is engaged to Rekha (Shoba).
Day of the Idiots (1981)
, 1h50Directed by Werner Schroeter
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Carole Bouquet, Ingrid Caven, Christine Kaufmann, Ida Di Benedetto, Magdalena Montezuma, Marie-Luise Marjan
Une jeune femme (Carole Bouquet) tente de se prouver en permanence qu'elle est en vie. Au point d'accomplir des actes qui paraissent étranges à son entourage et d'être considérée comme folle…
Silent Minority (1981)
, 1hOrigin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Thalavattam (1986)
, 2h27Directed by Priyadarshan
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Mohanlal, Karthika, Nedumudi Venu, M. G. Soman, Lissy, Mukesh
Vinod (Mohanlal) becomes mentally ill after his girlfriend Anitha (Lizy) dies because of an electric short circuiting accident during a rock concert. Vinod is admitted into an institution managed by Dr. Ravindran (M. G. Soman).
Zelal (2010)
, 1h30Origin Egypte
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Zelal is an invitation to delve into the world of psychiatry and "madness" in Egypt. It meets the ordinary madmen and women banished to mental institutions by Egyptian society and offers more than just a journey into their world of shadows. The hospitals end up becoming the only place patients can conceive, not because they are truly "crazy", but because they fear the outside world. The film forces viewers to put their own preconceptions and interpretations to the test, reminding us that freedom is precarious in a society that does not tolerate any differences.
Disturbed (1990)
, 1h34Directed by Charles Winkler
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Erotic thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Films about psychiatry, Erotic thriller films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Malcolm McDowell, Geoffrey Lewis, Priscilla Pointer, Pamela Gidley, Clint Howard, Irwin Keyes
Dr. Derrick Russell (Malcolm McDowell) rapes one of the patients in his care. When she throws herself from the roof shortly afterward, he describes her suicide as a consequence of her depression. Ten years later, he plans to rape another patient, Sandy Ramirez (Pamela Gidley). What Russell does not know is that Sandy is the daughter of his previous victim, and that she is bent on revenge. A post-credit sequence depicts a man kissing the camera before he laughs.
The Hook of Woodland Heights (1990)
, 40minutesOrigin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Mason Crane, a one-handed man who went on a murderous rampage after committing familicide, is set to be moved from one section of a Woodland Heights psychiatric hospital to another. As soon as Mason's cell is opened, the deranged man crushes an orderly with the door, cuts another's skullcap off with a clipboard, and escapes. Mason makes his way to a wilderness-adjacent home, where he kills a dog, and replaces his missing hand with a bent two-pronged grilling fork. With his new weapon, Mason attacks a group of children playing in a cemetery, stabbing one to death, and scattering the rest.
Assassin of the Tsar (1991)
, 1h38Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Oleg Yankovsky, Malcolm McDowell, Armen Djigarkhanian, Yury Belyayev, Veniamin Smekhov
Timofyev (Malcolm McDowell) is a patient in an asylum who claims to be the man who killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918.
Augustine (2012)
, 1h42Directed by Alice Winocour
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Vincent Lindon, Olivier Rabourdin, SoKo, Chiara Mastroianni, Roxane Duran, Lise Lamétrie
While serving at a dinner party kitchen maid Augustine (Soko) feels her hands going numb and then has a violent fit that leaves her paralyzed in one eye. Augustine is brought to a hospital where she attracts the attention of Jean-Martin Charcot (Vincent Lindon) after she seizures in front of him. Charcot examines her while she is naked and realizes that she has lost feeling in one side of her body. He pierces her arm with a hot needle but Augustine cannot feel it. He also discovers that despite having matured physically, Augustine has never menstruated.