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Aararo Aariraro
Aararo Aariraro (1988)

Directed by K. Bhagyaraj
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Bhanupriya, Aachi Manorama, K. Bhagyaraj, Jai Ganesh

Babu is a care-taker in a mental hospital who shows much devotion to his job unlike other employees and more affection towards the patients in the hospital. He wears the patients' dress and moves with them like one among them. Due to this nature the Chief Doctor, also a priest Father, likes him very much than others fetching Babu the enmity of two compounders in the hospital. One of the financial donors of the hospital brings a wandering girl to hospital suspecting that she is mentally ill. Since nobody knows about her anything and she is a mentally challenged the hospital admits her. Babu moves with the girl like he moves with all other patients but shows more affection than others as she does not have anybody to take care. The employees watch with curiosity and spin stories on them. Babu names the girl as Meenakshi and calls her Meenu. One of the two compounders tries to rape a mentally challenged girl and Meenu makes snake alert to stop it which fetches everybody. This angers the compounder and he gives electric shock. Babu rescues Meenu and complains to Father resulting in the suspension of the compounder and his friend. Babu now makes more care for her and spends more time with her.
Manasukkul Mathappu
Manasukkul Mathappu (1987)

Directed by Rajasekhar
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Prabhu, Saranya, Sarath Babu, Lissy

Shekar (Prabhu) becomes mentally ill after his girlfriend Anita (Lizy) dies because of an electric short circuiting accident during a rock concert. Shekar is admitted into an institution managed by Nagaraj (Senthamarai).
Wearing Velvet Slippers under a Golden Umbrella
Wearing Velvet Slippers under a Golden Umbrella (1969)
, 2h13
Directed by Wunna
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals

Dr. Kyi Thar (Myat Lay), who works at the intensive-care unit, Mental Health Hospital, Yangon, and the patient Ma Htar Htar (Myat Mon), an elder sister of a friend. They met for the very first time on his duty. Though the friend¹s family was from Mandalay, they came to Yangon, to Dr. Kyi Thar to take the medical treatment with great expectations. They were right as she was getting much better as time went by and in their relationship too. Both of them knew they were deeply in love, attached to each other without mentioning a thing. It was the patient, who tried to start a new beginning of their close relationship on the day they went out together. However, he severed relations with her against his will as he thought it was the best thing to do. He just tried to keep his morals as a doctor. But their separation left her with the feeling of deep hurt instead. She got worse when they met again after some time. The poor patient asked again her beloved doctor to go out together with a pat expression, "let's go out, anywhere!".
A Tale of Two Sisters
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
, 1h55
Directed by Kim Jee-woon
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about altered memories, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Ghost films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Im Soo-jeong, Moon Geun-young, Kim Kap-soo, Yeom Jeong-a

The movie opens in a mental institution where a girl named Su-mi is being treated for shock and psychosis. She is questioned by a doctor who asks if she can speak about the day that led her to being admitted to the hospital.
55 Steps
55 Steps (2018)
, 1h55
Directed by Bille August
Origin German
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Plester, Michael Culkin, Jonathan Kerrigan

L'histoire vraie d'une amitié et complicité féminines entre deux femmes que tout oppose. Avocate des droits des patients, Colette Hugues devient l'avocate d'Eleanor Riese, une patiente schizophrène de l’unité de psychiatrie d’un hôpital de San Francisco. Ensemble, elles vont se lancer dans une bataille juridique pour améliorer le traitement des malades mentaux maltraités et laissés-pour-compte dans les hôpitaux. En parallèle, Eleanor va tout faire pour transformer la vie bourgeoise et trop rangée de Colette.
A Cure for Wellness
A Cure for Wellness (2017)
, 2h26
Directed by Gore Verbinski
Origin German
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Children's films
Actors Dane DeHaan, Mia Goth, Jason Isaacs, Magnus Krepper, Harry Groener, Celia Imrie

Lockhart est un jeune cadre ambitieux. Il doit retrouver son patron, qui a disparu dans un mystérieux centre dans les Alpes suisses. Lockhart se retrouve alors pris au piège de cet étrange institut et de son corps médical. On lui « diagnostique » le même mal qui habite l’ensemble des pensionnaires. Lockhart n’a plus d’autres choix que de se soumettre à l’étrange cure délivrée par le centre.
'Til Madness Do Us Part
'Til Madness Do Us Part (2014)

Directed by Wang Bing (王兵)
Origin Japon
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals

Le film suit pendant 3 mois les patients d'un hôpital psychiatrique du Yunnan ; spécifiquement ceux de l'étage pour hommes, mais aussi un patient en permission de sortie et de retour chez ses parents.
Article 99
Article 99 (1992)
, 1h40
Directed by Howard Deutch
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Ray Liotta, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Lea Thompson, John Mahoney, John C. McGinley

When Dr. Peter Morgan (Kiefer Sutherland) begins his medical internship at a Veteran's Administration hospital, he expects to breeze through on his way to a cushy practice. Instead, he's thrust into a bizarre bureaucratic maze where the health of patients is secondary to politics. And the temperature really rises when he teams up with some freewheeling physicians, led by Dr. Richard Sturgess (Ray Liotta), who think they've learned how to break the rules-and save lives-without getting caught.
Asylum
Asylum (2005)
, 1h39
Directed by David Mackenzie
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Natasha Richardson, Marton Csokas, Ian McKellen, Sean Harris, Dai Bradley, Hugh Bonneville

Asylum is set in Britain in the early 1950s. It tells the story of Stella Raphael (Natasha Richardson), the bored and unfulfilled wife of Max (Hugh Bonneville), a psychiatrist working at a remote mental asylum. Stella starts a passionate affair with Edgar (Marton Csokas), one of the patients. Edgar is particularly dangerous, having gruesomely murdered his wife in a jealous rage.