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16 movies and shows

Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook

Fri, 16 Nov 2012

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.

Pennhurst

Pennhurst

Tue, 26 Mar 2019

Segregation, abandonment, and the meaning of home are discussed by the people that lived in, worked at, and crusaded for one of the largest and oldest Intellectual and Developmental Disability Institutions in the United States. The facility, in its closing, challenged society's perception of those with intellectual disabilities and ultimately fought for better rights.

Mommy

Mommy

Fri, 19 Sep 2014

A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.

Young Lust: A Soap Opera

Young Lust: A Soap Opera

Fri, 27 Apr 1984

The reunion of Garytown High School’s class of ‘71 is a catalyst for a series of comic crises involving sex, drugs, murder and anatomical oddities.

Rita

Rita

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.

Cured of Fears

Cured of Fears

Tue, 01 Jan 1991

During an excavation, archaeologist Magdalena accidentally resurrects a centuries-old vampire named Vladimir, who promptly disappears. When she attempts to warn authorities, she's institutionalized. Upon release, she sets out to stop Vladimir, who's now taken over a nightclub.

Masked Mutilator

Masked Mutilator

Tue, 14 May 2019

After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, a professional wrestler takes a job at a group home for youth offenders. But when a psychopath wearing a wrestling mask begins butchering the teenage residents, their rehabilitation will become a no-holds-barred battle for survival. Originally filmed in 1994 but completed in 2019.

Hexenkinder

Hexenkinder

Thu, 17 Sep 2020

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, particularly in religious orphanages, and during the time of early modernperiod witch-hunts. It shows that the mindsets and behavioural patterns of both time periods are more alike than one might think.

The Fall of the Louse of Usher

The Fall of the Louse of Usher

Sat, 02 Feb 2002

Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by Nurse Smith and Dr Calahari, resulting in a series of bizarre and nightmarish adventures.

Catopolis

Catopolis

Fri, 08 Nov 2024

A cat named Penny living in a desensitized, unstable world has to find a new job after she gets fired in order to make her dad proud.

Welcome Home, Jellybean

Welcome Home, Jellybean

Sat, 24 Mar 1984

A CBS Schoolbreak Special about a 12-year-old mentally-challenged girl whose parents decide to remove her from the institution where she was raised, and try to give her a home life.

Luna Llena

Luna Llena

Wed, 28 Oct 1992

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.

Devil's Advocate?

Devil's Advocate?

Sat, 23 Jan 1999

Dateline's coverage of the lawsuit by Patty Burgus and family against Bennett Braun, director of the Dissociative Disorder's Unit at Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes in Chicago. Oct 1998. This is the story of the foundational works which constitute the current theory of Dissociative Identity Disorder/ Multiple Personality Disorder. This was the first Dissociative Disorder's Unit in the United States. All subsequent units specializing in Multiple Personality Disorder/ Dissociative Identity Disorders have been modeled after it. After having his license suspended in Illinois, Dr. Braun has resumed practice in Butte, Montana. Despite the malpractice payments paid by insurance on his behalf as well, Dr. Kluft remains in practice and continues to give training lectures on the treatment of MPD/DID to large audiences of mental health practitioners.

Web #42

Web #42

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

Disjunctive fabric or network that collides, by means of re-appropriated or stolen resources, liberated archives that disrupt structures of power and institutions. Psychiatry and universities explode in an accelerated disruptive essay of archiving and post-archiving that coins “anarchoautism” as a flow of liberated desire. Through its form and politics of liberation, autistic and schizophrenic becomings imply a violent line of flight within institutional spaces.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday

Sun, 20 Oct 2024

After a horrific accident, a couple must face the reality of their situation when they visit their teenage daughter for her birthday in her new home.

Parragirls Past, Present – Unlocking Memories of Institutional 'Care'

Parragirls Past, Present – Unlocking Memories of Institutional 'Care'

Thu, 31 Aug 2017

Unlocking memories of institutional ‘care’. Parragirls Past, Present is a deeply moving immersive experience, presenting former residents’ visions of the Parramatta Girls Home today.