With an acute awareness of his condition as a mental patient, René Pacquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric hospitals, which he compares with those used in slaughterhouses: submissions by drugs, straitjackets and exterminations by electroshock. You have to see this film as a cry of revolt.
With an acute awareness of his condition as a mental patient, René Pacquot denounces all powers, and especially the practices of psychiatric hospitals, which he compares with those used in slaughterhouses: submissions by drugs, straitjackets and exterminations by electroshock. You have to see this film as a cry of revolt.
A stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and documents the various ways the inmates are treated by the guards, social workers, and psychiatrists.
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.
A prisoner leads his counterparts in a protest for better living conditions which turns violent and ugly.
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be.
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.