Asylum Movies

A documentary film about men, women, and children fleeing northward from the existential threats in their home countries of Honduras, El Salvador,...

A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence....

Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the...

After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have...

Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the...

Two mothers who were each separated from their children in the United States for months after fleeing from danger in their homelands to seek asylum...

The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras...

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

Capturing the story of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with unprecedented access, director Laura Poitras finds herself caught between the motives...

Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van...

The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing new life as it undergoes restoration and...

Two men and their charming friendship.

Documentary about a "transportation commando" in Germany with the goal to deport 200 people to Albania...

A veteran hostage negotiator's next call leads him to an overrun insane asylum. He soon finds that dark forces are pushing the patients to commit...

Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife...

A "symbolic" character traces the path of man in search of salvation in this world within his own ghosts and deformations.

A shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities.

The four Afghan refugees who have applied for asylum in Austria strike up the song, “The caravan moves on” again and again. Encouraged by...

After the death of a group of teenagers using the Ouija, the psychologist Fernanda and her son return to Peru, but they will find themselves...