Asylum Movies

The story of artist Edith Lake Wilkinson, a painter who was committed to an asylum in 1924 and never heard from again. All her worldly possessions...

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....

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

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

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...

The lives of four Syrian families, resettled in Baltimore and under a deadline to become self-sufficient in eight months.

An unstable mental patient goes on an overnight rampage to terrorize an ex-rock star and his friends, only to discover she is linked to him in...

A struggling Brooklyn freelance filmmaker must expose a corporate eugenics conspiracy before they get him by the balls.

A sick doctor is admitted to an isolated sanatorium located in the middle of a desolate desert. As a patient, he becomes aware of the discrepancy...

Sankara Narayanan always hears incessant voices in his head and he gets admitted in a mental asylum. A doctor tries to reunite him with his family by...

In 2010 six reality television show contestants spent seven nights in an abandoned and haunted asylum. The show never aired but an editor for 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...

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

When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking...

A film about the great Komitas, one of the victims of the Armenian Genocide, who wasn't killed, but went crazy and kept silence for 20 years

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

An unusual friendship in an agitated political context.

When a group of Urban Explores get the chance of a lifetime to explore one of the world's most haunted asylums, they encounter something truly evil,...