Movies: Asylum

Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee, is rebuilding his life after being granted asylum in Canada. In Vancouver, he counsels and helps resettle newly-arrived Syrian refugee families so that they may find new homes and begin again....

An unusual friendship in an agitated political context....

A juvenile reform prison hires a psychologist, Dr. Essmat, to help in the reformation and rehabilitation of the girls in the prison. As he studies their cases and tries to find solutions for their problems, the compassionate Dr. Essmat is confronted ...

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

Observation of the asylum procedure in the Federal Republic of Germany, not limited to depicting an individual case, but rather tracing a basic fate. The film captivates with unpretentious black-and-white images that are emotionally moving and show c...

The Keeper of Underwood Asylum has the mental patients of the wealthiest families in British Columbia. The rest of the family members have been dying under mysterious circumstances, so Biggs hires private investigator Richard Driver, who puts his ass...

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 network was able to piece together some footage. The prize for staying all seven nights was a share of o...

In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking children temporary residence permits. They should be returned to their country of origin when they t...

A haunted asylum, ruled by an evil demon, tries to claim a trio of ghost hunters. Lori Delaney gets a cryptic text from her best friend who’s gone missing for three days after shooting video footage at the local haunted insane asylum. On a mission wi...

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An insane asylum is turned upside down when a wizard breaks in....

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...

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

A mysterious hero trapped in an Asylum decides to 'save' the unknown residents from the evil psychiatrist, Dr. Dog....

“Where is the human soul? Is it in the heart? In the brain? Or maybe elsewhere?”, wonders an old doctor who has spent his life working at a psychiatric hospital in the Siberian countryside. The place, which was inaccessible for film crews, can be sho...

A documentary, divided into "chapters", about the life of the inmates of the asylum on Leros. From the point of view that the mentally ill are victims of social oppression, the film turns a harsh light on the psychiatric system and offers pointed cri...

16 year-old Juan Carlos was homeless on the streets of Mexico City for years before landing at IPODERAC, a social enterprise that houses runaway boys and supports them through the production and sale of artisanal cheese. It is here, among goats, chee...

A group of young people break into a former asylum to stage a rave party, but before long strange things start to happen....

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