Asylum Movies

  • 2012
    Nowhere Home

    Nowhere Home

    Nowhere Home

    5.8332012HD

    In 2009 the Norwegian government introduced several measures to restrict immigration. One of the measures was to provide unaccompanied asylum seeking...

    Nowhere Home
  • 1953
    Mantrap

    Mantrap

    Mantrap

    5.1251953HD

    Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befrie...

    Mantrap
  • 2018
    This Is Home: A Refugee Story

    This Is Home: A Refugee Story

    This Is Home: A Refugee Story

    6.32018HD

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

    This Is Home: A Refugee Story
  • 2024
    Dissidents

    Dissidents

    Dissidents

    102024HD

    An artist's sculpture is burnt down, a protester is charged with a criminal case, and a democracy movement is violently attacked. In the United States...

    Dissidents
  • 2015
    Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson

    Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson

    Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson

    7.22015HD

    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 wer...

    Packed In A Trunk: The Lost Art of Edith Lake Wilkinson
  • 2024
    Caravan

    Caravan

    Caravan

    02024HD

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

    Caravan
  • 1972
    Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace

    Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace

    Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace

    8.31972HD

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

    Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace
  • 2012
    Echo Of The Past: The Terrence Tower

    Echo Of The Past: The Terrence Tower

    Echo Of The Past: The Terrence Tower

    102012HD

    A historical documentary documenting the rise, function, and abandonment of a 17 story building that once housed The Rochester Psychiatric Center. Th...

    Echo Of The Past: The Terrence Tower
  • 2000
    The Winter of the Anjanas

    The Winter of the Anjanas

    The Winter of the Anjanas

    4.62000HD

    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. Afte...

    The Winter of the Anjanas
  • 1934
    Stamboul Quest

    Stamboul Quest

    Stamboul Quest

    5.41934HD

    In 1915, German Counter-Intelligence Chief Von Sturm learns that someone is providing the British with critical strategic planning for the Turkish the...

    Stamboul Quest
  • 1976
    The Keeper

    The Keeper

    The Keeper

    4.71976HD

    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...

    The Keeper
  • 1973
    The Protectors

    The Protectors

    The Protectors

    61973HD

    Up against his money-grabbing relatives, his compromised superiors, and the state, a firm painter decides to protest by bricking up the windows of his...

    The Protectors
  • 2017
    When Paul Came Over The Sea

    When Paul Came Over The Sea

    When Paul Came Over The Sea

    7.82017HD

    An unusual friendship in an agitated political context.

    When Paul Came Over The Sea
  • 2009
    Patham Nilayile Theevandi

    Patham Nilayile Theevandi

    Patham Nilayile Theevandi

    02009HD

    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...

    Patham Nilayile Theevandi
  • 2008
    Pink Eye

    Pink Eye

    Pink Eye

    3.22008HD

    Pink Eye is set in a small town in upstate New York, at a prison-like, dilapidated insane asylum where secret drug testing has gone inexplicably wrong...

    Pink Eye
  • 2021
    At His Doorstep

    At His Doorstep

    At His Doorstep

    02021HD

    After starting a new online series, Annie and two of her friends head to an abandoned building in Lyulin Mountain, believed to be inhabited by evil.

    At His Doorstep
  • 1936
    Frontier Justice

    Frontier Justice

    Frontier Justice

    51936HD

    When Brent Halston returns he finds his father in an insane asylum and Wilton about to foreclose on their ranch and bring sheep onto the cattle range....

    Frontier Justice
  • 2016
    Alter Ego

    Alter Ego

    Alter Ego

    02016HD

    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

    Alter Ego
  • 2019
    Torn Apart: Separated at the Border

    Torn Apart: Separated at the Border

    Torn Apart: Separated at the Border

    6.32019HD

    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 wo...

    Torn Apart: Separated at the Border
  • 2019
    Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark

    Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark

    Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark

    102019HD

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

    Reimagining A Buffalo Landmark