Movies and TvShows featuring "electro-shock" theme.

A high school slacker named Bartleby Gaines is rejected by every college he applies to. In order to satisfy his parents and create a future for himself, Bartleby decides to start his own college, the South Harmon Institute of Technology. He and his friends convert an abandoned psychiatric facility into the college and unexpectedly attract a large number of rejected students. With a million dollars in tuition money, Bartleby must turn his fake college into a functioning one. However, their fun is threatened when the jocks from a rival school try to ruin everything they've built.

After suffering a nervous breakdown, a young woman is committed to a mental institution where she struggles to regain her sanity through therapy and treatment.

Tarnation is a documentary film directed by Jonathan Caouette that depicts his tumultuous upbringing and struggles with mental illness, specifically schizophrenia. Through a mix of home videos, photographs, and answering machine messages, Caouette tells the story of his dysfunctional family, his experiences growing up as a gay man in Texas, and his battle with mental health issues.

Moradora (2016) is a surrealistic movie that takes viewers on a journey through the mind of a psychiatric patient. Set in a psychiatric hospital, the film explores themes of fantasy, psyche, and dark fantasy. The protagonist, a patient in the asylum, experiences vivid dreams and delusions, blurring the lines between reality and the imaginary. As the story unfolds, the audience is taken on a mesmerizing and psychedelic trip through the patient's mind, encountering elements of time travel, surreal landscapes, and tragic romance. The film also delves into the use of electroshock therapy as a treatment method, adding to the surreal and unsettling atmosphere. Moradora is a thought-provoking film that challenges the viewer's perception of reality and dives deep into the inner workings of the human mind.

For doctors “MARASMA” was a diagnosis: a state of deep organic deterioration, total loss of strength. In mental hospitals, people did not die of mental illness, but of marasmus. This is what the medical records say, which today reveal the most difficult stories: those of the last among the weakest, children and women. Through their testimonies we can also give voice to those who do not know, who do not want or can not remember.