Nise: The Heart of Madness

8.2
Overview
After being released from prison, Dr. Nise da Silveira is back at work in a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro where she refuses to employ the new and violent electroshock in the treatment of schizophrenics. Ridiculed by doctors, she is forced to take on the abandoned Sector for Occupational Therapy, where she would start a revolution through paintings, animals and love.
Recommendation & Similar
Trust the Man (2005)
The Caretaker (2016)
Animal Farm (1999)
Reaching for the Moon (2013)
The Butterfly Circus (2009)
Reds (1981)
Me & You (2012)
Ó Paí, Ó: Look at This (2007)
The Seventh Continent (1989)
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
Get the Goat (2021)
Dave (1993)
The Promise (2016)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
Sandy Wexler (2017)
Aquarius (2016)
Big Fish & Begonia (2016)
Confessions of a Brazilian Call Girl (2011)
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
Let It Snow (2019)