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1) Unsane
Language
English
Description
A young woman (Claire Foy) is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or is it a product of her delusion? Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"Foy owns this intimate, claustrophobic film, which at its heart is about the universal fear...of telling your story and not being believed." - Sara Stewart, **The New York Post***
2) Benny & Joon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A mentally ill young woman who lives with her older brother finds her love in an eccentric young man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
3) Chaos theory
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Publisher Annotation: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin delivers a gripping romance about two teens: a certified genius living with a diagnosed mental illness and a politician's son who is running from his own addiction and grief. Don't miss this gut punch of a novel about mental illness, loss, and discovering you are worthy of love.
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Language
English
Description
Comedy about four mental patients who are separated from their therapist on the way to a baseball game. The group must rescue their missing doctor from a pair of crooked cops, so they take to the streets in a series of outrageous misadventures.
5) Instinct
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Anthropologist Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), who is in prison for the criminally insane is set to be examined by a young psychiatrist Theo Caulder (Gooding). Caulder will risk his life to get to the truth.
7) Helen
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Language
English
Description
On the outside, Helen has it all, a loving family and a successful career, but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
8) Barefoot
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The 'black sheep' son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding to convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life. She impresses his prim and proper family with her genuine (if unstable) charm, and along the way they fall into improbable love.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Language
Français
Description
This fantastically twisted fairy tale is chock-full of curious characters and special effects. A sad and heartbroken madman, Krank, is aging prematurely because he can't dream. He kidnaps little children, hoping that eventually he will find a way to steal their sleeping thoughts. The story takes the form of a quest, as a sentimental harpooner-turned-fairground strongman, One, sets out to find his young brother on a dilapidated oil rig. He soon falls...
10) Joker
Language
English
Description
Most days, Arthur Fleck is bullied in public as he works as a clown-for-hire, but his slow descent into madness is hurried along by his mother's failing health, their strained connection with the rich Wayne family, and his failed comedy career.
11) The whisperers
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Ross is an eccentric elderly woman living alone in a meager apartment and hearing 'whisperers' that plot against her. The whispering voices are right, but will anyone believe her?
13) Canvas
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A woman's mental health puts her family and her own life in jeopardy, and she is taken by the police. Now her husband must raise his son alone and deal with her schizophrenia at the same time.
14) Unhinged
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage. He decides it is up to him to teach her a series of deadly lessons which will endanger everyone she loves.
15) Marnie
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A woman robs her employers and changes her identity. When her next boss catches her, he forces her to marry him.
17) Scare package
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Chad Buckley is a lonely horror aficionado, spending his days overseeing a struggling video store and arguing with his only customer, Sam. When an unsuspecting job applicant arrives, Chad sets out to teach him the rules of Horror.
18) The beaver
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A troubled family man and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
19) The fisher king
Series
Criterion collection volume 764
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Language
English
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
20) Right to fail
Publisher
PBS
Language
English
Description
After decades in institutions, a man with schizophrenia faces violence and death to live on his own. In collaboration with ProPublica, an investigation into a court-ordered effort to move those with mental illness into independent living.
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