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21) Blue/Orange
Author
Series
Publisher
L.A. Theatre Works
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
Two psychiatrists - one new and inexperienced, the other his well-established mentor - battle over the diagnosis and treatment of Chris, a young black man who claims to be the son of African dictator Idi Amin. This dark, edgy comedy - winner of the 2001 Olivier Award for Best New Play - will leave you wondering if anyone in this threesome is sane.
Series
Publisher
[Buena Vista Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2005, ©1977]
Description
A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality, even though reality isn't so great either.
Series
Criterion collection volume 209
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Description
"While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family's already fragile ties are tested when Karin discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, her father, husband, and younger brother are unable to prevent Karin's harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness."--Container.
25) Hour of the wolf
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Description
A brooding artist accompanied by his wife travels to a remote island where he hopes to escape his demons.
28) Three Christs
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
In 1959, psychiatrist Dr. Alan Stone arrives at a mental hospital in Ypsilanti, Michigan armed with the radical belief that schizophrenic patients should be treated with empathy and understanding. As his first study, he takes on the particularly challenging case of three men: Joseph, Leon, and Clyde, each of whom believes they are Jesus Christ. Dr. Stone begins a risky, unprecedented experiment that will push the boundaries of psychiatric medicine...
29) My home unknown
Publisher
Street Tales LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Mina experiences homelessness and a spiraling journey of mental illness. Lost in the fragments of harsh realities, she must find the courage and strength it takes to accept help.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2006], ©2006
Description
Cage stars as Frank Pierce, a paramedic on the brink of madness from too many years of saving and losing lives. One fateful night, Frank meets Mary Burke (Arquette) the daughter of a man he tried to save. Together Frank and Mary confront the ghosts of the past, and discover that redemption can be found among the living.
31) Repulsion
Series
Criterion collection volume 483
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Formats
Description
Carol is a fragile, frigid young Belgian beauty cracking up over the course of a terrifying weekend. Left alone by her vacationing sister in their London flat, she finds herself haunted by specters, real and imagined, as her insanity grows to a violent pitch.
32) Betty blue
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Featuring a magnetic breakout performance by Béatrice Dalle, Jean-Jacques Beineix₂s art-house smash, presented here in its extended director₂s cut, is a sexy, crazy, careening joyride of a romance that burns with the passion and beyond-all-reason fervor of all-consuming love.
33) Lilith
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
A mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England seems to weave a magical spell on a young man with an equally obscure past. Their relationship deepens leading to a shocking conclusion.
34) Home before dark
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Description
After a year a young woman emerges from a mental hospital where she has been committed by her husband. When her former 'delusions' seem close to the truth she begins to lose her mind. This film demonstrates how effectively melodrama can both override and simplify the implications of the social issues involved (in this case society's attitude to mental illness) when focused on a strong central performance, one of Simmons' best. While most 'social issue'...
Series
Criterion collection volume 209
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2003, c1961
Description
"While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family's already fragile ties are tested when Karin discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, her father, husband, and younger brother are unable to prevent Karin's harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness."--Container.
36) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Formats
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
38) The boy
Publisher
Scream Factory
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
It's the summer of 1989. Nine-year-old Ted Henley and his father John are the proprietors of The Mtn. Vista Motel, a crumbling resort buried in the mountains of the American West. Since Ted's mother left, John has drifted into despondency, becoming a living ghost, haunting the motel, leaving Ted to fend for himself. In this isolation, unchecked by the bounds of parenting, Ted's darker impulses begin to manifest.
39) Maya
Publisher
[Distributed by] SISU Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
A young actress lands a role as a mental patient in an avant-garde play. To get in character, she enters a psychiatric ward, but the truth she finds there and her fracturing mental state lead to an explosive conflict with her director.
40) Night watch
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Ellen Wheeler is a lonely insomniac trapped in a loveless marriage and by an obsession with a creepy gothic manse next door. One night while indulging in her alcohol fueled ramblings, Ellen spots a corpse inside the vacant house. A corpse that resembles her deceased, two timing first husband, a corpse that no one else thinks exists.
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