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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Every summer the patients and staff of the La Borde Psychiatric Clinic stage a theatrical performance. Focusing on the 1995 production of Operetta, this fascinating film reveals the porous boundary between sanity and madness. Philibert's unobtrusive observations force us to re-examine conventional assumptions about what is normal and what is not.
2) Glass lips
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A kaleidoscope of surreal, provocative, and resonant imagery, in Glass lips Majewski explores a hidden human frontier where memory, madness, and imagination meet. Composed of 33 short films entitled Blood of a poet, the film opened the 2006 Lech Majewski Retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A year later, the Venice Biennale presented it on multiple screens, prior to the theatrical release in the feature form offered here.
3) Love & mercy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining catalog of Wilson's music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost.
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
English
Formats
Description
Catherine has entered a particularly dark period in her life: her father, a famous artist, has recently died, and on the heels of his death she's dumped by her boyfriend James. Looking to recuperate, Catherine heads out to her best friend Virginia's lake house for some much needed relaxation. Tranquility eludes her, however, as she's instantly overcome with memories of time spent at the same house with James the year before.
5) Joker
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
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.
8) Proof
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A devoted daughter who comes to terms with the death of her father, a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental insanity, with the help of one of her father's former students.
9) 12 monkeys
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An inmate from a futuristic prison is sent to the past to gather information about the virus that sent the human race to live underground.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Rhode Island state trooper Charlie Baileygates proves that nice guys finish first after marrying the prettiest gal in town. But when she leaves him for another man Charlie develops a split personality, and his outrageous opposite, Hank, is born!
11) Swallow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A newly pregnant housewife, she seems content to spend her time tending to an immaculate home and doting on her Ken-doll husband, Richie. However, as the pressure to meet her controlling in-laws and husband's rigid expectations mounts, cracks begin to appear in her carefully created facade. Hunter develops a dangerous habit, and a dark secret from her past seeps out in the form of a disorder called pica, a condition that has her compulsively swallowing...
12) Marvin's room
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years ago, fiercely independent Lee left home-- and left behind her kindhearted sister Bessie to care for their father, Marvin. But now Lee is returning with her teenage son for a homecoming that's sure to turn the entire household upside down.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
Danish
Description
Kira and her husband and two children have a secure and comfortable life until Kira inexplicably develops a psychiatric disorder that eventually commits her to a hospital. On being discharged, Kira tries to return to the normality of her previous life, but discovers that Mads has had an affair during her hospitalization.
14) Home before dark
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Bronn walks out of a mental institution and back into the emotionally stunted life that sent her there, trapped in a chilly relationship with a husband who seems far more interested in Charlotte's stepsister Joan than in his wife. Charlotte clings to the hope that she is improving. But on the night of an elegant party, dressed and coiffed in an unsettling attempt to resemble Joan, she loses her frail self-control...and finally faces the...
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student-he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
17) Betty blue
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Français
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.
18) Maya
Publisher
NMC United Entertainment ; [New York]
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
עברית
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. It's an edgy Israeli drama that walks a thin line between acting and madness.
19) Angel of mine
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
20) Three Christs
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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...
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