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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
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
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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.
4) Benny & Joon
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Formats
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.
5) Joker
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.
Mentally ill comedian Arthur Fleck is mistreated by the town of Gotham City, which leads to his downward spiral, bringing him face-to-face with his alter-ego known as the Joker.
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Give Me 1 Reason: The dream of every mother is to have her son follow in his father's footsteps. It would be Theresa's nightmare if this happens to her son as it would lead him straight to the grave. How do you fight against the truth you've denied for so long? This dynamic movie redefines forgiveness and restores your faith in the family. (Family approved) -- [Originally produced as a motion picture.].
Jump In: Troy Alexander returns to her roots...
7) Proof
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.
8) Manic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A troubled young man is committed to a juvenile mental institution, where he is forced by his counselor to confront the source of his rage or face the grim prospect of a life behind bars.
Language
English
Formats
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.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Korean
Description
K-drama "It's okay to not be okay" takes a deep look into mental illness. In the series about people living with mental illness, Kim plays Gang-tae, who works as a caretaker in the psychiatric ward of a hospital. Gang-tae, who also cares for his autistic brother at home, is reluctant to pursue any romantic relationships
11) Fear strikes out
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
When the record books closed on Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall's career, it showed 17 seasons in the major leagues and an impressive lifetime batting average of .272. But before all that, Piersall faced a foe much tougher: mental illness. Based on the true story.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After fifteen years in a mental asylum, Hilary Fairfield has suddenly regained his sanity, escaped from the institution and come home. But a few things have changed in his absence. For one, his strong-willed daughter Sydney has grown up and is planning to marry. For another, his wife has divorced him and is planning to re-marry. It2s enough to drive a man crazy, or a woman, for that matter.
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.
15) Nobody's child
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Based on the heart-wrenching true story of Marie Balter. Abused and victimized, she beats impossible odds to build a normal life after spending 20 years locked away in a mental institution.
16) The scribbler
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Suki, a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn," an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being "cured," she's haunted by a thought; what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?"--Container.
17) The boy
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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.
18) I met a girl
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Devon, an aspiring musician with schizophrenia, meets Lucy, and falls madly in love. However, when she suddenly vanishes, he impusively embarks on an epic journey to find her. Meanwhile Nick, Devon's brother and caretaker, who thinks that Lucy is all in Devon's head, sets off to rescue him.
20) Swallow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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 husband₂s 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 calledpica, a condition that has her compulsively swallowing...
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