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1) Jane Eyre
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
3) Benny & Joon
Pub. Date
1993.
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.
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Description
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious 'wellness center' at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Ship of fools: In 1933, a motley crew of passengers embark on a fateful, transatlantic sea voyage to Germany. Among the many passengers is a divorced desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman being deported as a political prisoner, an aging alcoholic ballplayer, and a Nazi whose brutishness foreshadows the holocaust to come. Lilith: A mysterious young woman in an elite sanitarium in New England seems to weave a magical spell on a young...
8) Shine
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
Story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
9) Unhinged
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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.
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Free-spirited con Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) fakes insanity and moves into the state mental hospital with what he calls the "nuts." Immediately, his contagious sense of disorder runs up against numbing routine. This means war! On one side is McMurphy. On the other soft-spoken Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher), among the most coldly monstrous villains in film history. At stake is the fate of every patient on the ward.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"Dramedy" that centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility in Hawaii, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self- destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
15) The Dentist
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Dr. Alan Feinstone is a successful Beverly Hills dentist - but he is also insane, and sometimes he just can't help killing a patient or two.
16) Unhinged
Pub. Date
2020
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.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
After a blissful summer of closeness with his mother in the safe confines of their home, Norman returns to school and is flooded with fears about what really happened with Blaire Watson. Norma is forced to face the truth about Norman for the first time and turns for support to the other man in her life, Norman's half-brother Dylan. This relationship triggers Norman's jealousy and a new kind of love triangle erupts between Norma and her two sons.
20) Right to fail
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Investigates a court-ordered effort in New York to move people with mental illness into independent living.
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