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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.
3) Instinct
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
4) Benny & Joon
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001
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.
6) Unhinged
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2020]
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.
8) Joker
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
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.
Publisher
ARC Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A series of cryptic phone messages and visions haunt a writer while he struggles to finish a novel. As they increase in intensity, he loses his grip on reality, eventually obsessing over an old mystery that will lead to horrific revelations about both him and his loyal wife.
10) Marnie
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A woman robs her employers and changes her identity. When her next boss catches her, he forces her to marry him. This version has been digitally remastered.
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Video
Pub. Date
1998]
Language
English
Description
When a gynecologist commits suicide after being accused of sexually molesting a patient, his wife deceptively becomes the live-in housekeeper for the woman and, as a bizarre form of revenge, proceeds to make the woman's family her own.
12) So B. It
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Some thematic elements.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What happens when a brother descends into a black hole of mental instability, starting with falling for a Nigerian email scam but eventually winding up involuntarily committed into the hospital made famous by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? Sandra Luckow unflinchingly turns her camera on her own family as they attempt to navigate the broken mental health system to save their brother.
15) Unsane
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Still scarred from the trauma of being terrorized by a stalker, Sawyer Valentini receives treatments at the Highland Creek Behavioral Center. However, shortly after she unwittingly commits herself to the mental institution and is unable to leave, she catches sight of a facility staffer who, she is convinced, is actually her stalker. But is he real or a product of her delusion?
17) Barefoot
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014].
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.
18) Mental
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
A charismatic, crazy hothead transforms a family's life when she becomes the nanny of five girls whose mother has cracked from her husband's political ambitions and his infidelity.
19) On the inside
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
After a revenge killing goes tragically wrong, a troubled college professor (Nick Stahl of Carnivale and Terminator 3) is sentenced to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane. But through an experimental socializatikin program, he meets a beautiful fellow inmate (Olivia Wilde of Tron : Legacy) with a shocking secret as well as a volatile psychopath (Dash Mihok of Punisher : War Zone) with a deadly history. In a place of sudden violence...
20) The couch trip
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
John Burns is an inmate of the Cicero County Correctional Facility for the Criminally Insane who intercepts a call to his psychiatrist and fraudulently accepts an offer to replace a stressed-out celebrity shrink as a host of a call-in radio show. He successfully escapes from the facility. In three days, the ratings skyrocket and he becomes a hot item.
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