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3) Elyse
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English
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Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital.
4) Shine
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English
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Story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
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English
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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'...
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English
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New York City newlyweds Jude and Mina have a seemingly perfect relationship. But things take an unsettling turn with the birth of their son. Convinced that the baby must be kept free of all contaminants, Mina develops fanatical obsessions with veganism, cleanliness, and purity that may kill the child unless Jude can stop her.
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English
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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.
9) Home
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English
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Jack Hall has suffered from mental illness for over a dozen years, and over that period has been in and out of hospitals and jail. Now successfully holding on to a steady job, he is ready to move out of his group home and into an apartment of his own, all leading him towards the dream of reconnecting with his estranged son. While this would seem to be a simple goal for most, for Jack the stakes are no less than life or death.
10) Knocking
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Swedish
Description
After moving into a new apartment, a woman who has recently been discharged from a psychiatric ward starts hearing persistent knocks, sobbing, and crying, but nobody in the building believes her.
11) No letting go
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English
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What would you do to save your child? A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.
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Español
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A man is sentenced to prison for a murder he did not commit. Thanks to a serum invented by his brother, he manages to become invisible and escape from prison in order to prove his innocence. However, the serum has unexpected side effects that lead to madness and delirium.
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English
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"The Phenix City story" (100 min.) Corruption, brutality and vice plagued Phenix City, Alabama, for 100 years, so who would dare to change it? Based on real-life events and filmed on location in what was called Sin City USA, director Phil Karlson's semidocumentary tells the jolting tale of those who risked their lives to bring the burg's syndicate of thugs and murderers to justice
"Dial 1119" (75 min.) An asylum inmate escapes to the city, where...