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Language
English
Description
The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full-spectrum of institutional repression. The patients in the mental hospital then rebel against the rule-bound head nurse, whose smiling, unruffled and patient manner conceal her ruthless determination to crush any hint of individuality of spirit in the men in her charge.
2) Unhinged
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 764
Language
English
Description
Parry is a homeless history professor who lives in a fantasy world full of castles, Red Knights, and damsels in distress. Jack is New York's number one shock deejay, until the day his off-hand arrogance triggers a tragedy that ruins his career. Penniless and without prospects, Jack finds himself plucked from disaster by the most improbable of saviors, Parry.
4) Elyse
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital.
5) Joker
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
6) Shine
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Presents the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall.
7) House of wax
Pub. Date
2003, ©1953 and ©1933.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
[House of wax] Classic horror movie about an insane sculptor that builds a wax museum out of things that used to be alive.
[Mystery of the wax museum] A deranged wax sculptor who almost loses his life in a fire set by his partner. Instead of dying in the blaze, he returns for revenge, hiding his horribly disfigured face behind a wax mask.
8) Unsane
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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?
Series
Criterion collection volume 1153
Language
English
Description
Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...
11) The snake pit
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman finds herself in a state mental institution and must spend several months under the care of her compassionate doctor before she can face the troubling secrets of her past and be cured.
13) Magic magic
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In remote Chile, a vacationing young woman begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.
14) Countdown
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a madman kidnaps a young boy and rigs him with explosives, Ray, haunted by the loss of his young son, defies his captain and takes matters into his own hands. Now, he must beat the clock to stop a psychopath and save an innocent child.
15) Creep
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (78 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looking for work, Aaron a videographer, who is low on cash and full of naivete, answers a Craigslist ad. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.
16) Upstream color
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kris is derailed from her life when she is drugged by a small-time thief. She is unknowingly drawn into the life cycle of a presence that permeates the microscopic world, moving to nematodes, plant life, livestock, and back again. Along the way, she finds another being-a familiar, who is equally consumed by the mysterious presence. The two search urgently for a place of safety within each other as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of their...
17) The love witch
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A retired surgeon tries to fulfill his dream of connecting people to each other to form a human centipede. When two girls become stranded at night in the woods, he feels his chance has arrived!
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The iconic Dr. Heiter has inspired a real-life protege, the sickly, disturbed security guard Martin, who takes his gory inspiration from the original film to horrific new extremes, and one-ups the doctor with his piece de resistance, a 12-person human centipede of his own.
20) Helen
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On the outside, Helen has it all, a loving family and a successful career, but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
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