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Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
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"In this program, Ken Kesey, Kesey scholar John Clark Pratt, psychiatrist and critic Frank Pittman, 'Rolling Stone's' Jann Wenner, 1960's icon Wavy Gravy, and others set 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'--an indictment of Eisinhower Era conformity--within the context of its times. Together they talk about the novel, the Academy Award-winning movie, and Kesey's role as leader of the Merry Pranksters and the star of the West Coast psychedelic scene....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When young doctor Edward Newgate arrives at Stonehearst Asylum in search of an apprenticeship, he is warmly welcomed by Superintendent Dr. Lamb and a mesmerizing woman by the name of Eliza Grave. Edward is intrigued by Lamb's modern methods of treating the insane until a series of unusual events leads him to make a horrifying discovery, exposing Lamb's utopia and pushing Edward to the limits of his conscience.
Publisher
Inception Media Group
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After meeting at a psychiatric hospital, damaged souls Jane and Joey change their lives with a road trip after receiving a letter from the son she gave up for adoption years ago. Along the way they encounter colorful people and magical revelations that will changes their lives.
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Molly Sweeney, by the great Irish playwright Brian Friel, tells the story of married couple Molly and Frank, who live in a remote Irish village. Molly has been blind since birth, but now a surgeon – Mr. Rice – believes he may be able to restore her sight. In a series of interwoven monologues, Molly Sweeney takes us into the minds of three people with very different expectations of what will happen when Molly regains her vision. An L.A. Theatre...
6) Blue/orange
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Christopher, who swears that oranges are the color blue, is committed to a psychiatric hospital in London after his lewd public behavior. Now, two doctors have twenty-four hours to diagnose Christopher's illness, or he will have to be released.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
"In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. César tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, César's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Depicts the transformation of the disturbed Sawyer teen named Jackson into the serial killer known as "Leatherface." Jackson and three fellow inmates break out of a mental hospital together, and take a nurse hostage along the way. Mayhem ensues as the group are hunted by a vengeful Texas Ranger.
9) Like crazy
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Italiano
Description
Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled billionaire countess who likes to believe she's on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. The film tells the story of the unpredictable and moving friendship that develops between the two women as they flee a mental institution in search of love and happiness in the open-air nuthouse; the world of sane people.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
Español
Description
"In this steamy, intriguingly complex, psychological thriller the line between reality and fantasy is hopelessly blurred. César tries to make sense of his life after a car crash leaves his once-handsome face grotesquely disfigured. After he is placed into a psychiatric penitentiary for a murder he doesn't remember committing, César's only hope is to delve into the depths of his subconscious mind where the answer to ending his living nightmare lies...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A sane woman is locked up in an asylum by a fraudulent English aristocrat who is afraid she may expose his 'secret.' Escaping while wearing a white gown, she runs into a youthful hero who becomes haunted by his brief meeting with this 'woman in white.'
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A young man finds out that his childhood fantasyland may really exist. Searching for insight into his father's life and the magical place he wrote about in the beloved children's book, Neverwas, psychiatrist Zach Riley takes a job at the institution where his father lived on and off. Once there, Zach meets Gabriel, a patient whose alternate reality is startlingly close to the world his father created.
Publisher
Midnight Releasing
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In 2008 six reality television show contestants spent seven nights in an abandoned and haunted asylum. The show never aired but an editor for the network was able to piece together some footage. The prize for staying all seven nights was a share of one million dollars that was to be split amongst any contestants that didn't leave. No prize money was ever awarded.
14) Dogra magra
Publisher
Radiance
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
日本語
Description
A man wakes in an asylum with no memory. Dr Wakabayashi helps him to recall his past in which he killed his bride on their wedding day. Part of his memory becomes linked to another doctor, Dr Masaki, and a manuscript, Dogra Magra. As the two doctors treat him, reality and fantasy become blurred and the patient becomes unsure of his identity or his doctors' experiments.
15) On the inside
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life, battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
16) Boogeyman 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Terror invades an isolated asylum when Laura, haunted by a paralyzing fear of the Boogeyman, becomes one of many patients who are prisoners to their own phobias. But what appears to be a safe haven soon becomes an asylum of the damned when the Boogeyman returns, trapping them all inside and beginning his hunt for new victims.
Author
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
"Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, was a mistake. He clashes with the head nurse, a fierce martinet. Quickly, he takes over the yard and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do for twelve years; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt so that...
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After Veronika's failed attempt to commit suicide, she wakes up in an institution where she is given only weeks to live. As her mind begins to open, she falls in love with a curiously quiet and intriguing patient who rejuvenates her emotions and thirst for the splendor that life has to offer. Includes previews, and trailers.
19) Shutter Island
Publisher
Paw Prints
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese puts Leonardo DiCaprio through the wringer again in Shutter Island, a gothic adaptation of Dennis Lehane's novel. Leo's character, a Federal Marshal named Teddy Daniels, is first seen vomiting and jittery aboard a ferry; he and his new partner (Mark Ruffalo) are being taken across the water to investigate an escape from a prison for the criminally insane, located on a forbidding rock called Shutter Island. From the first, Scorsese...
20) My own love song
Publisher
Bayview Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jane and Joey embark on an unforgettable road trip across the country in a moving and uplifting story of redemption, self-discovery, and courage.
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