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1) Ward no. 6
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A bold contemporary adaptation of Anton Chekhov's legendary short story, Ward no. 6 chronicles one man's descent into madness. Updating the 1892 tale to the present day, the film is shot in a real mental institution on the outskirts of Moscow, and features interviews with actual patients.
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"Simon, a young man grappling with mental illness, becomes convinced that he has witnessed an abduction of a young woman. When he reports it to the police and they refuse to believe him, he reluctantly seeks the help of his neighbor Ed, a jaded, retired security guard with his own troubled past. As the unlikely duo delves deeper into the mystery, their pursuit of the truth forces them to confront not only the dark secrets surrounding the disappearance."--...
3) The escapees
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On the run from an asylum for the insane, a feisty young girl and a forlorn female companion embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.
4) Pi
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A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code.
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Director Francesco Barilli's hallucinatory giallo horror-thriller stars Mimsy Farmer who portrays Sylvia, a chemist who begins to suffer from strange visions; a mysterious woman in black applying perfume in a mirror appears to her and strangers follow her everywhere she goes. Barilli's psychological investigation into the workings of the mind becomes apparent when it is revealed that as a child, Sylvia committed a horrible crime. The slow progression...
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Italian genre film legend Gianni Garko stars in this terrifying masterpiece of the mascabre, based on Tolstoy's story The Wurdulak , itself previously adapted in Mario Bava's Black Sabbath. The nameless mentally ill man (Garko) is found wandering in the woods, his mind lost in fever dreams of gruesome, sexual imagery. After admitted into a psychiatric hospital, the man flashes back to his nightmarish encounter with a backwoods family whose dynasty...
7) Elyse
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Memory and hallucination intertwine to expose a history of trauma, revealing Elyse is Catatonic and institutionalized in a State Hospital.
8) Unhinged
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After a confrontation with an unstable man at an intersection, a woman becomes the target of his rage.
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A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality, even though reality isn't so great either.
10) Shine
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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.
11) The snake pit
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Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis.
12) Unsane
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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?
14) Home
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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.
15) Joker
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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.
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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.
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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.
19) The love witch
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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.
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