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A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton. |
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Benny and Joon Edward Scissorhands |
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Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. |
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Badly Shaven Unshaven Clean Shaven |
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A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, begins a sexual, sadomasochistic relationship with her new employer. |
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Secretary Stranger than Fiction Happy Endings |
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A pianist, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim. |
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The Piano Shine The Pianist |
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A young woman grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she is locked up in a mental institution for eight years. |
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Evil Angels An Angel at my Table Angel Eyes |
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Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on a woman who is more a dictator than a nurse. |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Raven's Nest One Flew Over the Crow's Nest |
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A psychiatrist's wife encounters one of her husband's charges, an inmate at a maximum security asylum in the outskirts of London. |
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Young Adam The Last Great Wilderness Asylum |
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Harbour and his suicidal brother inherit their father's used bookstore in their native Glasgow. Their lives become entangled with Alice and her idealistic daughter Mary - who may just save the brother's life, or help in find peace. |
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I want to Kill Myself Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself William Wants to Kill Himself |
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A group of suicidal patients discover their true selves whilst undergoing therapy at a group treatment centre. |
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Over the Edge Upon the Edge On the Edge |
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Marcus has a depressed mother who attempted suicide. Feeling he needs more friends in his life he befriends Will, an irresponsible thirtysomething. |
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About a Boy About a Man About a Girl |
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Whilst at a ball game four patients of a mental institue and their doctor, Dr. Weitzman, witness a murder. The pateients learn the doctor is going to be killed. To prevent this they must use and overcome their delusions to save the only decent doctor who is treating them. |
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The Golden Team The Dream Team The Nightmare Team |
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Louis is a young amateur theater director at his first experience: he is offered a job with a Governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill patients in a Sydney institution for mentally ill. His project is overrun by one of the patients who wants to put on stage 'Cosi Fan Tutte' |
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Cosi Fan Tutte Cosi Tutte Cosi |
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For forty years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a 'loony bin' by her father. Her release is eventually secured by her eccentric Aunt Kitty and her brother, John. |
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Lillian's Story Singer's Story Kitty's Story |
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A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide. |
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Wristcutters - A Story about Suicide Wristcutters - A Love Story Wristcutters |
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The trials and tribulations of an obsessive compulsive writer. He is entrusted to the care of his neighbor's dog and has a difficult relationship with a waitress on top of that. |
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As Bad as it Gets As Good as it Gets As Unhappy as it Gets |
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