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1) Silversword
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl is taken to San Fransisco to live w/her grandmother after a mysterious death in Hawaii. Her grandmother keeps the secret from her until Caroline, grown & ecaping a bad marriage, returns to Hawaii to solve the mystery of her past & find a man who would change her life.
2) Jane Eyre
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Orphaned as a child, Jane has felt an outcast her whole young life. Her courage is tested once again when she arrives at Thornfield Hall, where she has been hired by the brooding, proud Edward Rochester to care for his ward Adèle. Jane finds herself drawn to his troubled yet kind spirit. She falls in love. Hard. But there is a terrifying secret inside the gloomy, forbidding Thornfield Hall. Is Rochester hiding from Jane? Will Jane be left heartbroken...
3) Marnie
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A woman robs her employers and changes her identity. When her next boss catches her, he forces her to marry him.
Author
Publisher
MarySue Rucci Books/Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer--brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women's suffrage. Now, at age forty,...
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Linda Bishop was a loving mother, a well-educated and happy woman. Then her body was found in an abandoned New Hampshire farmhouse, marked by cold and starvation. What was once Linda Bishop had quickly become a mystery, accompanied by her diary that documents a journey of starvation and the loss of sanity. For nearly four months, Bishop, a prisoner of her own mind, survived on apples and rainwater during one of the coldest winters on record. As her...
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Enlightened centers on Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month's stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing.
9) Emelie
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As their parents head out for a date in the city, the three young Thompson children immediately take to their new babysitter Anna, who seems like a dream come true. But as Anna's interactions with them take on a more sinister tone, the kids realize that their caretaker may not be who she claims to be. And soon it's up to big brother Jacob to protect his siblings from the increasingly nefarious intentions of a very disturbed woman.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes, instead, that his mission is murder, to 'eliminate' the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land, Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted.
11) The brood
Series
Criterion collection volume 777
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A disturbed woman is receiving a radical form of psychotherapy at a remote, mysterious institute. Meanwhile, her five-year-old daughter, under the care of her estranged husband, is being terrorized by a group of demonic beings. How these two storylines connect is the shocking and grotesque secret of this bloody tale of monstrous parenthood.
12) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
13) David and Lisa
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
14) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
While in rural England, Pat Carroll decides to pay a courtesy call on the mother of her dead fiancé Stephen, who was killed in an auto accident several years earlier. The overbearing Mrs. Trefoile is very controlling and presses Pat to stay overnight and go to church with her in the morning. In short order, her guest becomes her prisoner as the religious fanatic uses her servants to enforce her will. When Pat tells her that she wasn't going through...
16) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Clásicos
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
¿Por qué siempre tenía que sufrir yo? ¿Estar siempre vigilada, siempre acusada y condenada sin remisión? Jane es una niña huérfana que se ha educado en un orfanato miserable. Sin embargo, pese a todas las adversidades que la vida ha dispuesto en su camino, su inteligencia y su afán por aprender consiguen apartarla del mundo de su gris infancia, y logra establecerse como institutriz. Mientras trata de cuidar y educar a la joven Adèle, Jane...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A young woman with amnesia falls under the influence of a powerful doctor in Paris's notorious women's asylum, where she must fight to reclaim dangerous memories--and even more perilously, her sanity--in this gripping historical novel inspired by true events, from the bestselling author of Wunderland. When Josephine arrives at the Salpêtrière she is covered in blood and badly bruised. Suffering from near-complete amnesia, she is diagnosed with what...
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saboteur: A young factory worker is accused of sabotage and sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase to clear his name.
Shadow of a doubt: A teenage girl comes to suspect that the uncle she idolizes may in fact be the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
The trouble with Harry: While no one really minds that Harry is dead, everyone has a different idea about what should be done with his body.
Marnie: Marnie is a compulsive...
19) Walk away Renee
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Director Jonathan Caouette ... embarks on a road trip to move his mentally ill mother Renee from Texas to New York, a journey that both tightens and tests their familial bond. As they tackle the numerous roadblocks along their way, we get glimpses into moments from their past, lending insight into their anything-but-ordinary mother/son relationship.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
Shows Camille Claudel, a protégé and mistress of Auguste Rodin, in 1915 when she was imprisoned in an insane asylum. Camille was also the sister of the Christian mystic poet Paul Claudel, the last of her family to pay her regular visits. Inspired by the correspondence between Paul and Camille, the movie focuses on Camille 's struggle to maintain a sense of normalcy in a crowd of schizophrenics. Suffering from bouts of paranoia, she focuses on her...
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