Feature Films

As Good As It Gets
Call Number: DVD 791.43 A7983
Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan’s meanest mouth. When his neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon’s dog. That unexpected act of kindness -- along with a developing relationship with waitress Carol Connelly -- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
Away from Her
Call Number: DVD 791.43 A9647
Away from Her chronicles a love story between Fiona and her longtime husband Grant as the couple struggle with the onset and acceleration of Fiona's Alzheimer's disease.
Beautiful Mind
Call Number: DVD 791.43 B3845 c.1
This is a dramatized biography of John Nash, a mathematical genius, who made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his schizophrenia, and finally, late in life, received the Nobel Prize.
Boost
Call Number: DVD 791.43 B7242
Woods plays a fast-rising, sharp-talking salesman, a yuppie on the make with the good life firmly in his sights. Until he discovers cocaine--and then his entire live-beyond-your-means ethos blends with a ravaging addiction that drives his lifestyle strictly down-market.
Canvas
Call Number: DVD 791.43 C2352
A woman’s mental health puts her family and her own life in jeopardy, and she is taken from the family. Now her husband must raise a family alone and deal with her schizophrenia.
Charly
Call Number: DVD 791.43 C4783
A mentally retarded man becomes intelligent after brain surgery, and romances a caseworker before slipping back into retardation
Clay Marzo: Just Add Water
Call Number: DVD 797.3 C6213
Have you ever loved something to the point that it becomes what you live for? Meet Clay Marzo whose passion for surfing is so pure it defies description. Take a visually stunning and emotionally powerful journey through his life. The story also showcases an awareness-raising glimpse into his life and mind as he comes to understand both the gifts and challenges of living with Asperger's. This is a surf film unlike anything you've ever seen.
Clean Shaven
Call Number: DVD 791.43 C6237
A schizophrenic man attempts to track down his young daughter after he is released from an institution.
Copycat
Call Number: DVD 791.43 C7853
A forensic psychologist becomes agroaphobic following a horrifying run in with a serial killer.
David and Lisa
Call Number: DVD 791.43 D2492
Painfully shy Lisa can communicate only through rhyme, and David cannot bear being touched. They meet in a mental institution and are strongly attracted to each other. They develop a deep bond that changes both of their lives.
Days of Wine and Roses
Call Number: DVD 791.43 D2755
A domestic drama which reveals the corrosive effects of alcoholism on a hardened young advertising executive and his attractive young wife, both of whom drink heavily to compensate for their insecurity.
Dead Ringers
Call Number: DVD 791.43 D2789
The story of identical twin gynecologists, suave Elliot and introspective Beverly, opposite sides of one personality who share the same practice, the same apartment and the same women. Then one special woman enters their lives. And the twins, their bizarre bond threatened for the first time, descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs and madness.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Call Number: DVD 791.43 E833
When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically eliminated, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her and desperately attempts to reverse the process.
Fatal Attraction
Call Number: DVD 791.43 F2525
A New York attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town, and then shrugs it off. But the woman involved with him won't be ignored, even if it means destroying his family to keep him.
Firefly Dreams
Call Number: DVD 791.43 F52335
Naomi is a normal teenager who loves clubbing with her friends. One day, her mother left the family to be with her new lover. Her shattered father sends Naomi off for the summer to work at his sister's country inn. It quickly becomes apparent that she is not cut out for the service industry and her aunt asks her to tend to the aging neighbor, Mrs. Koide, who is slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Having fond memories of the place, Naomi agrees. Though Mrs. Koide does not remember her, Naomi enjoys her direct manner and the stories from Mrs. Koide's
Fisher King
Call Number: DVD 791.43 A9573
This film follows the life of Howard Hughes as the twenty something millionaire, having already made a fortune improving the design of oil-drilling bits, who comes to Hollywood with an interest in getting into the picture business. It doesn't take long for Hughes to jump from producer to director of his first major film project, a World War I air epic. The film was a massive hit, and the eccentric inventor became a mogul in Hollywood, making Jean Harlow a star and enjoying a romance with Katharine Hepburn. But Hollywood's old-boy network never fully accepted Hughes, and in time his passion for flying began to reclaim his attentions. He began designing new planes, setting air speed records, flying around the world, and risking his life testing aircraft. Hughes also found time to romance Ava Gardner and founded his own airline, Trans-World Airlines. As his ideas became bolder and more eccentric, he gained many powerful enemies.
Frances
Call Number: DVD 791.43 F8154
At 16, Frances Farmer was an award-winning high-school student in Seattle--at 23, she was a rising and provocative star of stage and screen, admired for her beauty and talent--at 27, a chain of relatively insignificant events led to her arrest and eventual involuntary committal to a mental institution.
Girl Interrupted
Call Number: DVD 791.43 G5255
The true story of a young woman’s life-altering stay at a famous psychiatric hospital in the late 1960’s.
I am Sam
Call Number: DVD 791.43 I1116
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks, is obsessed with the Beatles and has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them. As the daughter reaches age 7, Sam’s limitations start to become a problem. When the authorities take his daughter away, Sam shames a high-priced lawyer into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it’s really all you need.
Iris
Call Number: DVD 791.43 I685
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
King of Hearts
Call Number: DVD 791.43 K534
A Scottish soldier is assigned the task of disarming a bomb in a small French town at the close of World War I. The townspeople have deserted the town leaving behind the inmates of the local insane asylum who embrace the soldier as their king.
Long Days Journey into Night
Call Number: DVD 791.43 L8483
Depicts a day in the life of a family deteriorating from alcoholism, drug addiction, and imminent death.
Madness of King George
Call Number: DVD 791.43 M1826
Based on the life of King George III, this is the story of royal intrigue, sexual indiscretions, backstairs plotting and a battle for power between Parliament and the throne, all occurring while the King is being treated for an unknown mental illness.
Marat/Sade
Call Number: DVD 791.43 M3117
The infamous Marquis de Sade, confined to an asylum, directs the other inmates in a re-enactment of the bloody assassination of French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat.
Matchstick Men
Call Number: DVD 791.43 M4252
Neurotic con man Roy suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank swindle people out of money. Frank wants to pull a really big job, but Roy is too consumed with fear and panic attacks to join him. Only cigarettes and his trusty illegal prescription drugs seem to keep him going. When Roy finds himself in desperate need of more pills, he is forced to see legitimate psychotherapist Dr. Klein. Roy discovers he has a daughter from his previous marriage and Dr. Klein suggests Roy spend time with her.
Memento
Call Number: DVD 791.43 M5332
An intricate crime story about a man who has lost his short term memory due to a rare brain disorder. Now he is out to catch his wife’s murderer, whose identity he cannot ever know for sure.
Nobody's Child
Call Number: DVD 791.43 N7533
Based on the heart-wrenching true story of Marie Balter. Abused and victimized, she beats impossible odds to build a normal life after spending 20 years locked away in a mental institution.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Call Number: DVD 791.43 O5824
The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.
Ordinary People
Call Number: DVD 791.43 O654
The "ordinary" existence of an upper middle class family is shattered with the death of the older son and the struggle of the younger son against guilt and suicide
Patch Adams
Call Number: DVD 791.43 P2943
Patch Adams is a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like other doctors. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Pollock
Call Number: DVD 791.43 P7762
Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York’s 1940’s art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock’s career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and fortune comes a volatile temper and severe self-doubt; before long, Pollock’s life threatens to explode
Primal Fear
Call Number: DVD 791.43 P9524
A Chicago altar boy is accused of murdering the archbishop and a publicity hungry local attorney decides to defend him.
Prozac Nation
Call Number: DVD 791.43 P9696
Lizzie is a prize-winning student heading off to Harvard for her freshman year, where she intends to study journalism and launch a career as a rock music critic. However, Lizzie’s dysfunctional family situation includes an errant father and a neurotic, bitterly hypercritical mother who has led Lizzie to a struggle with depression. When her all-night, drug-fueled writing binges and emotional instability alienate her roommate and best friend, Ruby, as well as both her boyfriends, Lizzie seeks psychiatric counseling from Dr. Diana Sterling, who prescribes the wonder drug Prozac. Despite success as a writer and some mellowing out thanks to her medication, Lizzie begins to feel that the pills are running her life and faces some tough choices about her future.
Rain Man
Call Number: DVD 791.43 R1545
A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a ’49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he thinks should be his 3 million dollar inheritance, he kidnaps the autistic brother he never knew he had, and takes him on the ride of his life.
Repulsion
Call Number: DVD 791.43 R4263
Carol, who works in a beauty salon in London, is both repulsed and fascinated by men. She is unsure of how to handle their advances, which are numerous because she is gorgeous. Gripped by mental illness, she eventually imprisons herself in her apartment, where she suffers from sexual dreams. Her delirium leads to dire circumstances.
Shine
Call Number: DVD 791.43 S5565
This film presents the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall
Snake Pit
Call Number: DVD 791.43 S6693
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.
Soloist
Call Number: DVD 791.43 S6893
In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist and recent bike accident victim Steve Lopez more than his banged-up face, was his pressing need for story ideas. He soon discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a skid row schizophrenic street musician, who possesses extraordinary talent - even though he only has half-broken instruments to play. Inspired by Nathaniel's story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about him and attempts to do more to help both him, and the rest of the underclass of L.A. have a better life. Lopez's good intentions run headlong into Nathaniel's personal demons and the larger issues of social injustice facing the homeless. Regardless, Lopez and Nathaniel find a way to conquer their deepest anxieties and frustrations.
Song for Martin
Call Number: DVD 791.43 S6987
In midlife, two soul mates finally meet, and their passion is fueled by their duel love of music. Martin is a famous composer-conductor and Barbara is a gifted violinist. Abandoning their lackluster lives they plunge into a new and exciting world. When their blissful existence is threatened by Alzheimer's disease, Barbara is courageously determined to prove that love conquers all.
Spider
Call Number: DVD 791.43 S7542
Upon his release from a mental institution, Spider takes up residence in a halfway house. Paranoid, quiet, and forever making notes, Spider spends much of his time remembering his youth, specifically a horrific event from his childhood that occurred after he came to believe that his father was having an affair.
Sybil
Call Number: DVD 791.43 S9813
A landmark, classic drama depicting the extraordinary real life of a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. Includes the full 3-hour broadcast version (aired over two nights), along with over an hour of new exclusive special features
Three Faces of Eve
Call Number: DVD 791.43 T5313
This is a fact-based story about a young Georgia housewife named Eve, who suffers from multiple personalities. Eve’s husband, confused by his wife’s aberrant behavior when assuming her two "other selves" seeks out help from a psychiatrist. Carefully probing Eve’s subconscious via hypnosis, the doctor finds out that, through each of Eve’s personalities is aware of the other’s existence, none are related. After months of therapy, Eve is purged of her negative selves and is totally cured.
Trainspotting
Call Number: DVD 791.43 T7687
Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse.
What about Bob?
Call Number: DVD 791.43 W5551
Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.
When a Man Loves a Woman
Call Number: DVD 791.43 W5672
Alice and Michael are a passionate couple whose once-stable marriage is rocked by her increasing dependence on alcohol. As they strive to overcome this challenge, they discover a renewed sense of love and commitment.
Woman Under the Influence
Call Number: DVD 791.43 W87237
A drama detailing the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and how her family struggles to save her from herself.