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81) Ministry of fear
Series
Criterion collection volume 649
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale stops at a seemingly innocent village fair, after which he finds himself caught in the web of a sinister underworld with possible Nazi connections.
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"How do ordinary people manage to lose their way and become alienated from reality? This potentially debilitating problem is all too common in our stress-filled society. In The Paranoia of Everyday Life, psychotherapist Gerald Alper graphically presents stories from ordinary people who, in response to social alienation, unwittingly construct a world in which any meaningful sense of community seems to have vanished - an interpersonal and cultural paranoia...
Author
Series
Publisher
Robinson
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Do you feel as if others are out to get you? Research shows that 20-30 percent of people in the UK frequently have paranoid or suspicious thoughts about other people. These feelings can make life a misery. In this fully revised and expanded new edition, the authors explain how cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques can be used to treat this disorder by changing unhelpful patterns of behaviour and thought. The authors of this excellent and...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
日本語
Description
An elderly and wealthy industrialist is driven to madness over fears of a nuclear attack. In a futile attempt to save his family he pressures them to leave Japan and move to the rain forest in Brazil where he believes they will be safe. His family, complacent and cynical, is outraged and move to have him declared insane.
89) Count Luna
Author
Series
New Directions paperbook volume 1483
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"At the start of WWII, Alexander Jessiersky, an Austrian aristocrat, heads a great Viennese shipping company. He detests the Nazis, and when his board of directors asks him to go along with confiscating a neighbor's large parcel of land for their thriving wartime business, Jessiersky refuses. Yet, without his knowledge, the board succeeds in sending the owner of the land, a certain Count Luna, to a Nazi concentration camp on a trumped-up charge. Years...
90) Long lost
Publisher
Mainframe Pictures
Pub. Date
2023, [2019]
Language
English
Description
"An invitation to an isolated mansion leads a young man to a surprise family reunion. As the hours tick on, the weekend spirals into all-consuming paranoia with the temptation of luxury and sexuality intermingling with treachery and taboo"
91) The elderly
Publisher
Dark Star Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
After his beloved wife suddenly commits suicide, octogenarian Manuel starts behaving strangely. He becomes aggressive, still believes that he's talking with his dead wife, and even tries to implant a radioreceptor into his chest to communicate with her. His family is confused and angry, and as the temperature rises in a summer heat wave, it appears that Manuel isn't the only senior citizen preparing for something otherworldly. All the elderly folk...
92) In the mean time
Author
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"A history teacher begins his unorthodox senior course with clips from an ominous surveillance video, causing a student's home life to deteriorate along with the lessons. A girl with a second head that changes into different historical and fictional identities tries to find her father while figuring out how to handle Mom and the book club. A blog documents a society's slow, unexplained but inexorable end, or is it only a collection of pixel-sized...
93) Without name
Publisher
Yellow Veil Pictures
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Follows a land surveyor on an assignment to measure an ancient forest for a developer but soon loses his reason in a supernatural environment that has its own plans.
94) He
Publisher
Distributed by MVD Visual
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"He is about a couple that has been together for so long, that they have become strangers inside their own home. This psychological thriller takes a deep look inside a couple that is growing apart so quickly that the sight of each other's better half sends the other into fright. He is misunderstood and his wife wants him dead. The line of reality is so blurred, one will never know if his wife is really trying to have him killed or if it's all in his...
Author
Publisher
Literatura Random House
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Castellanos Moya vuelve al personaje de Moronga, su anterior novela, para retratar la paranoia y el desarraigo de un emigrado por la violencia. Erasmo Aragón sufre un abrupto cambio de vida al quedarse sin trabajo tras ser falsamente acusado de abuso sexual. La tensión que este incidente genera lo lleva a enterrar sus recuerdos. Sometido por los ansiolíticos, deja atrás la persona desinhibida que fue y se transforma en un ser torturado por la...
Publisher
Fox Hollow Features
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Corsica, the "undiscovered jewel of the Mediterranean." At her glamorous home, socialite Anna as her friends join her for a summer break. As news of an art thief arrives on the island, paranoia takes over, and Anna begins to doubt whom she can trust. Who stands to gain by her demise? She begins to descend into mental health hell and drug addiction.
97) Nine nights
Publisher
Allied Vaughn
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When an accident kills her twin brother, a teenager refuses to believe he's dead. As the 'Nine Night' - a Caribbean mourning ritual begins, her descent into paranoia unleashes long-buried secrets, which threatens to destroy her family.
98) Bug
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, the play centers on the meeting between Agnes, a divorced waitress with a fondness for cocaine and isolation, and Peter, a soft-spoken Gulf War drifter introduced to her by her lesbian friend, R.C. Agnes stays at a hotel in hopes of avoiding her physically abusive ex-husband, Jerry, who was just released from prison. At first, she lets Peter sleep platonically on her floor, but not long after she promotes...
99) Flytrap
Publisher
Indie Rights Movies
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of a reserved English astronomer who becomes ensnared by the mysterious Mary Ann and her creepy and dangerous comrades. Paranoia, the word conjures up so many things. On the day he arrives in the U.S. to teach at the university, paranoia roots itself into James Pond, a reserved Englishman, who is seduced and then trapped into a suburban Los Angeles house by the mysterious and alluring Mary Ann and her equally bizarre housemates....
100) Hidden camera
Author
Series
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
From one of Serbia's greatest contemporary writers, Hidden Camera opens with the narrator finding a mysterious, blank envelope stuck in his apartment door inviting him to a private showing of a movie. Or so he initially thinks. Upon arrival at the theater, he discovers that there's only one other person in the audience, a very attractive woman whom he's seated next to. Then things get a bit more mysterious. The "movie" he's been invited to see includes...