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Movies and Mental Illness – Hogrefe Publishing; David J. Robinson, Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions, Rapid Psychler Press, 2003, ISBN 1-894328-07-8. Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard, Psychiatry and the Cinema, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2nd ed., 1999, ISBN 0-88048-964-2.
Films about schizophrenia, a psychiatric disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social withdrawal, decreased emotional expression, and apathy.
Benny & Joon, a 1993 American film which features a woman with schizophrenia. Memento, a 2000 psychological thriller film about a man with anterograde amnesia which renders his brain unable to store new memories. A Beautiful Mind, a 2001 film which is a fictionalised account of a mathematician with schizophrenia, John Nash. [36]
Over the years, Netflix has become a frontrunner in creating original movies, from award-worthy films like "Marriage Story" (2019) and "Maestro" (2023) to fan favorites like "The Gray Man" (2022).
Brain on Fire is a 2016 biographical drama film directed and written by Irish filmmaker Gerard Barrett.The film is based on Susannah Cahalan's memoir Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness and stars Chloë Grace Moretz, Jenny Slate, Thomas Mann, Tyler Perry, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Richard Armitage.
Insider compiled 2024's top Netflix original movies based on critics' rankings from Rotten Tomatoes. The list includes titles with an 80% or higher score and at least 20 reviews. The top films ...
Take Shelter is a 2011 American psychological thriller film written and directed by Jeff Nichols and starring Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain.The plot follows a young husband and father (Shannon) who is plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, and questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself and his increasing worries over having paranoid schizophrenia.
The film follows a man suffering from schizophrenia and trying to maintain secrecy about his hallucinations. While off his medications, the man kills and dismembers his love interest. Later, he hallucinates that the dead woman urges him to kill again in order to provide her with a companion.