Movies: Schizophrenia

A man and a woman exploring their organic life in exchange for their pseudo-existence in a world that never exists....

Memories have the power to haunt us forever, whether or not they actually happened. For Margot, the man named Dan who stalked and tormented her for three years of her life is as real as any criminal—even if he's the manifestation of her first serious...

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A group of people with schizophrenia meet to discuss their daily lives with the voices in their heads....

A short film by Giulio Questi....

Enter the imaginative world of acclaimed sculptor Rolanda Polonsky, who had been a resident of Netherne Psychiatric Hospital in Coulsdon, Surrey for 26 years when this film was made. One of the positive aspects of her illness, described in the film a...

Following the Sunnyboys’ enigmatic frontman Jeremy Oxley from the band’s origins, breakthrough success and his subsequent 30-year battle with schizophrenia, The Sunnyboy is one man's inspired story of survival and hope. A meditation on a condition o...

Jessica, a young carer, and her mum, who is deeply paranoid and who sees and hears unexplained things have a strong and loving relationship. But the misfit relationship they have brings many challenges they struggle to overcome. The mum's deteriorati...

The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1949, one of the first surgeons to apply the technique called lobotomy for the treatment of schizophrenia. The second part deals ...

"Video by Bill Etra, early to mid 1970s, perhaps at the WNET TV Lab?"...

A girl loses her family to an accident and that leads her to this disorder along with hallucination and depression. Her boyfriend goes missing in a hospital which is all over the news for all the wrong reasons....

A minimalist first film about the monotonous everyday life of a man and his schizophrenic mother...

Nathan was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Now he's better, before he was much worse. He films himself, his relatives at the hospital, his bipolar best friend, his father, his sister, his mother and his love between 2011 and 2018. For him, eve...

A man suffering from paranoia and delusions is convinced that the city water source is contaminated...

British artist Kim Noble talks about the reality of living with dissociative identity disorder and shows us the artwork created by 14 of her personalities. "I'm Patricia, I don't like being called Kim, but I have got used to it now."...

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy. A lifelong condition. Inevitable dependency on Medicines. Dark. Terrible. 'A Drop of Sunshine' cha...

A collage of contemporary queer culture in Poland. Rough, iconoclastic, shocking work and staged excerpts picking up the issue of freedom of expression and sexuality....

After a mysterious incident at school, Sadie is sent to the 412 All-Girls Reparative Retreat where eerie happenings start affecting her and the people around her....

Javi and his mother are in front of the hospital with a suitcase for staying there for a few days. She’s just suffered a mild schizophrenia episode, but she feels good and she doesn’t want to go in. Javi wants her to enter the hospital voluntarily. T...

A man with clear OCD goes through life while realizing something is not quite right....