Movies: Schizophrenia

A man takes five people hostages on a supermarket....

Voices is an award-winning documentary that features the stark and intimate portraits of three very different individuals and their struggle with severe mental illness in America. The stories of Sharon, Thomas and Aaron illuminate the challenges, rea...

Case study documenting a patient’s treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. Made for health professionals, Mental Hospital shows daily life at the state facility, including hydrotherapy and electroconvulsive therapy sessions. The film ends with the pati...

THEY HEARD VOICES is a documentary film exploring the Hearing Voices Movement, chronic psychosis, and the schizophrenia label. The film is a series of wide-ranging interviews with voice hearers, medical historians, anthropologists and psychiatrists f...

Jani, now 11, is showing improvement in keeping her hallucinations at bay. But the same cannot be said for Bodhi, now 6. His dangerous outbursts have landed him in the hospital; leaving the doctors and family with a puzzling diagnosis....

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...

An episode of paranoid schizophrenia....

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

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."...

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...

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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...

Short film made by the patient himself about his experience in a schizophrenia crisis....

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....

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Discharged from a psychiatric hospital, Jacob attempts to resume life in Edinburgh, control his schizophrenia and be a worthwhile member of society. He works collecting litter from streets and parks. He boxes. He takes medication. He writes everythin...

Hans suffers from schizophrenia. He is convinced that a certain group of people wants to take over the rule of water on Earth and that this group is persecuting him because he has discovered their secret. He is convinced that he is on the verge of un...

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A boy is haunted by voices in his head that tell him to do things he doesn't want to....

An audiovisual poem about a poltergeist relationship....