Film Medical Theme: Schizophrenie

Black Swan

Language : English

Year : 2010

Medical Theme : Drug abuse / schizophrenia

Actors : Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey

Storyline : Black Swan is psychological thriller, directed by Darren Aronofsky. The plot revolves around the production of The Swan Lake ballet by a high profile New York City company. The lead ballerina is required to portray both the innocent White Swan and the sensual Black Swan. Nina (Portman) is identified as perfect for the role of the White Swan but the director Leroy (Cassel) believes that Nina lacks the fluidity which is required to portray the Black Swan. Nina's darker side comes to the fore when she realizes that Lily (Kunis) has a personality that matches the Black Swan and that she might replace her in the lead role. After several bouts with hallucinations and drug abuse, Nina portrays the Black Swan to perfection, receiving a standing ovation from the audience. An intensely passionate drama, Black Swan deserves to be watched.

Benny & Joon

Language : English

Year : 1993

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt, CCH Pounder, Dan Hedaya, Joe Grifasi, William H. Macy, Liane Alexandra Curtis, Eileen Ryan, Don Hamilton, Waldo Larson, Irvin Johnson, Shane Nilsson

Storyline : An auto mechanic, Benny living in a in a small town is devoted to taking care of his mentally ill sister, Joon. Joon is a talented artist but finds it very difficult to exist alone. Benny is obliged in a poker game to welcome Sam, to his home for a few days. Sam makes an impression on Joon by his eccentric ways, which resemble the antics of the great silent movie comedian, Buster Keaton. Benny finds that Sam and Joon have fallen in love with each other. When Benny finds this out it creates a rift in the siblings and they try hard to accept the presence of an odd newcomer in their relationship.

Clean Shaven

Language : English

Year : 1995

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen, Jennifer MacDonald, Molly Castelloe, Jill Chamberlain, Agathe Leclerc, Robert Albert, Roget Joly, René Beaudin, J. Dixon Byrne, Eliot Rockett, Angela Vibert, Karen MacDonald, Lee Kayman

Storyline : Peter Winter, a young schizophrenic, attempts to function in a world which according to him is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly sudden emotional shifts. He clings to his humanity, which is like a raft afloat in the sea of terror. In a brief moment of congruence, he shatters his mirror image to make it more align to his shattered personality. He also runs foul of the law and an ongoing murder investigation.

Conspiracy Theory

Language : English

Year : 1997

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Mel Gibson, Julia Roberts, Patrick Stewart, Cylk Cozart, Steve Kahan, Terry Alexander, Alex McArthur, Rod McLachlan, Michael Potts, Jim Sterling, Rich Hebert, Brian J. Williams, G.A. Aguilar, Cece Neber Labao, Saxon Trainor

Storyline : Jerry Fletcher is in love with a woman who worked for the Government, and he has only seen her from far away. Fletcher is an outspoken critic of the government and has conspiracy theories for everything from political assassinations to aliens. One of his theories turns right and many try to catch him and murder him and the only person he believes is the woman he loves but does not know.

Donnie Darko

Language : English

Year : 2001

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Jake Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daveigh Chase, Mary McDonnell, James Duval, Arthur Taxier, Patrick Swayze, Mark Hoffman, David St. James, Tom Tangen, Jazzie Mahannah, Jolene Purdy, Stuart Stone, Gary Lundy

Storyline : Donnie Darko has problems getting along with his family, teachers and classmates but he has a sympathetic friend Gretchen who agrees to date him. His compassionate psychiatrist discovers hypnosis can unlock hidden secrets. Donnie has a friend named Frank - a large bunny, which is visible only to Ronnie. When a plane's engine falls off a plane and destroys his bedroom, Donnie is not there and escapes due to some supernatural power. Donnie's mental illness, if such it is, will never allow him to find out.

Images

Language : English

Year : 1972

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Cathryn Harrison

Storyline : Cathryn begins to suspect that her marriage to Hugh is falling apart after a mysterious phone call from a friend who tells her Hugh has been having an affair. Cathryn is not very happy with Hugh, and her lover, Rene had died some time ago in a plane crash. Hugh thinking they both need to get away, takes Cathryn to their house in the country, where Hugh indulges in his hobbies, hunting and photography, and Cathryn works on a book of fantasy tales for children. Soon Cathryn begins to see apparitions of the late Rene around the house while confronting her feelings about the late Rene and the wandering Hugh. Marcel, the couple's friend, who has an attraction for Cathryn, arrives for a visit, with his daughter Susannah. As Rene's appearances become more vivid, Cathryn begins to drift deeper into a fantasy world, not able to distinguish the real from that which is not real.

Igby Goes Down

Language : English

Year : 2003

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Jared Harris, Amanda Peet, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Susan Sarandon, Rory Culkin, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Bill Irwin, Kathleen Gati, Gannon Forrester, Celia Weston, Elizabeth Jagger

Storyline : Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen year-old boy, is upset with the world, having a schizophrenic father and a a self-absorbed, distant mother who suffers from cancer and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby thinks there is a better world outside and goes to explore it. He escapes into the Manhattan bohemian underworld. Yes, his world is far removed from the high expectation he has of it

Julien Donkey-Boy

Language : English

Year : 1999

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Ewen Bremner, Brian Fisk, Chloë Sevigny, Werner Herzog, Joyce Korine, Evan Neumann, Miriam Martínez, Edgar Erikkson, James Moix, Victor Varnado, Oliver A. Bueno, Roger Harris, Josseph Padilla, Olivia Pérez, Freddie Perez

Storyline : Julien, a schizophrenic works in a blind school and lives with his pregnant sister Pearl and his brother Chris. Chris wrestles in his spare time and their violent father slaps his children around, hoses them down with water, and offers to pay Chris ten dollars to dress up in his late mother's clothes and dance. Eventually Julien escapes from his home and interacts with people on the street.

Keane

Language : English

Year : 2004

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Brenda Denmark, Ed Wheeler, Christopher Evan Welch, John Tormey, Yvette Mercedes, Chris Bauer, Amy Ryan, Lev Gorn, Liza Colón-Zayas, Damian Lewis, Frank Wood, Alexander Robert Scott, Phil McGlaston, Tina Holmes, Ted Sod, Stephen Henderson, Omar Rodríguez, Sean Modica, Sharon Wilkins, Mellini Kantayya, Ray Fitzgerald

Storyline : Keane, in his thirties struggles with the supposed loss of his daughter from port authority bus terminal in New York. He is also going through the serious affects of schizophrenia. However the question arises whether the loss is a real or imagined one. It could also be his excess interest in helping innocent young girls is innocent due to his fatherly nature or was it something more darker and scary?

Promise

Language : English

Year : 1986

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia/Epilepsy

Actors : James Garner, Piper Laurice, Peter Michael Goetz, Art Burke

Storyline : When his mother dies, Bob not only inherits her house but also the custody of his younger brother who suffers from schizophrenia and epilepsy.

Through The Glass Darkly

Language : English

Year : 1961

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Harriet Andersson, Max Von Sydow, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Lars Passgard

Storyline : Karin, a young woman has been recently released from a mental institution, is on holiday on a secluded island with her father, David, a writer; her husband, Martin; and her younger brother, Minus. Her family, each of them with their own problems fails to offer her the love and emotional support she requires for recovery and instead proves detrimental to Karin's mental condition. Soon she is undergoing an emotional crisis, culminating in the memorable hallucinogenic episode in which she envisions God as a spider

The Fisher King

Language : English

Year : 1991

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, David Hyde Pierce, Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, Ted Ross, Lara Harris, Warren Olney, Frazer Smith, Kathy Najimy, Harry Shearer, Melinda Culea, James Remini

Storyline: A madman, Perry, ex-professor carries out a massacre in a club, after hearing the popular DJ Jack Lucas. The DJ becomes friendly with Perry who has been mentally affected by his wife's death, whom he himself has killed. Jack decides to help Perry to trace the non-existent Holy grail as well as conquering Lidia he fell in love because of his wife's violent death (she was killed by the madman). Jack decides to help him both searching a nonexistent Holy Grail and conquering the girl he fell in love with, Lidia.

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Language : English

Year : 1999

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Rab Affleck, Stéphane Algoud, Edwin Apps, David Bailie, David Barber, Christian Barbier, Timothy Bateson, David Begg, Christian Bergner, Andrew Birkin, John Boswall, Matthew Bowyer, Paul Brooke, Bruce Byron

Storyline : In 1412, a young girl,Jeanne born in Domrémy, France develops into a very religious young woman who confesses several times a day. At the age of 13, she has her first vision and finds a sword When coming home with it. She finds the English leveling her home town. In 1428, she goes on a mission to rid France of the English and so sets out to meet Charles, the Dauphin. In a desperate military situation, Charles welcomes all help and gives Jeanne a chance to prove her divine mission. After the successful liberation of Orleans and Reims, the Dauphin can be crowned traditionally in the cathedral of Reims and ignores her since he doesn't need her anymore.Jeanne gets caught in his trap and is put in prison by the Burgundians.However during trial Jeene cannot be forced to tell about her divine visions since childhood and she is condemned of witchcraft and burnt alive in the marketplace of Routen on May30th 1431 at a young age of 19.

The Ward

Language : English

Year : 2011

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Amber Heard, Danielle Panabaker, Mika Boorem, and Jared Harris

Storyline: The Ward, a horror flick directed by John Carpenter, is a psychedelic maze of surprising and mind- bending twists. The plot revolves around Kristen (Amber Heard), a young schizophrenic woman, undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital, who believes that she is being tormented by a mysterious ghost. Kristen has no memories of her life but strongly believes that she should not be at the mental institution. She notices that the girls in the ward are disappearing and that her tormentor is causing these disappearances. As evil lurks around the corner, Kristen, realizes that the ghost might be more evil than anything that she could ever perceive. The movie constantly shuttles between reality and hallucinations until it is revealed in the end that Kristen is imaginary and the ghost, real. A shocking plot and a must watch.

The Soloist

Language : English

Year : 2009

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia/ Rrehabilitation through music

Actors : Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener

Storyline : What would you do if you came across a prodigious musician who is schizophrenic and homeless? The Soloist is a 2009 drama directed by Joe Wright. It is inspired by incidents in the life of Nathaniel Ayers, a musician who dropped out of Juilliard because of his bouts with schizophrenia. Foxx plays the tormented musician and Downey portrays Lopez a journalist who discovers Ayers and decides to write about him. Not content with just telling his story, Lopez goes the distance with Ayers. He persuades his friend Graham (Hollander) to help rehabilitate Ayers through music. He also brings Ayers' sister to meet him. Towards the end it is implied, that although it appears that Lopez is helping Ayers with his condition, it is Ayers who has changed Lopez's life. Ayers is not healed and still hears voices, but he is not homeless anymore thanks to his new friend.

A Beautiful Mind

Language : English

Year : 2001

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Russel Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly

Storyline : John Forbes Jr. is a Math prodigy who is able to solve problems that baffled the greatest of minds. He starts to suffer from Schizophrenia and how he overcomes the disease to win the Nobel prize is the gist of the story.

All American Toothache

Language : English

Year : 1936

Medical Theme : Dentistry/ Schizophrenia

Actors : Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, Johnny Arthur, Mickey Daniels

Storyline : The big game at State University depends on whether Elmer, football hero and dental student can pullout a wisdom tooth correctly. He needs someone to agree for pullout of a wisdom tooth. Thelma, a waitress, tries to convince her fellow waitress to get her tooth pulled out. That friend seems to be insane( schizophrenic) as she is shown talking to imaginary people.

My Sister's Keeper

Language : English

Year : 2002

Medical Theme : Mental Disorder/Schizo Effective Disorder

Actors : Kathy Bates, Elizabeth Perkins, Lynn Red grave, Kimberly J.Brown

Storyline : My sister's keeper is a portrayal of a real life story of two sisters and their journey toward self-discovery and understanding. One among them is Christine who has suffered from a debilitating mental illness, since her childhood. The other is Judy, who is an art editor in New York. Judy is appointed as a trustee for Christine after their mother Helen's death. Rest of the story is how both the sisters struggle to come to terms with each other and how Judy struggles to balance both, her ambition and her sister's needs.

Mad Detective

Language : English

Year : 2007

Medical Theme : Schizophrenic

Actors : Lau Ching Wan, Andy On, Lam Ka Tung, Kelly Lin

Storyline : A missing police gun is connected to a series of recent heists and murders. Wong it’sits owner has vanished earlier while pursuing a suspect in the mountains. His partner, Chi-Wai miraculously returns unharmed and the hot shot Regional Crime Unit Inspector, Ho, is in charge of the investigation. Ho believes that only his mentor/former boss Bun who is a gifted criminal pro filer can help him. Bun visualizes himself as the victim and investigates far beyond his imagination and what begins as a quest for answers has now taken a schizophrenic turn where truth and lies, reality and delusions intertwine.

The Uninvited

Language : English

Year : 2009

Storyline  : Schizophrenic

Actors : Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, David Strathairn, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Massar, Kevin McNulty, Ryan Cowie, Alf Humphreys, Heather Doerksen, Jesse Moss, Dean Paul Gibson, Don S. Davis, Lex Burnham, Matthew Bristol, Danny Bristol

Storyline : Anna, a young teenager attempts commits suicide and is sent to a mental institution for treatment. Her psychiatric Dr. Silberling, tells her on discharge that all her issues have been resolved. On returning home she finds her father Steven, living with her mother's former nurse, Rachel Summers. Anna and her beloved sister, Alex believe that Rachel killed their mother and start looking for evidences to prove that Rachel is the murderer. Just as Anna believes she has all of the evidence needed against Rachel, new information comes to light that puts earlier events in a different light.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Language : English

Year : 2006

Medical Theme : Schizophrenia

Actors : Tony Todd, Tracy Scoggins, Vernon Wells

Storyline : R.L. Stevenson’s classic comes alive again, thanks to Hollywood and this time its Tony Todd who plays the role of Dr. Jekyll as well as that of the dangerous Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll, wants to find out the result of his new drug, and decides to test it on himself.The drugs make him Schizophrenic and brings out his evil side,Mr. Hyde.The rest of the story revolves on how Mr. Hyde starts committing crimes and Detective Karen (Tracy Scoggins) rushes against time to help stop him before it is too late.