Films like Brain on Fire
Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
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Awakenings
Film · 1990 · also dramaDr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the co...
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Fathers and Daughters
Film · 2015 · also dramaA Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of h...
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
Film · 2009 · also dramaGifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.
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Richard Jewell
Film · 2019 · also dramaRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a co...
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Film · 2013 · also dramaA psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
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Helen
Film · 2009 · also dramaOn the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by...
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Worth
Film · 2021 · also dramaKenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering gover...
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The Girl in the Book
Film · 2015 · also dramaThe story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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She Said
Film · 2022 · also dramaNew York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shatter...
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Colossal
Film · 2017 · also dramaA woman discovers that severe catastrophic events are somehow connected to the mental breakdown from which she's suffering.
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