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Watch Brain on Fire | Netflix Official Site. Stricken with seizures, psychosis and memory loss, a young New York Post reporter visits doctor after doctor in search of an elusive diagnosis. Watch trailers & learn more.
- 89 min
- Strange Voices
- Rakkhosh
- Brain on Fire
- To The Bone
- Clinical
- God’s Crooked Lines
- Horse Girl
- 6 Balloons
- Fractured
- I’m Thinking of Ending Things
This film captures the whole journey of a person with schizophrenia, from diagnosis to prognosis. It shows the struggles of a person coming to terms with the fact that they have the disorder. The film takes us through how the family goes from denial, resentment, and ultimately to acceptance of Nicole’s (Nancy McKeon) state of mental health. It also...
Directed by Abhijit Kokate and Srivinay Salian, ‘Rakkhosh’ is a Hindi-language psychological thriller told completely from the first-person perspective of a man named Birsa (voiced by Namit Das) who is a mental patient at an asylum. He only has one friend, the mysterious Kumar John (Sanjay Mishra). The film reveals strange occurrences at the asylum...
Susannah is an upcomingjournalist who seems to be doing really well in her career. But one day, she’s suddenly traumatized by voices in her head and serious seizures that start driving her insane. As time passes by, her symptoms get even worse, and Susannah drifts deeper and deeper into insanity. She visits many doctors and waits for hours in hospi...
‘To the Bone’ revolves around the life of a 20-year-old girl, Ellen, who suffers fromanorexia. What looks more like a physical condition, anorexia is actually a mental disorder that can even end lives. Ellen spends most of her teenage years moving from one recovery program to another, but none of it seems to work out for her. She finally comes acro...
‘Clinical’ is a horror-thriller strictly for entertainment only. It tells the story of a psychiatrist who is violently attacked by one of her female patients. This really traumatizes her, and to recover from this, she tries to distract herself by completely engrossing herself in helping out her new patient. But as soon as the man who is her new pat...
‘God’s Crooked Lines’ is a Spanish psychological thriller (Spanish: Los renglones torcidos de Dios) directed by Oriol Paulo and is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Torcuato Luca de Tena. The story centers on Alice Gould, a private investigator who feigns paranoia to check into a psychiatric hospital. This is a part of her investigation i...
This film is about a young woman rapidly slipping into a deep psychological pit as she is unable to distinguish between reality and her memories or imagination. She is unaware of what she does when she experiences a lapse in time and space. Given the history of mental illness in her family, she is finally admitted to a psychological facility. Direc...
Starring Dave Franco, ‘6 Balloons’ is about how a woman discovers her brother’s relapsed heroin addiction. She leaves with him and her two-year-old daughter in a car late at night to look for a detox center. This film can get a little boring at times, but what makes it worth your time is that it is based on true events, and the actors make sure tha...
Starring Sam Worthington (as Ray Monroe) and Lily Rabe (as Joanne Monroe), this psychological thriller keeps us at the edge of our seats, and everything comes together only at the end. Driving back from a Thanksgiving dinner, tragedy strikes the Monroe family as their daughter is badly injured. Ray and Joanne quickly rush to the nearest hospital on...
As is typical of Charlie Kaufman’s style, ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ is a film that demands attention as the storyline is not a linear one. A lot of dynamic factors, including the identities of the characters, their history, and their experiences, make the viewers evaluate their perception of the story. Just like the characters in the film, we...
Jun 30, 2018 · Netflix's Brain on Fire stars Chloë Grace Moretz as Susanna Cahalan, a woman in her early 20s who just started her dream job at the New York Post. Things soon take a turn when Susanna...
Jun 22, 2018 · On Friday, Netflix will release its film adaptation of Susannah Cahalan’s 2012 bestselling memoir “Brain on Fire,” starring Chloe Grace Moretz. In 2009, Cahalan, a journalist at the New York Post, began experiencing seizures, delusions, erratic moods and behavior and other troublesome symptoms, most of which she doesn’t remember.
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 .
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Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures. As weeks progress and Susannah quickly moves deeper into insanity, her ...
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- Biography, Drama
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