A Brilliant Madness

Executing the Insane: The Case of Scott Panetti

2007

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He...

Born Schizophrenic: January's Story

2011

The story of the Schofield family, whose daughter January was diagnosed as schizophrenic at five-years old, making her o...

6.0

Wake Up

2010

Jonas Elrod woke up one day with the ability to see and hear angels, demons and ghosts. Filmed over the course of three...

6.4

Beware the Slenderman

2016

In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. The en...

Billy

2024

Billy is a film buff who films himself non-stop. During a film shoot, he meets Lawrence Côté-Collins and the two become...

7.0

Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem

2008

Julia Robinson and Hilbert's Tenth Problem features a heroine driven by the quest to solve one of the central problems o...

Tarnation

2003

Filmmaker Jonathan Caouette's documentary on growing up with his schizophrenic mother -- a mixture of snapshots, Super-8...

6.9

Symptoms in Schizophrenia

1938

Shows masked mental patients enacting various schizophrenic symptoms as they were understood at the time. A disturbing f...

6.0

Comment j'ai détesté les maths

2013

What is striking when you talk with mathematicians is that sparkle in their eyes, and their sudden joyful voice trying t...

5.7

A Trip to Infinity

2022

Does infinity exist? Can we experience the Infinite? In an animated film (created by artists from 10 countries) the worl...

7.2

Monkeys Like Becky

1999

The first part of this documentary deals with the Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, Nobel Prize for Medicine in...

The Secret Rules of Modern Living: Algorithms

2015

Without us noticing, modern life has been taken over. Algorithms run everything from search engines on the internet to s...

7.4

Newton: The Dark Heretic

2003

A BBC documentary uncovers, for the first time, the original manuscript where Newton forecast the date of the end of the...

4.5

Clouds Are Not Spheres

2010

Until recently geometry was 'cold', incapable of describing the irregular shape of a cloud, the slope of a mountain or t...

7.7

The Blood Is at the Doorstep

2017

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milw...

Rolanda Polonsky, Sculptor

1971

Enter the imaginative world of acclaimed sculptor Rolanda Polonsky, who had been a resident of Netherne Psychiatric Hosp...

Born Schizophrenic: Jani & Bodhi's Journey

2014

Jani, now 11, is showing improvement in keeping her hallucinations at bay. But the same cannot be said for Bodhi, now 6....

Drunk on Too Much Life

2021

The filmmakers' 21-year-old daughter journeys from locked-down psych wards and diagnostic labels toward expansive worlds...

10.0

Into Madness

1989

Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three families shattered by...

Counting from Infinity: Yitang Zhang and the Twin Prime Conjecture

2015

In April 2013, a lecturer at the University of New Hampshire submitted a paper to the Annals of Mathematics. Within week...

7.0

Cool Runnings

1993

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the...

7.0

Waltz with Bashir

2008

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of h...

7.7

Toy Story 2

1999

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy...

7.6

Another 48 Hrs.

1990

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the...

6.0

Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1972

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the moun...

7.5

For Your Eyes Only

1981

A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that hol...