A list of Psych Movies

ForgottonAngel · 24-11-2011, 12:20 AM

I made a list of Psych Movies. You can rate/discuss on this thread. Feel free to make recommendations to!
Enjoy!

Anxiety Disorders

Analyze This
Genre: Comedy Year: 1999 Rating: R
The portrayal of mixed anxiety and depression (delayed onset PTSD?) is terrific. Unfortunately, the movie also demonstrates how not to be an ethical psychiatrist (can you count the number of ways that he violates confidentiality?), but he still is effective (if you believe in the therapeutic miracle of sudden insight). The best character in the movie is the loyal goon, Jelly. He was great.

As Good As It Gets

Genre: Drama/Comedy Year: 1997 Rating: PG-13
Academy Award winner for Best Actor and Best Actress. Jack Nicholson with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, as well as plenty of Axis II. Also addresses bias (homophobia) and attitude change. Really great movie.

The Aviator

Genre: Drama Year: 2005 Rating: R

Academy Award winner for Best Supporting actress and other accomplishments (cinematography, etc.). Excellent movie. There is much room for diagnosis debate - clear OCD symptoms early on, and psychosis, but what about paranoia? Manic-type symptoms? Personality considerations? Be sure to also watch the special features segment on OCD.

Behind the Lines
Genre: Drama Year: 1997 Rating: R
Story of psychiatrist treating World War I soldiers with "shell shock" in an old Victorian castle. Even ECT!

Birdy
Genre: Drama Year: 1984 Rating: R
An early Nicolas Cage movie with two returning Vietnam vets dealing with the aftermath of their combat experiences - one physically and the other mentally.

Captain Newman, M.D.
Genre: Drama/Comedy Year: 1963 Rating: NR-PG
Great older movie with Gregory Peck as the military psychologist during WW II. Interesting portrayal of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and its treatment. Highly recommended and coming out on DVD in 2011.

Copycat
Genre: Drama Year: 1995 Rating: R
Sigourney Weaver as an agoraphobic psychologist, oh, and there's a homicidal maniac in the movie. How accurately is the agoraphobia portrayed?

The Deer Hunter
Genre: Drama Year: 1978 Rating: R
Academy Award winner for Best Picture and Best Actor. Robert DeNiro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep - a top notch cast portraying the impact of serving in the Vietnam War, showing their lives before, during, and after the conflict. Another look at PTSD. Christopher Walken's character is one worthy of analysis. Also, consider the traumas they experienced as prisoners of war.

Enduring Love
Genre: Drama Year: 2004 Rating: R
This film, based on Ian McEwan's novel, has one of the most unique opening scenes. Through a chance event, a strange man develops the delusional belief (erotomania) that he has a romantic relationship with a male college professor, who, ironically, lectures on the sociobiology of love. The professor suffers from acute post traumatic stress disorder, coupled with the anxiety of being stalked. See my article on the topic for more information.

Fearless
Genre: Drama Year: 1993 Rating: R
Very powerful, have plenty of tissues handy (particularly if you are a parent). The film effectively illustrates how people can have very different reactions to the same traumatic experience, in this case a plane crash. Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez are great.

Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte
Genre: Drama Year: 1964 Rating: NR-PG-13
Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotton
Topics: Psychopathology, Psychotic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Marital/Family Dynamics

Classic. Bette Davis as a reclusive (insane?) woman, suspected of having killed her beau 40 years earlier, who now is faced with losing her plantation home due to a highway project.

Jacknife
Genre: Drama Year: 1989 Rating: R
Two Vietnam veterans struggle with returning to civilian life. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Matchstick Men

Genre: Drama/Comedy Year: 2003 Rating: PG-13

Nicholas Cage as the con man with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Very entertaining film. Consider the accuracy of portrayal (was it "real" OCD or a conversion disorder, for example). What about the ethics of the treatment he experienced?

'Night Mother
Genre: Drama Year: 1986 Rating: R
Plenty of family dysfunction here - declaration of suicidal intention by the daughter whose life consists of a failed marriage, a drug-addicted son, and agoraphobia. Her mother attempts to convince her that life is worth living. From a Pulitzer Prize winning play.

Ninth Configuration
Genre: Drama Year: 1980 Rating: R
Actors: Stacey Keach, Scott Wilson, Jason Miller
Topics: Psychopathology, Psychotic Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Personality Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Treatment, Forensic

Ordinary People
Genre: Drama Year: 1980 Rating: R
Very good movie about a secret experimental government mental health treatment facility for Vietnam veterans who appear to have had mental breakdowns. One goal is to identify those who are "faking." Interesting plot twists and ethical considerations. Compare and contrast with Shutter Island.

Safe
Genre: Drama Year: 1995 Rating: R
A film about "environmental illness" aka multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome. Is there really such a thing? Maybe. Does Carol White in this film have it? Maybe not. Is she depressed? Anxious? There certainly is plenty of evidence to think so. As you watch the film, keep track of all the things that could be "toxic" from hair spray to car exhaust. Also note the virtually omnipresent background noise - electronics, traffic, etc. Also note when it is and is not present when Carol is at the treatment facility.

Sophie's Choice
Genre: Drama Year: 1982 Rating: R
Academy Award winner for Best Actress. Meryl Streep portrays a World War II concentration camp survivor dealing with traumatic memories and guilt. Kevin Klein as her seemingly psychotic boyfriend, and Peter MacNicol as the young writer, who learns of Sophie's traumatic past. I would never want to be faced with the "choice" she had to make.

Tic Code, The
Genre: Drama Year: 1999 Rating: R
Story of a boy with Tourette's Syndrome who becomes an underage jazz pianist. He pairs up with an accomplished sax player who, ironically, also has Tourette's and has developed strategies for covering up the symptoms. Interesting contradictions in how each of them views the disorder and the associated stigma. Think about parallels between Tourette's and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.

Unstrung Heroes
Genre: Drama Year: 1995 Rating: PG
Andie MacDowell portrays a dying woman with a young son, married to an eccentric inventor. The two oddball uncles (one's paranoid, one's a hoarder) come through for the boy with some remarkable insights and wisdom.

Vertigo
Genre: Drama Year: 1958 Rating: PG-13
The story of a police detective, Scottie (also called Johnny), who suffers a trauma, developing acrophobia and vertigo, causing him to retire from the force. He is hired by an old college acquaintance to tail his wife, Madeleine, who seems to have dissociative identity disorder. Scotty falls in love with her, but can't prevent her from committing suicide. Stop reading here if you don't want the plot spoiled…Scotty is traumatized, becomes catatonic. Later encounters young woman on the street who looks like Madeleine. Turns out that she truly was the Madeleine that Scottie had followed, but she was part of the murder plot of the real Madeleine, however she really did fall in love with Scottie. Over time, they date, he remakes her into Madeleine (hair color, clothing, etc.). Did you see Scottie as a sympathetic character? How did you feel about him at the end? Would his efforts to overcome his phobia be appropriate treatment? Interesting that Madeleine was portrayed as being dissociative and Scottie seems to show many signs of dissociative features, as well, including his two first names…

Autism

The Boy Who Could Fly
Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him

Temple Grandin
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of the top scientists in the humane livestock handling industry.

What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Gilbert has to care for his autistic brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.

ForgottonAngel · 24-11-2011, 12:36 AM

Dissociative Disorders

A Clockwork Orange
In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan.

Identity
Genre: Drama Year:2003 Rating: R
A fast moving thriller with a major psychological twist. Another one to watch twice, much like "Fight Club." Once you know what's going on, how accurate do you think the portrayal is? Does it perpetuate mental health stigma?

Paris, Texas
Genre:Drama Year:1984 Rating: R
Unusual movie about a man who wanders out of the desert with amnesia for his past. He is reunited with his brother, slowly his memory returns, he develops a relationship with his son, and eventually he finds his wife. How do you interpret the ending?

Repulsion
A Roman Polanski film about a sexually repressed young girl, who becomes psychotic and homicidal while left alone for a few days in her sister's apartment.

The Snake Pit
Classic film nominated for many Academy Awards. A young woman is in a state insane asylum and can't recall how she got there. The climate, patients, and treatments are likely accurate for their times, as well as the hospital politics and clashing between the treating psychiatrist and his administrative superiors, even before managed care. Well done portrayal of her inner dialogue. Not a particularly flattering portrayal of psychiatric nurses, though. What do you think of the conclusion regarding the causes of her problems? A great movie.

Spellbound
One of Hitchcock's best. A man shows up at a mental institution, impersonating the new psychiatrist. He develops a relationship with another psychiatrist, who then realizes that he is actually not the person he said he is. Great suspense film!

Sybil
The movie that started it all - virtually no patients diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder (aka Dissociative Identity Disorder) before this book/film came out. Consider a PTSD diagnosis in a patient with a general dissociative disorder (I'd argue for a dissociative personality category). Dr. Henry Spiegel, who also treated Sybil, has spoken out regarding the iatrogenic (doctor-induced) components of this case. Read the interview with Speigel about Sybil.

Vertigo
Topics: Anxiety, Depression, Personality
This movie tops many "all time favorites" lists. The story of a police detective, Scottie (also called Johnny), who suffers a trauma, developing acrophobia and vertigo, causing him to retire from the force. He is hired by an old college acquaintance to tail his wife, Madeleine, who seems to have dissociative identity disorder. Scotty falls in love with her, but can't prevent her from committing suicide. Stop reading here if you don't want the plot spoiled…Scotty is traumatized, becomes catatonic. Later encounters young woman on the street who looks like Madeleine. Turns out that she truly was the Madeleine that Scottie had followed, but she was part of the murder plot of the real Madeleine, however she really did fall in love with Scottie. Over time, they date, he remakes her into Madeleine (hair color, clothing, etc.).

ForgottonAngel · 24-11-2011, 12:44 AM

Schizophrenia and Psychosis

Angel Baby
An Australian film about two schizophrenics who fall in love at group therapy. Everything is fine until they decide to stop taking their medications and she becomes pregnant.

A Beautiful Mind
Academy Award winner for Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress. Russell Crowe portrays Nash, a brilliant mathematician. There is a major plot twist - stop reading here if you don't want it spoiled…We learn that we are misled - situations and characters turn out to be portrayals of Nash's delusional thinking and hallucinations. We see him spiral downward in the throws of his psychotic thinking or the side effects of his medications. What do you think about the suggestion that he was able to self-challenge the reality of the hallucinations, as at the end of the movie? What do you think this movie did for public perception of schizophrenia? If you really want to know his story, read the book - not an easy read, mind you, but with plenty more information missing from the Hollywood version.

Benny & Joon
Early movie with Johnny Depp who develops a relationship with young woman who is schizophrenic. Diagnostic considerations for Depp's character? Good portrayal of stresses on family, as Joon's brother devotes himself to her care. Cute movie.

Camille Claudel
Biography of the French artist, Claudel, who has a "madness of mud" - she's a sculptress. Gerard Depardieu plays Auguste Rodin, with whom she has a less than stable relationship. Adjani spent most of her adult life in an asylum. [Suggested by Celeste Walling, NY]

Canvas
Seen through the eyes of a young boy, this film demonstrates the impact of schizophrenia on the family. As such, I imagine it would be useful in working with families dealing with mental illness in a loved one. Great music and photography.

A Caveman's Valentine
A brilliant, but schizophrenic, composer living in a cave in Manhattan tracks down the murderer of a young man, all the while experiencing hallucinations and paranoid delusions. Not a particularly well-reviewed film, but all agreed that Samuel L. Jackson was quite good in the main role.

Secret Window
A writer is accused for plagiarism by a strange man, who then starts haunting him for "justice." He actuelly is stalking himself.

Shaven Clean
This accurate and graphic film depicts life through the eyes of an untreated paranoid schizophrenic searching for his daughter. It does contain some short footage which many may find difficult to watch, but is in keeping with the presentation of psychosis. I found that looking away during these moments did not alter my appreciation of the film. This is one of those odd, independent films which one must "figure out" as it goes along. High on symbolism - be sure to notice the mother's clothing in relation to the setting around her. I find that this film demonstrates beautifully the communication deficits often present in these families - the mother character suggests the now disproved "schizophrenogenic mother" theory, or may be consistent with a strong genetic component to schizophrenia. The depiction of perceptual illusions/hallucinations is very well done. A short film, but one which truly gives a sense of the world view and experiences of a schizophrenic.

Conspiracy Theory
Mel Gibson and Julia Roberts - good combo, but realistic movie? Mel is paranoid, conspiracies everywhere, but once in awhile, "just like a stopped clock," (wonderful analogy from Roger Ebert) he's right. There also is a government psychiatrist (are his treatments therapeutic?!). Diagnosis for Mel?

Cosi
A very well-done Australian comedy about a theater major hired to direct a play with the cast comprised of psychiatric patients at the local asylum. Includes pyromaniacs and other diagnoses. Hard to separate patients from staff.

Donnie Darko
A cult favorite. See the Director's Cut version. Although intended to be interpreted from a science fiction perspective, the story easily can be analyzed according to traditional schizophrenia and trauma issues.

Fight Club
An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.

K-PAX
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

Me, Myself & Irene
A nice-guy cop with dissociative identity disorder must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates.

Shock Corridor
The story of a newspaper reporter out to win the Pulitzer Prize by solving the murder of a patient in a mental hospital, by feigning mental illness himself (coached by a psychiatrist prior to seeking admission - ethics?). I started off liking the movie, ended up seeing how it perpetuated stigma and myth about mental illness and its treatment - psychosis is contagious? Tests can damage normal minds? Yikes. Melodramatically entertaining, but watch with a very critical eye.

The Soloist
Depicting the true-life story of Nathanial Ayers (Jamie Foxx), a former cello virtuoso, and Steve Lopez (Robert Downey, Jr.), a journalist in Los Angeles, The Soloist portrays the working relationship and friendship formed between the two. As a young man, Ayers was a student at the prestigious Jullliard. But in his third year he experienced a mental breakdown and was subsequently diagnosed with schizophrenia. After living with his sister for a few years in Cleveland, his mother died, and he set out to Los Angeles where his father supposedly lived. Unable to locate him, Ayers becomes homeless. This is where Lopez meets him. Unable to understand how such a brilliant musician can be living on the streets and not performing in a symphony hall, Lopez sets out on a mission to help Ayers. And as with all similar movies, as Lopez begins to learn about Ayers, he begins to discover himself as well. The Soloist touches on the tough but important subject of how many living with mental illness can become homeless when they do not continue to receive help.

Titicut Follies
This is a highly controversial documentary, with graphic images of abuse of patients in a Massachusetts psychiatric hospital. The film was banned by court order, citing invasion of privacy. Still hard to find.

ForgottonAngel · 24-11-2011, 12:53 AM

Depression and Self Harm

Cyberbully
Teen girl Taylor Hillridge gets a a laptop for her birthday and signs up on a social networking site. She starts to feel alone as her friends ostracize her and she falls victim to cyberbullying. Eventually she becomes sucidel.

Girl Interupted
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.

Gothica
Ghost story in which a repressed female psychiatrist wakes up as a patient in the very asylum where she worked with no memory of why she is there and what she has done.

Mr.Jones
Mr. Jones is a bipolar man but has been misdiagnosed. After attempting to fly off a house roof he find himself in the hospital where a women doctor realizes what he has. It soon becomes a love affair."

On the Edge
A young depressed boy meets other suicidal patients in group therapy where he learns more about himself."

One Flew over The cuckoo's nest
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.

Ordinary People
Ordinary People tells the story of family whose underlying problems and struggles come to forefront in the aftermath of the death of one of their sons. Their other son who was present at the scene of his brother’s death cannot shake the grief and pain of situation and attempts suicide. As their son begins psychiatric treatment, the emotional journey in the family only begins. Each family member experiencing various aspects of the difficult nature of trying to care for someone you love with mental illness. In particular, Conrad (Timonthy Hutton), the son, is seen as an outcast at school because of his mental illness and suicide attempt. The struggle between the father (Donald Sutherland) and his wife (Mary Tyler Moore) and the ability to each family member to love one another creates a turbulent scene in the all too stereotypically matter-of-fact and easy suburban life.

Prozac Nation
A young woman struggles with depression during her first year at Harvard. Based on Elizabeth Wurtzel's novel.

Secretary
After a stay in a hospital for self inflicted wounds, a women becomes a secretary for a lawyer which turns into a sexual relationship."

Secret Cutting
Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing self-mutilation is very real, and this movie exposes the growing epidemic. It's a film you can't afford to miss.

Stay
This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own grip on reality.

Through A Glass Darkly
A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital.

The Hours*
The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives.

The Virgin Suicides
What lead to the multiple suicides by sisters? Loss of innocence? Family dysfunction? Much room for interpretation.

Wrist Cutters
A film set in a strange afterlife way station that has been reserved for people who have committed suicide.

ForgottonAngel · 24-11-2011, 01:16 AM

Body Image

A secret between friends
A movie about anorexia!

Dying To be Thin
Dying To Be Thin introduces you to students, ballet dancers, fashion models and other young women who are seeking recovery or have conquered their disease. Plus, you’ll discover how leading eating disorder specialists are making dramatic advances in the diagnosis and treatment of these two devastating diseases. Go behind the scenes with NOVA for a courageous and candid look at America’s body obsession.

The Karen Carpetner Story'
Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulemia.

The Mirror in My Mind
We live in a media saturated world where we are constantly bombarded by images of supposedly "beautiful people." Everywhere we look -in magazines, on billboards, on TV, and in the movies, there are surgically perfected women who are unrealistically thin and men whose muscles ripple and bulge. How can the rest of us measure up to these standards? And why should we? The mirror in My Mind: Body Image & Self-Esteem, explores and explains the damages these cultural forces can do to a young person's developing sense of self-worth.

Time
To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery.

The Elephant Man
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

OCD

Matchstick men
A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly

Rain Main
Some of you might quibble that this one should be higher due to the severe degree of O.C.D. Dustin Hoffman displayed in this film. That’s a fair argument, yet I’d point out that Raymond was autistic in a pretty serious way, and that his O.C.D. manifested itself through the pre-existing autism. To say that Raymond was O.C.D. would be similar to remarking that a person who is paralyzed from the neck down also can’t swim very well. Considering the first reality, the second is something of a foregone conclusion. That said, however, Raymond was pretty friggin’ O.C.D., and wasn’t shy about showing this off. The routines that Raymond followed were paramount to law, and could not be broken or deviated from in any way, for any reason. Whether it was the number of fish sticks to be eaten, the brand of underwear he had on, or the appearance of his favorite program, Raymond’s life revolved around orderly routine.

Soviette · 24-11-2011, 06:49 AM

Thanks, some of those look quite interesting. I particularly love One Flew Over A Cuckoos Nest, I've watched that about three times now.

Btw, you could also classify A Clockwork Orange as a psych movie, seeing as it's about using aversion therapy to rehabilitate a habitual violent criminal and all the social/moral issues that go with that. Also, there's evidence that the narrator in Fight Club is psychotic with the way the world (or his world) decompensates into total madness.

ForgottonAngel · 24-11-2011, 07:12 AM

Thanks Threxy those are a couple of good choices. I added them to the post. If you have any more let us know :D

JanelMarie · 24-11-2011, 08:51 AM

I have seen most of these movies just for enjoyment, but watching them from an analytical standpoint will bring a new experience to many of them. Thanks, great post.

akita · 24-11-2011, 06:04 PM

The ones in bold I have seen. Sorry if any of these have been repeated. Tell me and I'll remove them.

Dementia

Alzheimer's disease

En sång för Martin (A Song For Martin) (2001)
Iris (2001)
De Zaak Alzheimer (2003)
Away from Her (2006)
The Notebook (2004)
Thanmatra (2005)
U Me Aur Hum (2008)
Before We Forget (2011)

Amnesia

Anterograde amnesia

A person with anterograde amnesia is unable to form new memories.

Clean Slate (1994)
Wintersleepers (1997)
Memento (2001)
50 First Dates (2004)
The Lookout (2007)
Ghajini (2005)

Retrograde amnesia

A much-used plot device, retrograde amnesia occurs when a person forgets part or all of his or her past.

I Love You Again (1940)
Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Random Harvest (1942), in which Ronald Colman's character suffers from the condition not once but twice.
Crime Doctor (1943)
Anastasia (1956)
RoboCop (1987)
Overboard (1987)
Regarding Henry (1991)
The Majestic (2001)
The Addams Family (1991)
The English Patient (1996)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Number 23 (2007)
Spider-Man 3 (2007)
Unknown (2011)

Psychogenic amnesia

Psychogenic amnesia is memory loss caused by psychological stress.

Agoraphobia

Grey Gardens 1975
Copycat (1995)
Naked Fear (1999)
Frozen with Fear (2000)
Public Domain (2003)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
N.H.K ni yôkoso! (2006)
Nims Island (2008)
Restraint (2008)
Tokyo! (2008)

Protect the Boss [Drama] (2011)
Anxiety disorders

Ordinary People (1980)
Mrs Dalloway (1997)
Session 9 (2001)
Elling (2001)
White Oleander (2002)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Autistic disorder

The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
Rain Man (1988)
Little Man Tate (1991)
House of Cards (1993)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Cube (1997)
Mercury Rising (1998)
Molly (1999)
Bless the Child (2000)
Elling (2001)
I am Sam (2001)
Miracle Run (2004)
Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Marathon (2005)
Snow Cake (2006)
Ben X (2007)
The Black Balloon (2008)
Dark Floors (film)(2008)
Adam (2009)
My Name Is Khan (2010)
Temple Grandin (2010)
Ocean Heaven (2010)
Dear John (2010)
Fly Away (2011)
Exodus Fall (2011)

Clinical depression

The Fire Within (1963)
Interiors (1978)
Ordinary People (1980)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
The Butcher Boy (1998)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
On the Edge (2001)
Prozac Nation (2001)
The Hours (2002)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Revolutionary Road (film) (2008)
Shrink (2009)
Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Helen (2009)
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Melancholia (2011)

Dissociative disorders

Hangover Square (1945)
A Double Life (1947)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Psycho (1960)
Persona (1964)
Sybil (1976)
Angel Heart (1987)
Raising Cain (1992)
Fight Club (1999)
Manichitrathazhu (1993) (in Malayalam)
Color of Night (1994)
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Primal Fear (1996)
Shattered Mind (1996)
The Hurricane (1999)
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Passion of Mind (2000)
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Identity (2003)
Secret Window (2004)
The Machinist (2004)
Anniyan (2005) (in Tamil)
Hide and Seek (2005)
The Jacket (2005)
2:37 (2006)
Thr3e (2007)
Mad Detective (2007)
Numb (2007)
The Number 23 (2007)
Dark Floors (2008)
The Uninvited (2009)
Frankie and Alice (2010)
Peacock (2010)
Black Swan (2010)
Sucker Punch(2011)
The Ward (2011)

Eating disorders

The Best Little Girl in the World (1981)
Kate's Secret (1986)
An Anorexic's Tale: The Brief Life of Catherine (1988)
The Karen Carpenter Story (1989)
For the Love of Nancy (1994)
301, 302 (1995)
When Friendship Kills (1996)
Dying to be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story (1996)
Perfect Body (1997)
A Girl is a Girl (1999)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Sharing the Secret (2000)
Slender Existence (Short Film) (2000)
NOVA: Dying to Be Thin (Documentary) (2000)
Dying to Dance (2001)
Hunger Point (2003)
Perfect Illusions: Eating Disorders and the Family (Documentary) (2003)
Thin (Documentary) (2006)
To be fat like me (2007)
Dana: The 8 Year Old Anorexic (Documentary) (2008)
Black Swan (2010)

Obsessive–compulsive disorders

Borderline personality disorder

The Fountainhead (1949)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Poison Ivy (1992)
Single White Female (1992)
The Crush (1993)
Mad Love (1995)
The Cable Guy (1996)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Swimming Pool (2003)
Allein (Germany, 2004)
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Chloe (2009)
Black Swan (2010)

Antisocial personality disorder

Narcissistic personality disorder

A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Wall Street (1987)
Small Sacrifices (1989)
Basic Instinct (1992)
To Die For (1995)
White Oleander (2002)

Schizophrenia

Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Images (1972)
Videodrome (1983)
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
The Fisher King (1991)
Benny & Joon (1993)
Angel Baby (1995)
Clean, Shaven (1995)
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
K-PAX (2001)
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Spider (2002)
Keane (2004)
Spider Forest (2004)
Shabd (2005)
15 Park Avenue (2005)
Danika (2006)
Mr. Brooks (2007)
The Soloist (2008)
Mirrors (2008)
Shutter Island (2010)
Black Swan (2010)
Sucker Punch (2011)

Learning disabilities

Delusional disorder and other psychotic disorders

Repulsion (1965)
The King of Comedy (1982)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Misery (1990)
Alien 3 (1992)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Obsessed (2009)
Black Swan (2010)

Miscellaneous and unspecified

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
A Page of Madness (1926)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Harvey (1950)
Vertigo (1958)
Head Against the Wall (1958)
Oil Lamps (1971)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Face to Face (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Brazil (1985)
The Dream Team (1989)
Crazy People (1990)
Germinal (1993)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Blue Sky (1994)
Nell (1994)
The Madness of King George (1994)
12 Monkeys (1995)
Proof (1995)
Patch Adams (1998)
Pi (1998)
The Other Sister (1999)
Secret Cutting (2000)
The Others (2001)
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (2002)
May (2002)
The Hours (2002)
Radio (2003)
Garden State (2004)
Enduring Love (2004)
Tideland (2005)
Solace (2006)
Reprise (2006)
The Night Listener (2006)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Running with Scissors (2007)
Codex Atanicus (2008)
Observe and Report (2009)
The Happy Housewife (2010)

ForgottonAngel · 24-11-2011, 06:29 PM

Thanks so much!
You have a wonderfull list.
only a few have been repeated, no need to remove them though.

I forgot about k-pex, im watching it online right now.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcbshzkvUs"]K-PAX trailer - YouTube[/ame]

I added some to my list above, you gave us. Also its good you put Autism up. It made me remember, temple grandin story is also about Autism. I meet a couple people with Autism and Ashburgers here.
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpkN0JdXRpM"]Temple Grandin (Trailer) - YouTube[/ame]

NoAngel · 24-11-2011, 07:23 PM

many thanks for posting all these! going to be busy watching tomorrow...

ForgottonAngel · 24-11-2011, 07:32 PM

your welcome. Does anyone like my Michael Jackson eating popcorn, while watching movie animation?

akita · 25-11-2011, 05:57 AM

Yeah, I do, it reminds me of the thriller video, scary.

fullofdoubt93 · 25-11-2011, 08:42 AM

The Three Faces of Eve (1957) multiple personality disorder

whirlpools · 25-11-2011, 11:40 PM

I love K-PAX, it really inspired me to live my life peacefully alongside my experiences and I identified with Prot a lot. I thought the relationship between Prot and his doctor (Spacey and Bridges) was lovely and that the music and visuals in the film were really beautiful and fitting. Though I am still a little loathe to say Prot was mentally ill!

ForgottonAngel · 26-11-2011, 02:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Flik Flak

Yeah, I do, it reminds me of the thriller video, scary.

Thanks full of doubt

Yeah its from the Thriller video. MJ was so cute in that video,

1sadchick · 26-11-2011, 04:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ForgottonAngel

MJ was so cute in that video, I could just eat him up.

He was smoking. I wish I could have put his sexy penis in my vagina when he looked that. and go oh oh..and he would say wooooooohoooo ehhehehe

ForgottonAngel · 16-12-2011, 03:05 AM

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Originally Posted by 1sadchick

I wish I could have put his sexy penis in my vagina when he looked that. and go oh oh..and he would say wooooooohoooo ehhehehe

way to perverted lol

Buttons. · 16-12-2011, 11:28 AM

Brilliant lists thankyou!

overcome. · 24-12-2011, 08:28 PM

Brilliant lists from you all, thanks for taking the time to post them here from wherever you found them. I love psychological-based films and thrillers alike. From the lists though the only ones I've really seen are Requiem For A Dream, Black Swan, The Virgin Suicides and Shutter Island (perhaps a few more if I re-scanned the list). I bought The Machinist recently but haven't watched it yet.