Mental Illness Movies I've Seen
Films I have seen with themes of mental illness (or featuring a primary character with mental illness, or mental condition)
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- DirectorJames MangoldStarsWinona RyderAngelina JolieClea DuVallA directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.True story about on 18 year old girl who spent 18 months in a psychiatric hospital for Borderline Personality Disorder. Also features characters with Schizophrenia, Anorexia Nervosa, Sociopathy and Pseudologia Fantastica (Also known as Mythomania, Fictitious Disorder, or Pathological Lying)
- DirectorDarren AronofskyStarsEllen BurstynJared LetoJennifer ConnellyThe drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep..Heroin Addiction, Prescription Medication Addiction and Amphetamine-Induced Psychosis. The movie also has strong themes of loneliness. Based on the Hubert Selby Jr. novel of the same name which (while fiction) is based on his own experiences of addiction.
- DirectorScott KalvertStarsLeonardo DiCaprioLorraine BraccoMarilyn SokolA teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.Heroin Addiction/ Polysubstance Abuse. Based on a true story.
- StarsJoanne WoodwardSally FieldBrad DavisA young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed sixteen different personalities is treated by a doctor.Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder), based on a true story.
- DirectorJoseph SargentStarsJessica LangeTammy BlanchardRon WhiteA true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.Dissociative Identity Disorder. Based on the same real-life case as the above.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.Unusual in that it primarily follows a man faking (malingering) mental illness in order to avoid prison. The movie takes place in a psychiatric hospital and features various mental health problems, predominately Schizophrenia.
- DirectorAdrian LyneStarsMichael DouglasGlenn CloseAnne ArcherA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.Borderline Personality Disorder
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodJessica WalterDonna MillsThe life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan.Borderline Personality Disorder
- DirectorCraig GillespieStarsRyan GoslingEmily MortimerPaul SchneiderA delusional young man strikes up an unconventional relationship with a doll he finds on the Internet.Delusional Disorder
- DirectorGary FlederStarsMichael DouglasSean BeanBrittany MurphyWhen the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret...PTSD, Malingering
- DirectorPatrick BriceStarsKatie AseltonPatrick BriceMark DuplassA young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. When he notices the man's odd behavior, he starts to question his intentions.Borderline Personality Disorder, Sociopathy
- DirectorElia KazanStarsVivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim HunterDisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.Histrionic Personality Disorder, Alcoholism