List of films about mental disorders

See also: List of films featuring mental disorders

Mental illness has appeared frequently as a major theme or background element in film.

Examples

Antisocial personality disorder

• Cape Fear (1962)
• A Clockwork Orange (1971)
• Halloween (1978)
• Scum (1979)
• Small Sacrifices (1989)
• Goodfellas (1990)
• The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
• Beauty and the Beast (1991)
• Seven (1995)
• Fargo (1996)
• Primal Fear (1996)
• The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
• American Psycho (2000)
• Dahmer (2002)
• Gacy (2003)
• Monster (2003)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Orphan (2009)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
• Stoker (2013)

Asperger syndrome

• Ben X (2007)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
• Adam (2009)
• Mary and Max (2009)
• Temple Grandin (2010)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
• Snow Cake (2006)

Autism

• Rain Man (1988)
• Mercury Rising (1998)
• Molly (1999)
• Mozart and the Whale (2005)
• Ben X (2007)
• The Black Balloon (2008)
• Dear John (2010)
• My Name Is Khan (2010)

Bipolar disorder

• Mr. Jones (1993)
• Running with Scissors (2006)
• The Hours (2002)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• 3 (2012)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

Borderline personality disorder

• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Play Misty for Me (1971)
• Carrie (1976)
• Mommie Dearest (1981)
• Betty Blue (1986)
• Fatal Attraction (1987)
• Single White Female (1992)
• Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1993)
• Mad Love (1995)
• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• Fear (1996)
• Malicious (1996)
• Cruel Intentions (1999)
• Girl, Interrupted (1999)
• American Psycho (2000)
• Dahmer (2002)
• One Hour Photo (2002)
• Swimfan (2002)
• Monster (2003)
• Borderline (2008)
• Shame (2011)
• Blue Jasmine (2013)

Depression

• The Wrong Man (1957)
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
• Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
• Gods and Monsters (1998)
• What Dreams May Come (1998)
• Prozac Nation (2001)
• Sylvia (2003)
• Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
• Revolutionary Road (2008)
• Wendy and Lucy (2008)
• Winter's Bone (2010)
• It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
• Melancholia (2011)
• Nymphomaniac (2013)

Dissociative identity disorder

• Lizzie (1957)
• The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
• Psycho (1960)
• David and Lisa (1962)
• Sybil (1976)
• Dressed to Kill (1980)
• The Fisher King (1991)
• Manichitrathazhu (1993)
• Primal Fear (1996)
• Psycho (1998)
• Fight Club (1999)
• Me, Myself and Irene (2000)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
• Identity (2003)
• A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Hide and Seek (2005)
• Chandramukhi (2005)
• Anniyan (2005)
• The Uninvited (2009)
• Peacock (2010)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Sucker Punch (2011)
• The_Hobbit:_An_Unexpected_Journey (2012)

Histrionic personality disorder

• Gone with the Wind (1939)
• A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
• Postcards from the Edge (1990)
• Beaches (1991)
• The Birdcage (1996)
• America's Sweethearts (2001)
• Chicago (2002)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
• My Week with Marilyn (2011)

Malingering

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• The Score (2001)
• Side Effects (2013)

Münchausen syndrome by proxy

• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Glass House: The Good Mother (2006)

Narcissistic personality disorder

• Wall Street (1987)
• Small Sacrifices (1989)
• Election (1999)
• Basic Instinct (1992)
• Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
• The Rules of Attraction (2002)
• To Die For (1995)

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

• David and Lisa (1962)
• The Odd Couple (1968)
• Turner and Hooch (1989)
• Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
• What About Bob? (1991)
• As Good as It Gets (1997)
• Matchstick Men (2003)
• The Aviator (2004)
• Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
• Run & Jump (2013)

Posttraumatic stress disorder

• The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
• Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
• Marnie (1964)
• Coming Home (1978)
• The Deer Hunter (1978)
• Ordinary People (1980)
• First Blood (1982)
• Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)
• Birdy (1984)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
• The Fisher King (1991)
• The Prince of Tides (1991)
• Fearless (1993)
• The Client (1994)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• The Lion King (1994)
• Seven (1995)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• The Big Lebowski (1998)
• Antwone Fisher (2002)
• Jarhead (2005)
• In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• Reign Over Me (2007)
• Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
• Precious (2009)
• Brothers (2009)
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
• Captain Phillips (2013)
• Iron Man 3 (2013)
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

Schizoaffective disorder

• Shine (1996)

Schizophrenia

• Out of Darkness (1994)
• The Snake Pit (1948)
• Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
• Lilith (1964)
• Black Christmas (1974)
• I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
• Friday the 13th (1980)
• Die Berührte (1981)
• Sophie's Choice (1982)
• Angst (1983)
• Benny & Joon (1993)
• Clean, Shaven (1993)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
• Spider (2002)
• The Soloist (2009)
• Black Swan (2010)
• Take Shelter (2011)

Suicide

• Germany, Year Zero (1948)
• The Damned (1969)
• Harold and Maude (1971)
• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
• Ordinary People (1980)
• An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
• The Big Chill (1983)
• Videodrome (1983)
• Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
• 'night, Mother (1986)
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Lethal Weapon (1987)
• Heathers (1988)
• Dead Poets Society (1989)
• Thelma and Louise (1991)
• The Client (1994)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
• Breaking the Waves (1996)
• Hard Core Logo (1996)
• Romeo + Juliet (1996)
• Boogie Nights (1997)
• The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997)
• Gods and Monsters (1998)
• What Dreams May Come (1998)
• The Virgin Suicides (1999)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• Monster's Ball (2001)
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
• Vanilla Sky (2001)
• The Good Girl (2002)
• The Hours (2002)
• The Rules of Attraction (2002)
• Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
• Shame (2011)
• Detachment (2011)

Ungrouped

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• Secrets of a Soul (1926)
• M (1931)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
• Kings Row (1942)
• Cat People (1942)
• Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
• Spellbound (1945)
• Possessed (1947)
• Whirlpool (1949)
• Harvey (1950)
• Sunset Boulevard (1950)
• Lust for Life (1956)
• Autumn Leaves (1956)
• La Tête Contre les Murs (1958)
• Vertigo (1958)
• Peeping Tom (1960)
• Splendor in the Grass (1961)
• Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• Shock Corridor (1963)
• Lilith (1964)
• Red Desert (1964)
• Bunny Lake is Missing (1965)
• The Collector (1965)
• Repulsion (1965)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
• Marat/Sade (1967)
• The Swimmer (1968)
• Le Boucher (1970)
• Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
• Frenzy (1972)
• Images (1972)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
• The Story of Adele H. (1975)
• Carrie (1976)
• Face to Face (1976)
• Taxi Driver (1976)
• The Tenant (1976)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• Being There (1979)
• Woyzeck (1979)
• Dressed to Kill (1980)
• The Shining (1980)
• Frances (1982)
• Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
• Sophie's Choice (1982)
• Zelig (1983)
• Birdy (1984)
• The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
• Blue Velvet (1986)
• Housekeeping (1987)
• Dead Ringers (1988)
• Camille Claudel (1988)
• The Dream Team (1989)
• My Left Foot (1989)
• Awakenings (1990)
• Crazy People (1990)
• Jacob's Ladder (1990)
• Misery (1990)
• Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
• This Boy's Life (1993)

• Blue Sky (1994)
• Forrest Gump (1994)
• Heavenly Creatures (1994)
• L'Enfer (1994)
• 12 Monkeys (1995)
• Don Juan DeMarco (1995)
• The Dentist (1996)
• Perfect Blue (1997)
• The Butcher Boy (1998)
• Patch Adams (1998)
• Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
• Instinct (1999)
• Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
• Girl, Interrupted (film) (1999)
• Mifune's Last Song (1999)
• Englar Alheimsins (2000)
• Memento (2000)
• Pollock (2000)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000)
• K-PAX (2001)
• Session 9 (2001)
• Mulholland Dr. (2001)
• Donnie Darko (2001)
• He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not (2002)
• Oasis (2002)
• Sylvia (2003)
• The United States of Leland (2003)
• Radio (2003)
• The Machinist (2004)
• Barfuss (2005)
• Keane (2005)
• Proof (2005)
• Neverwas (2005)
• Tideland (2005)
• Hannibal Rising (2007)
• The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
• Away from Her (2007)
• The Number 23 (2007)
• Mad Detective (2007)
• Memory (2007)
• Ghajini (2008)
• The Black Balloon (2008)
• The Headless Woman (2008)
• Séraphine (2008)
• Franklyn (2008)
• Adam (2009)
• Antichrist (2009)
• Mother (2009)
• Observe and Report (2009)
• Under Our Skin (2009)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• Inception (2010)
• Black Swan (2010)
• The Roommate (2011)
• Take Shelter (2011)
• Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
• Nerve (2012)
• Home (2013)

See also

• Mental illness in fiction
• List of films featuring mental illness

References

• Danny Wedding, Mary Ann Boyd and Ryan M. Niemiec, Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology, 2nd ed., Cambridge, MA, Hogrefe & Hufer Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-88937-292-6. http://www.hogrefe.com/program/movies-and-mental-illness.html
• David J. Robinson, Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions, Rapid Psychler Press, 2003, ISBN 1-894328-07-8.
• Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard, Psychiatry and the Cinema, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2nd ed., 1999, ISBN 0-88048-964-2.
• Otto F. Wahl, Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness, Piscataway, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8135-2213-7.