List of films featuring mental disorders

Many films have portrayed mental disorders or used it as a backdrop for other themes. Here is a list of some of these films, sorted by disorder, regardless of whether the disorder is portrayed accurately or not. For example, although 50 First Dates presents a case of anterograde amnesia, the type depicted does not really exist. In particular, owing to the nature of drama, extreme and florid manifestations of any given disorder tend to prevail over the more subtle ones typical of the average person with that disorder. For example, people with agoraphobia are typically portrayed in drama as recluses who never or almost never leave their homes; in reality, this is rare and extreme, not typical, among the agoraphobic population.

Amnesia

Anterograde amnesia

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

Clean Slate (1994)
Winter Sleepers (1997)
Memento (2000)
Finding Nemo (2003)
50 First Dates (2004)
Ghajini (2005)
The Lookout (2007)
Ghajini (2008)
The Music Never Stopped (2011)
Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kaanom (2012)
Remember Sunday (2013)
Medulla Oblongata (2014)
Finding Dory (2016)

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)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Morning Patrol (1987)
Overboard (1987)
RoboCop (1987)
Innale (1990)
The Addams Family (1991)
Regarding Henry (1991)
The English Patient (1996)
Anastasia (1997)
Dark City (1998)
The Majestic (2001)
Mulholland Drive (2001)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Finding Nemo (2003)
The Number 23 (2007)
Rumba (2008)
Unknown (2011)
Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012)
The Vow (2012)
Trance (2013 film) (2013)
Fast and Furious 6 (2013)
Mumbai Police (2013)
Furious 7 (2015)

Psychogenic amnesia

Psychogenic amnesia, also known as dissociative amnesia, is memory loss caused by psychological stress.

Spellbound (1945)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Shadow on the Wall (1950)
Marnie (1964)
Mirage (1965)
Mister Buddwing (1966)
The Machinist (2004) - insomnia and PTSD inducing or co-morbid with hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and dissociative disorder
Shutter Island (2010) - considered dissociative disorders

Lacunar amnesia

Lacunar amnesia is the loss of memory about one specific event.

What Lies Beneath (2000)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Trance (2013)
Dream Lock (2015)

Anxiety disorders

Ordinary People (1980)
Copycat (1995)
Mrs Dalloway (1997)
Elling (2001)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
White Oleander (2002)
The Village (2004)
2 Coelhos (2012)
Nerve (2013)

Social anxiety disorder

Elling (2001)
Shrek (2001)
Adaptation (2002)
Bubble (2006)
Ali's Eight Days (2009)
The King's Speech (2010)
Nerve (2012)
Mr. Robot (2015, TV series)

Autism spectrum disorders

Together Brothers (1974)
Being There (1979)
The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)
Rain Man (1988)
House of Cards (1993)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Cube (1997)
Mercury Rising (1998)
Pi (1998)
Molly (1999)
Bless the Child (2000)
Elling (2001)
Miracle Run (2004)
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)
Marathon (2005)
Mozart and the Whale (2005)
Snow Cake (2006)
Ben X (2007)
Her Name is Sabine (Elle s'appelle Sabine) (2007)
The Big Bang Theory (2007 TV series) Character of Sheldon Cooper
The Black Balloon (2008)
The Daisy Chain (2008)
Dark Floors (2008)
Adam (2009)
Mary and Max (2009)
Alexander the Great (2010)
Dear John (2010)
Loving Lampposts (documentary, 2010)
My Name Is Khan (2010)
Ocean Heaven (2010)
"Simple Simon" (2010)
Temple Grandin (2010)
Sherlock (TV series) (2010)
Drive (2011)
Exodus Fall (2011)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
Fly Away (2011)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Barfi! (2012)
NightLights (2012)
The Story of Luke (2012)
Hannibal (TV series) (2013)
The Drop (2014)
The Imitation Game (2014)
Nightcrawler (2014)
A Brilliant Young Mind (2015)
Pawn Sacrifice (2015)
The Big Short (2015)
The Accountant (2016)

Mood disorders

Bipolar Disorder

Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
Blind Date (1987)
Mr. Jones (1993)
Sidhartha (1998)
Steal This Movie (2000)
Manic (2001)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
The Hours (2002)
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Michael Clayton (2007)
The Informant! (2009)
Mr. Nobody (2009)
Observe and Report (2009)
The Big C (2010, TV series)
Biutiful (2010)
Dad's in Heaven with Nixon (2010)
OC87 (2010)
Shameless (2011, TV series)
Union Square (2011)
3 (2012)
Aarohanam (2012)
Homeland (2012, TV series)
Of Two Minds (2012)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Surviving Family (Film) (2012)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Filth (2013)
Bipolar (2014)
Infinitely Polar Bear (2014)
Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
To Write Love on Her Arms (2015)

Major Depressive Disorder

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Wrong Man (1957)
The Fire Within (1963)
Interiors (1978)
Ordinary People (1980)
Dead Ringers (1988)
An Angel at My Table (1990)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Mazhayethum Munpe (1995)
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (1996)
The Butcher Boy (1997)
Sue (1997)^[3]
Rushmore (1998)
What Dreams May Come (1998)
American Beauty (1999)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
On the Edge (2001)
Prozac Nation (2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
About a Boy (2002)
The Hours (2002)
Love Liza (2002)
House of Sand and Fog (2003)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Downloading Nancy (2008)
Goodbye Solo (2008)
Antichrist (2009)
Helen (2009)
My Suicide (2009)
Shrink (2009)
A Single Man (2009)
Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
Chatroom (2010)
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
Winter's Bone (2010)
Remember Me (2010)
The Beaver (2011)
Detachment (2011)
I Melt with You (2011)
Melancholia (2011)
Oslo, 31. august (2011)
Suicide Room (2011)
Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite (My SO Has Depression) (2011)^[4]
We Have a Pope (2011)
Rust and Bone (2012)
Lincoln (2012)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) - major depression with psychotic features
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Side Effects (2013)
Cake (2014)
Two Days, One Night (2014)
Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
Inside Out (2015)
The End of the Tour (2015)

Dysthymia

American Splendor* (2003)
Revolutionary Road (2008)

Conduct disorder

The Bad Seed (1956)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Good Son (1993)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Delusional disorder and other psychotic disorders not otherwise specified

Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Repulsion (1965)
The Ninth Configuration (1980) - with an extreme introjective identification twist
The King of Comedy (1983)
Misery (1990)
Singapore Sling (1990)
Bulletproof Heart (1994)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Invisible Child (1999)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Swimfan (2002)
The Machinist (2004)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter (2014)
They Look Like People (2015)

Erotomania

The In Crowd (2000)
Obsessed (2002)
He loves me... He loves me not (2002)
Enduring Love (2004)
Obsessed (2009)

Dementia

Alzheimer's disease

On Golden Pond (1981)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Mars Attacks! (1996)
En sång för Martin (A Song For Martin) (2001)
Iris (2001)
El hijo de la novia (Son of the Bride) (2001)
De Zaak Alzheimer (The Memory of a Killer) (2003)
A Time to Remember (2003)
A Moment to Remember (Nae meorisokui jiwoogae) (2004)
The Notebook (2004)
Black (2005)
Thanmatra (2005)
Away from Her (2006)
Lovely, Still (2008)
U Me Aur Hum (2008)
Before We Forget (2011)
The Iron Lady (2011)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
A Separation (2011)
Terri (2011)
Wrinkles (2011)
Amour (2012)
Robot and Frank (2012)
Nebraska (2013)
Honig im Kopf (Head Full Of Honey) (2014)
Still Alice (2014)

Dissociative disorders

Hangover Square (1945)
A Double Life (1947)
Lizzie (1957)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Psycho (1960)
David and Lisa (1962)
Persona (1966)
Sybil (1976)
The Tenant (1976)
Birdy (1984)
Angel Heart (1987)
The Fisher King (1991)
Raising Cain (1992)
Manichitrathazhu (1993)
Color of Night (1994)
Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Primal Fear (1996)
Shattered Mind (1996)
Perfect Blue (1997)
David and Lisa (1998)
Psycho (1998)
Fight Club (1999)
The Hurricane (1999)
Nurse Betty (2000)
Passion of Mind (2000)
The Hours (2002)
Identity (2003)
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
The Machinist (2004)
Secret Window (2004)
Anniyan (2005, Tamil)
Chandramukhi (2005)
Hide and Seek (2005)
2:37 (2006)
Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007)
Mad Detective (2007)
Numb (2007)
Thr3e (2007)
Dark Floors (2008)
The Uninvited (2009)
United States of Tara (2009, TV series)
Black Swan (2010)
Frankie and Alice (2010)
Peacock (2010)
Shutter Island (2010)
Dream House (2011)
Sucker Punch (2011)
The Ward (2011)
Wilfred (2011, TV series)
Birdman (2014)
Rhodora X (2014)

Eating disorders

La Grande Bouffe (1973)
The Best Little Girl in the World (1981)
Kate's Secret (1986)
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)
An Anorexic's Tale: The Brief Life of Catherine (1988)
The Karen Carpenter Story (1989)
Life Is Sweet (1990)
Uncle Bun (1991, Malayalam)
For the Love of Nancy (1994)
301, 302 (1995)
Dying to be Perfect: The Ellen Hart Pena Story (1996)
When Friendship Kills (1996)
Perfect Body (1997)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
A Girl is a Girl (1999)
NOVA: Dying to Be Thin (2000, documentary)
Sharing the Secret (2000)
Slender Existence (2000, short film)
Dying to Dance (2001)
Love on a Diet (2001)
Elephant (2003)
Hunger Point (2003)
Perfect Illusions: Eating Disorders and the Family (2003, documentary)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Thin (2006)
Dana: The 8 Year Old Anorexic (2007, documentary)
Skins (2007-2013, TV series)
To Be Fat Like Me (2007)
Glee (2009-2015, TV series)
Black Swan (2010)
Pretty Little Liars (2010)
Sharing the Secret (2010)
Rigodon (2012)
Compulsion (2013)
Starving In Suburbia (2014)
God Help The Girl (2015)
The Road Within (2015)

Hypersexuality

Rathinirvedam (1978)
Thakara (1979)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)
Desatanakkili Karayarilla (1986)
Shame (2011)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Nymphomaniac (2013)

Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Charly (1968)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
I am Sam (2001)
Radio (2003)
In Her Shoes (2005)
Taare Zameen Par (2007, Hindi)
Heavy Load (2008)
The Reader (2008)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Mission To Lars (2012)

Paraphilias

Pedophilia

M (1931)
Germany, Year Zero (1948)
The Mark (1961)
The Damned (1969)
Sweet Movie (1974)
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
Pretty Baby (1978)
Tras el cristal (1986)
Singapore Sling (1990)
Lolita (1997)
Happiness (1998)
Arayannangalude Veedu (2000)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Fat Girl (2001)
Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
Mystic River (2003)
Birth (2004)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Mysterious Skin (2004)
The Woodsman (2004)
Hard Candy (2005)
Sin City (2005)
Little Children (2006)
V for Vendetta (2006)
Achchamundu! Achchamundu! (2009)
5 Sundarikal (2013; segment: Sethulakshmi)

Personality disorders

Antisocial personality disorder

Gaslight (1944)
Brighton Rock (1947)
Rope (1948) - Brandon character
Cape Fear (1962)
Lolita (1962)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
The Oscar (1966)^[5]
The Italian Job (1969)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Get Carter (1971)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Frenzy (1972)
Paper Moon (1973)
Themroc (1973)
Black Christmas (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Halloween (1978)
Scum (1979)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982)
A Killer in the Family (1983)
The Burning Bed (1984)
The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Manhunter (1986)
Poomukhappadiyil Ninneyum Kathu (1986)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Small Sacrifices (1989)
Goodfellas (1990)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990)
The Krays (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Cape Fear (1991)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Carlito's Way (1993)
Kalifornia (1993)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Speed (1994)
Casino (1995)
Copycat (1995)
Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story (1995)
Seven (1995)
Fargo (1996)
Freeway (1996)
Matilda (1996)
Raja Hindustani (1996)
Scream (1996)
In the Company of Men (1997)
Lolita (1997)
American History X (1998)
Clay Pigeons (1998)
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Wild Things (1998)
In Too Deep (1999)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Sexy Beast (2000)
Hannibal (2001)
Training Day (2001)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Red Dragon (2002)
Gacy (2003)
Monster (2003)
Adam & Paul (2004)
Saw (2004)
The Business (2005)
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
Hostel (2005)
Match Point (2005)
Red Eye (2005)
Black Christmas (2006)
The Departed (2006)
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) - many characters experiencing extreme conduct behavior, this movie is one of the best portraits of non textbook antisocials seen today in society
Like Minds (2006)
Halloween (2007)
Hannibal Rising (2007)
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Bigga than Ben (2008)
Changeling (2008)
Lakeview Terrace (2008)
Madea Goes to Jail (2008)
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
Precious (2009)
The Stepfather (2009)
Tony (2009)
Brighton Rock (2010)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Drive (2011 film) (2011)
Starred Up (2013)
Stoker (2013)
The Sacrament (2013)
Birdman (2014)
Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)
Gone Girl (2014)
Miss Meadows (2014)
Nightcrawler (2014)
Rob the Mob (2014)
Whiplash(2014)
Premam (2015)
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)
True Story (2015)

Avoidant personality disorder

Cul-de-Sac (1966) - character of George
The Godfather (1972) - character of Fredo Corleone
The Glass Menagerie (1973)
The Godfather, Part II (1974) - character of Fredo Corleone
Zelig (1983)
Back to the Future (1985) - character of George McFly
Fargo (1996) - characters of Jerry Lundegaard and Mike Yanagita

Borderline personality disorder

Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Sunset Boulevard (film) (1950)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Mommie Dearest (1981)
Betty Blue (1986)
Misery (1990)
Ulladakkam (1991)
Bitter Moon (1992) - character of Mimi
Single White Female (1992)
The Crush (1993)
Darr (1993) - character of Rahul
Falling Down (1993)
Jeffrey Dahmer: The Secret Life (1993)
Casino (1995) - character of Ginger
Mad Love (1995)
The Cable Guy (1996)
Fear (1996)
Malicious (1996)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Lost and Delirious (2001)
Moksha (2001) - character of Vikram Sehgal
Original Sin (2001)
La Pianiste (2001)
Prozac Nation (2001)
Dahmer (2002)
One Hour Photo (2002)
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) - character of Anakin Skywalker ^[6]
Swimfan (2002)
White Oleander (2002)
Monster (2003)
Thirteen (2003)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Head-On (2004)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)^[6]
Wicker Park (2004) - character of Alex Denver
Ankahee (2006)
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Notes on a Scandal (2006)
The Tracey Fragments (2007)
Borderline (2008)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Chloe (2009)
Cracks (2009) - character of Miss G
Dev.D (2009) - character of Dev Singh Dhillon
Black Swan (2010) - character of Erica (mother)
No Strings Attached (2011)
The Roommate (2011)
Shame (2011)^[7]
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - character of Tiffany Maxwell
Filth (2013) - character of Bruce Robertson
A Mother's Nightmare (2013)
Nautanki Saala! (2013) - character of Mandar Lele
Raanjhanaa (2013) - character of Kundan Shankar
Side Effects (2013)
Truth (2013)
The Skeleton Twins (2014)
Girlhood (2014)
Gone Girl (film) (2014)
Welcome to Me (2014) - character of Alice Klieg
Boy Next Door (2015)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Histrionic personality disorder

Gone with the Wind (1939)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Thaniyavarthanam (1987)
Small Sacrifices (1989)
Mean Girls - character of Regina (2004)
Breathe (2014)
Being Julia (2004)
The Great Gatsby (2013) - Character of Daisy Buchanan
American Hustle (2013) - Character of Rosalyn Rosenfeld

Narcissistic personality disorder

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Gaslight (1940 film) starring Diana Wynyard
Gaslight (1944 film) starring Ingrid Bergman
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Ordinary People (1980) see in Beth Jarrett
Arthur (1981)
Scarface (1983)
Wall Street (1987)
Heathers (1988)
Small Sacrifices (1989)
Basic Instinct (1992)
To Die For (1995)
Matilda (1996)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Magnolia (1999)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
American Psycho (2000)
Zoolander (2001)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Phone Booth (2003)
Mean Girls (2004)
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
Norbit (2007)
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Step Brothers (2008)
Dorian Gray (2009)
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
Arthur (2011)
Bad Teacher (2011)
Beastly (2011)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Hits (2014)
Men, Women & Children (2014)

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

David and Lisa (1962)
What About Bob? (1991)
As Good as It Gets (1997)
Matchstick Men (2003)
The Aviator (2004)
Black Swan (2010)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
North 24 Kaatham (2013)
The Road Within (2015)

Schizoid personality disorder

The Remains of the Day (1993)
Schramm: Into the Mind of a Serial Killer (1993)

Paranoid personality disorder

Vadakkunokkiyantram (1989)
Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)

Schizoaffective disorder

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Shine (1996)
Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala (1998)
Love & Mercy (2014)^[8]

Schizophrenia

The Snake Pit (1948)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
Images (1972)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Die Berührte (1981)
Promise (1986)
Strange Voices (1987)
Santa Sangre (1989)
Nightbreed (1990)
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
The Fisher King (1991)
Aham (1992)
Benny & Joon (1993)
Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee (1993)
Angel Baby (1995)
Clean, Shaven (1995)
Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Bhoothakkannadi (1997)
Arlington Road (1999)
Julien Donkey-Boy (1999)
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
The Cell (2000)
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
Donnie Darko (2001)
K-PAX (2001)
Das Weisse Rauschen (The White Sound) (2001)
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Spider (2002)
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
West 47th Street (2003, documentary)
Keane (2004)
Spider Forest (2004)
15 Park Avenue (2005)
Proof (2005)
Shabd (film) (2005)
Stateside (2005)^[9]
Bug (2006)
Canvas (2006)
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness (2006)
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Reprise (2006)
Woh Lamhe (2006)
Mr. Brooks (2007)
My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures (2007)
Savage Grace (2007)
Skins (2007)
Mirrors (2008)
The Soloist (2009)
The Uninvited (2009)
Black Swan (2010)
Karthik Calling Karthik (2010)
Shutter Island (2010)
The Roommate (2011)
Sucker Punch (2011)
Take Shelter (2011)
Of Two Minds (2012)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Magic Magic (2013)
Filth (2014)
Maps to the Stars (2014)
The Voices (2014)
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
It's Okay, That's Love (2014)
Legend (2015)
Tamasha (2015)

Substance use disorder

Drugs listed from most addictive, harmful or destructive to least (from most to least dangerous, based on a 2007 scientific research study^[10]):

The Lost Weekend (1945) - alcohol
Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947) - alcohol
Night Into Morning (1951) - alcohol
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) - alcohol
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) - heroin
Monkey on My Back (1957) - morphine
Days of Wine and Roses (1962) - alcohol
Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962) - morphine, alcohol
Valley of the Dolls (1967) - amphetamines (Dexedrine), pethidine/meperidine (Demerol), barbiturates (pentobarbital, secobarbital, amobarbital)
More (1969) - heroin, amphetamines, barbiturates, alcohol (absinthe), cannabis
A Day at the Beach (1970) - alcohol
Trash (1970) - heroin
Jennifer on My Mind (1971) - heroin
The Panic in Needle Park (1971) - heroin
Pure Shit (1975) - heroin
Christiane F. (1981) - heroin, PCP, methaqualone (Mandrax/Quaaludes), alcohol, temazepam, diazepam, MDMA, cannabis
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982) - Diazepam (Valium)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982) - marijuana, alcohol, tobacco, steroids
Veronika Voss (1982) - opiates
Scarface (1983) - heroin, cocaine, methaqualone (Quaaludes)
8 Million Ways to Die (1986) - alcohol
Sid and Nancy (1986) - heroin, cocaine, methadone
Morning Patrol (1987) - alcohol
Drugstore Cowboy (1989) - morphine, oxymorphone, hydromorphone, amphetamines, cocaine, alcohol, temazepam, triazolam, flurazepam, diazepam lorazepam, LSD
Goodfellas (1990) - heroin, cocaine, amphetamines
Jungle Fever (1991) - cocaine
New Jack City (1991) - cocaine
Rush (1991) - heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, cannabis
The Crow (1994) - morphine, cocaine, alcohol, cannabis
Ed Wood (1994) - morphine
Fresh (1994) - heroin, cocaine, alcohol
The Basketball Diaries (1995) - heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, barbiturates, alcohol, inhalants, cannabis
Leaving Las Vegas (1995) - alcohol
Trainspotting (1996) - heroin/morphine, dextromoramide, amphetamines, cocaine, pethidine/meperidine (Demerol), opium, methadone, pentobarbital, amobarbital, alcohol, buprenorphine, temazepam, diazepam, phenobarbital, MDMA, cannabis
Playing God (1997) - morphine, fentanyl, amphetamines
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) - heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, opium, barbiturates, alcohol, inhalants, mescaline, LSD, cannabis
Gia (1998) - heroin, cocaine, alcohol
Permanent Midnight (1998) - heroin, cocaine, methadone
Broken Vessels (1999) - methamphetamine, heroin
Cruel Intentions (1999) - cocaine, alcohol
Jesus' Son (1999) - heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, opium, alcohol, diazepam, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms
Magnolia (1999) - morphine, cocaine, MDMA
28 Days (2000) - Oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, benzodiazepines
Almost Famous (2000) - hydrocodone (Vicodin), methaqualone (Quaaludes), LSD, cannabis
American Psycho (2000) - cocaine, alcohol, temazepam, triazolam, alprazolam, MDMA, cannabis
In Vanda's Room (2000) - heroin
Requiem for a Dream (2000) - heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, barbiturates, alcohol, benzodiazepines, MDMA, LSD, cannabis
Traffic (2000) - heroin, cocaine, cannabis
Blow (2001) - cocaine, alcohol, LSD, cannabis
Bully (2001) - methamphetamine, LSD, cannabis
Hannibal (2001) - morphine, temazepam, midazolam, chloroform
24 Hour Party People (2002) - heroin, cocaine, methadone, MDMA
The Loser Takes It All (2002) - alcohol
Love Liza (2002) - huffing gasoline
Pure (2002) - heroin, cocaine, alcohol, cannabis
The Salton Sea (2002) - methamphetamine, alcohol
Spun (2002) - methamphetamine, amphetamine
Party Monster (2003) - heroin, cocaine, ketamine, MDMA, LSD
Wonderland (2003) - methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, methaqualone (Quaaludes), cannabis
One Perfect Day (2004) - morphine, amphetamines, codeine, temazepam, MDMA, cannabis
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) - morphine, cocaine, alcohol, cannabis
The Boys & Girls Guide to Getting Down (2006) - heroin, amphetamines, cocaine, MDMA, Viagra, cannabis
Candy (2006) - heroin/morphine, methadone, MDMA, cannabis
Factory Girl (2006) - heroin, amphetamines, oxycodone, hydrocodone, temazepam, lorazepam, cannabis
Lights in the Dusk (2006) - alcohol
A Scanner Darkly (2006) - amphetamines, methamphetamine, cannabis, cocaine
Love is the Drug (2006) - cocaine, hydrocodone, alcohol, codeine, Viagra, cannabis
Someone To Run With (2006) heroin, cocaine.
Across the Universe (2007) - morphine, LSD, cannabis
28 Days (2008) - alcohol
Enter the Void (2008) - DMT, methamphetamine, cocaine, alcohol, MDMA, LSD, cannabis
Anna Karenina (2012) - morphine
Flight (2012) - heroin, cocaine, alcohol
On the Road (2012) - morphine, amphetamines, alcohol, cannabis
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) - cocaine, alcohol, methaqualone
I Smile Back (2015) - cocaine, alcohol
Nee-Na (2015) - alcohol
To Write Love on Her Arms (2015) - alcohol, cocaine (other drugs not specified)

Miscellaneous and unspecified

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
A Page of Madness (1926)
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Harvey (1950)
Lust for Life (1956)
Head Against the Wall (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
The Slender Thread (1965)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)
Charly (1968)
Oil Lamps (1971)
Vase de Noces (1974)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Jack Nicholson's character may or may not actually have a disorder; however, the disorder he portrays to gain admittance to the mental hospital is never specified but believed to be antisocial personality disorder.
La Casa del Pelícano (1976)
Face to Face (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
The Wretches Are Still Singing (1979)
Brazil (1985)
The Dead Pool (1987)
The Dream Team (1989)
Crazy People (1990)
Soorya Manasam (1992)
Germinal (1993)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Blue Sky (1994)
Nell (1994)
Patch Adams (1998)
The Other Sister (1999)
Secret Cutting (2000)
May (2002)
Oldboy (2003)
Garden State (2004)
Tideland (2005)
Bug (2006)
The Night Listener (2006)
Solace (2006)
Running with Scissors (2007)
Codex Atanicus (2008)
Batman Unmasked - The Psychology of the Dark Knight (2008)
Dogtooth (2008)
The Happy Housewife (2010)
The Perfect Host (2010)
Take Shelter (2011)
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Safelink (2013, short)
Starry Eyes (2014) - trichotillomania

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[1] Catsoulis, Jeanette (22 August 2013). "A Plumber Lends a Sympathetic Ear". New York Times. Retrieved 8 February 2016.

[2] Dave Trumbore (October 10, 2013). "Bella Thorne and Kyra Sedgwick Tackle BIG SKY". Collider. Retrieved January 6, 2015.

[3] Sue

[4] Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite (My SO Has Depression)

[5] Chocano, Carina (5 March 2006). "`THE OSCAR' Hollywood's Rotten Apple". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 8 February 2016.

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[7] "Shame (2011) Plot keywords".

[8] Light, Alan (May 29, 2015). "In 'Love & Mercy,' Brian Wilson Is Portrayed by John Cusack and Paul Dano". The New York Times.

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[Nutt-10] Nutt, D; King LA; Saulsbury W; Blakemore C (24 March 2007). "Development of a rational scale to assess the harm of drugs of potential misuse". The Lancet. 369 (9566): 1047–1053. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60464-4. PMID 17382831. Retrieved 3 November 2013.

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