Mental+Illness+Movie+List


 * List taken and edited from Wikipedia, **please select from this list or email me to ask about another film**; if it is on this list, then you are good and no need to email me, you are already approved. If you want to do a movie that is not on the list, you must get an OK on it from me before getting started. Dissociative disorders/Multiple Personality are not real and are therefore not on the list. Ditto for crazed serial killers that are totally fictitious. Amnesia is an injury, so we are not including that as we covered it in our brain unit. There are other movies about mental illness out there, but seek approval before watching them for this assignment.

Please do not think "oh, I watched this movie a few years ago and can remember all the tiny details of how the condition was shown enough to write about it." Unless you are a savant, no, you won't. If you are a savant, you have other interesting things going on and can we please study you? Please pick your movie quickly and use netflix, redbox, ondemand, the public library, the internet, or your telepathic powers to view it before the project is due May 31st -late projects will have 25% deducted for each day late (sorry, guidance insists that I tell them your grades within minutes of the exam being over).

Alzheimer's disease/Dementia

 * //[|Iris]// (2001)
 * //[|Away from Her]// (2006)
 * //[|The Notebook]// (2004)
 * //[|Before We Forget]// (2011)
 * //[|Rise of the Planet of the Apes]// (2011)

[|Anxiety disorders]

 * //[|Ordinary People]// (1980)
 * //[|Mrs. Dalloway]// (1997)
 * //[|Session 9]// (2001)
 * //[|Elling]// (2001)
 * //[|White Oleander]// (2002)
 * //[|Punch-Drunk Love]// (2002)

[|Bipolar disorder]

 * //[|Mr. Jones]// (1993)
 * //[|Mad Love]// (1995)
 * //[|The Horse Whisperer]// (1998)
 * //[|Pollock]// (2001)
 * //[|Sylvia]// (2003)
 * //[|Michael Clayton]// (2007)
 * //[|Observe and Report]// (2009)

[|Clinical depression]

 * //[|Interiors]// (1978)
 * //[|Ordinary People]// (1980)
 * //[|An Angel at My Table]// (1990)
 * //[|The Butcher Boy]// (1998)
 * //[|The Virgin Suicides]// (1999)
 * //[|Prozac Nation]// (2001)
 * //[|The Hours]// (2002)
 * //[|The Assassination of Richard Nixon]// (2004)
 * //[|Veronika Decides to Die]// (2009)
 * //[|Helen]// (2009)
 * //[|It's Kind of a Funny Story]// (2010)
 * //[|Melancholia]// (2011)
 * //[|Wristcutters (film)]// (2009)

[|Eating disorders]

 * //[|The Best Little Girl in the World]// (1981)
 * //[|Kate's Secret]// (1986)
 * //[|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)
 * //[|Dying to Dance]// (2001)
 * //[|Hunger Point]// (2003)
 * //[|To be fat like me]// (2007)
 * //[|Black Swan]// (2010)

[|Obsessive–compulsive disorders]

 * //[|Secrets of a Soul]// (1926)
 * //[|Cat People]// (1942)
 * //[|What About Bob?]// (1991)
 * //[|As Good as It Gets]// (1997)
 * //[|Matchstick Men]// (2003)
 * //[|Dirty Filthy Love]// (2004)
 * //[|The Aviator]// (2005)

[|Antisocial personality disorder]

 * //[|A Clockwork Orange]// (1971)
 * //[|The Silence of the Lambs]// (1991)
 * //[|Natural Born Killers]// (1994)
 * //[|American Psycho]// (2000)
 * //[|Irreversible]// (2002)
 * //[|No Country for Old Men]// (2007)

[|Borderline personality disorder]

 * //[|Play Misty for Me]// (1971)
 * //[|Fatal Attraction]// (1987)
 * //[|Poison Ivy]// (1992)
 * //[|The Crush]// (1993)
 * //[|Girl, Interrupted]// (1999)
 * //[|Chloe]// (2009)
 * //[|Single White Female] (1992)//
 * //[|Black Swan]// (2010)

[|Narcissistic Personality Disorder]

 * //[|Wall Street]// (1987)
 * //[|To Die For]// (1995)

[|Schizophrenia]

 * //[|Through a Glass Darkly]// (1961)
 * //[|Images]// (1972)
 * //[|The Fisher King]// (1991)
 * //[|Benny & Joon]// (1993)
 * //[|The Madness of King George]// (1994)
 * //[|Clean, Shaven]// (1995)
 * //[|Conspiracy Theory]// (1997)
 * //[|Julien Donkey-Boy]// (1999)
 * //[|The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc]// (1999)
 * //[|A Beautiful Mind]// (2001)
 * //[|Revolution 9]// (2001)
 * //[|Igby Goes Down]// (2002)
 * //[|Spider]// (2002)
 * //[|Keane]// (2004)
 * //[|Spider Forest]// (2004)
 * //[|Mr. Brooks]// (2007)
 * //[|The Soloist]// (2008) ||  ||