movies about mental illness

hmm, so i decided i want to watch any good films that involve some kind of mental disorder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_mental_disorders

had a look at this list. which seems to be lacking stuff. lost highway.. ferris bueller's day off.. probably many more. it has some medium-level shit like the jacket and the machinist. ended up watching Manic which was ok. about to watch Hesher and Sucker Punch,which i have feel won't be that great.

but yeah, list your favourite ones. doesn't matter how obvious.

edit: oh yeah, there was a british TV drama set in a mental institution. i saw when it aired, at some point in my teens. anyone know what it's called? enjoyed it at the time,curious to see if it was actually good.

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some of my favorites that i can rememeber:

Forest Gump

The Aviator

Rain Man
Radio

Repulsion and Persona are the ones that immediately come to mind. Really good movies (and I bet both are already on that Wikipedia list).

Do you want me to move this thread to the General Banter forum?

Akira

lol where did i post it?

  On 10/30/2013 at 4:56 PM, Squee said:

Do you want me to move this thread to the General Banter forum?

White Chicks (2004)

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The Royal Shakespeare Company production of "Marat/Sade" ("The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sdeg5j8UMxA

Dead Man's Shoes

Spider

Taxi Driver

Betty Blue

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

hey now, don't insult the mentally ill

  On 10/30/2013 at 6:40 PM, triachus said:

Again, this just. doesn't. make. sense.

Why this show? There are a hundred kids shows on with the same message. Why Ponies? Why?

  On 10/30/2013 at 6:40 PM, triachus said:

i'm crying inside

  On 10/30/2013 at 6:48 PM, olo said:

Again, this just. doesn't. make. sense.

 

Why this show? There are a hundred kids shows on with the same message. Why Ponies? Why?

well, if that link to reddit that hoodie oh so helpfully provided in the bronies thread is any indication, they're really fucking easy to sexualize. *shudders*

  On 10/30/2013 at 6:55 PM, disparaissant said:

 

  On 10/30/2013 at 6:48 PM, olo said:

Again, this just. doesn't. make. sense.

 

Why this show? There are a hundred kids shows on with the same message. Why Ponies? Why?

well, if that link to reddit that hoodie oh so helpfully provided in the bronies thread is any indication, they're really fucking easy to sexualize. *shudders*

 

I'm too old for this shit. Must be a youth thing. *retires to lazyboy & opens miller highlife*

It's Kind of a Funny Story is one of Zach Galifinakis' best performances ever.

not about mental illness but neurological one

  On 10/30/2013 at 7:06 PM, Nebraska said:

Driller Killer

When you see medical shows, people are always getting CPR, and one study showed that CPR works on TV about 80% of the time. And now everyone thinks CPR is effective, whereas really only about 5% of the time does CPR yield "favorable results" and the rest of the time the person either dies or is revived to a vegatative state (often with broken ribs from the CPR). But anyway TV has warped our view of CPR.

And I think mental illness has suffered a similar fate in TV and film. Like with CPR, we only really see the exceptional cases...

Anyway, just a thought.

The Hours

Sylvia

Sybil

Fatal Attraction