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Mental Illness: A Selection of Films

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

7.7

Ingeborg Holm

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1249

8.2

8.1

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Kenji's rating:

161

7.9

7.3

A Page of Madness (1926)

Kenji's rating:

183

7.4

Europa '51 (1952)

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2862

8.3

Vertigo (1958)

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7.5

Head Against the Wall (1959)

Kenji's rating:

4211

8.3

8.5

Psycho (1960)

Kenji's rating:

686

7.7

7.6

Peeping Tom (1960)

Kenji's rating:

472

Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

Kenji's rating:

280

7.5

7.4

Shock Corridor (1963)

Kenji's rating:

637

7.1

Marnie (1964)

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7.4

The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

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6.6

6.8

Lilith (1964)

Kenji's rating:

1421

8.3

8.1

Persona (1966)

Kenji's rating:

118

7.5

7.7

Titicut Follies (1967) (1967)

Kenji's rating:

157

7.5

7.3

The Butcher (1970)

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8.6

8.3

King Lear (1971)

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7.2

6.9

The Other Side of Underneath

Kenji's rating:

475

8.4

8.2

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Kenji's rating:

4466

8.5

8.7

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

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7.4

The Lacemaker (1977)

Kenji's rating:

6535

8.2

8.4

The Shining (1980)

Kenji's rating:

489

7.6

7.7

Ordinary People (1980)

Kenji's rating:

120

7.4

7.5

An Angel at My Table (1990)

Kenji's rating:

3247

7.9

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Kenji's rating:

1349

8.1

Mary and Max (2009)

Kenji's rating:

236

7.6

Oslo, August 31st

Kenji's rating:

864

7.2

7.3

Blue Jasmine (2013)

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6.7

6.5

Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)

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7.3

8.1

Til Madness Do Us Part (2014)

528

7.4

7.5

Still Alice (2014)

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This is a list about individual mental health problems rather than the very abundant, often devastating collective mental illness that includes social norms and widely accepted attitudes. It's a selection of personal favourites on the subject and some notable and landmark films, in year order, but I've excluded some popular films i'm less keen on.

Here is a wider-ranging list I did elsewhere: mubi.com/lists/mental-illness

Here is Wikipedia's listing of films about (various categories) of mental illness: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_mental_disorders