Added by Kenji on 2 Sep 2014 09:59

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Mental Illness: A Selection of Films

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

7.6

7.1

Margaret Day (1913) (1913)

Kenji's rating:

1210

8.2

8.1

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Kenji's rating:

149

7.4

A Page of Madness (1926)

Kenji's rating:

167

7.5

Europa '51 (1952) (1952)

Kenji's rating:

2805

8.3

Vertigo (1958)

Kenji's rating:

7.5

Head Against the Wall (1959)

Kenji's rating:

4148

8.3

8.5

Psycho (1960)

Kenji's rating:

652

7.7

Peeping Tom (1960)

Kenji's rating:

450

8.1

Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

Kenji's rating:

264

7.5

7.4

Shock Corridor (1963)

Kenji's rating:

610

7.1

7.2

Marnie (1964)

Kenji's rating:

7.4

The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

Kenji's rating:

6.5

6.9

Lilith (1964)

Kenji's rating:

1383

8.3

8.1

Persona (1966)

Kenji's rating:

114

7.5

7.7

Titicut Follies (1967) (1992)

Kenji's rating:

155

7.4

7.5

The Butcher (1970)

Kenji's rating:

8.6

8.3

King Lear (1971)

Kenji's rating:

7.6

6.9

The Other Side of Underneath

Kenji's rating:

458

8.3

8.2

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Kenji's rating:

4397

8.5

8.7

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Kenji's rating:

8.1

7.7

The Lacemaker (1977)

Kenji's rating:

6419

8.2

8.4

The Shining (1980)

Kenji's rating:

477

7.6

7.7

Ordinary People (1980)

Kenji's rating:

112

7.5

An Angel at My Table (1990)

Kenji's rating:

3185

7.9

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Kenji's rating:

1311

8.1

Mary and Max (2009)

Kenji's rating:

220

7.6

Oslo, 31. august (2011)

Kenji's rating:

853

7.2

7.3

Blue Jasmine (2013)

Kenji's rating:

6.9

6.5

Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)

Kenji's rating:

7.3

8.1

Til Madness Do Us Part (2014)

513

7.4

7.5

Still Alice (2015)

Kenji's rating:

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