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:

7.5

Margaret Day (1913)

Kenji's rating:

1230

8.2

8.1

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Kenji's rating:

155

7.9

7.4

A Page of Madness

Kenji's rating:

177

7.5

Europa '51 (1952)

Kenji's rating:

2837

8.3

Vertigo

Kenji's rating:

7.5

Head Against the Wall (1959)

Kenji's rating:

4182

8.3

8.5

Psycho (1960)

Kenji's rating:

671

7.7

7.6

Peeping Tom

Kenji's rating:

460

8.1

Through a Glass Darkly (1961)

Kenji's rating:

274

7.5

7.4

Shock Corridor (1963)

Kenji's rating:

623

7.1

Marnie (1964)

Kenji's rating:

7.4

The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

Kenji's rating:

6.5

6.9

Lilith (1964)

Kenji's rating:

1395

8.3

8.1

Persona

Kenji's rating:

117

7.5

7.7

Titicut Follies (1967) (1992)

Kenji's rating:

156

7.5

7.4

The Butcher (1970)

Kenji's rating:

8.6

8.3

King Lear (1971)

Kenji's rating:

7.4

6.9

The Other Side of Underneath

Kenji's rating:

468

8.3

8.2

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

Kenji's rating:

4429

8.5

8.7

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Kenji's rating:

7.5

The Lacemaker

Kenji's rating:

6474

8.2

8.4

The Shining

Kenji's rating:

482

7.6

7.7

Ordinary People (1980)

Kenji's rating:

114

7.4

7.5

An Angel at My Table (1990)

Kenji's rating:

3211

7.9

Mulholland Drive

Kenji's rating:

1334

8.1

Mary and Max (2009)

Kenji's rating:

230

7.6

Oslo, 31. august

Kenji's rating:

854

7.2

7.3

Blue Jasmine

Kenji's rating:

6.9

6.5

Camille Claudel 1915 (2013)

Kenji's rating:

7.3

8.1

Til Madness Do Us Part (2014)

518

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