List of films featuring mental illness

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Many films have portrayed mental illness or used it as a backdrop for other themes. Here is a list of some, sorted by illness portrayed, regardless of whether each film portrayed its respective mental disorder accurately or not. For example, although 50 First Dates does indeed present a case of anterograde amnesia, the movie presents a type that does not really exist.

Contents 1 AIDS-related dementia 2 Anterograde amnesia 3 Autistic disorder 4 Bipolar disorder 5 Clinical depression 6 Dissociative disorders 7 Mental retardation 8 Obsessive-compulsive disorders 9 Personality disorders 10 Schizophrenia 11 Stress disorders 12 Miscellaneous & unspecified

[edit] AIDS-related dementia

• Angels in America (2003) [1]
• The Hours
• Philadelphia (2002)[2]

[edit] Anterograde amnesia

• 50 First Dates (2004) [3]
• Memento (2001)
• Finding Nemo [4]

[edit] Autistic disorder

• Rain Man (1988) [5]
• Cube (1997) [6]
• Mercury Rising (1998) [7]

[edit] Bipolar disorder

• Mr. Jones (1993) [8]
• Pollock (2001) [9]
• Sylvia (2003) [10]

[edit] Clinical depression

• Prozac Nation (2001) [11]

[edit] Dissociative disorders

• Fight Club (1999) [12]
• Hide And Seek (2005) [13]
• Identity (2003) [14]
• Me, Myself and Irene (2000) [15]
• Passion of Mind (2000) [16]
• Secret Window (2004)[17]
• Sybil (1976) [18]
• A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) [19]
• The Three Faces of Eve
• Donnie Darko (2001) [20]

[edit] Mental retardation

• Charly (1968) [21]
• I Am Sam (2001) [22]
• The Other Sister (1999) [23]
• Last Orders (2001) [24]
• Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005) [25](TV)
• Sling Blade (1996)[26]
• What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) [27]

[edit] Obsessive-compulsive disorders

• As Good as It Gets (1997) [28]
• The Aviator (2005) [29]
• Matchstick Men (2003)[30]
• Dirty Filthy Love (2004)[31]

[edit] Personality disorders

Borderline personality disorder

• Girl, Interrupted (1999) [32]
• Fatal Attraction (1987) [33]
• Play Misty for Me (1971) [34]

[edit] Schizophrenia

• A Beautiful Mind (2002) [35]
• Clean Shaven (1995) [36]
• Conspiracy Theory (1997) [37]
• Donnie Darko (2001) [38]
• K-Pax (2001) [39]
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) [40]
• Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) [41]
• The Madness of King George (1994) [42]
• Spider (2002) [43]
• The Fisher King (1991) [44]
• The Cell
• Igby Goes Down

[edit] Stress disorders

• Mrs. Dalloway (1997) [45]
• Shine (1996) [46]
• White Oleander (2002)

[edit] Miscellaneous & unspecified

• The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) [47]
• Benny & Joon (1993) [48]
• The Butcher Boy (1998) [49]
• He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002) [50]
• The Jacket (2005) [51]
• The Machinist (2004) [52]
• Manic (2004)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) [53]
• Patch Adams (1998) [54]
• Pink Floyd The Wall (1981) [55]
• Radio (2003) [56]