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 Anterograde amnesia 2 Autistic disorder 3 Bipolar disorder 4 Clinical depression 5 Dissociative disorders 6 Obsessive-compulsive disorders 7 Personality disorders 8 Retrograde amnesia 9 Schizophrenia 10 Stress disorders 11 Miscellaneous and unspecified

[edit] Anterograde amnesia

• Memento (2001) [1]
• 50 First Dates (2004) [2]

[edit] Autistic disorder

• Rain Man (1988) [3]
• Cube (1997) [4]
• Mercury Rising (1998) [5]

[edit] Bipolar disorder

• Mr. Jones (1993) [6]
• Pollock (2001) [7]
• Sylvia (2003) [8]

[edit] Clinical depression

• The Butcher Boy (1998) [9]
• Prozac Nation (2001) [10]
• The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) [11]

[edit] Dissociative disorders

• The Three Faces of Eve (1957) [12]
• Psycho (1960)
• Sybil (1976) [13]
• Fight Club (1999) [14]
• The Hurricane (1999) [15]
• Me, Myself and Irene (2000) [16]
• Passion of Mind (2000) [17]
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) [18]
• The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003) [19]
• A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) [20]
• Identity (2003) [21]
• Secret Window (2004) [22]
• Hide and Seek (2005) [23]
• The Jacket (2005) [24]
• Thr3e (2007) [25]

[edit] Obsessive-compulsive disorders

• What About Bob? (1991) [26]
• As Good as It Gets (1997) [27]
• Matchstick Men (2003) [28]
• Dirty Filthy Love (2004) [29]
• The Aviator (2005) [30]

[edit] Personality disorders

Borderline personality disorder

• Play Misty for Me (1971) [31]
• Fatal Attraction (1987) [32]
• Girl, Interrupted (1999) [33]
• Allein (Germany, 2004) [34]

[edit] Retrograde amnesia

• The Number 23 (2007) [35]
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) [36]
• The Bourne Identity

[edit] Schizophrenia

• Awakenings (1990) [37]
• The Fisher King (1991) [38]
• Benny & Joon (1993) [39]
• The Madness of King George (1994) [40]
• Clean, Shaven (1995) [41]
• Conspiracy Theory (1997) [42]
• Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) [43]
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) [44]
• Donnie Darko (2001) [45]
• K-Pax (2001) [46]
• Revolution 9 (2001) [47]
• A Beautiful Mind (2002) [48]
• Igby Goes Down (2002) [49]
• Spider (2002) [50]
• Spider Forest (2004) [51]

[edit] Stress disorders

• Shine (1996) [52]
• Mrs. Dalloway (1997) [53]
• White Oleander (2002) [54]
• Session 9 (2001) [55]

[edit] Miscellaneous and unspecified

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) [56]
• Pink Floyd The Wall (1981) [57]
• Brazil (film) (1985) [58]
• The Dream Team (1989) [59]
• Crazy People (1990) [60]
• Twelve Monkeys (1995) [61]
• Patch Adams (1998) [62]
• I Am Sam (2001) [63]
• The Others (2001)
• Radio (2003) [64]
• Tideland (2005)
• Solace (2006)
• BA:BO (2008)
• CODEX ATANICUS (2008) [65]