mental-illness
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest picture
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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

    Mental patients follow Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), the social-misfit hero of Ken Kesey's...

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    The Hours (2002)

    The writings of Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) affect a housewife (Julianne Moore) and emulate the...

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    Taxi Driver (1976)

    A disturbed New York cabby (Robert De Niro) befriends a teenage hooker (Jodie Foster) and frees her...

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    Anyone Can Play (1968)

    Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments...

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    The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

    A troubled Gulf War veteran (Denzel Washington) becomes suspicious after a powerful senator's (Meryl...

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    The Aviator (2004)

    During the 1930s and '40s, wealthy industrialist Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) gains fame as a...

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    The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006)

    Filmmaker Jeff Feuerizeig uses interviews, home movies and audiotape excerpts to chronicle the life...

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    Blue Sky (1994)

    The sexy, blond wife (Jessica Lange) of an Army scientist (Tommy Lee Jones) cannot conform to life...

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    House of D (2005)

    His son's 13th birthday prompts an artist to revisit his own adolescence in New York's Greenwich...

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    A Beautiful Mind (2001)

    Mathematics genius John Forbes Nash Jr. (Russell Crowe) has paranoid schizophrenia but becomes a...

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    The Couch Trip (1988)

    An escaped mental patient (Dan Aykroyd) plays psychiatrist and fills in for a Los Angeles radio...

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    A Streetcar Named Desire

    Tennessee Williams' Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) moves in with her sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), and...

  • A Child Is Waiting picture
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    A Child Is Waiting

    A teacher (Judy Garland) and a psychologist (Burt Lancaster) work with children at an institute for...

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    Interiors (1978)

    A perfectionist (Geraldine Page) frustrates her daughters and drives out her husband (E.G....

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    The Killing of John Lennon (2008)

    Mark David Chapman (Jonas Ball) travels to New York in the fall of 1980 to kill musician John...

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    Barfly (1987)

    Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the...

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    Committed (1991)

    Meaning to apply for a job, a nurse (Jennifer O'Neill) accidentally admits herself to a mental...

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    Chapter 27 (2008)

    Obsessed with the character of Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's ``The Catcher in the Rye,'' Mark...

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    Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

    A New Orleans matriarch (Katharine Hepburn) tries to bribe a brain surgeon (Montgomery Clift) to...

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    Lethal Weapon (1987)

    A detective (Danny Glover) with a family hunts drug smugglers with his new partner, a loner (Mel...

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    Camille Claudel (1989)

    Parisian sculptor Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) becomes the assistant and mistress of Auguste Rodin...

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    Don't Go in the Woods (1983)

    Four campers venture into the wilderness for a relaxing hike, unaware that a deranged mountain man...

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    The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant

    A mad scientist (Bruce Dern) puts the head of a homicidal maniac (Albert Cole) on the body of a...

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    Sophie's Choice (1982)

    A Southern writer (Peter MacNicol) lives in Brooklyn with an Auschwitz survivor (Meryl Streep) and...

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    Matchstick Men (2003)

    After meeting his daughter (Alison Lohman) for the first time, a con man (Nicolas Cage) and his...

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    After Dark, My Sweet (1990)

    An ex-boxer (Jason Patric), a widow (Rachel Ward) and a con man (Bruce Dern) try a kidnap caper in a...

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    Heart of Midnight (1989)

    A young woman (Jennifer Jason Leigh) inherits her uncle's kinky nightclub and meets a stranger...

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    You're Gonna Miss Me (2007)

    A portrait of psychedelic rocker Roky Erickson shows his battle with drug addiction and...

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    Impulse (1984)

    After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent...

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    The Flying Scotsman (2006)

    In the early 1990s Graeme Obree (Jonny Lee Miller) battles mental illness while chasing his dream of...