mental-illness
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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...

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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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    Equus (1977)

    A tormented psychiatrist (Richard Burton) studies a stableboy (Peter Firth) who blinded horses with...

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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...

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    Proof (2005)

    A depressed woman (Gwyneth Paltrow) copes with the death of her father (Anthony Hopkins), a...

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    Psycho (1998)

    A woman (Anne Heche) steals cash at work, hits the road and stays at a desolate motel run by mad,...

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    Factory Girl (2006)

    Wealthy Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) lands at artist Andy Warhol's (Guy Pearce) Factory and becomes...

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    Birdy (1984)

    A Vietnam veteran (Nicolas Cage) helps his bird-obsessed boyhood buddy (Matthew Modine) in a...

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    Raintree County (1957)

    A New Orleans belle (Elizabeth Taylor) lures a man (Montgomery Clift) away from his sweetheart (Eva...

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    What About Bob? (1991)

    A patient (Bill Murray) follows a pop psychiatrist (Richard Dreyfuss) on his vacation and annoys him...

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    Richard III (1955)

    Shakespeare's hunchbacked king (Laurence Olivier) works his mad way from the battlefield to the...

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    After Darkness

    In this otherwise routine film, John Hurt is outstanding as the deceptively unbalanced Peter,...

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    Edge of Sanity (1989)

    Another version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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    Dr. Strangelove (1964)

    President Muffley (Peter Sellers) and his advisers (George C. Scott, Keenan Wynn) man the Pentagon...

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    Appointment With Fear (1985)

    Director Ramzi Thomas had his name removed from this silly horror film from Halloween producer...

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    Picnic (2000)

    A heroine's hatred of modern society leads her into a bleak fantasy landscape where madness and...

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    Bulldog Drummond (1929)

    Tired of his sedentary postwar existence, Col. Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (Ronald Colman) offers his...

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    Adam (2009)

    Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor,...

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    Gothika (2003)

    A criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) awakens to find herself confined in a penitentiary, accused of...

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    Two Weeks in Another Town

    An actor (Kirk Douglas) and a director (Edward G. Robinson), both washed-up in Hollywood, try to...

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    Fear Strikes Out (1957)

    Boston Red Sox outfielder Jimmy Piersall (Anthony Perkins) has a nervous breakdown as a result of...

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    The Bridge (2006)

    Filmmaker Eric Steel documents a number of suicide leaps from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and...

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    The Dream Team (1989)

    Mental patients Billy (Michael Keaton), Henry (Christopher Lloyd), Jack (Peter Boyle) and Albert...