Mental Illness Movies, Movies about Mental Illness

Here we've displayed a list of the best Mental Illness films : One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(1975), Psycho(1960), Apocalypse Now(1979), Taxi Driver(1976), Shutter Island(2010), A Beautiful Mind(2001), Pi(1998), Persona(1966), Opening Night(1977), Sling Blade(1996), A Streetcar Named Desire(1951), Crumb(1994) ... ...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

A criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.

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Psycho

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

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Apocalypse Now

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.

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Taxi Driver

A mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action by attempting to liberate a presidential campaign worker and an underage prostitute.

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Shutter Island

In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane.

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A Beautiful Mind

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

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Pi

A baby boy, discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner, grows into a musical prodigy, never setting foot on land.

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Persona

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

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Opening Night

A renowned actress teeters on the edge of a breakdown as she counts down the days toward a big Broadway opening.

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Sling Blade

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.

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Crumb

An intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family.

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Mulholland Dr.

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.

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Harvey

Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane - but he may be wiser than anyone knows.

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The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston, manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist is revealed in this portrait of madness, creativity and love.

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Now, Voyager

A frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman.

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Vengeance Is Mine

Chronological exploits of Iwao Enokizu, a murderous thief on the run.

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Devi

A young woman is deemed a goddess when her father-in-law, a rich feudal land-lord, has a dream envisioning her as an avatar of Kali.

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Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

Be Here to Love Me - Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of musician Townes van Zandt.

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Shine

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

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Repulsion

A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.

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Happiness

The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.

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Family Life

A teenage girl suffers a nervous breakdown.

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The Snake Pit

A detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution.

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Ludwig

The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.

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Avicii: True Stories

Focuses on the incredible rise, fall and rebirth of one of the worlds most successful electronic music artists of all time, Avicii.

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Suddenly, Last Summer

A surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret.

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Red Desert

In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.

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An Angel at My Table

Janet Frame was a brilliant child who, as a teen, was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia. Explore Janet's discovery of the world and her life in Europe as her books are published to acclaim.

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King of Hearts

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

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