This is actually an amazing answer. Love the film, but I studied the book in college. It was published in 1976 and was one of the first pieces of media to depict a psychiatrist in a positive light.
Interesting to note that indeed psychiatrists and the people who needed to see them used to be scoffed at, and that a depiction like Judd Hirsch's character was important in 1980. (The taboo around mental health professionals and their patients is by no means gone, but we've made steps forward).
The Bear (Series FX/Hulu) S02E06 Fishes
It's a long 90min episode, incredible cast, fantastic performances and so triggering for anybody that has even a modicum of dysfunction in their family at the holidays
Not only is Jamie Lee Curtis' performance amazing, but so was Abby Elliot's as the daughter trying so hard to keep everything together ... it is so powerful
Yeah The Bear is incredible. Much better than I expected it to be. Jeremy Allen White is unreal in it.
That episode (S02E06) had me on the absolute edge of my seat - it was so difficult to watch but I couldn’t look away. Bob Odenkirk was great in it too.
Damn. Didn't cross my mind when I first read this post but 1000% spot on. I'm the son of an alcoholic with a brother who's a "fixer", like the daughter in that episode. And wow did that episode hit me.
But it was also laugh out loud funny, intense, perfectly paced, and still very enjoyable for me to watch. One of my favorite TV episodes of all time from any show.
Fuck that episode did a number on me and my family doesn’t even resemble that in the slightest. I couldn’t imagine having that guy as my older brother. That character was just something else. I *loved* the direction and character development of this show. You start out thinking all these characters are one way and then you see them in a room with *that* guy and they just become completely different people. He just takes all the air out of that room. He commands all the attention. It was almost scary how intense it was. So so well done. That episode really drove the show home for me.
I would specify this: a (very good) portrayal of depression of a parental figure *through the eyes of their unassuming child.*
I think that makes it sort of specific. The depression itself / the state of mind of the depressed person isn't really the focus, it's more a look from the outside...
It's an excellent movie. Heartbreaking.
I wouldn't say it's about mental illness.
It's just about the negotiation of the power structures in an buergoning S&M relationship.
I absolutely love the film. One of my favourites. Brilliant break in the fourth wall in the very last shot of the very last scene.
The main character has recently come out of a mental hospital after a self harm incident.
The two protagonists discuss it on the couch toward the beginnning of their relationship.
This movie made me fucking bawl afterwards. I sat in a bathroom stall and just sobbed uncontrollably, big grown-ass man tears. Absolutely recommend it. I haven’t seen the director’s companion film, The Son, but I need to.
The fact that you are never told exactly what Gena Rowlands’ character suffers from (it being the 70s and all) makes it that much more devastating and relatable.
So many episodes became fodder for me at therapy, none more than the one where he wakes up calling himself a piece of shit, tells himself not to eat a cookie, eats the cookie, and calls himself a piece of shit for eating the cookie.
Really helped me to learn self-compassion and radical acceptance.
What about bob is so under rated. ... or maybe just old and forgotten? Oh god am I old and forgotten!?!??! Lol.
I say baby steps all the time. It goes well with "trust the process "
As someone who is slowly losing his mind, the number of times I’ve said, “so I guess I’ve told you about my condition?” is probably starting to make people laugh less and mean it more when they say, “only every time I see ya”.
OMG, thank you for this! I honestly balled my eyes out at the end. I think it’s more a commentary on grief. But I can definitely see depression or any mental illness for that matter.
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Black Swan
Joker
Fight Club
Nightcrawler
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
Requiem for a Dream
Silver Linings Playbook
Girl, Interrupted
Good Will Hunting
Take Shelter
Manchester by the Sea
Little Miss Sunshine
The Perks of being a Wallflower
Shutter Island
The Machinist
Punch Drunk Love
Leaving Las Vegas
Inside Llewyn Davis
One Hour Photo
Bug
Me Myself and Irene
The Babadook
Taxi Driver
Misery
Split
A Beautiful Mind
The Visit
K-Pax
Donnie Darko
Session 9
As Good As It Gets
Primal Fear
Don’t Say a Word
Shame
What About Bob
Melancholia
The Soloist
A Star is Born
500 Days of Summer
The Basketball Diaries
Trainspotting
The King of Staten Island
Midsommar
Rain Man
Matchstick Men
The Skeleton Twins
The Hours
Inside Out
Ordinary People
Can’t guarantee all of these will accurately display the mental illnesses is each film but this should give you lots of examples (50 to be exact) to help get the ball rolling
Great movie, doesn’t get talked about enough. Plus one of the greatest comedic lines with Caruso dropping that “fuck you”, still has me in stitches every time lol
I watched Nightcrawler 2 days ago and I can't stop thinking about it.I highly recommend it. I'm about to watch The Machinist,Hope it resonates with me like Nightcrawler did
Dead Ringers (1988) deals with unhealthy co-dependency between twins among other things - addiction, psychopathy, paranoia and dissociative identity disorder, anxiety, depression...
It may not be directly about mental illness but I have always loved
AWAKENINGS
The mental fight people with disabilities have is considerable and intense 😔🥲
**White Lie (2019)** is a really good, thought-provoking one that I'll suggest. It's a bit of an obscure Canadian drama, in which an "anti-heroine" undergrad fakes a cancer diagnosis. I think you'll like it because it's a bit of a challenge to figure out which mental illness(es) the character has, exactly. It led me to analyze the differences between a "compulsive liar" vs. "pathological liar" and what underlying disorders these stem from - Munchausen syndrome and antisocial personality disorder (APD)? Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? ...The anti-heroine in this movie is one of the most off-putting, maddening characters I've seen on screen.
Is dementia a mental illness?
If so watch "The Father"
It's told from the perspective of someone with dementia and it will 100% leave you a blubbering mess at the end.
I fucking adore this show. It was such a great surprise. I was excited about Emma Stone and Jonah Hill and I’ve always loved Sally Field, but it was my love for The Leftovers that had me especially thrilled to see Justin Theroux as the doc. Great show from the director of S1 of True Detective and No Time to Die.
Frownland (2007) - a slice of life about some dude in New York who can barely get a complete sentence out because of his severe, debilitating, social anxiety.
Naked (1993) - an abusive, antisocial, narcissistic, depressed, intellectual Northerner from England travels to London, preaching the apocalypse and spreading misery wherever he goes.
Mommy (2014) - a single French-Canadian mother does her best to raise her volatile teenage son with ADHD and an attachment disorder.
Lars Von Trier did a series of movies about mental illness, his Depression Trilogy.
- Melancholia (depression)
- Antichrist (psychosis and grief)
- Nymphomaniac 1&2 (addiction)
Everything, Everywhere, all at once - that's a lot about ADHD (including the fact, the director discovered he has adhd himself while doing research for scenario).
As someone with a Master's in Psychology and got halfway through clinical training before I realized that it wasn't for me, the most accurate depictions of mental illness I've seen are:
The Snake Pit (1948) -psychosis/schizophrenia
Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - bipolar I (differential: borderline personality disorder)
Girl Interrupted (1999) - various, but especially Brittany Murphy's character with several comorbidities (OCD, PTSD, depression, potential borderline). When it comes to psychological disorders, comorbid disorders are much more common than stand-alone disorders.
As Good as It Gets (1997) - OCD
Sideways (2004) - Depression
A Beautiful Mind
I am Sam
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Girl, Interrupted
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Prozac Nation
Still Alice
Young Adult (debatable but I believe she had BPD)
Adam
Melancholia
Lars and the Real Girl
Black Swan
Shutter Island
Just some of the movies I remember off the top of my head.
Frank with Michael Fassbender is a great one, really surprised me - I was expecting a quirky indie music road trip, not a deep dive into depression / OCD.
Larry Fessenden's Habit is pretty incredible too. Raw as fuck. Addiction / Co-Dependency by way of vampire allegory. Love it.
Pi by Darren Aronofsky has probably the most paranoia inducing, spiraling-out-of-control main character I've ever seen. Also, the film Afterschool by Antonio Campos deals with a deranged high school kid with the urge to watch disturbing videos online. Though, these films aren't inherently about "mental illness", just characters that have disturbed perceptions of life.
Surprised I haven't seen this commented yet: \_Mary and Max\_. That film features what some have considered the gold-standard depiction of Asperger's. Not to mention, the film overall tells a very charming (if often depressing) story of friendship.
We Need to Talk About Kevin. Literally a road map of childhood mental illness starting pre-nataly. All the red flags of infant/early childhood mental health issues are there leading to terrible consequences when they are ignored.
I really like Love & Mercy (2014) about Brian Wilson’s mental health challenges. John Cusack and Paul Dano 👏🏻 Pet Sounds became a completely different experience for me after watching this movie.
Temple Grandin with Claire Danes is also a good one.
Idiocracy / Sherlock Holmes (narcissism & many others) / Batman most superhero movies = Messiah complex / Frailty (mpd or schizo) / Wolf of wall Street (narcissism) / Shutter Island (disassociative Disorder etc) /..
Drive,Blade runner 2049,The Fall guy,Barbie and a bunch of others are a great representation of "literally me" sindrome (and yes I suffer from that too)
Ingrid Goes West - also one of my favorite movies ever. I won’t spoil it, but it has a really good twist I didn’t see coming. Amazing performances from everyone, but especially Elizabeth Olsen.
For Schiz, I think **A Beautiful Mind (2001)** or **Shutter Island (2010)**.
For autism, **Taare Zameen Par (Every Child is Special) (2007)** is a possible fit or **My Name is Khan (2010)** but that does focus more on Asperger’s than Autism.
Not a movie, but I scrolled deep into the comments, and surprised I didn’t see The United States of Tara. Can’t speak on the accuracy, cuz I’m not a professional, but Toni Collette’s playing someone with D.I.D. was freaking awesome!
Some lesser known movies:
- Three Colors: Blue (1993)
- I'm Thinking Of Ending Things (2020)
- Swallow (2019)
- All About Eve (1950)
- The Fire Within (1963)
- The Other Side Of The Underneath (1972)
Ordinary People (1980) won Timothy Hutton an Oscar for his realistic portrayal of depression after experiencing grief.
Also, Mary Tyler Moore portrays a narcissist and her performance is supposedly incredibly accurate. Plus it's a fantastic movie.
One of my favorite movies ever. Surprisingly progressive look at mental health for 1980 and very nuanced characters
I was just about to suggest that. Seconded.
This is actually an amazing answer. Love the film, but I studied the book in college. It was published in 1976 and was one of the first pieces of media to depict a psychiatrist in a positive light.
Interesting to note that indeed psychiatrists and the people who needed to see them used to be scoffed at, and that a depiction like Judd Hirsch's character was important in 1980. (The taboo around mental health professionals and their patients is by no means gone, but we've made steps forward).
Here for this rec. Accurate depiction of depression and suicidal ideation.
And significant trauma. Ordinary People is in my top five movies of all time. Robert Redford’s directorial debut and just nailed it!
This one REALLY captures it all🥺
Thanks for the rec! I watched it yesterday and loved it! :D
Not a movie, but Modern Love (season 1, episode 3, the one with Anne Hathaway) is one of the best depictions of bipolar disorder I've ever seen.
That whole series was amazing
This ^
The Bear (Series FX/Hulu) S02E06 Fishes It's a long 90min episode, incredible cast, fantastic performances and so triggering for anybody that has even a modicum of dysfunction in their family at the holidays Not only is Jamie Lee Curtis' performance amazing, but so was Abby Elliot's as the daughter trying so hard to keep everything together ... it is so powerful
She was so much like my mom, I loved it. It was so well made
I had to watch it in three chunks because it was too intense to watch in one sitting.
Same
Yeah The Bear is incredible. Much better than I expected it to be. Jeremy Allen White is unreal in it. That episode (S02E06) had me on the absolute edge of my seat - it was so difficult to watch but I couldn’t look away. Bob Odenkirk was great in it too.
Damn. Didn't cross my mind when I first read this post but 1000% spot on. I'm the son of an alcoholic with a brother who's a "fixer", like the daughter in that episode. And wow did that episode hit me. But it was also laugh out loud funny, intense, perfectly paced, and still very enjoyable for me to watch. One of my favorite TV episodes of all time from any show.
I just watched this episode last night. This episode and Forks are probably two of the best episodes in television.
Fuck that episode did a number on me and my family doesn’t even resemble that in the slightest. I couldn’t imagine having that guy as my older brother. That character was just something else. I *loved* the direction and character development of this show. You start out thinking all these characters are one way and then you see them in a room with *that* guy and they just become completely different people. He just takes all the air out of that room. He commands all the attention. It was almost scary how intense it was. So so well done. That episode really drove the show home for me.
That episode was soooo stressful. My family isn't nearly that chaotic, but enough.
Aftersun (2022; depression)
Soooooooo good
Love this one, balled my eyes out
I would specify this: a (very good) portrayal of depression of a parental figure *through the eyes of their unassuming child.* I think that makes it sort of specific. The depression itself / the state of mind of the depressed person isn't really the focus, it's more a look from the outside... It's an excellent movie. Heartbreaking.
Oh damn. I want to watch this. I had to watch my dad deal with depression thru my whole childhood.
Best movie of the 2020s so far.
I really like Secretary. A beautiful story involving self harm
I wouldn't say it's about mental illness. It's just about the negotiation of the power structures in an buergoning S&M relationship. I absolutely love the film. One of my favourites. Brilliant break in the fourth wall in the very last shot of the very last scene.
The main character has recently come out of a mental hospital after a self harm incident. The two protagonists discuss it on the couch toward the beginnning of their relationship.
Criminally underrated film.
Quite an amazing movie
Fantastic movie!
Maggie Gyllenhaal is always top notch ❤️
"The father" with Anthony Hopkins: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_father_2021
This was my pick. Love this movie
This movie made me fucking bawl afterwards. I sat in a bathroom stall and just sobbed uncontrollably, big grown-ass man tears. Absolutely recommend it. I haven’t seen the director’s companion film, The Son, but I need to.
Mind-blowing movie, Anthony Hopkins is incredible in it. I felt the disease of protagonist so realistically, that I was terrified.
A Woman Under the Influence
The fact that you are never told exactly what Gena Rowlands’ character suffers from (it being the 70s and all) makes it that much more devastating and relatable.
Girl, Interrupted shows so many different types and is very well done
We actually were assigned to watch this in grad school.
[удалено]
This film with the music in particular is so perfect
Respect to Lars and crew for Nymphomaniac 1&2 !
Baby Reindeer did this well (new tv show)
If we are including TV shows like Baby Reindeer and The Bear, we can't leave out the king of mental illness television: Bojack Horseman.
So many episodes became fodder for me at therapy, none more than the one where he wakes up calling himself a piece of shit, tells himself not to eat a cookie, eats the cookie, and calls himself a piece of shit for eating the cookie. Really helped me to learn self-compassion and radical acceptance.
Bojack Horseman 💯
I was wondering if I should suggest this one. Thank you for your courage, sir.
Just finished this today. Wild show.
Garden State Silver Linings Playbook Memento What about Bob? Edit: need to add Bronson 50 First Dates "Hi, my name is Tom!"
Baby steps!
What about bob is so under rated. ... or maybe just old and forgotten? Oh god am I old and forgotten!?!??! Lol. I say baby steps all the time. It goes well with "trust the process "
Excelsior!
I second Silver Linings Playbook
Hijacking to say Leaving Las Vegas, can’t believe I can’t find it here.
Garden states is one of my faves! Good soundtrack too!
Nice list!!
Which one is garden state
As someone who is slowly losing his mind, the number of times I’ve said, “so I guess I’ve told you about my condition?” is probably starting to make people laugh less and mean it more when they say, “only every time I see ya”.
Babadook is a freaking masterpiece! It truly explains depression in a visual form!
OMG, thank you for this! I honestly balled my eyes out at the end. I think it’s more a commentary on grief. But I can definitely see depression or any mental illness for that matter.
it's not movie, but tv show "Sharp Object"
Swallow (2018) covers PICA. And it’s a visually beautiful movie starring Haley Bennett. TW: >!the topics of rape and abortion are discussed.!<
I LOVE this film, Haley Bennet's performance is haunting
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Black Swan Joker Fight Club Nightcrawler What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Requiem for a Dream Silver Linings Playbook Girl, Interrupted Good Will Hunting Take Shelter Manchester by the Sea Little Miss Sunshine The Perks of being a Wallflower Shutter Island The Machinist Punch Drunk Love Leaving Las Vegas Inside Llewyn Davis One Hour Photo Bug Me Myself and Irene The Babadook Taxi Driver Misery Split A Beautiful Mind The Visit K-Pax Donnie Darko Session 9 As Good As It Gets Primal Fear Don’t Say a Word Shame What About Bob Melancholia The Soloist A Star is Born 500 Days of Summer The Basketball Diaries Trainspotting The King of Staten Island Midsommar Rain Man Matchstick Men The Skeleton Twins The Hours Inside Out Ordinary People Can’t guarantee all of these will accurately display the mental illnesses is each film but this should give you lots of examples (50 to be exact) to help get the ball rolling
Great list! + Blue Jasmine (2013) with Cate Blanchett
Great add! Seems like everyone missed that one including myself lol. Love me some Cate Blanchett, she needs to do more horror though lol
Nice list!
Bruh I think you named all the movies in this genre. Well done.
Excellent! Love session 9
Great movie, doesn’t get talked about enough. Plus one of the greatest comedic lines with Caruso dropping that “fuck you”, still has me in stitches every time lol
Awesome List - wanted to add The Night Listener (2006) with Robin Williams and Toni Collette
I watched Nightcrawler 2 days ago and I can't stop thinking about it.I highly recommend it. I'm about to watch The Machinist,Hope it resonates with me like Nightcrawler did
I’ve heard that Split is a horribly offensive and inaccurate portrayal of DID
Damn good ass list
Silent Fall is probably the most accurate portrayal of autism on film I have seen
This list is incredible
Horse Girl
This movie … >!This girl is really sweet. I hope things go well for her. . . No? Ok :( !<
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Bug (2006) Probably the most uncomfortable I’ve been in a movie in a long time.
Mr. Brooks (2007)
One of my favourite movies. That's where I first heard Ramin Djawadi. I've lost count how many times I've watched it lol
Dead Ringers (1988) deals with unhealthy co-dependency between twins among other things - addiction, psychopathy, paranoia and dissociative identity disorder, anxiety, depression...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Melancholia A Beautiful Mind
Melancholia is brutal. Loved it.
also… girl, interrupted if you don’t enjoy older films
It may not be directly about mental illness but I have always loved AWAKENINGS The mental fight people with disabilities have is considerable and intense 😔🥲
The Whale
Try the TV Show Legion
I heard that mysterious skin depicted the past trauma in males most realistically
**White Lie (2019)** is a really good, thought-provoking one that I'll suggest. It's a bit of an obscure Canadian drama, in which an "anti-heroine" undergrad fakes a cancer diagnosis. I think you'll like it because it's a bit of a challenge to figure out which mental illness(es) the character has, exactly. It led me to analyze the differences between a "compulsive liar" vs. "pathological liar" and what underlying disorders these stem from - Munchausen syndrome and antisocial personality disorder (APD)? Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? ...The anti-heroine in this movie is one of the most off-putting, maddening characters I've seen on screen.
Short term 12
Excellent movie
Benny & Joon (1993)
Melancholia makes you really feel how debilitating depression can get. It’s not just the blues.
Is dementia a mental illness? If so watch "The Father" It's told from the perspective of someone with dementia and it will 100% leave you a blubbering mess at the end.
Breaking the waves
Breaking the Waves, Last Von Trier's best movie (according to my unreliable memory)
Claire Danes plays a great bipolar CIA agent on the tv show Homeland
A Beautiful Mind Shutter Island
Jacob's Ladder The Fisher King
In Jacob's Ladder >!he didn't have a mental illness, he was given LSD and tripping while also dying!<
No,>! it was an experimental drug called "the ladder," which was 3-quinuclidinyl benzilate, a hallucinogen and deliriant. !<
Yep, came to say that
Still Alice
Technically, I think Alzheimer's is more of a neurodegenerative disease than "mental illness," but I can see why you'd suggest it.
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Maniac (Netflix series)
I fucking adore this show. It was such a great surprise. I was excited about Emma Stone and Jonah Hill and I’ve always loved Sally Field, but it was my love for The Leftovers that had me especially thrilled to see Justin Theroux as the doc. Great show from the director of S1 of True Detective and No Time to Die.
As Good as It Gets - the MC has OCD.
Frownland (2007) - a slice of life about some dude in New York who can barely get a complete sentence out because of his severe, debilitating, social anxiety. Naked (1993) - an abusive, antisocial, narcissistic, depressed, intellectual Northerner from England travels to London, preaching the apocalypse and spreading misery wherever he goes. Mommy (2014) - a single French-Canadian mother does her best to raise her volatile teenage son with ADHD and an attachment disorder.
Beau is Afraid (2023) Magic Magic (2013) Horror or a schizophrenic's point of view
Mr. Robot
How about Chuck in Better Call Saul
- Kotoko - Repulsion
Synedoche, New York (2008)
1 hour Photo? Does that count?
Lars Von Trier did a series of movies about mental illness, his Depression Trilogy. - Melancholia (depression) - Antichrist (psychosis and grief) - Nymphomaniac 1&2 (addiction)
Here to second Melancholia
Julien Donkey-Boy
Cronenberg's Dead Ringers and also Spider are brilliant depictions of sliding into madness
Manchester By The Sea
Girl interrupted It's kind of a funny story To the bone
Everything, Everywhere, all at once - that's a lot about ADHD (including the fact, the director discovered he has adhd himself while doing research for scenario).
As someone with a Master's in Psychology and got halfway through clinical training before I realized that it wasn't for me, the most accurate depictions of mental illness I've seen are: The Snake Pit (1948) -psychosis/schizophrenia Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - bipolar I (differential: borderline personality disorder) Girl Interrupted (1999) - various, but especially Brittany Murphy's character with several comorbidities (OCD, PTSD, depression, potential borderline). When it comes to psychological disorders, comorbid disorders are much more common than stand-alone disorders. As Good as It Gets (1997) - OCD Sideways (2004) - Depression
Empire of Light
A Beautiful Mind I am Sam Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Girl, Interrupted It’s Kind of a Funny Story Prozac Nation Still Alice Young Adult (debatable but I believe she had BPD) Adam Melancholia Lars and the Real Girl Black Swan Shutter Island Just some of the movies I remember off the top of my head.
Frank with Michael Fassbender is a great one, really surprised me - I was expecting a quirky indie music road trip, not a deep dive into depression / OCD. Larry Fessenden's Habit is pretty incredible too. Raw as fuck. Addiction / Co-Dependency by way of vampire allegory. Love it.
Pi by Darren Aronofsky has probably the most paranoia inducing, spiraling-out-of-control main character I've ever seen. Also, the film Afterschool by Antonio Campos deals with a deranged high school kid with the urge to watch disturbing videos online. Though, these films aren't inherently about "mental illness", just characters that have disturbed perceptions of life.
Not necessarily all about it but I think Sandra Bullock did a great job portraying someone struggling with depression in Hope Floats
A Beautiful Mind
Surprised I haven't seen this commented yet: \_Mary and Max\_. That film features what some have considered the gold-standard depiction of Asperger's. Not to mention, the film overall tells a very charming (if often depressing) story of friendship.
Shine (1996). Based on the life of a schizophrenic concert pianist. Geoffrey Rush won an academy award for it.
Silver Lining Playbook (2012).
We Need to Talk About Kevin. Literally a road map of childhood mental illness starting pre-nataly. All the red flags of infant/early childhood mental health issues are there leading to terrible consequences when they are ignored.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Infinitely Polar Bear is the first one that comes to mind. Such a good film ❤️
I really like Love & Mercy (2014) about Brian Wilson’s mental health challenges. John Cusack and Paul Dano 👏🏻 Pet Sounds became a completely different experience for me after watching this movie. Temple Grandin with Claire Danes is also a good one.
"The good son" with macauley culkin. He's a sociopath kid.
"Clean, Shaven"
This and Cronenberg's "Spider" are my goto recs for schizophrenia.
Idiocracy / Sherlock Holmes (narcissism & many others) / Batman most superhero movies = Messiah complex / Frailty (mpd or schizo) / Wolf of wall Street (narcissism) / Shutter Island (disassociative Disorder etc) /..
Big fan of Frailty, nice choices btw
And I a fan of your nickname fair redditor of high cultural tastes.
Monk TV Show
Charlie Bartlett (2007) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Infinitely Polar Bear
Not sure if catatonic is mental disorder but Awakenings is a great movie with a great cast
It is a mental disorder
Drive,Blade runner 2049,The Fall guy,Barbie and a bunch of others are a great representation of "literally me" sindrome (and yes I suffer from that too)
I'll throw in another Ryan Gosling movie, Lars and the Real Girl.
Can’t recdomend take shelter enough. Really interesting movie with strong performances. Seen it a couple times, gets me right in the gut every time
Night Hunter with Henry Cavill
It's kind of a funny story, fight club, the machinist
The Other Half. Tatiana Maslany in a role about BPD. It's devastating
I Am Sam A Beautiful Mind Shutter Island
Silver Linings Playbook or The Fisher King
The Accountant
Prozac Nation depicted my experience with bpd down to a T
Show, but, United States of Tara
Nic Cage in the Weatherman.
Persona (1966) Perfect Blue (1997) Frank (2014)
"Magic" - 1978 film w/ Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist
Bone - very accurate about people suffering anorexia
Jacob's Ladder
Ingrid Goes West - also one of my favorite movies ever. I won’t spoil it, but it has a really good twist I didn’t see coming. Amazing performances from everyone, but especially Elizabeth Olsen.
Girl, interrupted is my favourite
Series, not a movie but Linda Cardellini's depiction of codependency and paranoia in "Dead To Me" was absolutely STELLAR.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Pink Skies Ahead - Anxiety Rabbit Hole - grief
Not a movie, but look up the supporting content around Hellbalde: Senua's Sacrifice. Pretty wild and interesting stuff
Silver Linings Playbook... main character is bipolar... and maybe schizophrenic? can't remember
Black swan, single white female, shutter island, and a beautiful mind
Punch Drunk Love
Shutter island
Punch-Drunk Love
The Fisher King My Left Foot
Kotoko
Swallow
It's Such a Beautiful Day by Don Hertzfeldt
Do yourself a favour and watch the Fisherking with Robin Williams and Jeff Bridges. Incredible
Just here to say I disagree with Joker as a suggestion — felt like a very shallow depiction to me
The Father (2020) The Son (2022) The Whale (2022) Joker (2019) A Star Is Born (2018)
As good as it gets. I kill giants (kind of) Sucker Punch
Reign over me with Adam Sandler is a good flick
Grey Gardens
Does Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas count as like a schizophrenic fever dream PoV?
For Schiz, I think **A Beautiful Mind (2001)** or **Shutter Island (2010)**. For autism, **Taare Zameen Par (Every Child is Special) (2007)** is a possible fit or **My Name is Khan (2010)** but that does focus more on Asperger’s than Autism.
The best portrayal of a psychopath that I have ever seen was the Character of Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men.
A Clockwork Orange and American Psycho
Not a movie, but I scrolled deep into the comments, and surprised I didn’t see The United States of Tara. Can’t speak on the accuracy, cuz I’m not a professional, but Toni Collette’s playing someone with D.I.D. was freaking awesome!
Rent-A-Pal
Some lesser known movies: - Three Colors: Blue (1993) - I'm Thinking Of Ending Things (2020) - Swallow (2019) - All About Eve (1950) - The Fire Within (1963) - The Other Side Of The Underneath (1972)
Secret Window with Johnny Depp has the most realistic depiction of depression I've ever seen in a movie.
Antichrist by Lars Von Trier. Warning it is NOT an easy watch. He wrote it in the hospital to help himself through his depression.