Any of you guys know of any movies that portray mental illness with a very accurate and sometimes disturbing view? Something along the lines of a beautiful mind and jacobs ladder.

The Machinist
Primal Fear
Saturn 3
Halloween (2007)

As good as it gets. What do you mean by mental illness? Do you want personality disorders, Bipolar, schizo., manic depressive, or just anything.

Manic
1 Hour Photo
Dr Strangelove or How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (the general shows classic signs of schizophrenia)

Also, the sixth sense might count. Sort of.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Duh.

girl interrupted

This may sound like a strange suggestion, but check out Society (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098354/). In my personal opinion, the first three quarters of the movie, before it starts getting really strange, capture psychosis on film. Unlike most films, it doesn't go over the top with the symptoms. Instead, it is very subtle and treats psychosis intelligently. For example, in A Beautiful Mind, as is typical of most movies about mental illness, we see these elaborate hallucinations involving car chases, gunfights and FBI bureaus. In Society, by contrast, the protagonist simply sees his sister's skin momentarily rippling. In A Beautiful Mind, Nash's delusion is that he deals with cryptography undercover for the FBI; in Society, the protagonist believes his family is not his family and that they are plotting something behind his back, although he doesn't know what. However, the last quarter of Society is far more flamboyant than A Beautiful Mind and its ilk have ever been.

Now I'm not saying no one has had delusions about working undercover for the FBI, nor am I saying hallucinations can never be exuberant. But Society is the only movie I have seen that presents psychosis as I have experienced it. You can check it out here (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=72d13A2Puvg&feature=related), if you are interested.

Having long suffered from being bi-polar I know that mental illness differs from person to person so what is realistic to one person is BS to the next. On that note I offer "House of Yes" "Don Juan DeMarco" and "Mr. Jones." There is also a well reviewed movie staring Jessica Lange where she plays a bipolar person. Don't remember the name. "The Hours" depicts mental illness and despair afflected by lineage and by circumstance. Watch any movie where the issue is Pres. Nixon. See if that doesn't fit the bill. Of course you could go with Sybil or One flew over the cucko's nest.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

a beautiful mind was a really good movie i thought

Memento

Ummm, damn it. There is 2 movies that Robin Williams is in, I dont know if it accurately displays mental illness but its pretty good. 12 Monkeys has a scene where Brad Pit is bat shit crazy.

I just watched Psycho the other day. But by saying that it involves mental illness, I probably spoiled it already.

Memento

i wouldnt call that a film about an mental illness, but it is pretty good

Rainman (savantist autism)
BenX (foreign film, aspergers autism)
Mozart and the Whale (aspergers autism)

I dunno about regarding mental illness, but Julian Donkey-Boy's main character is schizophrenic, and has a really fucking loony family.

How could I have forgotten to mention Session 9.

There's also a really good one with Jack Nicholson (not Cuckoo's Nest) with some waitress where's he's all OCD and annoying, but is totally fixated on her.

Dead Man's Shoes....about a guy that comes back from the war and wants revenge for his little brother(who is mentally ill) not exactly about mental illness, but still an amazing film.

3.14(or symbol for pi) is also pretty good about a guy who is really good at math, and yah just watch it.

hm has no one said Taxi Driver? Really?

Taxi Driver.

Raging Bull too.

Shine

A beautiful mind Was a really good movie for what a Schizo goes through in a lifespan.
One who flew over the cucoo's nest Was really good. Lots of characters in that movie you see in movies now a days.

Conspiracy Theory

How could I have forgotten to mention Session 9.

While it is a good film, and a beautiful setting, I don't think it is about a mental disorder, more that he is haunted by this ex-patient.

While it is a good film, and a beautiful setting, I don't think it is about a mental disorder, more that he is haunted by this ex-patient.

Uhh, did you watch the movie?

Spoilers:
The patient recorded on the tape was a schizophrenic, and the periodically played tapes directly pertained to the boss guy's mental state. He killed his wife and strangled the baby, and then forgot about it and kept on like nothing was wrong. Then he goes and starts killing his workers as they discover what he's done, even lobotomizing one of them, but doesn't remember killing them. He's clearly schizophrenic himself. There was nothing superstitious, no ghosts. It was all his imagination.
/spoilers.

Uhh, did you watch the movie?

Spoilers:
The patient recorded on the tape was a schizophrenic, and the periodically played tapes directly pertained to the boss guy's mental state. He killed his wife and strangled the baby, and then forgot about it and kept on like nothing was wrong. Then he goes and starts killing his workers as they discover what he's done, even lobotomizing one of them, but doesn't remember killing them. He's clearly schizophrenic himself. There was nothing superstitious, no ghosts. It was all his imagination.
/spoilers.

I've only seen it a few times, and each time I interpreted it a different way :confused:

Ilsa the wicked warden is pretty good, i think its the 3rd one in the series

Fight Club
Sling Blade
I Am Sam
BrokeBack* Mountain

*cause you have to have mental illness to enjoy that !

Fight Club


i never really thought about it like that. like, ik he was going crazy, but i never would have regarded it as a mental illness movie. good call there man. also a really good movie.

i dunno, i might consider the manchurian candidate to be somewhat of a mental illness film

Synecdoche, New York does a good job.

The Secret Window

The film is an adaptation from a Stephen King book starring Johnny Depp. I found it pretty cool, both the movie and the book.

May

Film about some psycho gal that makes a friend out of other people's parts. You should give it a try.

Wow i was a little scared that fight club didn't come up until page 3.

sanitarium, there i contributed.

Wow i was a little scared that fight club didn't come up until page 3.

sanitarium, there i contributed.


Dont worry, I set these bitches straight!

Uh, fuck.

Falling Down.
The Shining.
Hide and Seek.
The Number 23.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

ZING! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_mental_illness)

Any movie with Paris Hilton in it.