List of films featuring mental illness

Many films have portrayed mental illness or used it as a backdrop for other themes. Here is a list of some, sorted by illness portrayed, regardless of whether each film portrayed its respective mental disorder accurately or not. For example, although "50 First Dates" does indeed present a case of anterograde amnesia, the movie presents a type that does not really exist.

Anterograde amnesia

*"Memento" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/]
*"50 First Dates" (2004) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343660/]
*"Finding Nemo" (2003) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266543/]

Autistic disorder

*"Rain Man" (1988) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095953/]
*"Cube" (1997) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123755/]
*"Mercury Rising" (1998) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120749/]
*"The Boy Who Could Fly" (1986) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090768/]
*"House of Cards" (1993) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107148/]

Bipolar disorder

*"Mr. Jones" (1993) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107611/]
*"Pollock" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183659/]
*"Sylvia" (2003) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325055/]
*"Mad Love" (1995) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113729/]
*"The Horse Whisperer" (1998) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119314/]
*"The Legend of Bagger Vance" (2000) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146984/]

Clinical depression

* "The Butcher Boy" (1998) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118804/]
* "Prozac Nation" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236640/]
* "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" (2004) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0364961/]
* "The Hours" (2002) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274558/]

Dissociative disorders

*"The Three Faces of Eve" (1957) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051077/]
*"Psycho" (1960)
*"Sybil" (1976) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075296/]
*"Fight Club" (1999) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/]
*"The Hurricane" (1999) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0174856/]
*"Me, Myself and Irene" (2000) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183505/]
*"Passion of Mind" (2000) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160644/]
*"" (2002) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167261/]
*"" (2003) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167260/]
*"A Tale of Two Sisters" (2003) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0365376/]
*"Identity" (2003) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309698/]
*"Secret Window" (2004) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363988/]
*"Hide and Seek" (2005) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382077/]
*"The Jacket" (2005) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366627/]
*"Thr3e" (2007) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486028/]

Obsessive-compulsive disorders

*"What About Bob?" (1991) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103241/]
*"As Good as It Gets" (1997) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119822/]
*"Matchstick Men" (2003) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0325805/]
*"Dirty Filthy Love" (2004) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411291/]
*"The Aviator" (2005) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338751/]
*"K-Pax" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/]

Personality disorders

"'Borderline personality disorder
*"Play Misty for Me" (1971) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067588/]
*"Fatal Attraction" (1987) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093010/]
*"Girl, Interrupted" (1999) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172493/]
*"Allein" (Germany, 2004) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0433770/]

Retrograde amnesia

*"The Number 23" (2007) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481369/]
*"Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (2004) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind]
*"The Bourne Identity"

Schizophrenia

*"Awakenings" (1990) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/]
*"The Fisher King" (1991) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/]
*"Benny & Joon" (1993) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106387/]
*"The Madness of King George" (1994) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110428/]
*"Clean, Shaven" (1995) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106579/]
*"Conspiracy Theory" (1997) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118883/]
*"Images (film)" (1972) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068732/]
*"Julien Donkey-Boy" (1999) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192194/]
*"" (1999) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151137/]
*"Donnie Darko" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246578/]
*"K-Pax" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/]
*"Revolution 9" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253586/]
*"A Beautiful Mind" (2002) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978/]
*"Igby Goes Down" (2002) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280760/]
*"Spider" (2002) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278731/]
*"Spider Forest" (2004) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407821/]
*"The Soloist" (2008)

Stress disorders

*"Shine" (1996) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117631/]
*"Mrs. Dalloway" (1997) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119723/]
*"White Oleander" (2002) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283139/]
*"Session 9" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0261983/]

Miscellaneous and unspecified

*"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073486/]
*"Pink Floyd The Wall" (1981) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084503/]
*"Brazil (film)" (1985) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_%28film%29]
*"The Dream Team" (1989) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097235/]
*"Crazy People" (1990) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099316/]
*"Twelve Monkeys" (1995) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_monkeys]
*"Patch Adams" (1998) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0129290/]
*"I Am Sam" (2001) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277027/]
*"The Others" (2001)
*"Radio" (2003) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0316465/]
*"Tideland" (2005)
*"Solace" (2006)
*"" (2008)
*"CODEX ATANICUS" (2008) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1158236/]
*"Ordinary People" (1980) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_people]
*"Garden State" (2004) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0333766/]