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Movies Featuring Mental Health

Silver Linings Playbook(2012, Bipolar Disorder)
Girl, Interrupted(1999, institutionalization)
Inside Out(2015, feelings & emotions)
Where the Wild Things Are(2009, emotions, behavioral issues)
Rain Man(1988, Autism)
Shutter Island(2010, psychosis)
The Aviator(2004, OCD)
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest(1975, institutionalization)
A Beautiful Mind(2001, schizophrenia)
Soloist(2009, schizophrenia)
Ordinary People(1980, suicide & depression)
The Three Faces of Eve(1957, Multiple Personality Disorder)
Benny & Joon(1993, miscellaneous mental health)
Flight(2012, addiction)
Homerun(2013, addiction, Celebrate Recovery)
28 Days(2000, addiction)
When a Man Loves a Woman(1994, alcoholism)
It’s Kind of a Funny Story(2010, institutionalization)
Frankie & Alice(2010, Multiple personality disorder)
Call Me Crazy(2013, 5 different depictions of mental illness)
Gaslight(1944, narcissistic personality disorder)
A Star is Born(2018, addiction, suicide, depression)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close(2011, 9/11, PTSD, grief)
My Name is Bill W.(1989, Biopic of AA)
As Good as it Gets(1997, OCD and hom*ophobia)
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape(1993, obesity, depression, autism)
Prozac Nation(2001, depression, drugs)
To the Bone(2017, eating disorders)
Thin(2006, eating disorders)
Saving Mr. Banks(2013, alcoholism)
Splendor in the Grass(1961, depression, suicide, psychosis)
Arsenic & Old Lace(1944, comedy film on mental illness)

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