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What are all of the good psych movies out there? I don't watch movies at all so I have no idea where to start. I have seen "A Beautiful Mind" and "What about Bob?" :laugh:
What else is good?
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Triathlon said:
What are all of the good psych movies out there? I don't watch movies at all so I have no idea where to start. I have seen "A Beautiful Mind" and "What about Bob?" :laugh:
What else is good?
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Pi

Requiem for a Dream
 
Triathlon said:
What are all of the good psych movies out there? I don't watch movies at all so I have no idea where to start. I have seen "A Beautiful Mind" and "What about Bob?" :laugh:
What else is good?
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Not specifically psychiatry, but I saw "Pieces of April" recently, and I really enjoyed it, and how it dealt with roles in a dysfunctional family. Anyway, I've been recommending it a lot.
(It was Katie pre-Tom, so I felt I could watch without hurling...)

Here's a book you might be interested in.
 
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Can't forget One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest!

Heavenly Creatures: true story of a folie a deux

As Good As It Gets: OCD

(any episode of Monk would be good for OCD too, esp the first season :laugh: )

PS here is a website that lists a bunch of movies:
http://www.priory.com/psych/psycinema.htm
 
Murphy's boy
 
Sorry, I meant "trapped in silence".
Murphy's boy is the book version...
 
Girl Interrupted is good for PDs.

One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest is phenomenal.
 
one of my all time favorites is Color of Night. Bruce Willis plays a psychiatrist
 
dakid78 said:
one of my all time favorites is Color of Night. Bruce Willis plays a psychiatrist
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Also enjoyed Brucie in 12 Monkeys.
 
I like this topic (and admit I've spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about it before)! Some of my favorite movies with psych elements include:

Axis I:
- The Hours (MDD w/SI (very poignant); dysfunctional relationships)
- The Aviator (OCD; psychosis)
- A Beautiful Mind (paranoid schizophrenia), as mentioned above.
- Memento (significant, but don't want to spoil the film 😉 )
- Forrest Gump (likely PTSD; substance dependence; also MR on Axis II)
- Woody Allen's films are great for portrayals of anxious/neurotic upper-crust New Yorkers :laugh:
Axis II:
- In addition to Silence of the Lambs mentioned above: Hannibal and Red Dragon (psychopathy/antisocial traits; paraphilias). I just love that Hannibal is a psychiatrist 😀
- Eyes Wide Shut (mind games in general; dysfunctional relationships; paraphilias... and one of the actors could use some help in real life too 😛 )
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (myriad Cluster B pathology: borderline and narcissistic PD's and antisocial traits)
- Girl, Interrupted and White Oleander (borderline PD)
- The must-see One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest (antisocial PD, malingering, other assorted pathology; portrayal of old fashioned mental institutions, ECT, lobotomies), as mentioned above.

Finally, there's a wonderful Chinese film I will recommend to anyone who will listen to me babble--To Live. Not a lot of psych diagnoses in this movie, but it's very poignant, dramatic, historical, and the beginning of the movie does feature pathological gambling... 😀
 
PublicHealth said:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Pi

Requiem for a Dream
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Antigone said:
I like this topic (and admit I've spent an inordinate amount of time thinking about it before)! Some of my favorite movies with psych elements include:

Axis I:
- The Hours (MDD w/SI (very poignant); dysfunctional relationships)
- The Aviator (OCD; psychosis)
- A Beautiful Mind (paranoid schizophrenia), as mentioned above.
- Memento (significant, but don't want to spoil the film 😉 )
- Forrest Gump (likely PTSD; substance dependence; also MR on Axis II)
- Woody Allen's films are great for portrayals of anxious/neurotic upper-crust New Yorkers :laugh:
Axis II:
- In addition to Silence of the Lambs mentioned above: Hannibal and Red Dragon (psychopathy/antisocial traits; paraphilias). I just love that Hannibal is a psychiatrist 😀
- Eyes Wide Shut (mind games in general; dysfunctional relationships; paraphilias... and one of the actors could use some help in real life too 😛 )
- The Talented Mr. Ripley (myriad Cluster B pathology: borderline and narcissistic PD's and antisocial traits)
- Girl, Interrupted and White Oleander (borderline PD)
- The must-see One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest (antisocial PD, malingering, other assorted pathology; portrayal of old fashioned mental institutions, ECT, lobotomies), as mentioned above.

Finally, there's a wonderful Chinese film I will recommend to anyone who will listen to me babble--To Live. Not a lot of psych diagnoses in this movie, but it's very poignant, dramatic, historical, and the beginning of the movie does feature pathological gambling... 😀
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Requiem for a dream should be considered a psychiatric movie because it will give you depression, guranteed.
 
Psyclops said:
Requiem for a dream should be considered a psychiatric movie because it will give you depression, guranteed.
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Its an excellent addictions movie too.
 
If you're into older stuff, Hitchcock's "Spellbound" is interesting. Hard to imagine being a patient at a long term psychoanalytic facility like that in this day and age, though! (And frankly, if Ingrid Bergman were my psychoanalyst, I don't know if I could handle the transference issues!) 😀
 
OldPsychDoc said:
If you're into older stuff, Hitchcock's "Spellbound" is interesting. Hard to imagine being a patient at a long term psychoanalytic facility like that in this day and age, though! (And frankly, if Ingrid Bergman were my psychoanalyst, I don't know if I could handle the transference issues!) 😀
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see also Mel Brooks's Hitchcock spoof, "High Anxiety". It even has the name of the disorder in the title.

don't forget about Donnie Darko

and has anyone seen that commercial where they show clips of movies featuring the word "More." and one of the movies has a guy saying "it's more than psychiatry" . . . what movie is that from?
 
Okay, so it was a TV movie, but how can we forget Sybil?
 
Triathlon said:
What are all of the good psych movies out there? I don't watch movies at all so I have no idea where to start. I have seen "A Beautiful Mind" and "What about Bob?" :laugh:
What else is good?
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Dirty Filthy Love
Sophie's Choice
House of Sand and Fog
 
BEST TV SHOW IN THE WORLD: EVER: FOR EVER AND EVER:




SIX FEET UNDER

need I say more?
 
Poety said:
BEST TV SHOW IN THE WORLD: EVER: FOR EVER AND EVER:




SIX FEET UNDER

need I say more?
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I wish I had seen Six Feet Under when it was on...so many people have recommended it! Maybe I'll watch it on DVD.

One of my favorite shows, that is great for psych, is Law and Order: SVU. The forensic psychiatrist George Huang even has the "odd psychiatrist" thing down pat! 😀

The X-Files was also great back in the day. I was maybe 11 when I learned about "Munchausen by proxy" from that show! :idea:
 
Triathlon said:
What are all of the good psych movies out there? I don't watch movies at all so I have no idea where to start. I have seen "A Beautiful Mind" and "What about Bob?" :laugh:
What else is good?
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One of my ALL TIME FAVORITES- Bette Davis in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? " (1962) . The ultimate film noire . No one can top Davis as an actress! Co-starring Joan Crawford. 👍 A psychotic ex-child star is forced to take care of her invalid sister. The scene with the pet bird and Davis's laughter is absolutely disturbing! I still can't get it out of my head !

"Sylvia" (2003) starring Gwyneth Paltrow as poet Sylvia Plath. Plath had bipolar and committed suicide at the ripe age of 30.

"One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest" (1975) starring Jack Nickolson as himself :laugh: just kidding - he seems to play a lot of wacko roles, doesn't he?! 🙄

"The Hours" (2002) starring Nicole Kidman as author Virgina Woolf.

"Juana La Loca" (2001)- a Spanish production, the true story of the "mad Queen of Castille". http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madmonarchs/juana/juana_bio.htm

A little synopsis since most people haven't heard of this foreign movie:

In 1496, Juana de Castilla, daughter of the Catholic Kings, travels to Flandes to marry the Archduke Felipe de Austria, known as 'El Hermoso' (The Handsome) and son of the emperor Maximiliano. Even though at the beginning this marriage obeys a political decision, later on passion and desire appear beneath the couple. Juana becomes queen of Spain when her mother and her older brothers die in 1504. However, due to the pressure of being queen and the discovery that her husband has many lovers, her mental health starts getting worse. Felipe, seeing his wife in these circumstances, makes the Burgos Court to declare the insanity of Juana and recludes her in the Monastry of Las Huelgas, proclaiming himself as the king.
 
Antigone said:
I wish I had seen Six Feet Under when it was on...so many people have recommended it! Maybe I'll watch it on DVD.

One of my favorite shows, that is great for psych, is Law and Order: SVU. The forensic psychiatrist George Huang even has the "odd psychiatrist" thing down pat! 😀

The X-Files was also great back in the day. I was maybe 11 when I learned about "Munchausen by proxy" from that show! :idea:
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I record every single law and order episode, and I mourn the loss of six feet under, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND BUYING THE SERIES IF YOU HAVENT SEEN IT. I kinda wish it was still that new to me, where I could go purchase it and watch them all over again - seriously, worth EVERY PENNY.
 
Smilemaker100 said:
One of my ALL TIME FAVORITES- Bette Davis in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? " (1962) . The ultimate film noire . No one can top Davis as an actress! Co-starring Joan Crawford. 👍 A psychotic ex-child star is forced to take care of her invalid sister. The scene with the pet bird and Davis's laughter is absolutely disturbing! I still can't get it out of my head !

"Sylvia" (2003) starring Gwyneth Paltrow as poet Sylvia Plath. Plath had bipolar and committed suicide at the ripe age of 30.

"One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest" (1975) starring Jack Nickolson as himself :laugh: just kidding - he seems to play a lot of wacko roles, doesn't he?! 🙄

"The Hours" (2002) starring Nicole Kidman as author Virgina Woolf.

"Juana La Loca" (2001)- a Spanish production, the true story of the "mad Queen of Castille". http://www.xs4all.nl/~kvenjb/madmonarchs/juana/juana_bio.htm

A little synopsis since most people haven't heard of this foreign movie:

In 1496, Juana de Castilla, daughter of the Catholic Kings, travels to Flandes to marry the Archduke Felipe de Austria, known as 'El Hermoso' (The Handsome) and son of the emperor Maximiliano. Even though at the beginning this marriage obeys a political decision, later on passion and desire appear beneath the couple. Juana becomes queen of Spain when her mother and her older brothers die in 1504. However, due to the pressure of being queen and the discovery that her husband has many lovers, her mental health starts getting worse. Felipe, seeing his wife in these circumstances, makes the Burgos Court to declare the insanity of Juana and recludes her in the Monastry of Las Huelgas, proclaiming himself as the king.
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I got chills when I saw Sylvia, is this a movie I haven't seen that is WORTH IT?? OOOOOO

Also: 'Adaptation' with Nicholas CAge and Meryl Streep and Chris whatever his name is - EXCELLENT FLICK EXCCEELLLEEENNNTTT

I own the hours, and can watch that over and over and over... but then again I'm an MHC girl 😉
 
The "Das Effect" is a interesting psych movie. It's about testing the psyche and what people can handle under certain circumstances. It's a German movie so if you don't mind subtitles, it's pretty good. It is based on a true story which makes it even better.
 
alina_s said:
The Madness of King George- interesting history, though more medical than psych

Equus- disturbing
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It's only medical until you have a psychotic patient with a porphyria. Especially since the AIP is exacerbated by a bunch o' psych meds.
 
Triathlon said:
What are all of the good psych movies out there? I don't watch movies at all so I have no idea where to start. I have seen "A Beautiful Mind" and "What about Bob?" :laugh:
What else is good?
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Darn! How did I forget?! About 5 months ago, I saw "The Lust for Life" , which was released 50 years ago this year. It is a movie adaptation of the bestselling novel of the same name by Irving Stone . It is loosely based on Vincent Van Gogh's life. The movie was directed by Vincente Minnelli (yes, Liza Minnelli's dad) and starred Kirk Douglas as Van Gogh and Anthony Quinn as Gauguin. The acting was of the highest caliber. 👍 I am a big Kirk Douglas fan (can't say the same for his son! 🙄 ). They even use the original paintings in the movie! Oscar- Best Supporting Actor-Anthony Quinn
and Golden Globe award for Best Actor given to Kirk Douglas.

Van Gogh's diagnosis is still kind of fuzzy -some say he had epilepsy while others say manic depression or schizophrenia. Interesting and relevant facts about Van Gogh's family psychiatric history:
-his younger brother Theo had recurrent depressions and psychosis towards the end of his life
-sister Wilhelmina suffered from a chronic psychotic illness, spent 40 years in an insane asylum
-brother Cornelius committed suicide
-two of Vincent's uncles on his paternal side had unspecified psychiatric illnesses
-a maternal sister was epileptic (the distinction between epilepsy and manic depression was unclear in the 19th century)
 
Gothika (2003) is a good Psychiatric movie. 3 main stars are

Halle Berry - Charecter name: Miranda Grey
Robert Downey Jr. - Charecter name: Pete Graham
John Carroll Lynch - Charecter name: Sheriff Ryan

Go to http://gothikamovie.warnerbros.com/

or http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0348836/ for more information

It even explains diagnosis.

I also recommend One Flew Over The ****oo's Nest! GREAT movie! Jack Nicholson's charecter recominds me of myself so much.
 
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