Movie List
* Please be sure to discuss your selection with me before proceeding.
Recommended Movies:
Movies that have been personally recommended and/or viewed… thus more likely to be of
relevant and sufficient content. Brief descriptions just to give an idea of what the film focuses on:
Dirty Filthy Love: OCD, Tourette’s
The Squid and the Whale: Divorce and family
Requiem for a Dream: Substance Abuse
Fight Club: Antisocial behavior… aggression
One Flew Over the Cokoo's Nest: mental institution, antisocial personality, Jack Nicholson
Don't Say a Word
As Good As It Gets: OCD
The Other Sister (down syndrome)
Ordinary People: its about the aftermath of a family- a brother dies in an accident, and the other brother
who lived gets depressed and tries to commit suicide. the story starts when the brother is released from
the mental hospital and focuses especially on him, his father, and his relationship with his psychologist.
Momento: amnesia
Donnie Darko
Scent of a Woman—depression
A beautiful Mind—schizophrenia
Sybil—multiple personalities
Rainman: Autism
Shine: artist, mental breakdown?
Ed Wood: Johnny Depp as the quirky movie maker—and transvestite. Interesting issues… cute
film.
Equus: Based on the fascinating play… highly disturbing… bestiality and animal cruelty.
Fearless: reactions to trauma
Female Perversions: sexual issues… good psychoanalytic dreams
Fisher King: PTSD and delusions… brilliant film with Robin Williams
Girl Interrupted: BPD and antisocial, mental hospital setting. Good movie overall.
Gone with the Wind: Histrionic Personality Disorder? Trauma
Good Will Hunting: another great movie with Robin Williams and Matt Dameon—attachment
disordered kid with difficult past?
I Never Promised you a rose garden
Leaving Las Vegas: substance abuse
The Hours: depression, bipolar
What Dreams May Come: Suicide, Depression (another Robin Williams flick)
A Clockwork Orange
Beloved: trauma
Benny & Joon: schizophrenia
Analyze This: panic
At Close Range: family issues, antisocial father
Dead Poet’s Society: suicide
Good Morning Vietnam:
The World According To Garp
Running with Scissors: dysfunctional family
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Mr. Jones (1993) [6] : bipolar
Sylvia (2003) [8] : bipolar, depression, suicide
Mrs. Dalloway: bipolar, PTSD, suicide
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Prozac Nation (2001) [10] : depression
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The Three Faces of Eve (1957) [12] : multiple personality
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Matchstick Men (2003)[23] : OCD
The Aviator (2005) [25] : OCD/obsessive compulsive personality disorder?
What About Bob? (1991)
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Igby Goes Down (2002) [40]
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White Oleander (2002): abuse and foster child
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Radio (2003) [50] : mental retardation?
Extended Filmography:
Organized by diagnostic categories. Note: this is an inclusive list with many films I cannot
speak for—as to whether they will be good or not. Diagnoses listed may be wrong. Films in bold
indicate recommended ones that would probably work, but you’re welcome to try the others as
well.
Disorders Usually First Diagnosed In Infancy, Childhood, or Adolescence
All the Little Animals (1999)
Antonia's Line (1995)
Being There (1979)
Best Boy (1979)
Director: Irving Wohl
Bill (1981)
Bill, On His Own (1982)
Charley (1968)
I Stand Alone (1999)
Homer and Eddie (1989)
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The (1968)
Mifune (Sony Classics, 2000)
Director: Soren Kragh-Jacobsen
Molly (1999)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
Of Mice and Men (1992)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Director: Elia Kazan
Other Sister, The (1999)
Sling Blade (1996)
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
Tim (1979)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Movies Depicting Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Pervasive Developmental Disorder: Autistic Disorder
(Autism)
Boy Who Could Fly, The (1986)
MPAA rating: PG
House of Cards (1993)
MPAA rating: PG-13
Little Voice (1998)
MPAA rating: R
Mercury Rising (1998)
MPAA rating: R
Rain Man (1993)
MPAA rating: R
Wizard, The (Universal, 1989)
Director: Todd Holland
MPAA rating: PG
Movies Depicting Disruptive Disorders
Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
(Conduct Disorder)
Young Poisoner's Handbook, The (1996)
Director: Benjamin Ross
Amnestic Disorders
Memento (2000)
Substance-Related Disorder
Candy: Substance Abuse
Movies Depicting Alcohol Use Disorders
Affliction (1998)
American Heart (Triton, 1993)
Director: Martin Bell
Angel's Ashes (1999)
Arthur (1981)
Barfly (1987)
Basketball Diaries, The (New Line Cinema, 1995)
Director: Scott Kalvert
Bastard Out of Carolina
Beautiful Girls (Miramax, 1996)
Director: Ted Demme
Beloved Infidel (1959)
Best Years of Our lives, The
Bird (1988)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Boys on the Side
Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Brother's Kiss, A (First Look Pictures, 1997)
Director: Seth Zvi Rosenfeld
Cast: Nick Chinlund, Michael Raynor, Cathy Moriarty, Rosie Perez, Marisa Tomei, John
Leguizamo, Michael Rappaport, Talent Harris, Justin Pierce, Joshua Danowsky, Adrian Pasdar
MPAA rating: R
Time: 92 minutes
Buddy Boy (2000)
Butcher Boy, The (1998)
Can't Buy Me Love
Cat Ballou (1965)
Cat's Eye
Clockwork Orange, A
Cocaine Fiends, The
Come Back, Little Sheba (Paramount, 1952)
Director: Daniel Mann
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
Curse of the Starving Class (Trimark, 1995)
Director: j. Michael McClary
Dancing in the Dark (1995)
Dark Obsession (1989)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Disclosure
Divided Memories
Down in the Delta (1998)
Dr. T and the Women (2000)
Drunks (BMG Independents, 1997)
Director: Peter Cohn
Cast: Richard Lewis, Faye Dunaway, Diane Wiest, Parker Posey, Amanda Plummer, Howard E.
Rollins Jr., Spalding Gray, Calista Flockhart, George Martin, Anna Thomson, Lisa Harris
MPGA rating: R
Time: 90 minutes
Easy Rider (Columbia, 1969)
Director: Dennis Hopper
Educating Rita (Acorn, 1983)
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Fire Within, The (1963)
Fool for Love
Fresh Horses
Fried Green Tomatoes
Full Blast (2000)
Gadjo Dilo (1998)
Georgia
Gervaise (1956)
Graduate, The (1967)
Great Man Votes, The (1939)
Guinevere (1999)
Gulliver's Travels (1996)
Harvey (1950)
Hollywood H20 (1998)
Iceman Cometh, The (1973)
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1995)
Innocent Sleep, The (Castle Hill Productions, 1997)
Director: Scott Michell
Cast: Rupert Graves, Annabella Sciorra, Michael Gambon, Franco Nero, Grahm Crowden, John
Hannah
MPAA rating: R
Time: 110 minutes
Ironweed (1987)
Joe the King (1999)
Klute
Key Largo (1948)
La Cucaracha (1999)
Last Night at the Alamo (1983)
Leaving Las Vegas
Lenny
Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne, The (1987)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
Director:
Lost Weekend, The (1945)
Love is the Devil (1998)
Love Walked In (1998)
Luminous Motion (2000)
Marine Life (2000)
Monument Ave. (1998)
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
My Name is Joe (1999)
My Favorite Year (1982)
Night of the Iguana, The (1964)
Other Sister, The (1999)
Oxygen (1999)
Pay It Forward (2000)
Pollack (2001)
Director: Ed Harris
Proud and the Beautiful, The (1953)
Pushing Tin (1999)
Ratcatcher (2000)
Shadrach (1998)
She's So Lovely (Miramax Films, 1997)
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta, Harry Dean Stanton, Debi Mazar, James
Gandofini, Gena Rowlands, Kelsey Mulrooney
MPAA rating: R
Time: 97 minutes
Simpatico (1999)
Skin Deep (1989)
Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947)
Solas (2000)
Source, The (1999)
Still Crazy (1998)
Streamers (1983)
Director: Robert Altman
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Taxi Blues (1990)
Tender Mercies (1983)
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A (1945)
Trees Lounge (1996)
True Crime (1999)
Twenty Four Seven (1998)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Under the Volcano (1984
Director: John Huston
Verdict, The (1982)
Vital Signs (1986)
What Price Hollywood? (1932)
Wood, The (1999)
28 Days (2000)
Director: Betty Thomas
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Dominic West, Diane Ladd, Elizabeth Perkins,
Steve Buscemir
Rating: PG-13
Running Time: 103 minutes
Movies Depicting Cannabis-Related Disorders
Cannabis Use
Acid House, The (1999)
Big Lebowski, The (1998)
Detroit Rock City (1999)
Easy Rider (1969)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Universal Pictures, 1998)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Cast: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Torro, Tobey Maquire, Gary Busey, Christina Ricci, Ellen
Barkin, Cameron Diaz, Harry Dean Stanton, Lyle Lovett, Craig Bierko, Flea, Mark
Harmon, Michael Jeter
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 128 minutes
Movies Depicting Cocaine-Related Disorders
Requiem for a Dream
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Boost, The (1988)
Clean and Sober (1988)
Cocaine Fiends, The (Kent Productions, 1936)
Director: William A. O'Connor
(Also called: The Pace That Kills)
Curse of Cocaine, The
Goodfellows
Loosing Isaiah
Postcard from the Edge (1990)
Director: Mike Nichols
Scarface (1983)
Director: Brian De Palma
Seven Per Cent Solution, The (Universal, 1976)
Director: Herbert Ross
Traffic (2000)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
What's Love Got to Do with It?
Hallucinogen-Related Disorders
Easy Rider (1969)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Movies Depicting Opoid-Related Disorders
Basketball Diaries (1995)
Director: Scott Kalvert
Cast: Leonardo Di Caprio, Bruce "Bruno" Kirby, Jr. Lorraine Bracco, Ernie Hudson, Patrick
McGaw, Juliette Lewis
Rating: R
Time: 102 minutes
Basquiet (1996)
Director: Julian Schnabel
Beautiful People (Trimark, 2000)
Director: Jasmin Dizdar
Bird (1988)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Chappaqua (1966)
Citizen Ruth (Miramax, 1996)
Director: Alexander Payne
Clean and Sober (1988)
Director: Glen Gordon Caron
Cast: Michael Leaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Benben, Tate
Donovan
Rating: R
Time: 124 minutes
Connection, The (1961)
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Cast: Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James LeGros, Heather Graham. James Remar, William S.
Burroughs
Rating: R
Running Time: 100 minutes
Hatful of Rain, A (1957)
High Art (1998)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972)
Man with the Golden Arm, The (1956)
Director: Otto Preminger
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Requiem for a Dream (Artisan Entertainment, 2000)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Synanon (1965)
Traffic (2000)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Trainspotting (1996)
Director: Danny Boyle
Sedative-Hypnotic or Anxiolytic-Related Disorders
I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (Paramount Pictures1982)
Movies Depicting Polysubstance-Related Disorders
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Director: Oliver Stone
Easy Rider (1969)
Postcard from the Edge (1990)
Director: Mike Nichols
Rose, The (1979)
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
Vital Signs (1986)
Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders
Movies Depicting Schizophrenia
Angel Baby (1995)
Director: Michael Rymer
Beautiful Mind, A (Universal Studios, 2001)
Director: Ron Howard
Bennie & Joon (1993)
Caveman's Valentine, The (Universal Studios, 2001)
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Clean, Shaven (1995)
Couch Trip, The (1988)
Caveman's Valentine (2001)
Don't Say a Word (2001)
Fisher King, The (1991)
Director: Terry Gilliam
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
Images (1972)
Director: Robert Altman
Lilith (Columbia, 1964)
Director: Robert Rossen
Outrageous! (1977)
Possessed (1986)
Director: Curtis Bernhardt
Ruling Class, The (1972)
Saint of Fort Washington, The (1193)
Shine (1996)
Stanley and the Women (BFS, 1991)
Director: David Tucker
Schizophreniform Disorder
Snake Pit, The (1948)
Schizoaffective Disorder
Promise (1986)
Movies Depicting Delusional Disorder
Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
Director: Edward Dymytryk
(Paranoia)
Conspiracy Theory (199&)
(Paranoia)
Cupid (1998)
Don Juan DeMarco (New Line Cinema, 1995)
Director: Jeremy Leven
Fan, The (TriStar, 1996)
Director: Tony Scott
Harvey (1950)
Director: Henry Koster
House of Yes (1997)
K-Pax (Universal Studios, 2001)
Director: Iain Softley
Network (1976)
Director: Sidney Lumet
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Director: Billy Wilder
They Might be Giants (Universal Studios, 1971)
Director: Anthony Harvey
Tenant, The (Paramount, 1976)
Director: Roman Polanski
(Paranoia)
Twelve Monkeys (1996)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Director: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Tom Cruise, Penelope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Johnny Galecki, Jason Lee, Kurt Russell ,
Timothy Spall, Tilda Swinton, Noah Taylor, Alicia Witt
MPAA Rating: R
Mood Disorders
Movies Depicting Depressive Disorders
Alice et Martin (2000)
Deer Hunter, The (1978)
Evening Star, The (1996)
Fear Strikes Out
Friend of the Deceased, A (1998)
Full Blast (2000)
Hamlet (2000)
Hospital, The (United Artists,1971)
Director: Arthur Hiller
Horse Whisperer, The (1998)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Director: Frederico Fellini
Kadosh (2000)
Last Picture Show, The (1971)
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Legend of Bagger Vance, The (2000)
Life Upside Down (1965)
Marine Life (2000)
Night, Mother (1984)
No Looking Back (1998)
Outcry, The (1957)
Director: Antonioni
Pola X (2000)
Pollack (2001)
Director: Ed Harris
Set Me Free (2000)
Seventh Veil, The (1945)
Shrike, The (1955)
Snake Pit, The (1948)
Director: Anatole Litvak
Solas (2000)
Sophie's Choice
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)
Through a Glass, Darkly (1962)
Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000)
Wrong Man, The (1956)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Movies Depicting Bipolar Disorders
(Manic-Depressive Disorder)
Blue Sky (1994)
Director: Tony Richardson
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Cobb (1994)
Director: Ron Shelton
Ed Wood (1994)
Director: Tim Burton
Fine Madness, A (1966)
Director: Irvin Kershner
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
Horsefeathers (1932)
Immortal, Beloved (1995)
Mad Love (1995)
Director: Antonia Bird
Mommie Dearest (1981)
Mosquito Coast, The (1986)
Mr. Jones
Sophie's Choice
Tom and Viv (1995)
Woman Under the Influence, A (1974)
Director: John Cassavetes
Anxiety Disorders
Panic Disorder Without Agoraphobia
Analyze This (Warner Brothers, 1999)
Director: Harold Ramis
Cast: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Richard C. Castellano, Chazz
Palminteri
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 105 minutes
Panic (Roxie Releasing, 2000)
Director: Henry Bromell
Movies Depicting Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia
Copycat (1996)
Fear Inside, The (Viacom Pictures, 1992)
What About Bob? (1991)
Director: Frank Oz
Finding Forrester
Movies Depicting Specific Phobia
Arachnophobia (1990)
(fear of spiders)
Birds, The (1963)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
(fear of birds)
Creepshow (1982)
Director: George Romero
(fear of insects)
Forces of Nature (Dreamworks Pictures, 1999)
Director: Bronwen Hughes
Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ben Affleck and Maura Tierney
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Time: 106 minutes
(fear of flying)
Phobia (1980)
Director: John Huston
Cast: Paul Michael Glaser, John Colicos, Susan Hogan, Alexandra Stewart, Robert O'Ree, David
Bolt
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 94 minutes
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Director: Steven Spielberg
(fear of snakes)
Vertigo (1958)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
(fear of heights)
What About Bob?
Social Phobia
Now Voyager (1942)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
As Good As it Gets (TriStar Pictures, 1997)
Director: James L. Brooks
House of Games (1987)
Odd Couple, The (1968)
Movies Depicting Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Birdy (1984)
Black Rain (1989)
Director: Shohei Imamura
(Bombing of Hiroshima and its effects)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Director: Oliver Stone
(Vietnam War)
Chattahoochee (1990)
(Korean War)
Coming Home (1978)
(Vietnam War)
Deer Hunter, The (1978)
(Vietnam War)
Fearless (1993)
(Airplane Crash)
Fisher King, The (1991) EXCELLENT DEPICTION OF PTSD/ DELUSIONS!!!
Jacknife (1989)
In Country (1989)
(Vietnam War)
Let There Be Light (1946)
Director: John Huston
Ordinary People (1980) GREAT MOVIE.
Director: Robert Redford
Paths of Glory (1957)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Patton (1970)
Regeneration (Alliance Communications, 1998)
Director: Gillies MacPherson
Cast: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Le Miller, Stuart Bunce, Tanya Allen, Dougray Scott,
David Hayman, John Neville
MPAA Rating: Unrated
Shoah (1985)
Movies Depicting Acute Stress Disorder
Alive (1993)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Hamburger Hill (1987)
San Francisco (1936)
Touching Tree, The
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
High Anxiety (1977)
Somatization Disorder
Freud, the Secret Passion (1962)
Director: John Huston
Movies Depicting Conversion Disorder
Band of Brothers (HBO, 2001)
Part 3: "Carentan"
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Color of Night (1994)
Freud, the Secret Passion (1962)
Director: John Huston
Home of the Brave (1949)
Director: Stanley Kramer
Piano, The (1993)
Director: Jane Campion
Seventh Veil, The (Universal, 1945)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
Movies Depicting Hypochondrias
Bandits (MGM Pictures, 2001)
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity
Rating: PG-13
Time: 123 minutes.
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Director: Woody Allen
My Girl (1991)
Poison Ivy (1992)
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
Up in Arms (1944)
Body Dysmorphic Disorder
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Dissociative Amnesia
Dead Again (1991)
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Mirage (1965)
Spellbound (Selznick Productions, 1945)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Movies DepictingDissociative Fugue
Nurse Betty (USA Films, 2000)
Director: Neil LaBute
MPAA Rating: R
Spellbound (Selznick Productions, 1945)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Three Lives of Karen, The (Universal, 1997)
Director: David Burton Morris
Movies Depicting Dissociative Identity Disorder
(Formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder)_
Case of Becky, The (Paramount, 1915)
Director: Frank Reicher
Color of Night (1994)
Dance of Fire (195 )
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,1932)
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Lizzie (1957)
Me, Myself & Irene (20th Century Fox, 2000)
Director: Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly
Raising Cain (1992)
Director: Brian De Palma
Sybil (1976)
Three Faces of Eve, The (1957)
Two-Soul Woman, The
Sexual Dysfunctions
Bliss (1997)
Female Orgasmic Disorder
Sexual Aversion Disorder
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Frenzy (1972)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Movies Depicting Paraphilias
Paraphilias: Exhibitionism
King of Hearts (United Artist, 1966)
Director: Philippe de Broca
Paraphilias: Pedophilia
Mystic River (Warner Bros., 2003)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Paraphilias: Sexual Masochism
Blue Velvet (1986)
Director: Lynche
Dr. Caligari
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Night Porter, The (1974)
Director: Cavani
The Secretary
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Quills (Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2000)
Director: Philip Kaufman
Paraphilias: Sexual Sadism
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Night Porter, The (1974)
Quills (Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2000)
Director: Philip Kaufman
Paraphilias: Transvestic Fetishism
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
Psycho
The Silence of the Lambs
Paraphilias: Voyeurism
American Beauty (2000)
Director: Sam Mendes
Peeping Tom (Anglo-Amalgamated, 1960)
Director: Michael Power
Lilith (Columbia, 1964)
Director: Robert Rossen
(nymphomania, implied incest)
Mark, The (20th Century-Fox, 1961)
Director: Guy Green
(pedophile)
Eating Disorders
Anorexia Nervosa
Best Little Girl in the World, The (1982)
Between Two Women
Bulimia Nervosa
Katie's Secret (1986)
Sleep Disorders
Primary Sleep Disorders: Dyssomnias
Primary Insomnia
Insomnia (2002)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank
Narcolepsy
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorder
Insomnia (2002)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank
Sleep Disorder
Primary Sleep Disorders: Parasomnias
Nightmare Disorder
Dream Lover (MGM/UA, 1986)
Director: Alan J. Pakula
12 Monkeys (1995)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Sleepwalking Disorder
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1919)
Director: Robert We
Dream Lover (MGM/UA, 1986)
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Movies Depicting Kleptomania
Female Perversions (1996)
Niagara, Niagara (The Shooting Gallery, 1998)
Director: Bob Gosse
Cast: Robin Tunney, Henry Thomas, Michael Parks, Stephen Lang, John MacKay
MPAA Rating: R
Marnie (1964)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Pyromania
Cosi (1996)
Movies Depicting Pathological Gambling
Gambling Featured in Movies
American Madness (1932)
Any Number Can Play (1949)
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Frank Morgan, Lewis Stone
Time: 112 minutes
Avalanche, The (1919)
Bad Lieutenant (1992)
Director: Abel Ferrara
Cast: Harvey Keital, Brian McElroy, Frankie Acciarito, Peggy Gormley, Frankie Thorn
Time: 92 minutes
Bag of Angels (1963)
Banning (1967)
Barbery Coast (1935)
Basket, The (2000)
Betrayal by a Handprint (1908)
Big Gamble, The (1931)
Big Hand for the Little Lady, A (1966)
Big Payoff, The (1975)
BINGO! (1999)
Black Cat, White Cat (1999)
Blondie's Holiday (1947)
Bob Le Flambeur (1955)
Break, The (1995)
Broadway Hostess (1935)
Bronx Tale, A (1993)
Brothers in the Saddle (1949)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Cast: Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Lena Horne, Rex Ingram, Ethel Waters
Time: 98 minutes
California Split (1974)
Director: Robert Altman
Cast: George Segal, Elliott Gould
Time: 108 minutes
Call of the Canyon (1942)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Cast: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward
Time: 92 minutes
Casino (1995)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, Alfred Nittoli
Time: 178 minutes
Champ, The (1931)
Champ, The (1979)
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Wallace Berry, Jackie Cooper
Time: 85 minutes
Cheaters, The (1984)
Cincinnati Kid, The (1965)
Director: Norman Jewison
Cast: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson
Time: 102 minutes
Corrupter, The (1999)
Croupier (2000)
Dark Desires: Eva (1994)
Dark Hazard (1934)
Director" Alfred E. Green
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell
Time: 72 minutes
Daybreak (1931)
Deadly Bet (1992)
Dear Brigitte (1965)
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: Bill Mumy, James Stewart
Time: 100 minutes
Death's Marathon (1913)
Deceiver (1997)
Desert Bloom (1986)
Diner (1982)
Disorderlies (1987)
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1978)
Duke of the Deby (1962)
Earrings of Madame De, The (1953)
Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)
Easy Money (1983)
Director: James Signorelli
Cast: Rodney Dangerfield, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Candy Azzara
Time: 100 minutes
Everybody's All-American (1988)
Director: Taylor Hackford
Cast: Jessica Lange, Dennis Quaid, Timothy Hutton, John Goodman, Carl Lumbly
Time: 127 minutes
Face of a Stranger (1991)
Family Prayers (1991)
Director: Scott M. Rosenfelt
Cast: Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Tzvi Ratner-Stauber, Paul Reiser
Family Prayers (1993)
Fever Pitch (MGM/UA, 1985)
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Catherine Hicks, Bridgette Anderson, Chad Everett, John Saxon
Time: 96 minutes
Follow the Bitch (Gurney Releasing, 1998)
Director: Julian Stone
Cast: Ray Porter, Melissa Lechner, Dion Luther, Michael Cudlitz, Matt Foyer, Thomas Napier,
David Teitelbaum
MPAA Rating: R
Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Director: GFrederick De Cordova
Cast: Elvis Presley, Donna Douglas, Harry Morgan, Nancy Kovack
Time: 87 minutes
Frivolous Sal (1925)
Funny Girl (1968)
Funny Lady (1975)
Gamble, The (1988)
Gambler, The (1974)
Director: Karel Reisz
Cast: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Jacqueline Brooks, Burt Young
Time: 111 minutes
Gambler, The (1999)
Gambling Lady (1934)
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O'Brien
Get Shorty (1995)
Gladiator (1992)
Great Sinner, The (1949)
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Ava Gardner, Walter Huston, Frank Morgan, Gregory
Peck
Time: 110 minutes
Guys and Dolls (1955)
Hardhat and Legs (1980)
Hard Times (1975)
Director: Walter Hill
Cast: Charles Bronson, James Coburn
Time: 92 minutes
Haunting Fear (1990)
Heat (1995)
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Ashley Judd
Time: 171 minutes
High Stakes (1997)
Hole in the Head, A (1959)
Hollywood or Bust (1956)
Homestretch, The (1947)
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Maureen O'Hara
Time: 99 minutes
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Director: Steve James
Cast: William Gates, Arthur Agee
Time: 169 minutes
House on 56th Street (1932)
House of Games (1987)
Hustler, The (1961)
Director: Robert Rossen
Cast: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie, George C. Scott, Myron McCormick
Time: 135 minutes
Illegal (1932)
Inside Out (1986)
Inside Straight (1951)
I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
Joker is Wild, The (1957)
Just the Ticket (1999)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie, The (1976)
Knock on Any Door (1949)
Lady Gambles, The (1949)
Director: Michael Gordon
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston
Time: 99 minutes
Lady Luck (1946)
Last Days of Frankie the Fly, The (1996)
Las Vegas Story, The (1952)
Let It Ride (1989)
Director: Joe Pytka
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, David Johansen, Jennifer Tilly, Michelle Phillips, Robbie
Coltrane
Time: 86 minutes
Let's Make It Legal (1951)
Director: Richard Sale
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey
Time: 77 minutes
Liberty Heights (1999)
Linguini Incident, The (1992)
Little Miss Marker (1934)
Little Miss Marker (1980)
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1999)
Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
Lost in America (1985)
Director: Albert Brooks
Cast: Albert Brooks, Julie Hagerty, Garry Marshall
Mafia! (Touchstone Pictures, 1998)
Director: Jim Abrahams
Cast: Lloyd Bridges, Jay Mohr, Olympia Dukakis, Christina Applegate, Billy Burke, Pamela
Gidley, Tony Lo Bianco
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Time: 86 minutes
Making the Grade (1984)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
Maverick (1994)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Director: Roy Rowland
Cast: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
Time: 112 minutes
Metro (1997)
Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940)
Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Director: Rudolph Mate
Cast: Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie
Time: 99 minutes
Money Train (1995)
Now I'll Tell (1934)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
One Tough Cop (Stratosphere Entertainment, 1998)
Director: Bruno Barreto
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Chris Penn, Mike McGlone, Gina Gershon, Paul Guilfoyle, Amy Irving,
Victor Slezak, Luis Guzman
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 90 minutes
Only Game in Town, The (1970)
Director: George Stevens
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Warren Beatty
Time: 113 minutes
Oscar and Lucinda (1997)
Out to Sea (1997)
Parenthood (1989)
Director: Ron Howard
Cast: Tom Hulce, Jason Robards
Time: 124 minutes
Phoenix (1998)
Pick-up Artist, The (1987)
Director: James Toback
Cast: Molly Ringwald, Robert Downey, Jr., Dennis Hopper, Harvey Keitel
Time: 81 minutes
Playing to Win, a Moment of Truth (1998)
Please Believe Me (1950)
Proposition, The (1997)
Queen of Hearts (1989)
Queen of Spades (1960)
Reindeer Games (2000)
Riders of the Range (1949)
River Runs Through It, A (1992)
Rounders (Miramax Films, 1998)
Director: John Dahl
Cast: Matt Damon, Edward Norton, John Turturro, Gretchen Mol, Famke Janssen, John
Malkovich, Martin Landau, Michael Rispoli, Josh Mostel
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 120 minutes
Rover Dangerfield (199l)
Rubdown (1993)
Shaking the Tree (1990)
Director: Duane Clark
Cast: Arye Gross, Gale Hansen, Doug Savant, Steven Wilde, Courtney Cox
Time: 97 minutes
Shanghais Gesture (1941)
Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (1944)
Show Boat (1929)
Show Boat (1936)
Show Boat (1951)
Director: George Sidney
Cast: Claudette Colbert, Macdonald Carey
Time: 77 minutes
Side Out (1990)
Seduction of Gina, The (1984)
Sgt. Bilko (1996)
Silver Queen (1942)
Squeeze, The (1987)
Strike It Rich (1990)
Smart Money (1931)
Director: Alfred E. Green
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney
Time: 90 minutes
Snake Eyes (Paramount Pictures, 1998)
Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, John Heard, Carla Gugino, Stan Shaw, Kevin Dunn, Michael
Rispoli, Joel Fabiani
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 99 minutes
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Souls of Sin (1949)
Sour Grapes (Columbia Pictures, 1998)
Director: Larry David
Cast: Steven Weber, Craig Bierko, Matt Keeslar, Karen Sillas, Robyn Peterman, Viola Harris
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 91 minutes
Squibs (1935)
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
Suspicion (1941)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Nigel Bruce
Time: 99 minutes
Suspicion (1987)
Swindle, The (1999)
This Is a Hijack (1974)
To Live (1994)
29th Street (1991)
Two Dollar Bettor (1951)
UHF (1989)
Underneath, The (1995)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott
Time: 99 minutes
U-Turn (1997)
Vegas Vacation (1997)
Director: Stephen Kessler
Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Ethan Embry, Marisol Nichols, Wallace
Shawn, Sid Caesar
Time: 93 minutes
Vig (1998)
Volunteers (1986)
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Cast: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, George Plimpton
Time: 106 minutes
Wheel of Fate (1953)
White Men Can't Jump (1991)
Director: Ron Shelton
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Rosie Perez
Time: 114 minutes
Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Wine, Women, and Horses (1937)
Winner Take All (1975)
Wise Guys (1986)
Adjustment Disorders
I Never Sang for my Father (1970)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Director: Frank Capra
Wrong Man, The (1957)
Personality Disorders
Movies Depicting Paranoid Personality Disorder
Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
Falling Down (1994)
Toto le Heros (1991)
Treasure of Sierra Madre, The (1948)
Schizoid Personality Disorder
The English Patient
Remains of the Day
Sex, Lies, and Videotapes (1989)
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Taxi Driver (1976)
Movies Depicting Antisocial Personality Disorder
(Sociopath; Psychopath)
A Few Good Men
Alfie
Alias Nick Beal
Alien (1979)
All About Eve
Along Came a Spider (2001)
An American Werewolf In London
Anatomy Of A Murder
And Then There Were None
Angel Heart
Angel On My Shoulder
A Place In The Sun
Arsenic And Old Lace
A Shock To the System
Assassination Bureau, The
Bad Seed, The
Basic Instincts
Batman
(add all of the Batman movies)
Black Widow
Blade Runner (1982)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Body Heat
Boston Strangler, The
Bound
Boy Who Cried Bitch, The
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Cast: Jesse Bradford, J.D. Daniels, Gene Canfield, Karen Young, Harley Cross
Boys From Brazil, The
Boyz N the Hood
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (Decla-Bioscop, 1919)
Director: Robert Weine
Cape Fear
Casablanca
Clockwork Orange, A
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Copycat
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Damm Yankees
Day Of The Jackal, The
Deliberate Stranger, The
Devil and Daniel Webster, The
Devil's Advocate
Dial "M" For Murder (1954)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Die Hard (1988)
Disclosure
Double Indemnity
Dressed To Kill
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Duel in the Sun
Exorcist, The
Experiment in Terror
Eye of the Needle
Face/Off
Fargo (1996)
Final Cut, The
Forbidden Planet
Frenzy (1972)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Goldfinger (1964)
Halloween I (1978)
Halloween II (
(rest of)
Heavenly Creatures
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2
High Sierra
House of Cards
House of Games
Hud
I Confess
In Cold Blood
In The Company of Men
In the Line of Fire
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Jagged Edge, The
(List of all the James Bond movies)
Jaws (1975)
Judgment At Nuremberg
Just Cause
Kalifornia
Kiss of Death
Kiss the Girls
La Femme Nikita
Last of Sheila, The
Last Rites
Last Seduction, The
List of Adrian Messenger, The
Lodger, The
M (1931)
Director: Fritz Lang
Man Bites Dog
Manchurian Candidate, The
Manhunter
M*A*S*H (Twentieth Century Fox,1970)
Director: Robert Altman
Minus Man
Monsieur Verdoux
Murder By Decree
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Director: Oliver Stone
New Janitor, The (1914)
Nightmare On Elm Street
Night Must Fall
No Way Out
No Way To Treat A Lady
Omen, The
Once Upon A Time In The West
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Out of the Past
Package, The
Peeping Tom (Anglo-Amalgamated, 1960)
Director: Michael Power
Poltergeist
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Pretty Maids All In A Row
Primal Fear
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981)
Raising Cain (1992)
Ripper, The
Romeo Is Bleeding
Rosemary's Baby
Saving Private Ryan (DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures, 1998)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Jeremy Davies, Vin Diesal, Adam Goldberg,
Barry Pepper, Giovanni, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Harve Presnell
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 169 minutes
Schindler's List (1993)
Scream
Scream
Scream
Serial Mom
Seven (1995)
Shadow Of A Doubt
Shallow Grave
Shane
Silence Of The Lambs, The (1991)
Ten Rillington Place
Thing,
Third Man, The
Thirty-Nine Steps, The
Tightrope
Time After Time
Timecop
Titanic
To Die For
To Kill A Mockingbird
To Play the King
Treasure of Sierra Madre, The
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Usual Suspects, The
Vertigo (1958)
Wall Street
White Heat
Witches of Eastwick, The
Witness For The Prosecution
Wolf
Wolf Man, The
Speed
Strangers On A Train
Taxi
Movies Depicting Borderline Personality Disorder
A Danger of Love (1992)
After Hours (1985)
Director: Martin Scorcese
Basic Instinct (1992)
Betty Blue (1986)
Black Widow (1986)
Body Heat (1981)
Breathless (1959)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Frances (1982)
Girl Interrupted (Columbia Pictures, 1999)
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Whoopi Goldberg, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy,
Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave
MPAA rating: R
Time: 120 minutes
Goodfellas (1990)
Hand That Rocks the Cradle, The (1992)
La Femme Nikita (1990)
Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Look Who's Talking (1989)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977)
Misery (1990)
Murderous Affair (1992)
Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
Nuts (1987)
Obsessed (1992)
Pacific Heights (1990)
Point of No Return (1993)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Raging Bull (1980)
Single White Female (1992)
Something Wild (1986)
Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Streetcar Named Desire (1984)
War of the Roses (1989)
What about Bob? (1991)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Movies Depicting Histrionic Personality Disorder
Anywhere but Here (1999)
Bullets over Broadway
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Gypsy (Warner Brothers, 1962)
La Cage aux Folles (1978)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
Director:
Streetcar Named Desire, A (1951)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Director: Billy Wilder
Movies Depicting Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Alfie (1966)
All that Jazz
American Gigolo (1980)
Citizen Kane (1941)
Frances (1982)
Jerry Maguire
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Lilith (Columbia, 1964)
Director: Robert Rossen
Patton (1969)
Shampoo (1975)
Stardust Memories
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
Director: Billy Wilder
Wall Street (1987)
Zelig
Movies Depicting Avoidant Personality Disorder
Sybil (1976)
Zelig (1983)
Director: Woody Allen
Movies Depicting Dependent Personality Disorder
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
Odd Couple, The (1968)
What About Bob? (1991)
Movies Depicting Serial Killers
American Psycho
Director: Mary Harron
Badlands (1973)
Black Widow (1986)
Boston Strangler, The (Twentieth Century-Fox,1968)
Director: Richard Fleischer
Con Air (1974)
Confessions of a Serial Killer (1987)
Copycat (1995)
Fargo
Fallen (Warner Bros., 1998)
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Cast: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, Elias Koteas,
James Gandolfini, Gabriel Casseus, Robert Joy
MPAA Rating: R
Time: 124 minutes
Frenzy (1972)
Honeymoon Killers, The (1970)
Hannibal (2001)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990)
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Part 2 (1996)
Kalifornia (1993)
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Last Supper, The (1995)
M (1931)
Director: Fritz Lang
Manhunter (1986)
Natural Born Killers (1994)
Sea of Love (1989)
Serial Killers
Seven (1995)
Shadow of a Doubt
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Silence of the Lambs, The (1991)
Switchback
Texas Chain Saw Massacre, The (1974)
Movies Depicting Suicide
Absence of Malice (1981)
After Hours (1985)
And Justice for All (1979)
Angel Baby (Meridian Films/Stamen, 1995)
Director: Michael Rymer
Anna Karenina (1935)
Astronaut's Wife, The (1999)
Beach, The (2000)
Before Night Falls (2000)
Bell Jar, The (Avco Embassy, 1979)
Director: Larry Peerce
Big Chill, The (1983)
Bone Collector, The (1999)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Captain Newman, M.D. (1963)
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Crying Game, The (1992)
Dead Man's Curve (1999)
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Deer Hunter, The (1978)
Desert Blue (1999)
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986)
Dreamlife of Angels, The (1999)
End, The (1978)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Femme Nikita, La (1990)
Few Good Men, A (1992)
Fire Within, The (1963)
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Director: Werner Fassbinder
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
The Godfather, Part II (1974)
Guilty by Suspicion (1991)
Hamlet (Universal, 1948 and 1991 versions)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Heathers (1989)
Hero (1992)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977)
It's a Wonderful Life (1947)
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Last Tango in Paris (1973)
Lethal Weapon (1987)
Meet John Doe (1941)
Network (1976)
'Night Mother (1986)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Ordinary People (1980)
Outside Providence (1999)
Prince of Tides, The (1991)
Rollercoaster (2000)
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Show Me Love (1999)
Shrike, The (1955)
Slender Thread, The (1965)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
Speaking in Strings (1999)
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Thelma and Louise (1991)
This is My Father (1999)
Up at the Villa (2000)
Virgin Suicides, The (2000)
What's New Pussycat? (1965)
Xiu Xiu, The Sent Down Girl (1999)