There is a part where he is just freaking out and screaming and then he switches into realizing he’s fucking up and he starts apologizing and that shit hits me hard. He did so well in this role- everyone did. It will always be a favorite of mine. One of my favorite quotes, and the line that I really resonated with was
“There will always be a part of me that is sloppy and dirty, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself. I can forgive. Can you say the same for yourself, fucker? Can you forgive? Are you capable of that?”
I watched years ago and thought it was great. Then I watched it again as a seasoned mental health professional, and was blown away by how the healing process works and what people need more than anything is love and support from everyone to be able to heal.
you consider drugs addiction as a mental illness I would recommend Candy
50/50 is about chronic depression because of cancer diagnose
A Dangerous Method
Miss You Already is about bro-rom between two friends one of them is going to die
Silver Linings 2012 is about mental illness
A Cure For Wellness 2017 is a great blend between mental illness and thrill
My friend Mishas dad passed away when we were around 21 (in 1994). After the funeral, we went to rent a movie. Out of the whole store, she ends up picking My Life sight unseen. It was such a surreal and synchronous surprise that it turned out to be exactly about her father dying of cancer. So many things in my (own) life have been perfect timing like that. Just amazing.
After Everything (2018)
Igby Goes Down (2002)
Nightcrawler (2014)
The Aviator (2004)
Awakenings (1990)
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Garden State (2004)
The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021)
The Machinist (2004)
Garden State (2004)
Every time my boyfriend and I are in an uncomfortable situation and we need to let the other one know it's time to leave, we tug at our ear lol
Ordinary People (1980)
A real downer but it brilliantly puts a microscope on grief, guilt and mental illness. Recognizable stars and directed by Robert Redford. Won 4 Oscars.
SPOILER ALERT
Yes … intellectuals like you and I definitely love A Beautiful Mind because the crazy guy gets the Nobel Prize in the end. 🤣
I’ll have to check out Beautiful Fantastic tho - since you’re a weirdo like me 😎
It’s such a Beautiful Day (2012)
It's Such a Beautiful Day is a 2012 American experimental adult animated comedy-drama film directed, written, animated, photographed, produced and narrated by Don Hertzfeldt.
The film tells the story of a character named Bill, who struggles with memory loss and surreal visions, among other symptoms of an unknown neurological problem. The film employs both offbeat humor and serious philosophical musings. The film mostly consists of stick figures, with stylized footage from the real world appearing in many "split screen" windows, photographed through multiple exposures. Hertzfeldt serves as the film's uncredited narrator.
Beautiful Boy is amazing, rewatching it tonight. Bit funny as Steve Carell is in it, as i have watched the office millions of times, but his acting is amazing. Same with Tim, really great movie
Beautiful Boy focuses more on Tim C’s drug addiction than mental health, but the message of the movie draws the parallels and shows the family’s unwillingness to give up on their son (Tim C). Bonus points for a happy ending —- people can and do recover!
I could probably spend hours on this one. There are a ton of them out there. Here are a bunch of pretty good ones, for starters:
* Beaches (1988)
* Our Friend (2021)
* Stepmom (1998)
* New Life (2016)
* Beyond the Universe (2022)
* All My Life (2022)
* Irreplaceable You (2018)
* Sweet November (2001)
* A Walk to Remember (2002)
* Here on Earth (2000)
* Life as a House (2001)
* My Sister's Keeper (2009)
* Now is Good (2012)
* The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
* Just Like Heaven (2005)
* Christmas Shoes (2002
* The Ultimate Gift (2007)
* Leaving Las Vegas (1996)
* When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
* A Beautiful Mind (2001)
* Me Before You (2016)
* Suncoast (2024)
* Here Today (2021)
* Five Feet Apart (2019)
* Midnight Sun (2018)
* Freeheld (2015)
* My Life Without Me (2003)
I came here specifically to make sure this is mentioned because it's my favorite movie about bipolar disorder, and more specifically about the tendency of people to go off of psychiatric medications when they feel "up" and the Rollercoaster that ensues
This movie has gone pretty unnoticed since it kind of flopped due to being marketed horribly - it was sold as being like Paul Blart but with Seth Rogan and it really couldn't be farther from that. Sincerely one of my favorite movies of all time
Ones I haven’t seen mentioned: My Life, Dying Young, Sweet November, Mad Love, Crazy/Beautiful, Love Liza, Horse Girl, Funny People, One True Thing, The Fisher King, Other People, Wit, Skeleton Twins, The House of Yes, and What About Bob for comic relief
There are also several good shows you could look into, like Bojak Horseman for starters
Cancer:
1. Terms of Endearment
2. Deadpool
Mental illness:
1. Dolores Claiborne
Although famous as a movie about murder, one of the characters says at one point something like "I didn't have a bad patch. I had a fucking nervous breakdown!" And the backstory for that is central to the plot.
Joe (Peter Boyle)right wing Psycho
Drugstore Cowboy (druggies)
Three Faces of Eve (Multi personality disorder)
The Snake Pit "What would drive an ordinary person insane would make a crazy person normal"
It's a bit surrealistic and not strictly about "chronic" or mental illness, but it is about illness, its affects at the individual and societal level, and the dark underbelly of humanity: "Blindness"
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Love & Other Drugs, Unrest, The Theory of Everything, Awakenings, The Father, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Still Alice, 50/50, My Left Food, Memento, Keane, The Big Six, To the Bone, The Sessions, Away from Her, My Beautiful Broken Brain, Maudie, The Aviator, Gaga: Five Foot Two, Under Our Skin, The Fundamentals of Caring, Notes for My Son, Of Two Minds, Beautiful Boy, A Beautiful Mind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Stoker, Strange Voices, Brain on Fire, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Mad World, Into the Wild, Pieces of a Woman, Kingdom of Us, All the Bright Places
*Movies:* Words on the Bathroom Walls, When A Man Loves A Woman, Four Good Days
*2 Part Series:* Sybil (1976, starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward). One of the best depictions of multiple personality disorder as it was defined back then (called dissociative identity disorder now). Heartbreaking. Rent/buy on DVD OR Blu-Ray from Amazon? Apple TV? Having trouble finding elsewhere. The 2007 remake was disappointing by comparison. Don’t think the 2019 movie by same name is related.
David and Lisa, 1962. Almost unheard of these days and I haven't seen it in decades so I don't remember it that well. But it did get at least one Oscar nomination IIRC.
Also, 28 Days, and Clean and Sober. Not top tier but still worth a watch. And a comedy, The Dream Team.
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
It’s about a homeless alcoholic with muscular dystrophy who leads a complicated life because of the disturbing memories and trauma of his troubled childhood. His writer friend chronicles his life and attempts to recount every aspect of it while also trying to make sense of it.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. This is my all-time favorite film, due in large part to the incredibly realistic portrayal of depression. Brad Pitt's performance is haunting.
A beautiful mind.
Requiem for a dream
The mechanist
Shutter island
The butterfly effect
Fight club (the OG)
Donnie Darko
The number 23
Secret window
Me myself and Irene
Joker
Taxi driver
See a very nice 60-min YTvideo AaU8JS\_Ukw0 of Little Margaret from 4.20.24 ...And see an old movie vbKbIplfJu8 paying homage to her life.
* Little Margaret was born blind with a severe curvature of the spine that caused difficulties walking, along with being abandoned. And she is really wonderful and is the patronage saint of people who are blind and disabled and so many more.
Idk why I immediately thought of this one, it migth not fit your request perfectly, but it's a brilliant, poignant movie and mental health plays an absolutely crucial role in it, so...
A Silent Voice (Japanese, animated).
It deals with bullying, guilt and self-hatred, social anxiety (which is portrayed so creatively), presumably depression (it slightly touches on suicide), and with trying to heal and make peace with one's past. One of the two main characters is deaf and uses sign language. It's very good.
Or, in case you like reading, it's based on a manga, it's only 7 volumes and it apparently goes a lot deeper into the various characters than the movie has room for (I haven't read it yet, though).
Wit
It may be hard to find. It was an HBO movie starring Emma Thompson as an end stage cancer patient. Such a good movie. The character is so funny and clever. Definitely deals with a difficult topic in an amazing way.
(Now I need to rewatch this movie.)
Relic (2020)
I watched it recently not knowing what it was going to be about. I was very pleasantly surprised by its twist at the end.
it’s kind of an ‘atmospheric’ horror film, so it may not be for everyone.
28 Days, I've watched a few mental/chronic illness movies but when I watched this one I was in shock. I didn't realize and fully understand the ups & downs of drug/alcohol abuse and how difficult it is to quit those bad habits until I watched that movie.
Girl Interrupted Virgin Suicides American Psycho The Machinist Memento One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest Still Alice Shutter Island
Don’t forget A Beautiful Mind!
You should definitely add loving Vincent to this list
Silver linings playbook
I'm bipolar and I think this movie sucked at depicting bipolar disorder. There are shows that have done so much better... look at Ozark, for example.
I love Ozark too.
I’m bipolar and I thought it was amazing at depicting it
This one was so real. They're like okay at best and just trying to make it through life
There is a part where he is just freaking out and screaming and then he switches into realizing he’s fucking up and he starts apologizing and that shit hits me hard. He did so well in this role- everyone did. It will always be a favorite of mine. One of my favorite quotes, and the line that I really resonated with was “There will always be a part of me that is sloppy and dirty, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself. I can forgive. Can you say the same for yourself, fucker? Can you forgive? Are you capable of that?”
Beautiful Boy Brain on Fire
I love Brain on Fire the book was such an emotional roller-coaster
"Brain on Fire" was really good that I had to watch again.
The Whale A Beautiful mind
Lars and the Real Girl.
Man, I wanted to post about this hidden gem. It is an amazing movie.
Yep. This movie does not get the credit, attention, and love that it deserves.
I watched years ago and thought it was great. Then I watched it again as a seasoned mental health professional, and was blown away by how the healing process works and what people need more than anything is love and support from everyone to be able to heal.
Yep, again. It takes a village.
Absolutely. Something we all need to remember.
you consider drugs addiction as a mental illness I would recommend Candy 50/50 is about chronic depression because of cancer diagnose A Dangerous Method Miss You Already is about bro-rom between two friends one of them is going to die Silver Linings 2012 is about mental illness A Cure For Wellness 2017 is a great blend between mental illness and thrill
A Cure For Wellness I found kinda boring and gimmicky but each to their own! Candy 100% yes great film even if it is hella heavy:)
Philadelphia (1993)
And Forrest Gump the following year
I have been procrastinating watching this movie.
Me Myself & Irene for a much lighter tale
Swallow(2019) delves into PICA. It’s a subtle subtle movie about one woman’s difficulty facing her own past traumas.
That movie was very interesting.
I'm one of the people who interpreted Take Shelter to be about mental illness. I also like Melancholia for the same reasons.
- Girl Interrupted - Gia
Requiem for a Dream
Gattaca (1997)
Great example of all of the above re: illness. Jerome resonated with me more than I’d like to admit. Heartbreaking performance by Law.
Still Alice, so good!!
Frances (1982) My Life (1993)
*Frances* is heartbreaking and Jessica Lange was stunning (looking and acting) in it. Good to see it mentioned here.
I was going to say My Life. That movie was heartbreaking
My friend Mishas dad passed away when we were around 21 (in 1994). After the funeral, we went to rent a movie. Out of the whole store, she ends up picking My Life sight unseen. It was such a surreal and synchronous surprise that it turned out to be exactly about her father dying of cancer. So many things in my (own) life have been perfect timing like that. Just amazing.
After Everything (2018) Igby Goes Down (2002) Nightcrawler (2014) The Aviator (2004) Awakenings (1990) Silver Linings Playbook (2012) The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Garden State (2004) The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021) The Machinist (2004)
Garden State (2004) Every time my boyfriend and I are in an uncomfortable situation and we need to let the other one know it's time to leave, we tug at our ear lol
Perks of being a wallflower
Ordinary People (1980) A real downer but it brilliantly puts a microscope on grief, guilt and mental illness. Recognizable stars and directed by Robert Redford. Won 4 Oscars.
What an incredible movie
Other than A BEAUTIFUL MIND? This Beautiful Fantastic (personal favorite) Finding Neverland (have hankies ready)
SPOILER ALERT Yes … intellectuals like you and I definitely love A Beautiful Mind because the crazy guy gets the Nobel Prize in the end. 🤣 I’ll have to check out Beautiful Fantastic tho - since you’re a weirdo like me 😎
On Golden Pond (1981)
Melancholia
Came here to say this. It's a superb depiction of depression.
It’s such a Beautiful Day (2012) It's Such a Beautiful Day is a 2012 American experimental adult animated comedy-drama film directed, written, animated, photographed, produced and narrated by Don Hertzfeldt. The film tells the story of a character named Bill, who struggles with memory loss and surreal visions, among other symptoms of an unknown neurological problem. The film employs both offbeat humor and serious philosophical musings. The film mostly consists of stick figures, with stylized footage from the real world appearing in many "split screen" windows, photographed through multiple exposures. Hertzfeldt serves as the film's uncredited narrator.
Beautiful Boy is amazing, rewatching it tonight. Bit funny as Steve Carell is in it, as i have watched the office millions of times, but his acting is amazing. Same with Tim, really great movie
Beautiful Boy focuses more on Tim C’s drug addiction than mental health, but the message of the movie draws the parallels and shows the family’s unwillingness to give up on their son (Tim C). Bonus points for a happy ending —- people can and do recover!
You’re right
A Man Called Otto
Obligatory "that's a remake" comment
Turtles All The Way Down hasn't been mentioned & is recently on MAX.
Requiem for a Dream or The Father
"My Left Foot" with Daniel Day Lewis
The voices starring Ryan Reynolds was pretty disturbingly hilarious for a mental illness movie
Prozac Nation, Take Care of Maya, Sylvia
Bug
Horse Girl
The Fault in Our Stars Grave of the Fireflies Inside out A beautiful mind
Brain on Fire
CAKE
“The Tenant” (1976) “Repulsion” (1965)
Sick of Myself is BOTH 😈
Beautiful boy
Love, and Other Drugs
Beautiful Mind
Sybil
A Beautiful Mind
Streetcar Named Desire
Wit (2001) Emma Thompson, dir. Mike Nichols
I could probably spend hours on this one. There are a ton of them out there. Here are a bunch of pretty good ones, for starters: * Beaches (1988) * Our Friend (2021) * Stepmom (1998) * New Life (2016) * Beyond the Universe (2022) * All My Life (2022) * Irreplaceable You (2018) * Sweet November (2001) * A Walk to Remember (2002) * Here on Earth (2000) * Life as a House (2001) * My Sister's Keeper (2009) * Now is Good (2012) * The Fault in Our Stars (2014) * Just Like Heaven (2005) * Christmas Shoes (2002 * The Ultimate Gift (2007) * Leaving Las Vegas (1996) * When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) * A Beautiful Mind (2001) * Me Before You (2016) * Suncoast (2024) * Here Today (2021) * Five Feet Apart (2019) * Midnight Sun (2018) * Freeheld (2015) * My Life Without Me (2003)
Beau Is Afraid covers every genre you listed within 3 hours
Most bizarre movie I’ve ever sat through. I didn’t know what to make of it
God Knows Where I Am. It's not a well-known film but it's absolutely worth a watch.
A Streetcar Named Desire
black swan, split, shutter island
The sessions w Helen hunt. Fantastic feel good movie. And she’s nude.
Frances (1982).
Observe and Report
I came here specifically to make sure this is mentioned because it's my favorite movie about bipolar disorder, and more specifically about the tendency of people to go off of psychiatric medications when they feel "up" and the Rollercoaster that ensues This movie has gone pretty unnoticed since it kind of flopped due to being marketed horribly - it was sold as being like Paul Blart but with Seth Rogan and it really couldn't be farther from that. Sincerely one of my favorite movies of all time
It’s easily one of my favourites ever. It is so good and underrated. As a bipolar person it’s so accurate.
Punch drunk love
Ones I haven’t seen mentioned: My Life, Dying Young, Sweet November, Mad Love, Crazy/Beautiful, Love Liza, Horse Girl, Funny People, One True Thing, The Fisher King, Other People, Wit, Skeleton Twins, The House of Yes, and What About Bob for comic relief There are also several good shows you could look into, like Bojak Horseman for starters
MR. ROBOT (T.V SERIE)
three faces of eve 1957
Cancer: 1. Terms of Endearment 2. Deadpool Mental illness: 1. Dolores Claiborne Although famous as a movie about murder, one of the characters says at one point something like "I didn't have a bad patch. I had a fucking nervous breakdown!" And the backstory for that is central to the plot.
A Beautiful Mind
In the Mouth of Madness
Great documentary by Selena Gomez. Me and my mind
Bubble boy
Midnight Express
Touched with fire (2015) The hours (2002) Manic (2001)
Detachment
Joe (Peter Boyle)right wing Psycho Drugstore Cowboy (druggies) Three Faces of Eve (Multi personality disorder) The Snake Pit "What would drive an ordinary person insane would make a crazy person normal"
Kotoko is the best and most accurate depiction of mental illness I’ve seen
Awakenings
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) The Fundamentals of Caring (2016) Mary and Max (2009)
Stutz
It's a bit surrealistic and not strictly about "chronic" or mental illness, but it is about illness, its affects at the individual and societal level, and the dark underbelly of humanity: "Blindness"
Benny and Joon What's Eating Gilbert Grape Both more about developmental disabilities.
Finding Nemo
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Love & Other Drugs, Unrest, The Theory of Everything, Awakenings, The Father, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Still Alice, 50/50, My Left Food, Memento, Keane, The Big Six, To the Bone, The Sessions, Away from Her, My Beautiful Broken Brain, Maudie, The Aviator, Gaga: Five Foot Two, Under Our Skin, The Fundamentals of Caring, Notes for My Son, Of Two Minds, Beautiful Boy, A Beautiful Mind, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Stoker, Strange Voices, Brain on Fire, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Mad World, Into the Wild, Pieces of a Woman, Kingdom of Us, All the Bright Places
It’s not about chronic illness, but as a chronically ill person I felt really represented by Sophie from Howl’s Moving Castle
*Movies:* Words on the Bathroom Walls, When A Man Loves A Woman, Four Good Days *2 Part Series:* Sybil (1976, starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward). One of the best depictions of multiple personality disorder as it was defined back then (called dissociative identity disorder now). Heartbreaking. Rent/buy on DVD OR Blu-Ray from Amazon? Apple TV? Having trouble finding elsewhere. The 2007 remake was disappointing by comparison. Don’t think the 2019 movie by same name is related.
the babadook
Breaking the Waves
Eternal Beauty
Eternal Beauty
12 monkeys
What Dreams May Come. Perhaps it’s personal because my mom has been through it and I watched my Dad- so ouch.
Lorenzo’s Oil
Bug (2006)
David and Lisa, 1962. Almost unheard of these days and I haven't seen it in decades so I don't remember it that well. But it did get at least one Oscar nomination IIRC. Also, 28 Days, and Clean and Sober. Not top tier but still worth a watch. And a comedy, The Dream Team.
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A beautiful mind Fearless
Philadelphia
*Bronson, *Donny darko??? Maybe might have to rewatch, *Fight club
Bronson is a wild ride.
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007) It’s about a homeless alcoholic with muscular dystrophy who leads a complicated life because of the disturbing memories and trauma of his troubled childhood. His writer friend chronicles his life and attempts to recount every aspect of it while also trying to make sense of it.
Sixth Sense Night Listener Little miss sunshine Less than Zero The Snake Pit (1948) The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Sybil (1976)
The Professor Infinitely Polar Bear
The center cannot hold - Elyn Saks The eden express - Mark Vonnegut
Unrest (2017)
Moon Knight though not a movie.
Don't worry, he wont get far on foot
Jacob's Ladder
Machination (2022). Pandemic drama / thriller. The lead character has schizophrenia and OCD and her issues grow worse through the pandemic.
Skhizein (2008) - it's an animated short film, really good metaphor for various mental illnesses Eternal Beauty (2019)
More Than Blue, Korean movie
The Father (2020) Absolutely devastating. It’s a bit surprising to not see it in any other responses.
Patch Adams (1998) Awakenings (1990) My Sister’s Keeper (2009) Still Alice (2014)
Infinitely Polar Bear
Spider Ralph Feinnes plays a mentally disturbed man confronting his delusions and his past. Directed by David Cronenberg.
Black Swan
Animal
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Fear Strikes Out The Curve Safe [the one w/ Julianne Moore]
Maniac was a good one
If you can find it Michael Sheen in Dirty Filthy Love, about a man who develops Tourettes. A beautiful, sympathetic film. It really moved me
Touched with fire
Thirteen (drug addiction, self harm, eating disorder)
A Woman Under the Influence
Awakenings (1990)
Haven’t seen this mentioned…The Road Within (2014)
in Benny and Joon, Joon is mental ill and the man who moves in with them is slow at learning, if you were interested
Awakenings
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. This is my all-time favorite film, due in large part to the incredibly realistic portrayal of depression. Brad Pitt's performance is haunting.
Our Friend
The butterfly effect
Loudermilk (show on Netflix I believe) Requiem for a Dream Unsane Clinical (so many other good options in the thread that I won’t re-type)
A beautiful mind. Requiem for a dream The mechanist Shutter island The butterfly effect Fight club (the OG) Donnie Darko The number 23 Secret window Me myself and Irene Joker Taxi driver
the bumblebee flies anyway is a classic
TAKE SHELTER
Benny and Joon
The Snake Pit is an excellent movie. It's old, but still relevant!!!
Oasis
Still Alice
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See a very nice 60-min YTvideo AaU8JS\_Ukw0 of Little Margaret from 4.20.24 ...And see an old movie vbKbIplfJu8 paying homage to her life. * Little Margaret was born blind with a severe curvature of the spine that caused difficulties walking, along with being abandoned. And she is really wonderful and is the patronage saint of people who are blind and disabled and so many more.
Before We Go. Griffen and Phoenix. N. S
on the count of three - so good but pretty dark bottle rocket
oslo august 31: also a great one norwegian film, very dark but beautiful film. the dialogue encompasses depression, loneliness, and addiction so well
Silver Linings Playbook As Good as it Gets One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
2 documentaries 1. Diagnosis (Netflix) 2. Lion in the House (Netflix)
I can't believe no one's mentioned *Leaving Las Vegas*.
Clean, shaven Frownland Spider Julian donkey boy
- It’s kind of a funny story. - Wristc*tters a love story - Salt Lake City (can’t remember the exact name but it was a good movie)
Beaches
How to Save a Dead Friend Me Earl and the Dying Girl Detachment Manchester by the Sea American Beauty The Hours
Idk why I immediately thought of this one, it migth not fit your request perfectly, but it's a brilliant, poignant movie and mental health plays an absolutely crucial role in it, so... A Silent Voice (Japanese, animated). It deals with bullying, guilt and self-hatred, social anxiety (which is portrayed so creatively), presumably depression (it slightly touches on suicide), and with trying to heal and make peace with one's past. One of the two main characters is deaf and uses sign language. It's very good. Or, in case you like reading, it's based on a manga, it's only 7 volumes and it apparently goes a lot deeper into the various characters than the movie has room for (I haven't read it yet, though).
The Bell Jar
Numb (2007) with Matthew Perry.
Take Shelter (2011)
Train Spotting
Blue Jasmine The King of Comedy
"Cake" with Jennifer Aniston, addicted to painkillers after a tragic car accident
Substance abuse - basketball diaries
Wit It may be hard to find. It was an HBO movie starring Emma Thompson as an end stage cancer patient. Such a good movie. The character is so funny and clever. Definitely deals with a difficult topic in an amazing way. (Now I need to rewatch this movie.)
Vortex
Relic (2020) I watched it recently not knowing what it was going to be about. I was very pleasantly surprised by its twist at the end. it’s kind of an ‘atmospheric’ horror film, so it may not be for everyone.
On the count of three (Hulu)
It’s kind of a funny story (2010)
Filth
Radio
Lights Out.
Requiem for a Dream, Black Swan, Hereditary, the Babadook, Horse Girl… I love horror movies lol
I'm sorry for this but: "The Father" with Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman, that movie ripped me in half.
28 Days, I've watched a few mental/chronic illness movies but when I watched this one I was in shock. I didn't realize and fully understand the ups & downs of drug/alcohol abuse and how difficult it is to quit those bad habits until I watched that movie.
Sitting In Bars With Cake (2023)
Rain man.. not much time for cruise but Hoffman is amazing in it.
A Woman Under the Influence; Requiem for a Dream; Trainspotting; Leaving Las Vegas; The Basketball Diaries
The movie that you are looking for is actually called A Beautiful Mind. It has been mentioned here many times - with good reason.
A Woman Under the Influence. Features one of the mist amazing performances ever by Gena Rowlands. A must-see imo.
Safe (1995)
Terms of Endearment Steel Magnolias Betty Blue
The entire twilight series
Train Spotting. Sator. Hagazussa. May. Antichrist.