If you Google "IMDB lists (whatever you're looking for)" you not only get multiple lists, but you can then filter certain things, like movies you saw, which is an easy way to pull up movies you've rated, especially on those lists with hundreds or even thousands of movies. You can also find out where they're playing, like the "Prime" filter check-box.. I like to put the movies out chronologically, because I like to see how the movie industry dealt with mental illness from the beginning, and see how it progresses. It can also be helpful to arrange the results by user ratings (and then "Movies I Haven't NOT Seen") if you're looking for something you never saw, and want to go with the probabilites. "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" and "A Woman Under The Influence" are in my Top 10 all-time, but I highly recommend the latter because it's different. John Cassavetes' movies always featured people, inside-and-out, but he doesn't spoon-feed. I like a director who respects the audience, and doesn't dumb things down, or the typical, "I'll give them what they want" -- how condescending. And it's on YouTube! The Swimmer (1968) -- Never saw a movie like this! I think I saw it three times in two days. You can purchase it from YouTube, but it might be on Comcast. I'll paste the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EgXRCGSabY The Happy Ending - 10/10 There's a little "lull" somewhere, but it makes sense when you're finished, because it's mostly about depression. I don't wanna say too much in case you or anyone else watches it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3IBSS76Pzs -Sult (one of the most unique movies centered around a poor writer with problems that aren't very defined. I'm sure you'd come to certain conclusions, but I don't wanna spoil anything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USZrGQTm6iU "A Child Is Waiting" - 10/10 (centered around children.. definitely pulls on the heart strings. Judy Garland is great, I just got chills as I typed this!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwBPOiA7X84 "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" is also in my Top 10 all-time, but it's a movie about a lot of things. Every universal theme is expressed in a very simple story. Even when I go online to look it up, it's listed under so many different genres, accurately. "Taxi Driver" is another one. "A Streetcar Named Desire" Ingrid Bergman's movies usually center around characters and mental illness. Aki Kaurismaki's characters suffer depression, but the movies are comedy-dramas. Very minimalist, centered around everyday stuff -- work, relationships, disappointments. Especially the movies starring Matti Pellonpaa who unfortunately died at 45.
FICTION: "Shutter Island" (2010) DOCUMENTARIES: sad - "The Bridge" (2006) chilling - "The Family I Had" (2017 ? - "Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist" (1997) the spider and the flies - "Talhotblond" (2009)
Betty Blue ('37° 2 le matin') {1986} Searingly beautiful and profoundly moving. A film that will haunt me forever.
Clean, Shaven, about a schizophrenic and largely told from his subjective perspective. Stars the guy who played Zed in Pulp Fiction.
