Psychology - Library Resources: Movies Featuring Mental Illness

Movie List

These movies all feature characters with mental illness and would be suitable for your psychology project. 

• Movie titles with asterisks * after them are owned by the Ludden Library. Stop by the Service Desk if you need help locating one.
• Some of the films are available through a streaming database named Kanopy. Look at the Kanopy box on this page for more information.
• We also have DVD players that connect to computers that you may check out.

• As Good as It Gets *
• The Aviator
• A Beautiful Mind *
• Black Swan
• Born on the Fourth of July *
• Copycat
• Donnie Darko - Kanopy
• Eighth Grade - Kanopy
• Fatal Attraction
• Good Will Hunting *
• Girl, Interrupted *
• The Hobbit
• Horse Girl
• Iron Man, 3
• It’s Kind of a Funny Story
• Joker
• The King of Staten Island
• The King’s Speech *
• Lars and the Real Girl
• Matchstick Men
• Melancholia - Kanopy
• Misery
• Mommie Dearest
• Monster (2003 movie) *
• Observe and Report
• The Odd Couple
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest *  
• Ordinary People
• Paper Spiders - Kanopy
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower
• Primal Fear
• Prozac Nation
• Rachel Getting Married
• Silver Linings Playbook *
• Single White Female
• The Skeleton Twins - Kanopy
• Starving in Suburbia
• Sybil *
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Taxi Driver
• Thirteen *
• To the Bone
• We Need to Talk About Kevin - Kanopy
• Welcome to Me - Kanopy
• What About Bob?

Kanopy

LCCC subscribes to Kanopy, which describes itself as a place to, "Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos that inspire, enrich and entertain." New content is always being added to the database, and you might find a film that will work for your project here.

After you click into Kanopy using the link below (make sure you are logged in to your myLCCC account), hover over Browse. Click into the Narrative Films or Psychology category from the drop down menu to start searching. There are quite a few documentaries in this databases. Make sure you locate a film!