List of mental disorders in film

• What About Bob? – 1991 – character of Bob Wiley played by Bill Murray[1]
• Copycat – 1995 – character of Helen Hudson played by Sigourney Weaver[2]
• The Aviator – 2004 – character of Howard Hughes played by Leonardo DiCaprio[3]

(Antisocial Personality Disorder should also include psychopathy and sociopathy.)

• Badlands – 1973 – character of Kit Carruthers played by Martin Sheen[4]
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – 1975 – character of Randle McMurphy played by Jack Nicholson[4]
• Wall Street – 1987 – character of Gordon Gekko played by Michael Douglas[4]
• The Talented Mr. Ripley – 1999 – character of Tom Ripley played by Matt Damon[4]
• Training Day – 2001 – character of Alonzo Harris played by Denzel Washington[4]
• Monster – 2003 – character of Aileen "Lee" Wuornos played by Charlize Theron[5]
• Nightcrawler – 2014 – character of Louis Bloom played by Jake Gyllenhaal[6]
• The Invisible Man – 2020 – character of Adrian Griffin played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen[7]

• Juno – 2007 – character of Juno MacGuff, played by Elliot Page[8]

• Finding Forrester – 2000 – character of William Forrester played by Sean Connery[9]

• Misery – 1990 – character of Annie Wilkes played by Kathy Bates[9]
• Michael Clayton – 2007 – character of Arthur Edens played by Tom Wilkinson[9]
• 3 - 2012 - character of Ram played by Dhanush[9]

• Play Misty For Me – 1971 - character of Evelyn Draper played by Jessica Walter[9]
• Mommie Dearest – 1981 – character of Joan Crawford played by Faye Dunaway[10]
• Fatal Attraction – 1987 – character of Alex Forrest played by Glenn Close[11]
• Basic Instinct – 1992 – character of Catherine Tramell played by Sharon Stone[12]
• Single White Female – 1992 – character of Hedra Carlson/Ellen Besch played by Jennifer Jason Leigh[13]
• The Crush – 1993 – character of Adrian Forrester played by Alicia Silverstone[12]
• Mad Love – 1995 – character of Casey Roberts played by Drew Barrymore[12]
• Fear – 1996 – character of David McCall played by Mark Wahlberg[12]
• Girl, Interrupted – 1999 – character of Susanna Kaysen played by Winona Ryder[14]
• Thirteen – 2003 – characters of Evie and Tracy played by Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel Wood respectively.[15]
• Notes on a Scandal - 2006 - character of Barbara Covett play by Judi Dench[12]
• Obsessed – 2009 – character of Lisa Sheridan played by Ali Larter[12]
• Silver Linings Playbook – 2012 – character of Tiffany Maxwell played by Jennifer Lawrence[16]
• Welcome to Me – 2014 – character of Alice Klieg played by Kristen Wiig[17]

• Tommy – 1975 – character of Tommy played by Roger Daltrey[18]

• What About Bob? – 1991 – character of Bob Wiley played by Bill Murray[9]

• Manichitrathazhu – 1993 – character of Ganga played by Shobana[19]
• Primal Fear - 1996 - character of Aaron Stampler (or Roy) played by Edward Norton[20]
• Split - 2016 - character of Kevin Wendell Crumb played James McAvoy[21]

• Dead Ringers – 1988 – characters of Beverly and Elliot Mantle played by Jeremy Irons[22]
• Bug (2006) – characters of Agnes White played by Ashley Judd and Peter Evans played by Michael Shannon[23][24]

• Häxan (1922)
• Klepto (2003)
• De Dhakka (2008) – character of Dhana played by Siddhartha Jadhav.[25]

• Terms of Endearment – 1983 – character of Aurora Greenway played by Shirley MacLaine[26]

• Aham – 1992 – character of Sidharthan played by Mohanlal[27]
• As Good as It Gets – 1997 – character of Melvin Udall played by Jack Nicholson[28]
• The Aviator – 2004 – character of Howard Hughes played by Leonardo DiCaprio[9]
• North 24 Kaatham – 2013 – character of Harikrishnan played by Fahadh Faasil[29]
• Nitham Oru Vaanam - 2022 - character played by Ashok Selvan[30]

• The Odd Couple – 1968 – character of Felix Ungar played by Jack Lemmon[9]

• The Caine Mutiny – 1954 – character of Philip Francis Queeg played by Humphrey Bogart[31]

• The Perks of Being a Wallflower – 2012 – character of Charlie Kelmeckis played by Logan Lerman[32]
• Iron Man 3 – 2013 – character of Tony Stark played by Robert Downey Jr.[33]

• Terminator 2: Judgment Day – 1991 – character of Sarah Connor played by Linda Hamilton[34]

• The Remains of the Day – 1993 – character of Mr James Stevens played by Anthony Hopkins[35]
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – 2002 – character of Gollum[36]
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King – 2003 – character of Gollum[36]
• Lars and the Real Girl – 2007 – Lars Lindstrom[37]
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – 2012 – character of Gollum[36]

Further information: Schizotypal personality disorder

• Taxi Driver – 1976 – character of Travis Bickle played by Robert De Niro[9]
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – 2005 – character of Willy Wonka played by Johnny Depp[38]

• Alias John Preston - 1955 - although described in the film as Schizophrenia, it actually demonstrates a fugue state
• A Beautiful Mind – 2001 – character of John F. Nash played by Russell Crowe[39]
• Donnie Darko – 2001 – character of Donnie Darko played by Jake Gyllenhaal[40]
• The Voices – 2014 – character of Jerry Hickfang played by Ryan Reynolds[41]
• Words on Bathroom Walls – 2020 – character of Adam Petrazelli played by Charlie Plummer[42]
• Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (film) - 2016 - Character of Rafe Khatchadorian played by Griffin Gluck[43]
• Atrangi Re - 2021 - character of Rinku played by Sara Ali Khan

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest – 1975 – character of Billy Bibbit played by Brad Dourif[44]
• The King's Speech – 2010 – character of King George VI played by Colin Firth[45]
• Golmaal 3 – 2010 – character of Laxman played by Shreyas Talpade[46]
• It – 2017 – character of Bill Denbrough played by Jaeden Martell[47]

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• Colossal – 2016 – character of Gloria played by Anne Hathaway[49]

• Mental disorders in fiction

• Danny Wedding, Mary Ann Boyd and Ryan M. Niemiec, Movies and Mental Illness: Using Films to Understand Psychopathology, 2nd ed., Cambridge, MA, Hogrefe & Hufer Publishing, 2005, ISBN 0-88937-292-6. Movies and Mental Illness – Hogrefe Publishing
• David J. Robinson, Reel Psychiatry: Movie Portrayals of Psychiatric Conditions, Rapid Psychler Press, 2003, ISBN 1-894328-07-8.
• Glen O. Gabbard and Krin Gabbard, Psychiatry and the Cinema, American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2nd ed., 1999, ISBN 0-88048-964-2.
• Otto F. Wahl, Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness, Piscataway, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8135-2213-7.