Touching films about madness

Excellent link.

A forgotten one in that list that I saw and was affected by was Camille Claudel. I could stand to see that again.

Bartleby might be the greatest "inaction movie" never made in 4D...extra D for depression.

Might not be 'touching,' but you should check out Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness.

Cycloptichorn

Titanic

only a lunatic would waste their precious time watching this drivel

I dunno if this your kind of vein of madness, but the film "Pi" is by far one of my favorite. It follows a mathematicians decent into madness as he slowly uncovers a formula that connections him to organized crime, economic markets and religious sects.
Definitely a great watch.

The Man Who Would Be King - I read the book. Maybe I should look up the movie.

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! Have seen a few and downloaded the rest, it's really useful to have this list so many thanks again.



Yeah, sorry the request was vague, just because basically I wanted to get a wide spectrum of ideas and the text I'm working on is very open to a number of interpretations. I just wanted anything that could reveal a psychological portrait of what someone with 'madness'/mental health issues is actually thinking.

Brilliant Freso, yes, thank you I was going to look into Laing. Getting that book out tomorrow.

I agree. And I think that film is one of the best depictions of madness.

Although not "madness", two movies dealing with dementia, Iris (with Judi Dench) and Away from Her (with Julie Christie) were both quite touching.

The novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is a semi-autobiographical work about a young woman's treatment for a severe mental disorder, which, at the time, was diagnosed as schizophrenia, and it portrays the illness as it is experienced by the patient.

An old boyfriend was into Laing. Worth a view.
Not my point of view, but I'm no expert.

The best one I remember is Family Life, by Ken Loach.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068569/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

A more recent one, The Science of Dreams:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354899/