Mine include:
1. Girl, Interrupted
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
3. Greenberg [this wasn't necessarily my favorite, it has its moments].
4. Little Miss Sunshine
5. Harvey
6. A Beautiful Mind
7. Grey Gardens
8. Good Will Hunting
9. Ordinary People
10. Suddenly Last Summer
11. Sybil
12 Three Faces of Eve
13. Rain Man
14. Tim [with a young Mel Gibson]
15. Flowers for Algernon
maybe The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke
shareLooked it up, it sounds grim and hard core
shareit is too.
Haneke has this austere style without gratuitous ornaments, meaning you're really confronted with the sensation of illness and pain. All in all it makes it a rather unpleasant experience, but this is also the outstanding feature of it.
Isabelle Huppert is beyond amazing in this film.
1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) Silver Linings Playbook
3) Donnie Darko
4) Twelve Monkeys
5) Memento
6) Shutter Island
Jeffer,
Good list. I've seen Donnie Darko, Good Will Hunting, One Flew Over the Coo Coo's nest. I ordered the book, Perks of being a Wallflower, looking forward to it=) Jane
Thanks. I haven't read the book for Perks of being a Wallflower. It would be interesting to find out how it differs from the movie or where it provides more detail. I really liked the movie.
share1. Perks of being a wallflower is a great movie, my favorite actually.
2. Shutter island.
... it's not a big list.
Awesome list. I would add A Clockwork Orange and The Shining.
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind? Are you referring to Clementine?
~The insane are blessed in a beautifully twisted way~
I am referring to both Clementine and Joel.
Spoilers Below
I think both have their issues that are kind of opposites of each other. It is possible that Clementine is Bipolar based on her personality traits in the movie, but the movie never goes there so who knows? Joel was bullied as a child and may have some Anxiety Disorder that is presented in his social withdrawal.
That movie and Silver Linings Playbook are big favorites for me.
I too believe Clementine was bipolar and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is my absolute favorite movie while Silver Linings Playbook is my second. Similar tastes, I guess.
~The insane are blessed in a beautifully twisted way~
Maybe there could be a new movie where Clementine and Joel ride on the subway train with Tiffany and Pat to the diner :)
It is too bad that Jim Carrey hasn't done more serious movies. He is much better with a more serious character than his comedies for me. Many people have ignored "Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (and "Truman") just because of assumptions that everything he does will be comedy.
Yeah i liked Silver linings playbook too. I thought everyone was crazy in this movie.
shareSpider, with Ralph Fiennes
Lilith, with Jean Seberg, Warren Beatty, Gene Hackman, and Peter Fonda. Incredible movie.
The Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds, with Joanne Woodward
Repulsion, with Catherine Deveuve
Bunny Lake Is Missing, with Keir Dullea and Carol Lynley
They Might Be Giants
The Other
Dead Again
The Fisher King
shareNot in order of best to worst but the order it popped in my mind :)
1) Batman
2) The Dark Knight
3) Primal Fear
4) green Mile
5) Rain Man
6) Dexter - I know its TV but its soooooooo good
7) American Beauty
8) Shutter Island
Cuckoo Nest and Streetcar named desire.
I think blanche suffers mental illness.
Many of my favorites are already listed here, such as A Streetcar Named Desire.
I'd like to add:
The Snake Pit (1948)
David and Lisa (1962)