Psycological Drama That Has Educational Meaning

Chilimovie made a list about the best psycological drama of all time. These movies all have a character with mental illness. Some of them have behavior disorder, some have language barrier and some have mental block which made them different from normal people. But they also have some gifts that born with, which no one can compare. Most of them got great success with the help of their family, but there is still someone pay out her/his life to accomplish her/his goal.

Release Date
1971-12-19
  • Rate : 8.3
  • Production Companies : Hawk Films, Warner Bros.
  • Director : Stanley Kubrick, Dusty Symonds, June Randall
  • Stars : Malcolm McDowell , Patrick Magee , Michael Bates
  • In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?
Release Date
2002-12-06
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures, Beverly Detroit Studios
  • Director : Spike Jonze, Dan Bradley, Chiemi Karasawa
  • Stars : Nicolas Cage , Meryl Streep , Chris Cooper
  • Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
Release Date
2002-10-11
  • Rate : 7.3
  • Production Companies : Columbia Pictures, New Line Cinema
  • Director : Paul Thomas Anderson, Valeria Migliassi Collins, James Moran
  • Stars : Adam Sandler , Emily Watson , Philip Seymour Hoffman
  • A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
Release Date
1999-10-15
  • Rate : 8.8
  • Production Companies : Regency Enterprises, Fox 2000 Pictures
  • Director : David Fincher, Dina Waxman, Mike Topoozian
  • Stars : Edward Norton , Brad Pitt , Helena Bonham Carter
  • A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Release Date
2010-02-06
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Ruby Films, HBO Films
  • Director : Mick Jackson
  • Stars : Claire Danes , David Strathairn , Barry Tubb
  • A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
Release Date
2003-09-18
  • Rate : 7.7
  • Production Companies : American Zoetrope, Focus Features
  • Director : Takahide Kawakami, Eva Z. Cabrera, Sofia Coppola
  • Stars : Bill Murray , Scarlett Johansson , Giovanni Ribisi
  • Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Release Date
2002-12-25
  • Rate : 8.5
  • Production Companies : Canal+, Bac Films
  • Director : Sylvette Baudrot, Weronika Migoń, Zbigniew Gruz
  • Stars : Adrien Brody , Thomas Kretschmann , Frank Finlay
  • The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Release Date
1967-12-21
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : Embassy Pictures Corporation, Lawrence Turman
  • Director : Meta Rebner, Don Kranze, Mike Nichols
  • Stars : Anne Bancroft , Dustin Hoffman , Katharine Ross
  • Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
Release Date
2001-12-21
  • Rate : 8.2
  • Production Companies : Imagine Entertainment, DreamWorks SKG
  • Director : Eva Z. Cabrera, Ron Howard, Todd Hallowell
  • Stars : Russell Crowe , Jennifer Connelly , Ed Harris
  • In a decades-spanning biopic, brilliant mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. makes history in his field as schizophrenia sets in.
Release Date
2010-12-03
  • Rate : 8
  • Production Companies : Fox Searchlight Pictures, Dune Entertainment
  • Director : Darren Aronofsky, Joseph P. Reidy, Anthony Pettine
  • Stars : Natalie Portman , Mila Kunis , Vincent Cassel
  • A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.