An escapee from a nearby criminal asylum is investigated by U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels.
Show your “True Grit” as “The Fighter” in “The Social Network.” For “127 Hours,” wrestle with a “Black Swan” of the “Animal Kingdom.” Deliver “The King’s Speech” to “The Town” of “Shutter Island” even though “You Don’t Know Jack.” “Never Let Me Go” down the “Rabbit Hole,” because “The Kids Are All Right,” even in “Barney’s Version” of the story. “Winter’s Bone” will make for a “American” “Blue Valentine.” “Love and Other Drugs” may cause you to experience “Inception.” “Biutiful.” That’s right. That’s all of the titles in this subgenre. You’re welcome.
A comprehensive, cinematic guide to 2010. Our highlights were Shutter Island, Blue Valentine, Inception and The Fighter.
2010’s films will blow your mind, you will question everything about reality. Is the world upside down? Are there really two swans? Who is alive and who is dead? Good cop? Bad cop? These are the movies that you can watch 500 times and still not begin to comprehend. Better get started.
Like Hanks and Spielberg, or Burton and Depp, sometimes an actor/director team just clicks. This is clearly the case with Scorsese and DiCaprio, as evidenced by 'The Departed', 'Gangs of New York', and, most recently, 'Wolf of Wall Street'.
The complete filmography of Hollywood giant Martin Scorsese, progenitor of 'Taxi Driver', 'Raging Bull', and 'Wolf of Wall Street'. Check our other lists, 'Scorsese & DiCaprio' and 'Scorsese and DeNiro' for the dynamic duos collaborative projects.
A borderline personality disordered defense worker meets an undercover cop and a young man with a heart shaped birthmark - you should be thrilled that is not the start of a joke.
These insane asylum movies do not paint a rosy picture of American mental-health treatment facilities. Make sure to check out 'Session 9' for one of the most terrifying found-footage flicks in the genre, as well as 'Stonehearst Asylum' for a recent psychological-horror based on the Poe short-story!
Schizophrenia, a much stigmatized, poorly understood illness is explored with compassion and depth in this collection of movies.
The protagonists on this list relationship to reality must be described as 'it's complicated'; watch as madness seeps through the cracks, aided by frankly ineffective asylums, lack of sleep, and drugs.
