My top 15 philosophical films relevant to psychopathology:
Lord of the Rings trilogy (see 'LOTR', here: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~j339/publications.htm )
Prospero's Books
Total Recall (original version) ( http://www.facebook.com/notes/rupert-read/the-new-total-recall-an-enjoyable-disappointment/10152105590670301 )
Hiroshima mon amour
L'annee dernier en Marienbad
Manhunter
Avatar (see http://www.radicalanthropologygroup.org/old/journal_04.pdf - p.35f.; see also http://rupertread.fastmail.co.uk/Avatar%20and%20cinema.doc)
Fight club
Melancholia (see http://www.facebook.com/notes/rupert-read/an-allegory-of-a-therapeutic-reading-of-a-film-of-melancholia/10150882831905301 )
Breaking the waves
Festen
Vertigo
Donnie Darko
And fiteen more runners-up:
The Turin Horse
InceptionGummo
Julien Donkey-Boy
Harvey
Dark city
My best fiend
Exotica
Aguirre
One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Seconds
Titicut follies
Silence of the Lambs
Shutter Island
Zentropa (also called 'Europa')
[Note, the 'runners-up are not necessarily worse films overall; some of them are clearly better than some of the films in the 'Top' list. But the 'Top' 15 are my top 15 philosophical films relevant to psychopathology]
Comments welcome, with your additions / suggestions!
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