| | Tuesday, January 08, 2008 |
| Movie List - Dramas |
| Abre los ojos ("Open Your Eyes") |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1997 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz, Cheta Lera |
| Topics: | Treatment, Trauma |
| Spanish film told in retrospect as an imprisoned man, whose face is horribly disfigured, tells his |
| story to a psychiatrist. How's his reality testing? Remade as Vanilla Sky; see this original. |
| [Suggested by Erin Gustin, University of Southeastern Indiana] |
| Agnes of God |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1985 | Rating: | PG-13 |
| Actors: | Jane Fonda, Meg Tilly, Anne Bancroft |
| Topics: | Treatment, Psychosis, Forensic |
| Meg Tilly as a novice nun who became pregnant and the baby is found strangled in the cloistered |
| convent. Jane Fonda as the psychiatrist appointed to determine if Tilly is mentally competent to |
| stand trial.[Suggested by Nell Stewart] |
| All About Eve | Favorite |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1950 | Rating: | NR-PG |
| Actors: | Bette Davis, Ann Baxter, George Sanders |
| Topics: | Personality Disorder, Marital Conflict |
| Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Writing and more. A |
| classic movie. Pay close attention to Eve through the film. Also, what about Margo? Realistic at |
| end? If she were in treatment in the midst of her turmoil, how would you have treated her? |
| American History X |
| Genre: | Drama | Year: | 1998 | Rating: | R |
| Actors: | Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Beverly D'Angelo |
| Topics: | Multicultural |
| A neo-Nazi (Edward Norton) in prison for murder begins to question his prejudiced belief system. |
| When he is released, his goal is to "deprogram" his brother. |
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