Films like Words on Bathroom Walls
Diagnosed with a mental illness halfway through his senior year of high school, a witty, introspective teen struggles to keep it a secret while falling in love with a brilliant classmate who inspires him to open his heart and not be defined by his condition.
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Chemical Hearts
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Neverwas
Film · 2005 · also dramaZach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Film · 1975 · also dramaA petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cru...
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David and Lisa
Film · 1962 · also drama and romanceTeenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him...
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Prozac Nation
Film · 2003 · also drama and romanceWhen talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class background and concent...
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Fire with Fire
Film · 1986 · also drama and romanceA tough, street-smart kid serving a sentence in a state youth reformatory meets a beautiful, innocent girl studying at a nearby convent. When forbidden love blossoms betw...
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Keith
Film · 2008 · also drama and romanceNatalie is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith ignores her at first, they soon become frien...
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Brave the Dark
Film · 2025 · also dramaWhen Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive be...
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Who's That Knocking at My Door
Film · 1968 · also drama and romanceA Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.
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Girl, Interrupted
Film · 1999 · also dramaSet in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Al...
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