I haven't read the last 130 messages so bear with me
As I've struggled with various MH issues since early teens, I have watched films to help me get thru.
I got my brilliant CPN at the time to sit down with my mum and explain in full detail to her that while I was trying to watch films that was her interest (as starkly different), it was killing me inside and making my mh a lot worse. I was struggling with comedies never mind all the rest.
The Butcher Boy - Neil Jordan version (1997) it was set in the same county I grew up in Ireland, I was 22 when I saw it, I was recovering from a mental health breakdown, my mother was dying to see this film as she knew some people who were extras, didnt really have a clue about the plot but it tipped me over the edge again and I spent months recovering, I had to leave the cinema after a v short while as it was too much, she regretted it a lot, I got her the dvd afterwards to watch herself but she wouldnt,
@SoGoodToBeBackHomeAgain my mum also wanted me to watch The Wind That Shakes the Barley, i lasted less than 5 mins
She also wanted me to watch Song for a raggy boy, (2003) but I had seen a review so I avoided after a quick chat with CPN who did some research for me.
Our house was 99% Irish based films from my mum's influence. If it was an Irish film and it came out, chances are it passed thru at some point.
The sensible CPN also advised me to avoid the 2002 film the Magdalene Sisters, which while I had come to know some women who had been in the laundries due to my now years in and out of the local psych unit as it was traumatic watching and was all the talk at the time. I'm glad I've never watched it as I've heard enough from people who have and that was enough.
I try to avoid horror, war, deprivation of liberty type films.
I ended up seeing Dark Water in 2002 with a friend, (by mistake, we went to the wrong screen) its a Japanese horror film, I didn't sleep well for weeks.
However on a different kind "the Golden Child", (1986) with Eddie Murphy, got me and my best friend a day off school as my brother had hired it out on VHS tape the evening before as she was staying over and we scared ourselves silly with it, went up to my room and never slept a wink all night as we were moving furniture around and had the wardrobe against the bedroom door
By breakfast we were hanging out of ourselves and very clingy and irritable and scared, so mum rang friends mum who agreed to keep us off and tuck us both in bed and make us rest, we fell asleep holding each other, we were 10/11 both hormonal AF, needing reassurance nobody was going to "get us", and loads of hot water bottles, drinks and sleep helped a lot, back at school the next day, we got no tv or video that day at all