Top ten affliction films

That is, films that feature characters with afflictions. Not films that are afflicted, nor Afflicted, a 2013 horror film, nor any film starring Ben Afflick(ted).

1. Freaks [Various]
2. Psycho [Psycho]
3. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [Mental illness]
4. Repulsion [Psycho]
5. The Elephant Man [Deformity]
6. Taxi Driver [Post-traumatic stress disorder]
7. 12 Monkeys [Mental illness]
8. It’s a Wonderful Life [Deafness]
9. Shock Corridor [Mental illness; journalism]
10. Jacob’s Ladder [Post-traumatic stress disorder]

Also worth a visit:
Donnie Darko [Hallucinations]
My Own Private Idaho [Narcolepsy]
Silver Linings Playbook [Mental illness/nymphomania]
Still Alice [Alzheimer’s]
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape? [Developmental disability]
Keane [Mental illness/delusion]
Rain Man [Autism]
As Good As It Gets [OCD]
An Angel At My Table [Shyness]
The Butterfly Effect [Abuse, trauma]
Melancholia [Depression]
Pi [Social anxiety disorder, paranoia]
Punch-Drunk Love [Social ineptitude]
Forrest Gump [Intellectual disability]
Electricity [Autism]
My Left Foot [Cerebral palsy]
A Beautiful Mind [Paranoid schizophrenia]

Previously on Barnflakes
Notes on afflictions
Stuttering in the movies