My favorite movies featuring troubled people

The drama follows a twelve-year-old girl's struggle to come to terms with her mother's abandonment.

A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.

In New York City, a young girl is caught in the middle of her parents' bitter custody battle.

An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity.

A woman recalls her life and musical career choices in New York City through the years.

A substitute teacher who drifts from classroom to classroom finds a connection to the students and teachers during his latest assignment.

A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

When a man meets a young girl in a parking lot he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects.

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown; 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge her own connections.

Three sisters find their lives spinning out of control in the wake of their parents' sudden, unexpected divorce.

After being shot by a resentful former patient whom he failed to help, a Philadelphia child psychologist seeks redemption by treating a young boy with a disturbing secret.

Joseph, a man plagued by violence and a rage that is driving him to self-destruction, earns a chance of redemption that appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity shop worker.

A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Harriet Craig enjoys married life but constantly tries to control those around her. She does not even trust her husband Walter and always checks up on him.

A depressed widower spends his time huffing gasoline fumes, buying toy planes and acting reckless in public while avoiding reading his wife's suicide note.

An unhappy wife orders a guy she meets over the Internet to kill her, but the two of them fall in love.

Mae Doyle comes back to her hometown a cynical woman. Her brother Joe fears that his love, fish cannery worker Peggy, may wind up like Mae. Mae marries Jerry and has a baby; she is happy but restless, drawn to Jerry's friend Earl.

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

This movie begins with a scene in which Barbara (Celia Johnson) rings Leonora (Margaret Leighton) to tell her that something has happened to Chris (Noël Coward). At this point, we don't know who Chris is or what has happened, only that he has lost conciousness. The movie then flashes back a year, to when old friends Barbara and Leonora meet again after having lost contact for many years. Time has not strained their relationship it seems, and Barbara invites Leonora to her house a few days later to meet her husband. Her husband Chris, a pompous, austere psychologist, gets off to a bad start with Leonora. The two despise each other until one night when Barbara has to leave town to look after her mother. Because of this, she is unable to go to the play she had arranged to go with Leonora to. Chris reluctantly decides to go in place of Barbara, and the two hit it off and begin a relationship.

A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.

Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is marrying less-than-impressive Malcolm.

Kevin's mother struggles to love her strange child despite the increasingly dangerous things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting started, and his final act will be beyond anything anyone imagined.

A teenage boy longs to win the attention of his emotionally distant father.

As a young New York City couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

A police detective reconnects with people from an undercover assignment in her distant past in order to make peace.