Research into Psychological Thrillers & DID & DID films

Psychological Thriller Films:



Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Running Time: 138 minutes
Box Office: $294,804,195

Shutter Island Plot:

• It's 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Boston's Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. 
• He's been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasn't been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister.
• Teddy's investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. 
• As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

Directed by: David Fincher 
Running Time: 139 minutes
Box Office: $100,853,753

Fight Club Plot:

• A nameless first person narrator Edward Norton attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. 
• When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable.
• However when he associates himself with Tyler (Brad Pitt) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. 
• Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power. 
• When the narrator is exposed to the hidden agenda of Tyler's fight club, he must accept the awful truth that Tyler may not be who he says he is.

Directed by: Geoffrey Sax
Running Time: 101 minutes
Box Office: $706,546

Frankie & Alice Plot: 

• Frankie is a black woman with dissociative identity disorder, caused by a traumatic incident from her childhood, which she has repressed. 
• She has two alters: Genius, a seven-year-old child; and Alice, a Southern white racist woman, whom Frankie struggles to overcome. 
• With the help of her psychiatrist, Frankie strives to live a life close to normal.

Identity Plot: 

• Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a fading television star, parents with a young son whose marriage is in crisis, a cop transporting a dangerous convict, a beautiful call girl, a couple of young newlyweds, and a nervous motel manager are caught up in a severe rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. 
• Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. 
• As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they're there. 
• Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.

I think Frankie & Alice would be the film I could take most inspiration from because in that film Frankie suffers with DID but she doesn't know about it, until she starts to black out and forget things.
This film idea is similar to mine in which our lead male 'Terry' has DID and he doesn't know it, and suffers black outs in between switches, and when he's his alter 'Damion' he does something he wouldn't do as 'Terry'.

Research into Dissociative Identity Disorder: