{"title":"Best Mental Illness Movies","theme":"mental illness","url":"https://framethrower.ai/list/mental-illness","source":"FrameThrower","license":{"name":"CC BY 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","scope":"Covers these measurements only — the ratios, counts and rankings computed by FrameThrower. The film frames they are derived from are not licensed and no rights to them are granted.","attribution":"FrameThrower — https://framethrower.ai"},"method":"Per-frame tags (shot size, lighting key, time of day, camera angle, colour, visible objects) aggregated across the films carrying this theme, expressed as a ratio against the same measurement over the whole catalogue. Films ranked by how closely they match the theme's over-indexed elements, weighted by how distinctive each element is; one film per series.","sample":{"films":61,"listedFilms":41,"frames":4154,"baselineFrames":404689},"signature":[{"element":"wallpaper","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":2.41,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00318,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00132,"observedInFrames":75},{"element":"mirror","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.94,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00445,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.0023,"observedInFrames":105},{"element":"door","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.93,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00369,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00191,"observedInFrames":87},{"element":"curtains","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.83,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00407,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00223,"observedInFrames":96},{"element":"microphone","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.81,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00356,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00197,"observedInFrames":84},{"element":"doorway","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.78,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00322,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00181,"observedInFrames":76},{"element":"sweater","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.75,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00335,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00192,"observedInFrames":79},{"element":"hair","timesMoreCommonThanBaseline":1.65,"shareOfThemeFrames":0.00997,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.00603,"observedInFrames":235}],"cinematography":{"note":"Weakly differentiating: most dramatic genres skew dark and night-heavy. Use `signature` to tell genres apart.","values":[{"axis":"camera_angle","value":"eye_level","shareOfThemeFrames":0.8466,"shareOfCatalogueFrames":0.6903,"ratio":1.23}]},"palette":{"note":"Hue shares are dominated by skin tones across all genres; treat as descriptive, not distinguishing.","dominantHues":[{"hue":"orange","share":0.423,"ratio":0.93},{"hue":"red","share":0.182,"ratio":1.2},{"hue":"blue","share":0.161,"ratio":0.93},{"hue":"yellow","share":0.075,"ratio":0.98}],"meanSaturation":0.24,"baselineSaturation":0.234,"meanLuminance":0.416,"baselineLuminance":0.434},"films":[{"rank":1,"title":"Possession","year":1981,"director":"Andrzej Żuławski","cinematographer":"Bruno Nuytten","exemplarScore":1.366,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/possession-1981"},{"rank":2,"title":"Psycho 2","year":1983,"director":"Richard Franklin","cinematographer":"Dean Cundey","exemplarScore":1.342,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/psycho-2-1983"},{"rank":3,"title":"Through A Glass Darkly","year":1961,"director":"Ingmar Bergman","cinematographer":"Sven Nykvist","exemplarScore":1.303,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/through-a-glass-darkly-1961"},{"rank":4,"title":"Mommy","year":2014,"director":"Xavier Dolan","cinematographer":"André Turpin","exemplarScore":1.233,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/mommy-2014"},{"rank":5,"title":"Stoker","year":2013,"director":"Park Chan-wook","cinematographer":"Chung Chung-hoon","exemplarScore":1.204,"framesIndexed":64,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/stoker-2013"},{"rank":6,"title":"Lights Out","year":2016,"director":"David F. Sandberg","cinematographer":"Marc Spicer","exemplarScore":1.175,"framesIndexed":92,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/lights-out-2016"},{"rank":7,"title":"Joker","year":2019,"director":"Todd Phillips","cinematographer":"Lawrence Sher","exemplarScore":1.063,"framesIndexed":80,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/joker-2019"},{"rank":8,"title":"Bo Burnham: Inside","year":2021,"director":"Bo Burnham","cinematographer":"Bo Burnham","exemplarScore":1.096,"framesIndexed":63,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/bo-burnham-inside-2021"},{"rank":9,"title":"A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors","year":1987,"director":"Chuck Russell","cinematographer":"Roy H. Wagner","exemplarScore":1.025,"framesIndexed":65,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/a-nightmare-on-elm-street-3-dream-warriors-1987"},{"rank":10,"title":"Kill Your Darlings","year":2013,"director":"John Krokidas","cinematographer":"Reed Morano","exemplarScore":1.002,"framesIndexed":62,"url":"https://framethrower.ai/film/kill-your-darlings-2013"}],"outlier":{"title":"Bugonia","year":2025,"exemplarScore":0.233,"note":"Carries the least of what the rest of the list is made of."}}