Top 10 movies about health and wellness

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Health is an important aspect of life, and movies about health (or lack thereof) are an important and always entertaining aspect of cinema. In the spirit of healthy entertainment, here are the top ten movies about health and wellness.

10. Girl, Interrupted
This female-heavy flick chronicles the lives of a group of women who have been committed to a mental institution in the 1960s.

9. Psycho
This Alfred Hitchcock thriller focuses on the Bates family, and their sick son Norman, who is completely mentally deranged.

8. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
This film tells the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffers a stroke and loses nearly all control of his body. He must learn to communicate in a completely new manner, as his left eye is the only thing he can control.

7. A Beautiful Mind
Brilliant but solitary mathematician John Nash accepts work in the mysterious world of cryptography, and soon finds he is surrounded by delusional terrors stemming from his own unhealthy mind.

6. Prozac Nation
Based on the memoir of Elizabeth Wurtzel, this film tells the story of a bright young Harvard student whose life quickly turns into a depressive existence of sex, booze and Prozac.

5. The Aviator
Howard Hughes was a brilliant man. He was also unwell. This dramatic telling of the highs and lows of Hughes' career chronicles his descent into madness, mysophobia and reclusion.

4. Super Size Me
Morgan Spurlock tests the consequences of an all-McDonald's diet with (not-so-)shocking results.

3. Sicko
Infamous documentarian Michael Moore explores various health care systems and shines a light on some glaring deficiencies in American health care.

2. M*A*S*H
This flick follows a ragtag group of men who have been drafted into the U.S. military during the Korean War, who also happen to be among the most talented surgeons in the medical world.

1. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
R. P. McMurphy is a convicted criminal who pleads insanity to escape serving time in prison. His plan backfires, however, when he is institutionalized and must conform to the strict rules of Nurse ratched in the asylum.