"A Fine Madness" premiered in 1996 starring Joanne Woodward and Sean Connery. Connery plays a bipolar poet who is mixed up in a web of madness and clichés, which help highlight his aggression, anger and hypersexuality while suffering from bipolar disorder.
"Mr. Jones" aired in 1993. Richard Gere plays a man with bipolar disorder. It details his mood swings and erratic behavior. "Blue Skies," with Jessica Lange, and "Mad Love" with Drew Barrymore, released in 1994 and 1995, respectively, deal with bipolar disorder. In 1998, "Bulworth," starring Warren Beatty, was released. The movie is about a person with bipolar and other issues and how he copes with everyday life.
The docu-drama "Intimate Portrait: Margot Kidder" was on Lifetime in 2000 as a made-for-TV movie and starred Margot Kidder as herself. The movie portrayed her life on the street and the psychiatric care she needed to recover from a delusional state and keep her disorder under control.
Patty Duke plays herself in "Call Me Anna," a real-life documentary about her struggle with bipolar/manic depression. The movie, which debuted in 1990 as a made-for-TV documentary, focuses on Duke's symptoms, misdiagnosis and recovery.
"My Friend Paul" was made in 1999. It is about a man named Paul who was friends with Jonathan Berman, the movie's producer. "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" aired in 2005 and showcases the life of an artist, songwriter and singer named Paul, who suffers from bipolar disorder. "Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive" was released in 2006 and details Stephen's life and struggles with bipolar as a filmmaker, author, actor and comedian.
In 1956, Kirk Douglas starred in "Lust for Life" with Anthony Quinn. This biography is about artist Vincent Van Gogh and his life living as a manic-depressive. Many shots were filmed in the same areas where Van Gogh spent much of his time. Two other bio-pics are "Frances" and "Cobb," which came out in 1982 and 1994, respectively. Jessica Lange plays Frances Framer. The movie shows her troubled life as she dealt with bipolar disorder. Tommy Lee Jones plays Ty Cobb, a famous baseball player who suffers from bipolar disorder and wants a book written that would not detail the truth about his life living with illness.