In everyone's day to day life, they encounter bits of drama every now and then. Drama represents human beings at their best, their worst and everything in-between. Drama productions are serious stories that portray characters dealing with conflicts with themselves, others, or natural forces. Drama is the largest film genre because it includes crime films, courtroom dramas, melodramas, historical dramas, biographical dramas, romantic genres, and more, that allow the dramatic genre to be more than just black and white.
Drama productions may highlight issues that have/are/may affect people such as societal ills, and problems, concerns or injustices, such as racial prejudice, religious intolerance (such as antisemitism), drug addiction, poverty, political unrest, the corruption of power, alcoholism, class divisions, sexual inequality, mental illness, corrupt societal institutions, violence toward women, etc.
Mental illness dramatic films: One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975): about a rebellious institutional patient who feigned insanity but ultimately was squashed by Nurse Ratched and the repressive system. I Never Promised You A Rose Garden (1977): about a teenager who felt suicidal tendencies due to schizophrenia. Silver Linings Playbook (2012): about a man who left a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.
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