What are some films with good depictions of narcissists?

Off the top of my head...

Jeff Bridges in Squid and the Whale

Just now watching "Maid" on Netflix. Andi McDowell. Textbook narcissist.

Home Alone 2.

Excuse me???

r4 is an imposter!!! Miss Dunaway would never use her first name even in a momentary mental lapse!!!

Most of us intuitively understand what a narcissist is. I suspect OP is one if he has trouble with the concept.

Shut up little homosexual boy! r5

Um that's what I said in the post r6. You have a firm grasp of the obvious.

I would agree with Mommie Dearest.

Caesar or ranch dressing r7?

You do not say you are a narcissist, OP.

You’re not very bright, are ya? That’s usually something I like in an OP, but in your case, it’s a toxic mess.

Blanche DuBois; Scarlett O'Hara; Stanley Kowalski; Mommie Dearest.

heal your anger r11, you'll live longer

[quote] Blanche DuBois; Scarlett O'Hara; Stanley Kowalski; Mommie Dearest.

Good call on Blanche DuBois. It's been a while since I saw "Streetcar," so, I'd have to pay more attention to Stanley. He wasn't likeable, but not sure I'd say he was a narcissist.

I never liked GWTW, so, no comment.

Respect, starring Jennifer Hudson

Citizen Kane

Five Easy Pieces (Nicholson's character struck me as narcissistic as opposed to misunderstood)

Shampoo (Warren Beatty is the ultimate narcissist)

The Donald Trump Story

My Best Friend’s Wedding. Julia.

Truth or Dare (1991)

Vida

Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction - Pure Cluster B - also Borderline traits

The Last Seduction.

Sleeping With The Enemy

Star!

Fiction generally isn't a very good way to learn about reality.

Add recognizing anger to your study list, OP

There Will Be Blood

Network (almost all the major characters except Beatrice Straight's)

The Silence of the Lambs (both Dr. Lecter and Jame Gumb)

Top Gun

Beyond the Forest

Leave Her to Heaven

Craig's Wife, and its remake Harriet Craig

Many films about royalty, including:

Mrs. Brown

W. E.

The Favourite

The Last Emperor

the upcoming film Spencer

“But enough about me, let's talk about you... what do you think of me?”

[quote] There Will Be Blood

Which character(s)? The Daniel Day Lewis and the Paul Dano characters, both of them? Loved that movie.

I mean, nearly any movie with a villain in it.

Sex and the City 2. Carrie Bradshaw was insufferable enough in the series and the first movie but the second one really took her narcissism to a whole new level.

That whole area of mental illness (narcissism, sociopath, psychopath, etc.) is so damaging- and dangerous- to our planet, they should be killed in the crib.

Ray Liotta in Good Fellas. Henry Hill was a narc and a sociopath.

Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity

Most of Barbra's oeuvre

I'm not sure about Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Alex never displays any of these symptoms:

Grandiose sense of self-importance. ... Lives in a fantasy world that supports their delusions of grandeur. ... Needs constant praise and admiration. ... Sense of entitlement. ... Exploits others without guilt or shame. ... Frequently demeans, intimidates, bullies, or belittles others.

She's pretty broken a few minutes into the film. I always thought the beginning where she's super glammed up and in control was just a cover for the deep longing that emerges.

Is that narcissism?

Miranda Priestly: The Devil Wears Prada

Cabaret - Sally Bowles (of course)

Plenty

I've read the facts r25. I thought it would be fun to bring it to film for DL but scolds like you and r5 always seem to want to ruin the fun.

(and in my class they did show Mildred Pierce as an example of it so bravo to the person who posted that clip.)

R38 she likely has borderline personality. They usually are attracted to narcissists. A lot of DLers seem to wrongly think they are the same disorder. They aren’t. A good example is Betty Broderick and her husband, Dan. She was BPD and he was a Narc.

Just about any film in which Clifton Webb appeared.

Thread closed? Show of hands, please.

Closed.

Young Adult

Nicole Kidman in Margot At The Wedding

Eight and a Half

All that Jazz

The Orange Turd & Meghan Markle - real life figures!!!

“Born to be bad” with Joan Fontaine

I’m not sure if it’s narcissism or just sociopathy but Aaron eckhardts character in “in the company of men” and again his character in “towelhead”. Also Jason Patric in “you’re friends and neighbors” but maybe they are all just assholes rather than suffering personality disorders.

That should read “your friends and neighbors” also Bradley cooper in “the hangover” seems rather deluded and narcissistic.

Leave Her to Heaven with Gene Tierney.

I'd say Vivienne Leigh as Scarlet O'Hara probably checked most of the boxes fir narcissism.

Not a film, but the characters of Phyllis Lindstrom and Sue Ann Nivens from The Mary Tyler Moore Show both exemplify narcissism to a T.

Here is the episode wherein those two narcissistic personalities clash.

Fir trees in Georgia.

Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network

Gilderoy Lockhart, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Also, this cartoon by Roz Chast totally nails the spirit of the narcissist:

Sweet Bird of Youth-- "I see... Alexandra del Lago, artist and star!"

Death Becomes Her (a riff on the above)

Blue Jasmine

Being Julia

Cabaret--the Sally Bowles character

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

The scene in GWTW where Scarlett, having just been disappointed (for the first time) by Ashley, is walking up the stairs lost in her own misery, while everyone is running downstairs past her going, "War! They've declared war!" is a crystalline portrayal of narcissism in action.

She falls short in some other ways, though. Throughout the book it is made clear that she has a conviction that her mother and Melanie are Great Ladies and that Scarlett...isn't. A true narcissist wouldn't have taken responsibility for Tara and everyone in it when she comes home towards the end of the war. Nor would she have stayed in Atlanta for the birth of Beau. She promised Ashley she would look after Melanie and that's why she did it. Sure, she wanted something from Ashley, but looking after Melanie in a life-or-death situation was not the way to get it.

R61 Looking after Melanie for her beloved Ashley was a self-less task, I agree. But, just like the former orange president, Scarlett came back and took responsibility for Tara because she is a WINNER..she said she would never go hungry again. I think this theme runs through the whole story; Scarlett had to be the best at everything. She was a an awesome narcissistic force to watch. The interesting thing is narcissists won't ever feel defeated for long.

Trying to think of other good narcissistic movie characters.

Nero in "Quo Vadis"

Arlena, the actress who is murdered in "Evil Under the Sun"

Home movies of my parents