Equus

Martin Dysart, a weary child psychiatrist, is asked to treat Alan Strang, a stable boy who has blinded six horses in a single night. As Dysart pieces together the ritual, worship and sexuality that drove the act, he grows uneasy about what a cure would take from the boy, and about the passionless order of his own existence.

The film puts the aims and costs of treatment itself under scrutiny, asking whether relieving a patient of his torment also strips him of what makes him alive. It brought a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1978 for Richard Burton and is based on the play Equus by Peter Shaffer.