Best Mental Health movies of 1990s

Actors : Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsgård, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon,
Directors : Gus Van Sant,

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Actors : Julian Sands, Elisabeth Shue, Richard Lewis, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

Ben Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.

Actors : Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, Billy Bob Thornton, John Ritter,
Directors : Billy Bob Thornton,

Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.

Actors : Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mary Steenburgen,
Directors : Lasse Hallström,

After his father's death, Gilbert has to care for his mentally disabled brother, Arnie, and his morbidly obese mother, which is suddenly challenged when love walks into his life.

Actors : Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine, Sonia Todd,
Directors : Scott Hicks,

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Actors : Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Winona Ryder,
Directors : James Mangold,

Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the 1960s.

Actors : Ned Dowd, Shea Fowler, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson,
Directors : Wes Anderson,

Three friends plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.

Actors : David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint,
Directors : Vincenzo Natali,

Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps.

Actors : Mary Stuart Masterson, Johnny Depp, Julianne Moore, Aidan Quinn,
Directors : Jeremiah S. Chechik,

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Actors : Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter,
Directors : Tom Shadyac,

The true story of a heroic man, Hunter Patch Adams, determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. He ventured where no doctor had ventured before, using humour and pathos.

Actors : Gene Hackman, Shirley MacLaine, Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Actors : Ruth Nelson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Actors : Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride,
Directors : Harold Becker,

Shadowy elements in the NSA target a nine-year old autistic savant for death when he is able to decipher a top secret code.

Actors : Werner Herzog, Chloë Sevigny, Ewen Bremner, Brian Fisk,
Directors : Harmony Korine,

A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.

Actors : Sean Astin, Greta Lind, Ned Beatty, Jon Favreau,
Directors : David Anspaugh,

Rudy has always been told that he was too small to play college football. But he is determined to overcome the odds and fulfill his dream of playing for Notre Dame.

Actors : Jesse Bradford, Karen Allen, Jeroen Krabbé, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

A young boy struggles on his own in a run-down motel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest.

Actors : David Bradley, David Calder, Romane Bohringer, Miles Anderson,
Directors : Kristian Levring,

When a bus breaks down in the desert, the passengers decide to stage "King Lear."

Actors : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Matthew Settle, Lori Heuring, Nathan Bexton, Susan Ward,
Directors : Mary Lambert,

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.

Actors : Harry Dean Stanton, Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin,
Directors : Peter Chelsom,

Two young boys, both social outcasts in their small town, form an unlikely friendship.