Best Mental Health movies of 2006

Actors : Steve Carell, Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear,

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.

Actors : Stacey LaBerge, Gordon Pinsent, Julie Christie, Michael Murphy,
Directors : Sarah Polley,

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.

Actors : Carrie-Anne Moss, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Emily Hampshire,
Directors : Marc Evans,

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.

Actors : Laura Fraser, Jonny Lee Miller, Brian Cox, Sean Brown,
Directors : Douglas Mackinnon,

The true story of Graeme Obree, the Champion cyclist who built his bicycle from old bits of washing machines who won his championship only to have his title stripped from him and his mental health problems which he has suffered since.

Actors : Griffin Miner, Devon Gearhart, Julie Upton, Marcia Gay Harden,
Directors : Joseph Greco,

A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.

Actors : Kenji Sakaguchi, Kanako Higuchi, Kazue Fukiishi, Ken Watanabe,
Directors : Yukihiko Tsutsumi,

A successful businessman's family life is shattered by an early onset of Alzheimer's.

Actors : Soo-jung Lim, Rain, Hie-jin Choi, Byeong-ok Kim,
Directors : Chan-wook Park,

A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. Eventually, she falls for a man who thinks he can steal people's souls.

Actors : Glenn Plummer, Tracy Middendorf, Lou Diamond Phillips, Bruce Weitz,
Directors : Stephen Purvis,

A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.

Actors : Vanessa Williams, Nashawn Kearse, Christopher Scott, Tatum O'Neal,
Directors : Anthony Lover,

"My Brother" is an inner city story of two impoverished boys, Isaiah and James. James is developmentally disabled. Their mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation. Dying of ...

Actors : Clara Khoury, Makram Khoury, Moni Moshonov, Itay Tiran,
Directors : Udi Aloni,

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to ...

Actors : Sabine Timoteo, André Hennicke, Jürgen Vogel, Manfred Zapatka,
Directors : Matthias Glasner,

A man is released from a mental institution after serving 9 years for multiple rape.

Actors : Levent Can, Haldun Boysan, Cemil Büyükdögerli, Volkan Cal,
Directors : Togan Gökbakar,

A suicide case is informed to the police from a mental hospital in a rocky district. Two policemen comes to hospital to investigate the case. In the same morning, Dr. Deniz comes to ...

Actors : Frederick Koehler, Johnathon Schaech, Tamara Braun, Jeremy Davidson,
Directors : Bethany Ashton Wolf,

Deep in the bayou sits a floating town called Little Chenier. It is here that Beaux and his mentally challenged brother, Pemon, run a bait-and-tackle shop. Pemon is accused of a crime, and Beaux chooses to protect his brother at all costs.

Actors : Macon Blair, Becky Ann Baker, Courtney Davis, John Merriman,
Directors : Steve Collins,

Gretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy ...

Actors : Benjamín Vicuña, Gastón Pauls, Francisca Imboden, María Izquierdo,
Directors : Pablo Larraín,

A film about a classical composer who goes insane.

Actors : Lisbet Dahl, Anders Matthesen, Morten Suurballe, Laura Bro,
Directors : Kenneth Kainz,

Kriss lives at a mental institution, where he spends all day watching an old black-and-white film called "Rene hjerter". One day he and his friend, Willy, escapes the institution to find the star of "Rene hjerter", Ulla Vilstrup.

Actors : Hande Kodja, Céline Sallette, Gianni Giardinelli, Anaïs de Courson,
Directors : Patrick Grandperret,

Nina and Lizzy meet at the mental institution they are committed to. Nina , who feels guilty for her father's death, has been depressed since the tragic event. As for Lizzy, a slightly ...

Actors : Roshan Andrews, Idavela Babu, Gopika, Dileep,
Directors : Kamal,

'Anandakuttan' a junior artist in films decides to take care of his autistic brother 'Akash' for his patrimony, at last develops a strong bond with his gifted brother.

Actors : Courtney Halverson, Lydia Milner, Carly Hayes, Sewell Whitney,
Directors : John Ross,

When she was 11, young Faron Hallowell was sent away to a mental institution for shooting and nearly killing a local weatherman--a secret mission she claimed was assigned to her by alien ...

Actors : Güler Ökten, Yildiz Kültür, Batuhan Sefer, Zuhal Gencer,
Directors : Uluç Bayraktar,

Discharged from the mental institution after a long treatment, Derya (Z.Gencer) returns to her village, where her mother lives (G.Ökten). While trying hard to forget her miserable memories,...