Best Mental Health movies of 1970s

Actors : Eric Beauséjour, Marthe Choquette, Yves Benoît, Louise Choquette,
Directors : Jean Pierre Lefebvre,

A teenager rebels against an oppressive ideology enforced by the authoritarian administration of his school and is committed to a mental institution.

Actors : Hyeon-shil Tae, Hae Hwang, Yeong-ju Choi, Sun-jae Lee,
Directors : Tae-ho Seol,

Mi-ok escapes from a mental institution, killing a man before disappearing. Ten years later, she resurfaces and begins to create havoc for one Mr Kang with her increasingly psychotic behavior.

Actors : Mitchell Ryan, Arthur Kennedy, Michael Moriarty, William Devane,
Directors : Edwin Sherin,

Two soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.

Actors : Jan-Erik Lindqvist, Helge Skoog, Robert Farrant, Lilga Kovanko,
Directors : Marianne Ahrne,

Mania Becker starts working in a mental hospital which she hasn't any experience in. She meets a young man who has stopped talking. He has been considered an interesting case and Mania ...

Actors : Keve Hjelm, Laurent Terzieff, Geneviève Page, Gunnel Lindblom,
Directors : Susan Sontag,

Two women, Karen (theatre director) and Lena, visit an island, a Swedish resort, where Lena's ex-husband, Martin (choreographer), lives in comparative seclusion with a mentally disturbed ...

Actors : Maelle Pertuzo, Nadia Samir, Albert Simono, Charles Buhr,
Directors : Jean-Louis van Belle,

Bold and sultry Françoise gets hired by a magazine to lead investigations in the mysterious world of sex. Until she gets caught in the web of sadistic Dr. Vilard, who runs a very strange mental institution...

Actors : Josef Plavec, Monica Helfer-Friedrich, Susanne Widl, Peter Weibel,
Directors : Valie Export,

Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently ...

Actors : Arthur Dignam, Judy Morris, Günter Meisner, Corin Redgrave,
Directors : Michael Thornhill,

This film traces the career of Dr Edward Trenbow (Corin Redgrave), who becomes a well-respected Sydney psychiatrist. In the 1920s, he takes up residence at Callan Park Asylum. The film ...

Actors : Ram Mukherjee, Joy Mukherjee, Toy Mukherjee, Deb Mukherjee,
Directors : Ram Rano,

A maniac serial killer on the prowl, hunting assorted nubile lasses. A mentally unstable ex-army officer who is an utter misogynist. Are they the same man?

Actors : Carlos Bucka, Carmem Angélica, Eudósia Acuña, Valéria D'Ellia,
Directors : Fauzi Mansur,

Mentally disturbed woman always ends up killing her lovers.

Actors : David Proval, James Andronica, Joe Spinell, Morgana King,
Directors : Paul Williams,

Protected by his brother (James Andronica), a mentally impaired Brooklynite (David Proval) pretends he's Superman and becomes a hero.

Actors : Julito de la Cruz, Jaume Sorribas, Victoria Abril, Consol Tura,
Directors : José Antonio Salgot,

Clara- an attractive- sophisticated and unmarried woman- and the autistic child who transforms and absorbs her life- astonishingly interpreted by a very young Victoria Abril and autistic ...

Actors : Dragan Nikolic, Slobodan Aligrudic, Milja Vujanovic, Rahela Ferari,
Directors : Milos 'Misa' Radivojevic,

Psychological drama about two young lovers who are emotionally and mentally unstable. Through the flashback they are telling what did they do before they end up in asylum.

Actors : Michel Auclair, Brigitte Auber, Madeleine Robinson, Ewa Swann,
Directors : Jean-Gabriel Albicocco,

Georges Menessier, a 45-year-old celebrity press writer, smuggles into a mental hospital to take pictures of...his ex-wife Clara Noël, once a great film star now confined to this clinic for...

Actors : Darren Brown, Christine Campbell, MarkAnthony Cardona, Izola Armstrong,
Directors : Robert Gardner,

Clarence is a new boy in school, recently arrived in New York from the rural south. Angel is already there, Hispanic and proud of it. Clarence has dyslexia, a reading difficulty; Angel is ...

Actors : Ebony Wright, Taj Mahal, Harold Sylvester, Teddy Airhart,
Directors : William A. Graham,

Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.

Actors : Raman Khanna, Nadira, Shabana Azmi, Paintal,
Directors : Khwaja Ahmad Abbas,

A wealthy male attempts to make amends to an accident victim and his sister but ends up in a mental hospital.

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Michael Beck, Alan Feinstein, Claudia Amm,
Directors : Dan Cohen,

While trying to escape from the Soviet Union, a Soviet Jewish man is locked in a mental institution, where he gets brutally tortured for several years. After his release, he's able to ...

Actors : Arto Lindsay, Mirielle Cervenka,
Directors : Gordon Stevenson,

A young woman who is institutionalized in a mental hospital suffers fits which are accompanied by stigmata.