Best Mental Health movies of 2000s

Actors : Damian Lewis, Abigail Breslin, Amy Ryan, Liza Colón-Zayas,
Directors : Lodge Kerrigan,

A man in his early 30s (Keane) struggles with the supposed loss of his daughter from the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, while fighting serious battles with schizophrenia. We can ...

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 : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Bacall, Zooey Deschanel, Don Cheadle,
Directors : Jordan Melamed,

Lyle Jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts, and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the Northwood Mental Institution. Several other youths are there with a variety of ...

Actors : Geoffrey Carey, Emmanuelle Devos, Thierry Bosc, Olivier Rabourdin,
Directors : Arnaud Desplechin,

Parallel storylines tell the current state of affairs for two ex-lovers: Nora's a single mother who comes to care for her terminally ill father; holed in up in mental ward, Ismael, a brilliant musician, plots his escape.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Lynn Redgrave, Gabriel Byrne, Miranda Richardson,
Directors : David Cronenberg,

A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.

Actors : Rhys Wakefield, Toni Collette, Erik Thomson, Luke Ford,
Directors : Elissa Down,

All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence but his autistic brother, Charlie, thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend, Jackie, accept his brother?

Actors : Téa Leoni, Robin Williams, Anton Yelchin, David Duchovny,
Directors : David Duchovny,

By working through problems stemming from his past, Tom Warshaw, an American artist living in Paris, begins to discover who he really is, and returns to his home to reconcile with his family and friends.

Actors : Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville, Jim Broadbent, Judi Dench,
Directors : Richard Eyre,

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

Actors : Ellen Page, Zie Souwand, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Ari Cohen,
Directors : Bruce McDonald,

15-year-old Tracey Berkowitz is naked under a shower curtain at the back of a bus, looking for her little brother Sonny, who thinks he's a dog.

Actors : Alfre Woodard, Kevin Spacey, Mary McCormack, Jeff Bridges,
Directors : Iain Softley,

PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

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 : Hee-ra Kim, Nae-sang Ahn, Jeong-hie Yun, Da-wit Lee,
Directors : Chang-dong Lee,

A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.

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 : Susan Sarandon, Alan Arkin, Paul Walker, Penélope Cruz,
Directors : Chazz Palminteri,

Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle.

Actors : Sabrina Lloyd, Bruno Campos, Rueben Grundy, John Livingston,
Directors : Mark Decena,

A San Franciscan computer programmer falls in love with a schoolteacher in the days after the dot.com boom.

Actors : Darsheel Safary, Tanay Chheda, Aamir Khan, Sachet Engineer,

An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.

Actors : Michael Bonsignore, Maggie Riley, Nancy Jo Boone, Malerie Boone,
Directors : Elliot Greenebaum,

"Assisted Living" chronicles a day in the life of Todd, a janitor who "Assisted Living" is shot and staged in a real nursing home and gains

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 : Rachael Leigh Cook, Jonathan Tucker, Val Kilmer, Agnes Bruckner,
Directors : Reverge Anselmo,

The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...

Actors : Jimmy Bennett, Matthew Broderick, Virginia Madsen, Alan Alda,
Directors : Terry Kinney,

A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's-impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.