Best Mental Health movies

Actors : John Lithgow, Linda Hamilton, Richard Dreyfuss, J.T. Walsh,
Directors : Bruce Beresford,

An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.

Actors : Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, Kevin Hooks, Carmen Mathews,
Directors : Martin Ritt,

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Actors : Stephen Lang, Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Mercedes Ruehl,
Directors : Maurice Phillips,

George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when ...

Actors : Fahadh Faasil, Kovai Sarala, Vadivelu,
Directors : Sudheesh Sankar,

In an unusual situation , Velayudham sets out on a journey with Dhaya from Nagercoil to Tiruvannamalai-a journey that will alter both their lives in ways they never imagined. What unfolds becomes the heart of the story.

Actors : Glenn Plummer, Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Middendorf, 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 : Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley,
Directors : Petter Næss,

A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.

Actors : Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen, Jennifer MacDonald,
Directors : Lodge Kerrigan,

After a man suffering from schizophrenia is released from a mental institution, he attempts to get his daughter back from her adoptive family.

Actors : Anjelica Huston, Lena Olin, Ron Silver, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska,
Directors : Paul Mazursky,

A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.

Actors : Nashawn Kearse, Christopher Scott, Tatum O'Neal, Vanessa Williams,
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 : Donna Dixon, Charles Grodin, Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird. His tactless radio show is a hit, and he becomes very popular. ...

Actors : Thomas Dekker, Nikki Reed, Jason Priestley, Gina Rodriguez,

A reclusive American composer with an online following has a tentative romance with a beautiful social worker. This offers a glimmer of hope, but his mind fractures as the voices in his ...

Actors : Bruce Dern, Rachel Ward, Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani,
Directors : James Foley,

An ex-boxer is drifting around after escaping from the mental hospital. He meets a widow who convinces him to help fix up the neglected estate her ex-husband left. Her Uncle talks them both...

Actors : David Thewlis, Billie Piper, Sally Hawkins, Penelope Wilton,
Directors : Craig Roberts,

After Jane (Sally Hawkins) falls into a state of despair over her schizophrenia, she encounters new sources of love and life with surprising results.

Actors : Strother Martin, Sally Field, Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise,
Directors : Burt Reynolds,

Slapstick black comedy about a man (Reynolds) who finds that he hasn't much longer to live and has bungled his attempts at suicide.

Actors : Juliet Rylance, Bruce Dern, Lena Olin, Avan Jogia,
Directors : Tom Dolby,

Claire Smythson, wife of the renowned abstract artist Richard Smythson, is plunged into a late-life crisis when her husband is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and is in danger of not completing the paintings for his final show.

Actors : Juan Margallo, Javier Gutiérrez, Athenea Mata, José de Luna,
Directors : Javier Fesser,

A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.

Actors : Bryan Mialoundama, Vincent Cassel, Hélène Vincent, Reda Kateb,

The story of two men, educators of children and adolescents with autism.

Actors : Glenda Braganza, Helene Robbie, Ilkka Villi, Francis X. McCarthy,

A coma sends an old man into his childhood's sinister fantasy world, where he must fight dementia and gain back his memories before it's too late.

Actors : Catherine Keener, Bruce Greenwood, Carrie-Anne Moss, Xavier Dolan,
Directors : Charles Binamé,

A psychiatrist is drawn into a complex mind game when he questions a disturbed patient about the disappearance of a colleague.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Judy Garland,
Directors : John Cassavetes,

Psychologist Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of the Crawthorne State Training Institute, one of the first boarding schools for developmentally challenged children. Dr. Clark is sympathetic ...