Best Mental Health movies

Actors : Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, 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 : Nick Nolte, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Aaron Eckhart,
Directors : Joshua Michael Stern,

A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book. Acclimating to his position, ...

Actors : Michelle Williams, Meat Loaf, Tim Guinee, Louis Zorich,
Directors : Richard Ledes,

When her brother Bobby returns from World War II mentally damaged, Anna has to deal with her parents who don't aknowledge her brother's existence, who is now brought to a mental hospital. ...

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

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

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 : Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Hümeyra, Mehmet Günsür, Kerem Bursin,
Directors : Çagan Irmak,

An old pop singer who has Alzheimer's returns to her old house where she remembers her old days of climbing the stairs of fame and fortune while trying to deal with her older sister who holds her responsible for her ruined life.