Best Mental Health movies that are oscar winners or nominees

Actors : Gene Hackman, Shirley MacLaine, Meryl Streep, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.

Actors : Ruth Nelson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner,
Directors : Penny Marshall,

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

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 : Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren, Amanda Donohoe, Nigel Hawthorne,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A meditation on power, and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III (now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder). As he ...

Actors : Burt Kwouk, Lesley-Anne Down, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers,
Directors : Blake Edwards,

Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.

Actors : Kevin Hooks, Paul Winfield, Cicely Tyson, 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 : Howard Da Silva, Janet Margolin, Keir Dullea, Neva Patterson,
Directors : Frank Perry,

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds ...

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Kathleen Quinlan, Bibi Andersson, Ben Piazza,
Directors : Anthony Page,

A disturbed,institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.

Actors : Diane McBain, Joan Crawford, Polly Bergen, Robert Stack,
Directors : Hall Bartlett,

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital. Dr. MacLeod (Robert Stack) is a new, optimistic doctor who attempts to ...