Best Mental Health movies of 1980s

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Dominique Lavanant, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Claude Sautet,

Martial's mother owns a chain of supermarkets. He had spent some years in a mental hospital because of pervasive indolence. Hoping that an active task may improve his condition, he is sent ...

Actors : Vijayshanti, Anil Kapoor, Saeed Jaffrey, Asha Sachdev,

Ishwar is a simple-minded and honest young man, devout and religious, he cares for everybody. He meets with a young widow with a son and marries her. This story is about him and his trials and triumphs.

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Keith Carradine, Karen Allen, Bernie Casey,
Directors : Gilbert Cates,

Disgruntled wife cheats on her well off husband, who's been suffering from PTSD ever since he came home from the Vietnam War. After an incident he ends up in a catatonic state. Soon, she begins to suspect that someone is after her.

Actors : Robert Blake, Dyan Cannon, Quinn K. Redeker, Michael Lerner,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Madie Levrington is a neurotic, wealthy woman who escapes from a New York mental institution where her unwholesome husband had her committed to avoid the trial of an expensive divorce. She ...

Actors : Michele Scarabelli, Harvey Atkin, Lorenzo Lamas, Larry B. Scott,
Directors : George Erschbamer,

A Vietnam vet breaks out of a mental institution to go after drug-dealing gangsters who are selling contaminated product that is killing people.

Actors : Francis Reddy, Nathalie Chalifour, Xavier Norman Petermann, Jacques Godin,
Directors : Jean Beaudin,

Two very close brothers, one autistic, spend their days living in fantasy together until a girl inevitably comes between them.

Actors : Magdalena Montezuma, Antonio Orlando, Karina Fallenstein, Mostefa Djadjam,
Directors : Werner Schroeter,

A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses.

Actors : Suzanne Fletcher, Evelyn Smith, Luc Sante,
Directors : Sara Driver,

A young woman escapes from a mental hospital during the chaos of a nearby multiple-car accident. She is mistaken for a shock victim and is driven to her sister's house by a rescue volunteer...

Actors : Lena T. Hansson, Stina Ekblad, Philip Zandén, Erland Josephson,
Directors : Mai Zetterling,

About the Swedish author Agnes Von Krusenstjerna (1894-1940), during her turbulent marriage with David Sprengel. In a hallucination Agnes is brought to a mental hospital in Venice, carrying her fictitious autobiography.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Carole Bouquet, Ida Di Benedetto, Ingrid Caven,
Directors : Werner Schroeter,

Story of a mentally unstable woman who goes into an institution.

Actors : Burt Young, Brooke Shields, Jason O'Malley, Anthony Franciosa,

Backstreet Dreams is the story of a man, who has a disturbed child. He and his wife take their son to a clinic, where he is diagnosed by a talented psychologist (Stevie), as being autistic....

Actors : Ahmed Adawiyya, Ezzat Badran, Ahmad Bedair, Adel Adham,
Directors : Niazi Mostafa,

hassan was sent to a mental hospital but was his way to stay out of prison after stealing a bag full of jewelery,his sister visit him frequently,but that made the head of nursery to fall in...

Actors : Lothaire Bluteau, Paule Baillargeon, Kim Yaroshevskaya, Paul Buissonneau,
Directors : Paule Baillargeon,

A woman deals with her mother, an arts professor, plunging into chaos due to Alzheimer's.

Actors : Sonja Belliveau, Michael Copeman, William Sanderson, Vernon Wells,
Directors : Damian Lee,

Roo Marcus (Vernon Wells) is a down-and-out guy with a troubled past who was recently released from a mental institution, where he suffered through inhumane conditions and shock therapy. ...

Actors : Hyo-Seon Jang, Sok-Ran Kang, Yong-Nam Ahn, Myung-gon Kim,

Escaping from a hospital for the mentally disturbed, a man calling himself Jesus goes to Seoul. He feels he must save Seoul from judgement by fire by finding a woman who knows the meaning of true love

Actors : Willie Andréason, Göran Dyrssen, Lickå Sjöman, Gustav Kling,
Directors : Clas Lindberg,

Young man, on suspicion of arson, escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the home of his parents.

Actors : Jaap Stobbe, Leen Jongewaard, Piet Kamerman, Peter Faber,
Directors : Guido Pieters,

Patients in a mental hospital are sent to live in a house in town as part of a social experiment. To the surprise of some and the delight of others, two other women move in.

Actors : William Hutt, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Martha Henry, Brent Carver,
Directors : Robin Phillips,

Robert Ross lives a protected adolescence in a well-off Toronto suburb. Secretive and withdrawn, he shares his thoughts only with his sister Rowena, who is mentally disabled. He feels ...

Actors : Naomi Riseman, Miriam Miller, Jim O'Malley, Joe Lisi,
Directors : Edward Barbini,

A mentally impaired man is left alone on the streets of New York City after being separated from his grandmother during an attempted robbery.

Actors : Kathleen Beller, Robert Hays, Ned Beatty, Gilbert Lewis,
Directors : John Flynn,

Two mental patients in an institution fall in love and plan to escape in the search of a normal life.