Best Mental Health movies of 1990s

Actors : Elisabeth Shue, Jill Hennessy, Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart,
Directors : John Duigan,

A bachelor becomes the unwilling guardian of his autistic, intellectually disabled sister; then an experimental treatment works a dramatic change in her brain and his attitude.

Actors : Cliff Gorman, Julie Carmen, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez,
Directors : Seth Zvi Rosenfeld,

Seymour is a mentally challenged young man living in New York. Seymour's happy New York Knicks fan existence comes to a tragic end after he witnesses the assassination of his mother, a ...

Actors : Anne Bancroft, Lena Olin, Richard Gere, Tom Irwin,
Directors : Mike Figgis,

After being arrested during a manic episode, a man who suffers from bipolar disorder is treated by a psychiatrist who begins to develop romantic feelings towards him.

Actors : Paul Reiser, Daryl Hannah, J.T. Walsh, Dudley Moore,

A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.

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 : 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 : 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 : 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 : Othon Bastos, Cássia Kis Magro, Dani Nefussi, Rodrigo Santoro,
Directors : Laís Bodanzky,

A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs...

Actors : Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum,
Directors : Larry Bishop,

With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.

Actors : Emma Suárez, Silke, Carmelo Gómez, Karra Elejalde,
Directors : Julio Medem,

Angel, an exterminator recently released from a mental hospital, comes to rid a small Spanish town of tiny grubs in the soil. The local wine-making industry has found these pests ...

Actors : John Savage, Nastassja Kinski, Ryan Phillippe, Shirley Knight,
Directors : Antonio Tibaldi,

Living in the rural Texas panhandle is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, who have an ...

Actors : Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, Debra Winger, Laurie Metcalf,
Directors : Stephen Gyllenhaal,

Martha Horgan, a naive woman with an intellectual impairment who lives with her aunt Frances in a small town, is known for always telling the truth. She works at a dry cleaner, where her ...

Actors : Claude Perron, Roland Blanche, Hélène Vincent, Albert Dupontel,
Directors : Albert Dupontel,

Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes ...

Actors : Patti LuPone, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Rosie Perez, Karen Duffy,
Directors : Nancy Savoca,

Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.

Actors : Peter Haber, Ulf Brunnberg, Björn Gustafson, Birgitta Andersson,
Directors : Hans Åke Gabrielsson,

Criminal genius is incarcerated in a mental institution but his criminal plans are executed by his criminal gang and his attending doctor.

Actors : Kamal Haasan, Varalakshmi S., Roshini, Rekha Mallick,
Directors : Santhana Bharathi,

A neurodivergent individual escapes the family he despises and the asylum he is kept in by creating fantasies.

Actors : Randall Batinkoff, Jonathan Penner, Jamey Sheridan, Norman Reedus,
Directors : Stacy Title,

In this updated version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, a young man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.

Actors : Bruce Ramsay, Elias Koteas, Laure Marsac, Jay Leggett,
Directors : Steven Shainberg,

Sonny lives with his intellectually disabled older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in. Sonny is offered a part in a heist that goes wrong.

Actors : Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Melanie Griffith, Patrick Swayze, Penelope Ann Miller,
Directors : John Kaye,

A schizophrenic romantic tracks down her college sweetheart to help her find their son she gave up for adoption sixteen years ago to the dismay of his new wife.