Best Mental Health movies of 2000s

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 : 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 : 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 : Pooja Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Carl Marino, Ranbir Kapoor,
Directors : Siddharth Anand,

After numerous attempts at suicide fail, a couple decide to live it up, and then kill themselves on New Year's Day.

Actors : Clara Khoury, Makram Khoury, Moni Moshonov, Itay Tiran,
Directors : Udi Aloni,

On April 9, 1948, a Jewish militia entered the Palestinian village of Deir Yassin and killed over 100 villagers. Soon after, a mental hospital was built on the ruins. The first patients to ...

Actors : Stuart Wilson, Jacqueline Obradors, Wesley Snipes, Kim Coates,
Directors : David Carson,

Dean Cage is a former CIA operative who suffers from extreme PTSD. While in a program to resolve the stress of the loss his future brother-in-law Scott, he plans to meet Scott's sister at a...

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 : Goran Visnjic, Ashley Judd, Lauren Lee Smith, Alexia Fast,
Directors : Sandra Nettelbeck,

A talented professor is forced to come to terms with her clinical depression.

Actors : Mithun Chakraborty, Salman Khan, Anil Kapoor, Zayed Khan,
Directors : Subhash Ghai,

Yogendra Yuvvraaj Singh lives a wealthy lifestyle along with 3 sons, Gyanesh - who is mentally unstable; Deven - a bully and slacker; and Danny - a Casanova. While he does tolerate Danny, ...

Actors : Ajay Devgn, Sumeet Raghvan, Divya Dutta, Kajol,
Directors : Ajay Devgn,

Ajay's life turns upside down when he learns that his wife Piya has Alzheimer and he has no option, but to leave his wife in a mental hospital.

Actors : Levent Can, Haldun Boysan, Cemil Büyükdögerli, Volkan Cal,
Directors : Togan Gökbakar,

A suicide case is informed to the police from a mental hospital in a rocky district. Two policemen comes to hospital to investigate the case. In the same morning, Dr. Deniz comes to ...

Actors : Sabine Timoteo, André Hennicke, Jürgen Vogel, Manfred Zapatka,
Directors : Matthias Glasner,

A man is released from a mental institution after serving 9 years for multiple rape.

Actors : Ahmad Hilmi, Dalal Abdel Aziz, Menna Shalabi, Mahmood Hemaidah,
Directors : Khaled Mari,

Hassan, a brilliant aviation engineer struggles with loneliness and depression while trying to design his exceptional project.

Actors : Elvira Mínguez, Rubén Ochandiano, María Galiana, Ángel de Andrés López,

The small, everyday stories of a group of neighbours who live in a suburb of Barcelona, and the little secrets that they hide.

Actors : Nedumudi Venu, Arjun Lal, Meera Vasudevan, Mohanlal,
Directors : Blessy,

Will an unexpected turn of events change Rameshan's life forever and prevent him from witnessing his dream where his son becomes a reputable IAS Officer?

Actors : Grete Nordrå, Helge Reiss, Christin Borge, Per Christian Ellefsen,
Directors : Eva Isaksen,

In this prequel to Elling (2001), Elling, a slightly autistic, but opinionated young man, lives with his aging mother who is worried what he'll do without her. She decides to take him on a trip to Spain to see new things.

Actors : Michael Blevis, Carlos Richardson, Lisa Fusco, Steven C. Stewart,
Directors : Crispin Glover,

What Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film from the visionary mind of Crispin Glover that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes.

Actors : Lun-Mei Kwei, Jet Li, Yuanyuan Zhu, Zhang Wen,
Directors : Xiaolu Xue,

Explores the subject of parental love and autism in kids.

Actors : Derya Alabora, Onur Ünsal, Övül Avkiran, Tsilla Chelton,
Directors : Yesim Ustaoglu,

When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.