Highest-Rated Movies about 'Mental Health'

A Woman Under the Influence (1974), The Deer Hunter (1978), Black Swan (2010), Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2004), Away from Her (2006), King and Country (1964), Two Days, One Night (2014), Good Time (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mental Health movies.

#16. The Last Shaman (2017)

Storyline: James is an all American boy whose promising life is brought to a halt by acute depression. Turning his back on the most progressive western treatments and medicines, James discovers ayahuasca in search of healing in the Peruvian jungle. Over the course of 10 months venturing from Shaman to Shaman, James finds friendship, answers and a kind of redemption hidden deep in the Peruvian amazon.

Plot Keywords: shaman, isolation, psychiatry, solitude, peru, mental illness, mental health ...

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#17. Instinct (1999)

Storyline: Nearly two years after having gone amiss in Africa, renowned anthropologist Dr. Ethan Powell (Sir Anthony Hopkins) is caught committing a crime and subsequently imprisoned in a Florida mental institution, where aspiring psychiatrist Dr. Theo Caulder (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) takes over his important case. Dr. Powell, who has been with a group of gorillas during all that time, is not talking at all, and seems to be living in a dreamworld. Very slowly, Dr. Caulder manages to reach Ethan and starts finding out why he killed two of the poachers. Yet, Theo's case is not just about why the murders have happened, but also about how Dr. Powell became the being he is in the first place. With Ethan's silence broken, Theo is introduced into a world beyond common human comprehension: The true nature of being. He learns that mankind's control of everything is a mere illusion and that the true values of existence can't be found so easily. Ethan changes Theo's view of things forever.

Plot Keywords: prison warden, pen, climbing out a window, father daughter reunion, father daughter estrangement, father daughter relationship, one word title ...

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#18. The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)

Storyline: Not yet 30, Lola controls her personal life with the same ruthless efficiency she uses to optimize profits in her job as a high-powered business consultant. No one knows about her older sister Conny or her family's history of mental illness. But when a tragic event forces Conny back into Lola's life and her secrets begin to unravel, Lola's grip on reality seems to slips away.

Plot Keywords: male frontal nudity, male nudity, lesbian, gay interest, mental health, sibling, f rated ...

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#19. Eternal Beauty (2019)

Storyline: This movie follows Jane (Sally Hawkins) who, after being left at the altar, had a breakdown spiralled into a chaotic episode of schizophrenia lasting twenty years in which love (both real and imagined) and family relationships collide. Things change when she begins a darkly comic romance with Mike (David Thewlis), a failed musician and fellow lost soul.

Plot Keywords: psychiatric hospital, rolls royce, mental health, beauty pageant, psychosis, hearing voices, overbearing mother ...

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#20. Welcome to Me (2014)

Storyline: Alice suffers from borderline personality disorder, but she has what she needs in life. She has an apartment, she has a best friend, and she has tapes of every Oprah Winfrey show. And now, after winning the lottery, she also has 83 million dollars. What she doesn't have is an outlet for the whole world to know who she really is. The TV station cut her off when she tried turning her lottery announcement into a frank discussion of her sexual experiences, but with her money in hand, she's off to LA to convince two struggling TV producer brothers to produce her own TV show. Whatever it costs, she's going to do it. From swan entrances to dog neutering, she is going to introduce the world to Alice. But is the world ready for Alice?

Plot Keywords: fictional tv show, reference to oprah winfrey, millionaire, satire, female nudity, female frontal nudity, borderline personality disorder ...

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#21. Earthbound (2012)

Storyline: Young Joe is an alien living on Earth. At least that's what his father told him before he died when Joe was eleven. His father unsuccessfully wrote sci-fi stories, and Joe loves sci-fi. He has been told that he must not deal with humans, unless they are more than 85 percent compatible with himself. When we meet Joe again, he is 26, and the fantasy keeps him going. But is it a fantasy, or is it real? Joe's life changes radically when he meets a more than 85 percent compatible girl. Can Joe trust himself? Does he know what's real?

Plot Keywords: death of father, one word title, little boy, younger version of character, comic book, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, landlady ...

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#22. Ma (2019)

Storyline: In this new psychological horror-thriller from Tate Taylor and Blumhouse, a lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn't get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their crazy host.

Plot Keywords: lonely woman, underage drinking, mother daughter relationship, teen drinking, revenge, basement, veterinarian ...

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#24. The Messenger (2015)

Storyline: We all want to believe in life after death and imagine loved ones looking over us, feel their presence in a draft of air, or the faint essence of a familiar smell. It's what we crave, knowing they wait for us. But Jack isn't waiting - they won't leave him alone. Some might call Jack a troubled soul, at odds with the world, unable to conform. If you saw him in the pub - disheveled and drunk, talking to himself - you'd stay well away, think he was disturbed somehow, crazy. But Jack has a sharp mind and a razor wit. It's not that he doesn't want to live a normal life, he can't. They won't let him.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: clairvoyance, death, murder investigation, police detective, hanged man, father son relationship, paranormal phenomena ...

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#25. Boogeyman 2 (2007)

Storyline: A young woman with a long-term phobia of the boogeyman voluntarily checks herself into a mental health facility with the hope of conquering her overwhelming fear. However, much to her horror, she discovers that some things are terrifying on purpose, and confronting her demons was not the best course of action.—anonymous

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, hooded figure, hung upside down, little boy, little girl, loss of parents, maggot ...

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