# The best movies about mental health

Schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, addiction and grief: from A Beautiful Mind and Girl, Interrupted to Inside Out and Sound of Metal, the films recommended by Guia da Alma and Tenho Mais Discos Que Amigos.

- 1 vote · 16 items
- May 25, 2025 · otaku_paulista
- https://even.best/en/l/4327/the-best-movies-about-mental-health

## Top 15

1. **Precious (2009)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A Harlem teenager survives abuse at home.
2. **A Beautiful Mind (2001)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ron Howard: mathematician John Nash and schizophrenia.
3. **Girl, Interrupted (1999)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie in a 1960s psychiatric hospital.
4. **One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Miloš Forman: Jack Nicholson against Nurse Ratched.
5. **The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A teenager deals with trauma and depression at high school.
6. **Inside Out (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Pixar: Joy, Sadness and the emotions inside Riley's head.
7. **Melancholia (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lars von Trier: depression in the face of the end of the world.
8. **Good Will Hunting (1997)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gus Van Sant: a young genius and the therapist played by Robin Williams.
9. **The Aviator (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Martin Scorsese: Howard Hughes and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
10. **Sound of Metal (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A drummer loses his hearing and has to start over.
11. **Beautiful Boy (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A father lives through his son's drug addiction.
12. **All the Bright Places (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two teenagers marked by loss and depression.
13. **We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lynne Ramsay: a mother and the son who committed a terrible crime.
14. **To the Bone (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lily Collins and anorexia.
15. **The Virgin Suicides (1999)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Sofia Coppola: the five Lisbon sisters in the 1970s.
16. **About a Boy (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Hugh Grant and a boy whose mother suffers from depression.

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