The best movies about mental health
The top 3 according to 1 vote: Precious (2009) · A Beautiful Mind (2001) · Girl, Interrupted (1999). (Updated May 25, 2025.)
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.
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Top 15
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1
Precious (2009)
A Harlem teenager survives abuse at home.
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2
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Ron Howard: mathematician John Nash and schizophrenia.
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3
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie in a 1960s psychiatric hospital.
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4
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Miloš Forman: Jack Nicholson against Nurse Ratched.
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5
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
A teenager deals with trauma and depression at high school.
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6
Inside Out (2015)
Pixar: Joy, Sadness and the emotions inside Riley's head.
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7
Melancholia (2011)
Lars von Trier: depression in the face of the end of the world.
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8
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Gus Van Sant: a young genius and the therapist played by Robin Williams.
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9
The Aviator (2004)
Martin Scorsese: Howard Hughes and obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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10
Sound of Metal (2020)
A drummer loses his hearing and has to start over.
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11
Beautiful Boy (2018)
A father lives through his son's drug addiction.
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12
All the Bright Places (2020)
Two teenagers marked by loss and depression.
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13
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Lynne Ramsay: a mother and the son who committed a terrible crime.
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14
To the Bone (2017)
Lily Collins and anorexia.
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15
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Sofia Coppola: the five Lisbon sisters in the 1970s.
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16
About a Boy (2002)
Hugh Grant and a boy whose mother suffers from depression.
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