Mental health movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant mental health movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological, captivating, weird, sad, disturbing and inspirational films and TV shows about / with mental health, mental illness, mental disorder, family relations, illness, suicide, psychiatry, psychology, love and psychiatrist plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, South Korea and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mental health: The Son (2022), It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012), Spinning Out (2020), Eternal Beauty (2019), It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020), To the Bone (2017), Dear Evan Hansen (2021), Hannibal (2013), This Way Up (2019), No Letting Go (2015).

List of mental health movies

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 6.4
 15K
The Son (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: mental health, divorced parents, family conflict, father, teen angst, depression, suicide, couple relations, father and son, love story, ex couple relations, family relations ...
Place: washington d.c., new york
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It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt's animated short film trilogy.
Style: philosophical, surreal, adult animation, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, illness, mental health, mental illness, narration, dark humor, nightmare, hospital, divorced parents, loneliness, life & death, existentialism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.6
 17K
Spinning Out (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Kat Baker is an up-and-coming, high-level single skater who is about to turn in her skates after a disastrous fall. When Kat seizes an opportunity to continue her career as a pair skater with a talented bad-boy partner, she risks exposing a fiercely ...
Style: inspirational, uplifting, psychological, suspense
Plot: figure skating, skating, mental health, mental illness, human spirit, enemies to lovers, athlete, love, mother daughter relationship, true love, family problems, couple relations ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Eternal Beauty (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
Style: psychological, sad, uplifting, tragicomedy, touching ...
Plot: mental health, hearing voices, paranoid schizophrenia, domineering mother, schizophrenia, couple relations, family relations, psychological trauma, betrayal, mental illness, feminist, psychiatric hospital ...
Place: wales
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It's Okay to Not Be Okay (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
TV show
Story: Desperate to escape from his emotional baggage and the heavy responsibility he’s had all his life, a psychiatric ward worker begins to heal with help from the unexpected—a woman who writes fairy tales but doesn’t believe in them.
Style: dorama, romantic, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, feel good ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anti social, mental health, psychiatric ward, hospital, friendship, eccentric woman, death, sibling relationship, male nurse, countryside, caregiver, madhouse ...
Place: thailand
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 6.8
 54K
To the Bone (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Style: bleak, captivating, motivational, emotional, teen ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: eating disorder, illness, anorexia, therapy, suicide, sister sister relationship, self harm, psychology, mental health, mental illness, mental disorder, relationship problems ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, arizona
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Dear Evan Hansen (2021)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Film adaptation of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical. The story follows Hansen, a high schooler with social anxiety. He unintentionally gets caught up in a lie after the family of a classmate who committed suicide mistakes one of Hansen’s ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, interactive
Audience: teen drama
Plot: suicide, mental illness, teenager, social anxiety disorder, high school, based on broadway musical, letter, mental health, social media, love, forest, laptop ...
Time: 2020s, future, 2010s, 21st century
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 8.5
 274K
Hannibal (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1680 min.
TV show
Story: Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, psychopath, mind game, cannibalism, death, murder, psychiatrist, mental patient, graphic violence, fbi, mental health ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.8
 8K
This Way Up (2019)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: A young woman puts her life back together after suffering from a nervous breakdown.
Style: clever, thought provoking, sweet, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot: mental health, sister sister relationship, anxiety, mental illness, delusion, uptight character, bittersweet, life philosophy, psychiatrist, friendship, youth, sisters ...
Place: england
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 6.3
 741
No Letting Go (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: What would you do to save your child? A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.
Style: suspense, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic ...
Plot: mental illness, mental health, coming of age, bipolar disorder, family relations, teenager, family problems, teenage boy, teenage life, motherhood, estrangement, adolescence ...
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 8.0
 819K
Black Swan (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style: psychological, suspense, cerebral, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, insanity, dancing, character study, surrealism, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, paranoia, showbiz ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser, Randle Patrick McMurphy inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse, Mildred Ratched.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, dramatic, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience: date night, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, fighting the system, human spirit, insanity, freedom, psychiatrist, unlikely friendships, psychopath, society, nurse, escaped mental patient ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: oregon, eastern europe, america, persia
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Rocks in My Pockets (2014)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A fantastical tale based on true events, about five women of Signe Baumane's family, including herself, and their battles with depression and madness.
Style: surreal, stylized, adult animation, humorous, psychological ...
Plot: depression, mental illness, strong female presence, mental health, family relations, hopes, imaginary, redemption, women, psychiatry, trauma, trippy ...
Time: 2010s
Place: soviet union, latvia
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Kill Me, Heal Me (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cha Do Hyun is a rich heir to a family company with one major problem. Due to suppressed childhood trauma, he suffers from dissociative identity disorder manifested in 7 unique personalities who are out of his control. In order to overcome this ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, captivating, light, dorama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dissociative identity disorder, psychiatrist, doctor patient relationship, mental illness, split personality, love, childhood memory, friendship, wealthy family, twists and turns, family relations, doctor ...
Place: korea, south korea
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 7.1
 62K
Benny & Joon (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.
Style: touching, melancholic, sweet, feel good, compassionate ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot: mental illness, brother sister relationship, social misfits, love, love story, misfit, mechanic, disability, love and romance, mental health, dysfunctional family, schizophrenia ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, seattle, washington state
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A Beautiful Mind (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, chick flick
Plot: mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, scientist, mathematician, imaginary friend, nobel prize, obsession, prodigy ...
Time: year 2001, 60s, 20th century, 1940s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, harvard university, new jersey, persia, detroit ...
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style: psychological, depressing, serious, crying, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, coming of age, suicide, insanity, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder, female protagonist, psychiatric ward, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999, 60s
Place: usa
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style: romantic, touching, offbeat, depressing, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, family drama, depression, life philosophy, adaptation, supportive parent, male female friendship, father son relationship, happy ending, social misfits ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
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 7.5
 382K
The Aviator (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 170 min.
Story: A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe ...
Style: realistic, epic, stylized, period piece, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: success, mental illness, aviation, biopic, filmmaking, entrepreneur, corruption, test pilot, entrepreneurship, businessman, character study, obsessive compulsive disorder ...
Time: 1930s, year 2004, 1920s, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: los angeles, california, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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 6.5
 723
Avoidance (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: Jonathan's life revolves around his nine year-old son Spencer, and he's always deferred the big and small decisions to his partner Claire. So when Claire asks him to leave, Jonathan realises he has no home, no friends and no ambition. ...
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, thrilling, psychological
Plot: mental health, satire, relationships, father son relationship, family life, changing lives, family relations, lifestyle, lifestyle change
Place: britain
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An Imperfect Murder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, ...
Style: psychological, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: mental health, actress, nightmare, drug dealer, ex boyfriend, nightmare comes true, murder, disposing of a dead body, classmate, death, corpse, police ...
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The Gabby Petito Story (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Follows Gabby's tragic murder. Centering in her complicated relationship with her fiancé Brian Laundrie and what may have gone wrong during their cross-country trip. The disappearance of Gabby Petito captured America’s attention, setting off ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot: mental health, relationship problems, couple relations, family problems, problem, murder mystery, life is a bitch, murderer, male female relationship, murder
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 8.0
 845K
Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, time travel, psychology, imaginary friend, insanity, schizophrenia, parallel universe, surrealism, suburbs, time loop, social misfits, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: virginia, america, los angeles, usa
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All My Puny Sorrows (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: writers, mental health, women, sisters, life is a bitch, self discovery, sister sister relationship, problem, suicide attempt, introspection, suicide, writing
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 7.1
 195K
Melancholia (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two sisters find their already strained relationship challenged as a mysterious new planet threatens to collide with Earth.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, psychological, surreal, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: depression, end of the world, wedding, human nature, sister sister relationship, apocalypse, nihilism, collision, disaster, dysfunctional family, suicide, trippy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, future, 21st century
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 3.7
 243
Woe (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A brother and sister stumble upon their father's secret one year after his death. They soon learn that this secret may not be his alone.
Style: suspense, tense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: brother, mental health, sister, secret, suicide, deadly creature, supernatural, supernatural power, ghost, creature, paranormal phenomena, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.3
 184
Soul Mechanic (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: How do you deal with anger? Where does happiness actually come from? These questions are at the heart of Fix You, a touching drama about a quirky psychiatrist on a mission to help people heal, and a rising star whose emotional wounds run deep. Lee ...
Style: psychological, emotional, sincere, humorous, captivating
Plot: psychiatrist, mental health, psychiatry, healing, doctor patient relationship, hospital, doctor, psychiatric patient, emotional manipulation, doctors and patients, medical
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My Friend Henry (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: childhood, parent child relationship, friendship, mental health, shoplifting, child, family relations, friend, father son relationship, family tragedy, secret, responsibility ...
Place: finland
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