Mental health has only been a topic of discussion in the recent past. And there are a few movies that spectacularly, albeit ...

Updated on April 21, 2025, by Natasha Elder: Portraying mental illnesses in film is a difficult task, given the complexity of the topic. Some films make very little attempt to do so correctly ...

From Silver Linings Playbook and Girl, Interrupted to Iron Man 3 and Observe & Report, here are 18 of the best movies you can watch about mental illness.

Cinematic asylums are never just mental hospitals. They are almost always something more. They are metaphors, symbolic stand-ins for things that worry us. Movie and TV show asylums are designed to ...

"Back when I was 20, I was doing a movie called Prozac Nation, and I was shooting in this same mental asylum," continued Ricci. "I had left something upstairs where we'd been shooting, which was ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Post and Courier on Sunday published a story in the Life section about “Bull Street,” an upcoming movie that touches on South Carolina and its once famous state mental ...

Set in a mental asylum, the movie pans on a criminal – Randle Mc Murphy – who pleaded insanity in court. With the inmates, he organizes an uprising against an abusive nurse. 2.