A couple more...
Loving Walter --- 1982 on DVD/VHS...Man decides a Psych hospital is the only place for him but eventually his spirit wins out and he creates a new life for himself and even finds a love interest. A good one for those who face the folks who ENJOY living their lives away in the hospital. Shows that they do indeed still have hope and strong spirit despite what you probably think.
Lilian's story --- "For 40 years Lilian Singer has been locked up in a mental hospital by her father. Her release is eventually secured and she walks out to a world unfamiliar to her in every way, seeking the love and affection she never got" 2000, DVD/VHS.
The Master and Margaret- 1972 DVD/VHS, European Classic film.. "Writer Nikolai, "the master", is working on a play about Pontius Pilot when two suspicious Soviet government officials begin to follow him. The government has sensured his work, even causing the deaths of two close allies. Paranoia sets in and he believes that the devil is after him and that his assistant, Margaret, is conspiring with other evil forces. Margaret attempts to rescue "the master", from a mental institute, even as the threat of evil forces surround them."
Shine --- 1997 VHS/DVD... "The story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. He experiences a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized, but later returns to the concert hall."
The snake pit --- 2004 DVD/VHS "Following an emotional collapse a woman is placed in a mental institution by her husband. The severity of her depression causes her sympathetic doctor to try electric shock, hydrotherapy, and drugs, along with psychoanalysis."