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- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsTom HanksRobin WrightGary SiniseThe history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
- DirectorJessie NelsonStarsSean PennMichelle PfeifferDakota FanningAn intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
- DirectorBilly Bob ThorntonStarsBilly Bob ThorntonDwight YoakamJ.T. WalshKarl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.
- DirectorJaco Van DormaelStarsDaniel AuteuilPascal DuquenneMiou-MiouAn unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.
- DirectorAlejandro GalindoStarsClaudio BrookAna Luisa PeluffoJorge LavatA young woman is the principal suspect during the investigation of the murder of her stepfather, with whom she was supposed to leave the city.
- DirectorLucía CarrerasStarsCecilia CantúÁngeles CruzManuel Jimènez FraireA story about feminine solidarity at México City. Doña Meche an old lonely lady and Tamara a mentally challenged woman in her forties, meet in their solitude in an endeavor to return a baby that Tamara took from a newspaper stand.
- DirectorFrank DarabontStarsTom HanksMichael Clarke DuncanDavid MorseA tale set on death row, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the lead guard, Paul Edgecombe, recognizes John's gift, he tries to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
- DirectorJosé EstradaStarsIgnacio López TarsoOfelia GuilmáinAna MartínMexican thriller about a mentally perturbed serial killer who considers himself a prophet. He lives with his elderly mother, who went many years to jail because she took blame of his first murder. Now he thinks he is saving prostitutes by strangling them, until he faces a dilemma when the woman he loves also becomes a prostitute because of her poverty.
- DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael BerrymanIn the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
- DirectorOriol PauloStarsBárbara LennieEduard FernándezLoreto MauleónFollows a woman checking into a psychiatric ward to investigate a homicide.
- DirectorTom TykwerStarsFranka PotenteBenno FürmannJoachim KrólTwo enamoured strangers look for a warm place in a cold world.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsRalph FiennesMiranda RichardsonGabriel ByrneA mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
- DirectorJohn SchmidtStarsBarbara BabcockKen HowardOssie DavisA business executive's life is turned upside-down when his wife contracts a debilitating disease.
- DirectorDaniela ArbexArmando MendzFor years they were kept in subhuman conditions. Sixty thousand died. A few managed to survive. And they tell you a little about the terrifying history of the Cologne Hospital. Adaptation of the eponymous book of Daniela Arbex.