The best movies like Girl, Interrupted explore the complex worlds of mental health services, both the good and the bad, and on a more meaningful level, try to understand the emotional journeys people with mental health conditions go on. Girl, Interrupted premiered on December 21, 1999, capping off an incredible year in film which included The Matrix, The Mummy, American Beauty, and some of the decade's best horror movies. Girl, Interrupted is in a genre all its own. It's a tense psychological drama that also serves as a sweet coming-of-age story.

The film follows Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), a nervous, troubled young woman who overdoses on aspirin and alcohol and is forcibly committed to Claymoore, a psychiatric hospital. There, she meets a group of young women her age who are also dealing with a variety of mental health conditions. Together, the girls deal with the boredom, and sometimes pain, of their stay...