Mental Illness Movies

A solitary artist experiences a succession of psychological states that gradually blur her perception of reality.

We follow a young woman named Evie as she struggles to help her sister Tris with an ever-worsening case of depression - a condition that has already...

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on...

Lina, a tormented teenager, is haunted by her abusive envious mother, affecting her mental and emotional sanity until she is pushed over the edge.

After an unproductive appointment, the Subject returns home as their bottled up emotions reach a boiling point.

In a small town in northern Norway, Eira tries to follow in the shadow of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera. Lately however, something...

A prisoner belonging to a void known as “Lacuna,” longs to escape their entrapment. As they search for a way out, they confront the...

In this short film, a father (Ben Cable) tries to explain his wife's mental illness to his daughter (Sierra Nottingham).

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid...

A young woman is kidnapped by a mentally deranged man who believes she knows the person who calls him on a broken telephone.

A lonely man is invited to dinner by the woman who spies every night with his camera. The secrets will come to light, when both want to satisfy their...

Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human...

In an attempt to connect with his fiancee who's she's locked in a Sanitarium, Pavlos tries to enter in his own will without thinking of the...

An unflinching documentary of those dealing with mental illness in the criminal justice system and a profile of families who tragically fell victims...

16-year-old Aaron is an obsessive applicant to the Australian Army. He is rejected due to his Mental incapability's and relieves his anger through...

Florence Walker is an aspiring actress who's barely getting any auditions. After finding a sketchy casting call for a horror movie, she takes the...

"My uncle is schizophrenic and my grandmother suffers from a terminal illness. My grandfather, who is unable to take care of them both, must decide...

Healing a Nation (Twoub Mantal) tells the painful story of Jean-Richard Saintal, a former social worker from the Cité Soleil region of...