Mental Illness Movies

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. Fi...

The Burnt House is the story of Megan and Joe, a couple who have recently experienced the death their infant son to SIDS. The tragedy has spawned a ri...

Harley, a twenty-year-old college student, visits her doctor to share how she's been feeling off lately. A recent culmination of events has caused her...

The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to start visiting a therapist and preparing for the dem...

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

A woman who had been raped and whose family wiped out by the collaborators of the occupying forces during the bloody "liberation war" of Bangladesh in...

Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?

Fact-based story about a woman whose life is shattered by a poetry-spouting stalker who manages to evade her police protectors.

A relationship between two college students is put to the test when one of them falls into depression.

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to understa...

In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston Hig...

Short subject documentary by Julien Nitzberg about the legendary "psychobilly" musician and infamous wild man Hasil Adkins. Filming takes place in Adk...

Failing at another job, Fiadh must return home to take care of her mother, "Mental" Maggie. When the strange goings on appear to be more than her moth...

Júlia, tries to keep up appearances and routine, while questioning her own sanity.

Young man, on suspicion of arson, escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the home of his parents.

The lives of Jeff, Lauren and Lloyd—three very different people who share one common experience—have been transformed by speaking up for mental health...

Filmmaker Evie Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mentally unstable mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie’s psycho...