Mental Illness Movies

James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn't enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same...

An elderly woman makes the acquaintance of a strange and disturbed little girl in this haunting film based on the Truman Capote short story 'Miriam.'

Joe wants to be a rapper. Max wants to be a filmmaker. They go to a secluded house in rural Virginia to document the production of Joe's demo CD. But...

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to...

A young man looks for a way out

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

A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...

In January 2017, a video showing a young Gambian man named Pateh Sabally drowning in the waters of Venice’s Grand Canal went viral on social...

Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a...

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...

Shattered by a lifetime of isolation and self loathing due to his mentally ill mother's psychological abuse, a son's obsession to reunite with her...

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to...

A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is...

The app buzzes: a new urgent order. A delivery rider's race against time turns into a claustrophobic nightmare when he gets trapped inside the home...

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

Documentary about the two of the greatest Swedish artists of the 19th century, Ernst Josefson and Carl Fredrik Hill, and how their lives were changed...

In 1983, the director's 24-year-old sister developed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her parents couldn't accept it—refusing to seek treatment for...

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

Alex, an experienced surgeon, makes a mistake in the diagnosis of his seven-year-old godson. The boy dies on the operating table. Stunned, the man...