Mental Illness Movies

Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant...

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

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

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...

In the 1980s, writer, poet, radio personality and football enthusiast Franck Venaille is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He decides to travel the...

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...

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...

A young illustrator fights the haunting memories of his wife's tragic death. One day, his hope for healing is at risk when his family's desire for a...

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

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

After going through a breakup and moving back home, James navigates through a "quarter life crisis" while dealing with mental illness, a spandex...

In part of the HBO's America Undercover series, this documentary provides an insider's view of mental illness, and the use of psychotropic drugs to...

Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court...

In a country ravaged by generational trauma, a psychiatrist trains grandmothers to treat depression within their communities.

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

A young man looks for a way out

Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil Borges and Kevin Tomlinson reveal a growing...

When Arnie Silverman, a manic-depressive novelist, begins a bout of self-harm and lies to his girlfriend about it, his best friend and sister’s...

A human drama by director Ryôta Sakamaki which realistically depicts the daily lives of three men and women suffering from panic disorder,...