Mental Illness Movies

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?

The story of who psychiatrists are today, what they do, and what they value has been told by almost everyone but them. Psychiatrists are notoriously...

Marwan a superstitious OCD patient knows that his grades will be out in an hour and tries to fight his obsessive thoughts.

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances....

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

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...

Devi is an 8-year-old child who is thought to have an imaginary friend, but as time goes by the imaginary friend does not go away and causes concern...

A short form exploration of the very visceral and disorienting world of living with severe anxiety and depression, the world’s biggest health...

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...

Mae Driver, once driven and full of aspirations, now lives day to day needling away her time until she can escape into sleep. With the aid of a dated...

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

What if, instead of bombs, we dropped watermelons? Dreamy and hopeful, this animated short sweeps us up into a colourful world where layers of...

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century...

Filmmaker Paul Gallasch is 30 and still lives at home with his mentally ill mother. When he meets the woman of his dreams, Paul decides that if he's...

In a city where young people disappear, Anya goes through the process of losing her best friend, Mayra, after she transfers to another school. Anya's...