Mental Illness Movies

The portrait of a woman who is driven to illness and despair by her circumstances.

A documentary, divided into "chapters", about the life of the inmates of the asylum on Leros. From the point of view that the mentally ill are...

With nearly two million people living in miserable conditions in Gaza, the Israeli blockade has taken its toll on mental health there. Against the...

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

Scrabble is a religion. I'll tell you how I found my religion.

Jordan finds herself trapped only with the mysterious instruction from the phone that leads her to shocking revelations as she tries to escape the...

An insight into the mind of a mentally ill and drug-addicted artist.

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

Unfortunately, every year eight million people die quietly due to Mental Illness. It's urgent to decrease this number. It's urgent to help. It's...

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization....

A man struggles with guilt and his own perception of reality as he goes about his normal daily life.

A short film on the obsessive nature of love. How far can we take our attachment and devotion to our loved ones?

The haunting story of a man released from a mental institution 16 years after accidentally being responsible for the death of his mother.

A young woman, Jamie, is waiting in a coffee shop for a date when an unexpected arrival sends her spinning into paranoia.

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...

The first time Regina tried to kill herself, she was 5 years old. Now she's 45 and hell-bent on trying to live.