Mental Illness Movies

During a 48hr observation at a psych facility, Jack meets Wendy, a young woman with a unique obsession.

Tono is continuously harassed by her mother, who is uncannily cruel and authoritarian. His obsession with a woman's voice recorded on cassette and...

A significant number of American children and teenagers - from all social backgrounds - suffer from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and...

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

Filmed over five weeks at the Warrendale residential treatment center near Toronto, "Warrendale" observes twelve emotionally disturbed children and...

A psychotic young man causes trouble during a Christmas gathering with his parents.

Jonas Elrod woke up one day with the ability to see and hear angels, demons and ghosts. Filmed over the course of three years, this documentary...

A landmark documentary style short film that features compelling and dramatic first-person accounts of people living with, and recovering from,...

When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are...

Three sisters had a hit song years ago, but now deal with a family member's schizophrenia.

A patient, charged with a murder they cannot remember, find themselves subjected to a 51-50 psychiatric hold in an institution. There, they uncover a...

After being released from a psychiatric ward, a young man attempts to lead a normal life.

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...

This film, based on a Jim Carroll short story, recounts the tale of Curtis and his encounter with voodoo. Curtis is a drug addict who has become...

When Ben embarks on a journey of self-discovery, guided by his therapist and fueled by a blossoming romance with Melody, he begins to revisit his...

A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.

A combat veteran returns home after a tour of duty overseas, only to be wrongly convicted of his girlfriend’s disappearance. After his release...

In this shockingly dark but utterly poignant comedy from Alison Becker and Kimmy Gatewood, a depressed woman contemplates ending her life, if she...

A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music.

Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.