Mental Illness Movies

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...

Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?

How far will you go for revenge? A cop torn between duty and his own demons is pushed to the edge in a gripping story of love, deception, and...

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...

Amid the relentless chaos of war, a young soldier struggles to protect his younger brother as fear, memory, and violence blur together. As the...

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

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

The story of young composer, Johannes Brahms, and his relationship with, Robert and Clara Schumann, the famous music couple that aided in his rise to...

A series of interrelated stories that bring Nena, Sean and Alan together. Alan, gentle and insecure, yearns for acceptance and connection. Vibrant...

Two strangers meet on a bridge where they have both come to commit suicide.

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced...

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

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

Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, 'Caldera' glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous...

In all of his existences, KOBE KOTORO embarks on an everlasting odyssey through the home of his mind. A transformative journey in hopes to find...

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...

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...

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