Mental Illness Movies

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

A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence....

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

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...

Fact-based story about a woman whose life is shattered by a poetry-spouting stalker who manages to evade her police protectors.

Marco is 30 years old and currently seeing a therapist because has unexpected rage.

Recently released from the psych ward, Allen struggles to cope with his depression which leads him to strange occurrences that quickly spiral into a...

Two brothers, Lou and Miles, have one last chance to reconnect on the drive home after Miles has been released from a long-term psychiatric care...

Short subject documentary by Julien Nitzberg about the legendary "psychobilly" musician and infamous wild man Hasil Adkins. Filming takes place in...

A nice guy with a history of schizophrenia battles the voices he hears, a judgmental society and the hazards of social media as he attempts to make a...

Why do we see so many severely mentally ill people on the street off treatment? Delaney has seen her paranoid schizophrenic father in this state and...

When three generations of women return to post-Soviet Europe to care for an ailing patriarch, they face a corrupt healthcare system and discover a...

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...

A prisoner belonging to a void known as “Lacuna,” longs to escape their entrapment. As they search for a way out, they confront the...

A mother struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family.

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

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...

John is agoraphobic and hasn't left his apartment in over two years. After his therapist quits on him, a new therapist challenges him to leave his...