Mental Illness Movies

The complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Shattered by a lifetime of isolation and self loathing due to his mentally ill mother's psychological abuse, a son's obsession to reunite with her...

After the devastating suicide of her best friend Coli, 15 year old Natalie turns to journaling to cope with her overwhelming grief. Struggling with...

In a small town in northern Norway, Eira tries to follow in the shadow of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera. Lately however, something...

We follow a young woman named Evie as she struggles to help her sister Tris with an ever-worsening case of depression - a condition that has already...

A psychologist who, upon receiving patients suffering from mental illness, is reminded of their own past traumatic memories and decides to consult...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

An officers kadett is dismissed because of his strange behavior. At work he is considered deranged. At home he is dominated by his mother and...

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...

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and...

Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.

Landlady Fränzi is renting her secluded alpine hut for the first time and prepares everything in minute detail. However, due to an overbooking...

A young actor plays a rude, obnoxious, know-it-all in a film who, after losing her job, sets out to 'teach the world a lesson.'

A cheating wife goes off the deep end when her side piece finds love with a single woman.

A young man consumed by the guilt of being a potential pedophile, is about to confess everything to his wife.

You can still smell smoke even if there's no smoke present, as the smell can linger and feel like it's surrounding you.

Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bare chest—who roams the Hamburg...

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...

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...