Mental Illness Movies

The police found a woman named Ferlina (38) dead in her own home. Rio (18) who is her only child, became a witness to the incident to uncover who...

Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil Borges and Kevin Tomlinson reveal a growing...

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?

For a thirtieth birthday, two estranged brothers spend a weekend in the Oregon high desert. One arrives with a rental house, a bottle of whiskey, and...

A relationship between two college students is put to the test when one of them falls into depression.

FC Pol Positiu are on a 2 year unbeaten streak in a league made up of players with mental illnesses. On their journeys as a unit and as individuals...

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

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?

Hyun-dong is a hikikomori. He lives off of the joy of assembling and displaying Gundams in his only space, his home. Then one day, he makes a big...

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to...

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

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

A young man faces a devitalizing mental crisis as the monotonous drain of his day job catches up to him at the end of the work week.

Based on a true story, this is a subtle tale of re-affirmation of the identity of the artist following the Armenian Diaspora. It is an encounter with...

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...

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to...

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

The painter Else Kant is in crisis – both artistically and personally. She is dissatisfied with her work and suffers from severe hallucinations...

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically....