Mental Illness Movies

A taxi driver kicks a homeless woman out of his car. It'll be a long night until he can make amends.

Jordon (Michael Charles Wagner) reconnects with mother Wendy (Lisa Ludwig), in the midst of a mental health crisis, over the course of an afternoon...

"Breaking the Silence" is a fresh, new-look documentary film dedicated to everyone around the world who suffers quietly and in the shadows - alone,...

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

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...

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on...

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...

In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston...

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...

Joe wants to be a rapper. Max wants to be a filmmaker. They go to a secluded house in rural Virginia to document the production of Joe's demo CD. But...

After a man dons a pair of fake vampire teeth for a Halloween party, he soon comes to find that he can't take them off again.

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

Public safety short about the dangers to children who accept rides from strangers

A woman who had been raped and whose family wiped out by the collaborators of the occupying forces during the bloody "liberation war" of Bangladesh...

A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything...

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...

Lina, a tormented teenager, is haunted by her abusive envious mother, affecting her mental and emotional sanity until she is pushed over the edge.

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