Mental Illness Movies

If you could look in on the breakdown of a relationship without them knowing, would you?

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in...

Marwan a superstitious OCD patient knows that his grades will be out in an hour and tries to fight his obsessive thoughts.

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...

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

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid...

James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn't enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same...

Sparked by the impending 25th anniversary of the Academy award-winning film Shine, this documentary explores the power of the musical brain....

Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret...

A young woman is kidnapped by a mentally deranged man who believes she knows the person who calls him on a broken telephone.

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

Two codependent siblings document their unraveling through daily video messages to their absent mother, only to discover that their shared devotion...

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...

A short film on the obsessive nature of love. How far can we take our attachment and devotion to our loved ones?

A film about unconditional love. Fragments from the life of a man who cares for his mother with dementia.

Farah, an aspiring model, resorts to a mysterious pill that promises her a perfect body.

After a heartbreaking past, "You" who is suffering from a Mental Disorder that turns him into a Deadly, Perplexing, and abnormal person. His friend...

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...