Mental Illness Movies

A family begins to fall apart when their eldest daughter is diagnosed with schizophrenia.

A woman tormented by her depression and the monster in the mirror seeks refuge and finds a rare moment of honesty with herself.

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances....

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

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

The story of who psychiatrists are today, what they do, and what they value has been told by almost everyone but them. Psychiatrists are notoriously...

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

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...

The Attempt Of A Child Who Doesn't Know That He Died And Trying To Live With His Parents. The Mental Pressure Of A Mother And Father Due To The Death...

Someone with a tragic background is being controlled by a larger than life group.

Nearly 6 million Americans have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and yet little is known about how the illness manifests itself in our brains....

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

What if, instead of bombs, we dropped watermelons? Dreamy and hopeful, this animated short sweeps us up into a colourful world where layers of...

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

Scrabble is a religion. I'll tell you how I found my religion.

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

How many imaginary deathly diseases can you have before you die from fear and anxiety? This short documentary answers this question by trying to show...

The haunting story of a man released from a mental institution 16 years after accidentally being responsible for the death of his mother.

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...