Mental Illness Movies

Documentary about Manuel Méndez, better known as Manolo Kabezabolo, a punk artist who in a somewhat implausible way has crossed time, space and fashio...

A Tamil-language psychological drama film starring Sivakumar and Rani Chandra. Produced and directed by A. C. Tirulokchandar. adapted from a novel by...

Case study documenting a patient’s treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. Made for health professionals, Mental Hospital shows daily life at the state...

Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, 'Caldera' glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous reality...

As a result of the 2008 documentary"Generation Rx," thousands of people wrote director Kevin P. Miller to share their experiences on psychiatric drugs...

Paola, a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder enters a journey of self discovery finding clues about a new identity that appears through art

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an attractive...

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on a...

A young, unwed, pregnant girl is made an offer she can't refuse. Marry a rich young man with a wealthy estate to please his dying mother, and she'll b...

An elderly woman makes the acquaintance of a strange and disturbed little girl in this haunting film based on the Truman Capote short story 'Miriam.'

Young man, on suspicion of arson, escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the home of his parents.

Florence Walker is an aspiring actress who's barely getting any auditions. After finding a sketchy casting call for a horror movie, she takes the oppo...

A landmark documentary style short film that features compelling and dramatic first-person accounts of people living with, and recovering from, Border...

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

Fact-based story about a woman whose life is shattered by a poetry-spouting stalker who manages to evade her police protectors.

In an apartment a single and psychotic mother locks in herself and her daughter. Here, the demons are in control. Ti can hear her mother talking to th...

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

The lives of Jeff, Lauren and Lloyd—three very different people who share one common experience—have been transformed by speaking up for mental health...

The first time Regina tried to kill herself, she was 5 years old. Now she's 45 and hell-bent on trying to live.

A sensationalist television show unravels the sordid story of Luciano Fernández and analyzes the possible motives that led him to murder a child. (Ins...