Mental Illness Movies

Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three families shattered by the psychiatric disorder of...

Jordan finds herself trapped only with the mysterious instruction from the phone that leads her to shocking revelations as she tries to escape the...

'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 film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to start visiting a therapist and preparing for...

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

A short form exploration of the very visceral and disorienting world of living with severe anxiety and depression, the world’s biggest health...

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century...

Two lesbian lovers are forced to flee their hometown after a brutal murder changes their lives forever.

Devi is an 8-year-old child who is thought to have an imaginary friend, but as time goes by the imaginary friend does not go away and causes concern...

A man struggles with guilt and his own perception of reality as he goes about his normal daily life.

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?

Filmmaker Paul Gallasch is 30 and still lives at home with his mentally ill mother. When he meets the woman of his dreams, Paul decides that if he's...

A Southern Indiana man endures a fatal night of torture after being arrested for a routine traffic stop.

The portrait of a woman who is driven to illness and despair by her circumstances.

In this short film, a father (Ben Cable) tries to explain his wife's mental illness to his daughter (Sierra Nottingham).

In an attempt to connect with his fiancee who's she's locked in a Sanitarium, Pavlos tries to enter in his own will without thinking of the...

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