Mental Illness Movies

A documentary about Tanjuska who is a 12-year-old White-Russian schoolgirl, with a face like an icon. Two years ago she stopped eating, then talking...

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

Filmmaker Evie Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mentally unstable mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie’s...

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...

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

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

A young Woman named Lilith begins to have haunting visions caused by a malevolent being. As these hauntings continue, she slowly loses more of...

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

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...

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

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

A short film about two best friend's day out and what they accomplish in a day. This short film was inspired by a poem created by the writer (Khalid...

A young man recounts the story of the best day he's ever had with the love of his life.

Manuela is a woman who leads an extremely gridded life, always following a list of tasks that gives meaning to her existence. The moment that list...

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

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...