Mental Illness Movies

This film, based on a Jim Carroll short story, recounts the tale of Curtis and his encounter with voodoo. Curtis is a drug addict who has become...

Rinka Sugita is a key member of an ad agency’s marketing department. As she races back and forth between photo shoots and meetings, the shy...

A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence....

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to...

When casual hook-ups become too debilitating, a man suffering from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder seeks out different ways to purge himself of the...

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

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

In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston...

Sophie, an isolated young woman, has a secret obsession with watching people die.

A young man looks for a way out

Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.

Trapped overnight by an unknown assailant, a babysitter struggles to stay safe. As the hours tick by, she realizes that the greatest threat might be...

Crown Prince Sado spirals down due to his own insanity and his father King Yeongjo's complex.

An unsuccessful meeting with her estranged father leaves Noel questioning whether or not he deserves a role in her life.

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

A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.

Louie, an acclaimed writer, returns to his hometown after his father's death. Confronted with a host of people from his past, Louie is forced to...

Joe wants to be a rapper. Max wants to be a filmmaker. They go to a secluded house in rural Virginia to document the production of Joe's demo CD. But...

Convinced that reuniting with his old girlfriend will bring his dreams to fruition, Gabriel risks it all in a desperate and increasingly obsessive...

An Uruguayan diplomat brings his new wife with him on a business trip to Poland in the summer immediately preceding the outbreak of World War II.