Mental Illness Movies

When Arnie Silverman, a manic-depressive novelist, begins a bout of self-harm and lies to his girlfriend about it, his best friend and sister’s...

Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court...

About confusion and fear of the incomprehensible, deviations, and about mental illness as a phenomenon.

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...

Days of Madness portray an incredible odyssey of two mentally diverse and unjustly rejected people who are learning to accept it, faced with the...

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and...

A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and...

In a small town in northern Norway, Eira tries to follow in the shadow of her brilliant and rebellious older sister Vera. Lately however, something...

A homeless man with schizophrenia slowly embraces antipsychotic medication under Hawaii's only willing psychiatrist and a court mandate, while a man...

Three sisters had a hit song years ago, but now deal with a family member's schizophrenia.

A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.

In all of his existences, KOBE KOTORO embarks on an everlasting odyssey through the home of his mind. A transformative journey in hopes to find...

How far will you go for revenge? A cop torn between duty and his own demons is pushed to the edge in a gripping story of love, deception, and...

A little girl, now a woman, writes to her grandfather, wounded by a mental disorder. She watches him as he seethes inwardly, pondering the place of...

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...

In a country ravaged by generational trauma, a psychiatrist trains grandmothers to treat depression within their communities.

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...