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...

The directorial debut of Sergei Potapov, a well-known director of original performances in his homeland, is capable of deeply touching any spectator....

A young woman is struggling with her mental health, as it begins to slowly push her over the edge.

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

Tono is continuously harassed by her mother, who is uncannily cruel and authoritarian. His obsession with a woman's voice recorded on cassette and...

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...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

The complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Based on the novel by Güzide Sabri Aygün, the film tells the relationship of a mentally-ill woman and the doctor whom she loved in her...

Sara does not belong to this world, but in a last effort she sets out on a journey in search of her only important person.

Why do we see so many severely mentally ill people on the street off treatment? Delaney has seen her paranoid schizophrenic father in this state and...

Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.

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

Two strangers meet on a bridge where they have both come to commit suicide.

A woman tormented by her depression and the monster in the mirror seeks refuge and finds a rare moment of honesty with herself.

In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death...

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...

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