Mental Illness Movies

A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is...

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

Mae Driver, once driven and full of aspirations, now lives day to day needling away her time until she can escape into sleep. With the aid of a dated...

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

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...

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

In a city where young people disappear, Anya goes through the process of losing her best friend, Mayra, after she transfers to another school. Anya's...

Social media corrupts the mind of a young University student--but can he escape the psychological torment of alienation?

The first time Regina tried to kill herself, she was 5 years old. Now she's 45 and hell-bent on trying to live.

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

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to...

Scrabble is a religion. I'll tell you how I found my religion.

Documentary about the two of the greatest Swedish artists of the 19th century, Ernst Josefson and Carl Fredrik Hill, and how their lives were changed...

The Burnt House is the story of Megan and Joe, a couple who have recently experienced the death their infant son to SIDS. The tragedy has spawned a...

A taxi driver kicks a homeless woman out of his car. It'll be a long night until he can make amends.

If you could look in on the breakdown of a relationship without them knowing, would you?