Mental Illness Movies

Be kind to yourself.

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...

We follow a young woman named Evie as she struggles to help her sister Tris with an ever-worsening case of depression - a condition that has already...

You can still smell smoke even if there's no smoke present, as the smell can linger and feel like it's surrounding you.

Jordon (Michael Charles Wagner) reconnects with mother Wendy (Lisa Ludwig), in the midst of a mental health crisis, over the course of an afternoon...

Under a night sky, four friends play a friendly game of poker. As time progresses, some win, some lose, but it is all fun and games. In the end,...

A Man having a mental breakdown and identity crisis because of the work, the stress of his wife and unboorn child, will he be able to bear all of it?

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

A young man faces a devitalizing mental crisis as the monotonous drain of his day job catches up to him at the end of the work week.

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

Western culture treats mental disorders primarily through biomedical psychiatry, but filmmakers Phil Borges and Kevin Tomlinson reveal a growing...

A lonely man is invited to dinner by the woman who spies every night with his camera. The secrets will come to light, when both want to satisfy their...

Mara, an exhausted, anxious insomniac, is continuously plagued by familiar looking visions.

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...

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

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to...

Hyun-dong is a hikikomori. He lives off of the joy of assembling and displaying Gundams in his only space, his home. Then one day, he makes a big...

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...

In early times, evil spirits were thought to possess people and make them act in strange and frightening ways. By the 1800's, the study of this...