Mental Illness Movies

A film about unconditional love. Fragments from the life of a man who cares for his mother with dementia.

Sparked by the impending 25th anniversary of the Academy award-winning film Shine, this documentary explores the power of the musical brain....

At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their family's matriarch, and...

Fact-based story about a woman whose life is shattered by a poetry-spouting stalker who manages to evade her police protectors.

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

Through the Modern Looking Glass showcases the different forms and causes of depression. Online these characters look like they have it all, but in...

Psycho Joe loves one thing: fast cars! When he gets a job at a local supermarket, Joe meets fellow "petrol head" Dazey, who quickly becomes his idol...

A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes...

Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical...

An obese woman recently released from an insane asylum kills anyone who attempts to get her to stop eating.

While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed...

Eloise lives alone, shutting others out of her life, committed to her art. The film follows her internal rationale as she is forced to address a...

Teenager Kazuki Miyaichi has always felt unloved by her mother due the circumstances surrounding her birth. Because she harbors anxiety and perceives...

Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people...

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

The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the...

As a result of the 2008 documentary"Generation Rx," thousands of people wrote director Kevin P. Miller to share their experiences on psychiatric...

Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into...

Paola, a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder enters a journey of self discovery finding clues about a new identity that appears through art

A young man tries to be open about his darkest times, before he moves on with his life.