Mental Illness Movies

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...

When three generations of women return to post-Soviet Europe to care for an ailing patriarch, they face a corrupt healthcare system and discover a...

A young man looks for a way out

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

When Tita, the heart of her family, begins to lose her memory to Alzheimer’s, her niece looks back at years of family footage to understand the...

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

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

A documentary, divided into "chapters", about the life of the inmates of the asylum on Leros. From the point of view that the mentally ill are...

The portrait of a woman who is driven to illness and despair by her circumstances.

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.

Andrés Rabadán was headline news after killing his father with a crossbow. But beyond the chatter of the media, what is the true story...

A young woman is kidnapped by a mentally deranged man who believes she knows the person who calls him on a broken telephone.

A human drama by director Ryôta Sakamaki which realistically depicts the daily lives of three men and women suffering from panic disorder,...

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

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

After a man dons a pair of fake vampire teeth for a Halloween party, he soon comes to find that he can't take them off again.

Americans of various walks of live share their experience of schizophrenia.

Bethany and Sam are friends with a brewing romance that is long overdue. With the making of a student film together over Halloween, this romance...