Mental Illness Movies

It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist studying at Montclair State...

Amid the relentless chaos of war, a young soldier struggles to protect his younger brother as fear, memory, and violence blur together. As the...

Through the eyes of a young girl suffering from mental illness, 'Caldera' glimpses into a world of psychosis and explores a world of ambiguous...

On vacation in Stockholm, a teenage daughter is left wandering the city alone when her mother suffers from a sudden mental breakdown. Coming of age...

A young Woman named Lilith begins to have haunting visions caused by a malevolent being. As these hauntings continue, she slowly loses more of...

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 landmark documentary style short film that features compelling and dramatic first-person accounts of people living with, and recovering from,...

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

After a bitter teen Anais, gets placed in a mental hospital for the same peculiar reason as a devout-christian, Michelle, their bond rapidly grows...

Staged as a series of voiceover sessions, written with gloriously off-balanced precision and dipped in the color green, THE FUTURE TENSE unfolds as a...

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...

A partially autobiographical film about Leona, an actress living in a communal household with her husband, her son, two models, and three drag queens.

Harry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff....

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...

A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.

During a group therapy session, one man's withdrawn presence reveals the unseen weight of depression and how it hides in plain sight.

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...

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

Patricia Paradise, a successful Las Vegas singer, is married to a Vegas Casino Mogul. Having made sacrifices for her career and her husbands business...

This film tells a story about Fafa, a schizophrenic who faces discrimination from her surrounding community. Since an early age, she not only had to...