Mental Illness Movies

The haunting story of a man released from a mental institution 16 years after accidentally being responsible for the death of his mother.

Failing at another job, Fiadh must return home to take care of her mother, "Mental" Maggie. When the strange goings on appear to be more than her...

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to...

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...

In this short film, a father (Ben Cable) tries to explain his wife's mental illness to his daughter (Sierra Nottingham).

Two strangers meet on a bridge where they have both come to commit suicide.

Short subject documentary by Julien Nitzberg about the legendary "psychobilly" musician and infamous wild man Hasil Adkins. Filming takes place in...

This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen...

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

Tono is continuously harassed by her mother, who is uncannily cruel and authoritarian. His obsession with a woman's voice recorded on cassette and...

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century...

A woman relives her trauma as she recounts her experiences with immigration, disassociation, and abuse.

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.

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.

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

Filmmaker Paul Gallasch is 30 and still lives at home with his mentally ill mother. When he meets the woman of his dreams, Paul decides that if he's...

Teenage boy is unable to deal with his schizophrenic father.