Mental Illness Movies

Seventeen-year-old Darcie believes she is responsible for the drowning of her younger sister, Stella. As she begins seeing visions of Stella that...

Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic...

During a group therapy session, one man's withdrawn presence reveals the unseen weight of depression and how it hides in plain sight.

A disturbed young boy who kills his father with a tractor is institutionalized. Years later, when he's finally released, he goes on a murderous...

The police found a woman named Ferlina (38) dead in her own home. Rio (18) who is her only child, became a witness to the incident to uncover who...

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

Filmed over five weeks at the Warrendale residential treatment center near Toronto, "Warrendale" observes twelve emotionally disturbed children and...

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 homeless man with schizophrenia slowly embraces antipsychotic medication under Hawaii's only willing psychiatrist and a court mandate, while a man...

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...

Kira and Mads try to work out their marriage, after Kira has been two years in a mental institution, but is she really ready for the real world?

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

Case study documenting a patient’s treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. Made for health professionals, Mental Hospital shows daily life at the...

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

Justin, a troubled teenager feeling overwhelmed by life, confides in his friends that he wants to take his own life. As his parents Deborah and Randy...

Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the...

A psychology postgraduate student escorts two patients and their nurse to a seaside psychiatric clinic. Along their journey, they break through each...

Three sisters had a hit song years ago, but now deal with a family member's schizophrenia.

When an innocent young country girl falls for a low level yakuza, she enters a completely different world in which the line between good and evil are...

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to...