Mental Illness Movies

Burt, a WW2 veteran suffering from battle fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live...

Real documentary footage is combined with reconstructed scenes to tell the story of Ruth, a junior doctor who hears a voice telling her to kill...

A program about Ted Gärdestad and his music with archival images from his entire musical career and newly made interviews with people who have...

Working undercover to expose a corrupt judge, an investigative journalist confronts his secret past plus his mother's mental illness and must choose...

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...

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

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...

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

A young woman lives by herself surrounded by silence and subtle unease. Her days unfold in gentle routines and small rituals yet dark omens begin to...

When an idealistic romance novelist and a cynical literary fiction writer—rival authors with dramatically opposing worldviews and a serious...

A significant number of American children and teenagers - from all social backgrounds - suffer from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and...

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

Thomas Harrison is determined to start his own alternative band after the suicide of Kurt Cobain—it's an obsession that blinds him to what's...

When Sue begins to lose her words and sense of self to Young-onset dementia, her daughter Jess struggles to connect with the mother she once knew. In...

A young, unwed, pregnant girl is made an offer she can't refuse. Marry a rich young man with a wealthy estate to please his dying mother, and she'll...

A documentary about Tanjuska who is a 12-year-old White-Russian schoolgirl, with a face like an icon. Two years ago she stopped eating, then talking...

An officers kadett is dismissed because of his strange behavior. At work he is considered deranged. At home he is dominated by his mother and...

Blind Spot is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter...

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances....

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