Mental Illness Movies

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

In the 1980s, writer, poet, radio personality and football enthusiast Franck Venaille is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He decides to travel the...

A man who lost his phone saw someone setting up and filming him with his lost phone while he went about his daily life. He started to get suspicious...

A young artist in a dark dorm room takes anxieties out of their brain and into their hands.

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

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to...

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...

James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn't enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same...

Recently released from the psych ward, Allen struggles to cope with his depression which leads him to strange occurrences that quickly spiral into a...

What causes mental illness? Do our thoughts, moods, and behaviours depend upon what we eat? Psychiatrists Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond met in...

A series of interrelated stories that bring Nena, Sean and Alan together. Alan, gentle and insecure, yearns for acceptance and connection. Vibrant...

A mysteriously injured young woman is looked after by a troubled ex-soldier in his secluded cabin, becoming trapped in a strange and disturbing cycle...

We follow a young woman named Evie as she struggles to help her sister Tris with an ever-worsening case of depression - a condition that has already...

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

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...

Two estranged brothers, one a drug addict, the other, a schizophrenic, struggle to face their demons in the streets of Baltimore.

A relationship between two college students is put to the test when one of them falls into depression.

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.

Manuela is a woman who leads an extremely gridded life, always following a list of tasks that gives meaning to her existence. The moment that list...