Mental Illness Movies

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...

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....

Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of...

During a group therapy session, one man's withdrawn presence reveals the unseen weight of depression and how it hides in plain sight.

Teenage boy is unable to deal with his schizophrenic father.

In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston...

A combat veteran returns home after a tour of duty overseas, only to be wrongly convicted of his girlfriend’s disappearance. After his release...

Sparked by the impending 25th anniversary of the Academy award-winning film Shine, this documentary explores the power of the musical brain....

A man's attempts to construct the ultimate romantic weekend backfire when his quest for perfection traps his lover in an infinite loop.

Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced...

A former soap star appears to have a narrator stuck in his head. As he moves in with his sister and works to restart his creative career, he tries to...

A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman...

Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being...

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on...

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...

Samuel is the primary carer for his father - a paranoid schizophrenic. A chance encounter with a young woman disrupts their carefully constructed...

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...

Based on the novel by Güzide Sabri Aygün, the film tells the relationship of a mentally-ill woman and the doctor whom she loved in her...

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