Mental Illness Movies

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...

Shattered by a lifetime of isolation and self loathing due to his mentally ill mother's psychological abuse, a son's obsession to reunite with her...

Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bare chest—who roams the Hamburg...

A mental hospital, faced with a severe decrease in funding, is forced to release mass-murderer Ethel Janowski into a halfway house. Ethel is...

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

Coming out of an accident with amnesia, Sophie Bauer tries to reshape herself in the eyes of those who knew her best.

The story of young composer, Johannes Brahms, and his relationship with, Robert and Clara Schumann, the famous music couple that aided in his rise to...

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

Andrés Rabadán was headline news after killing his father with a crossbow. But beyond the chatter of the media, what is the true story...

Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court...

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...

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

Joe wants to be a rapper. Max wants to be a filmmaker. They go to a secluded house in rural Virginia to document the production of Joe's demo CD. But...

Someone with a tragic background is being controlled by a larger than life group.

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

In an attempt to connect with his fiancee who's she's locked in a Sanitarium, Pavlos tries to enter in his own will without thinking of the...

A solitary artist experiences a succession of psychological states that gradually blur her perception of reality.

In all of his existences, KOBE KOTORO embarks on an everlasting odyssey through the home of his mind. A transformative journey in hopes to find...

A documentary part of CBS reports. The plight of mental patients fit for discharge, but who find themselves thrust into communities unprepared to...