Mental Illness Movies

On vacation in Stockholm, a teenage daughter is left wandering the city alone when her mother suffers from a sudden mental breakdown. Coming of age...

“Nobody Leaves Alive” by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Looking at the Venice line-up,...

The haunting story of a man released from a mental institution 16 years after accidentally being responsible for the death of his mother.

Bruno, a textbook anxious man, is persuaded by his teenage daughter to host his ex-wife Terry for a month, just out of a long psychiatric...

Locked out of the school art room, a creative non-binary teen named Frog grapples with anxiety as they seek a new place to eat lunch. Imagination...

During a group therapy session, one man's withdrawn presence reveals the unseen weight of depression and how it hides in plain sight.

In part of the HBO's America Undercover series, this documentary provides an insider's view of mental illness, and the use of psychotropic drugs to...

Nearly 6 million Americans have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and yet little is known about how the illness manifests itself in our brains....

Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

A bodybuilding fever dream fueled by childhood trauma, food porn and acid techno music.

Marco, a thirty-year-old man, is being treated by a psychiatrist for sudden outbursts of anger. He joins a trip for people with mental health issues....

A young woman, Jamie, is waiting in a coffee shop for a date when an unexpected arrival sends her spinning into paranoia.

Two lesbian lovers are forced to flee their hometown after a brutal murder changes their lives forever.

Ana works side by side with her mother Maria Rosa in the fight to save the anti-Franco militants from the death penalty during the process of Burgos....

During a 48hr observation at a psych facility, Jack meets Wendy, a young woman with a unique obsession.

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night...

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

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

The incredible story of Bruno Lüdke (1908-44), the alleged worst mass murderer in German criminal history; or actually, a story of forged files...

Patricia Paradise, a successful Las Vegas singer, is married to a Vegas Casino Mogul. Having made sacrifices for her career and her husbands business...