Mental Illness Movies

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

In early times, evil spirits were thought to possess people and make them act in strange and frightening ways. By the 1800's, the study of this...

With nearly two million people living in miserable conditions in Gaza, the Israeli blockade has taken its toll on mental health there. Against the...

Visible Light is a dreamlike exploration on the nature of reality as perceived by a schizophrenic man.

Healing a Nation (Twoub Mantal) tells the painful story of Jean-Richard Saintal, a former social worker from the Cité Soleil region of...

Filmmaker Evie Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mentally unstable mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie’s...

The story of who psychiatrists are today, what they do, and what they value has been told by almost everyone but them. Psychiatrists are notoriously...

Devi is an 8-year-old child who is thought to have an imaginary friend, but as time goes by the imaginary friend does not go away and causes concern...

A short film on the obsessive nature of love. How far can we take our attachment and devotion to our loved ones?

A woman who had been raped and whose family wiped out by the collaborators of the occupying forces during the bloody "liberation war" of Bangladesh...

A man struggles with guilt and his own perception of reality as he goes about his normal daily life.

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on...

Be kind to yourself.

After an unproductive appointment, the Subject returns home as their bottled up emotions reach a boiling point.

Sofia is diagnosed with a mental illness. Is only what we can see and hear real?

"My uncle is schizophrenic and my grandmother suffers from a terminal illness. My grandfather, who is unable to take care of them both, must decide...

A group of youths discuss their experiences with mental health in an interview setting, looking at their childhood, education, family and friends.