Mental Illness Movies

John is agoraphobic and hasn't left his apartment in over two years. After his therapist quits on him, a new therapist challenges him to leave his apa...

A short form exploration of the very visceral and disorienting world of living with severe anxiety and depression, the world’s biggest health problem.

Mary is this German/Russian born foster girl, she suffers from asthma and has been adopted by a not-functional family, the father works all the time a...

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization. The...

A patient, charged with a murder they cannot remember, find themselves subjected to a 51-50 psychiatric hold in an institution. There, they uncover a...

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

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances. Crazy...

Bunky Blum is picked on in school. His only peace comes during lunch hour, when he and his mentally ill Mother eat McDonalds and visit a talking train...

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century...

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to understa...

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 p...

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 lea...

This film, based on a Jim Carroll short story, recounts the tale of Curtis and his encounter with voodoo. Curtis is a drug addict who has become paran...

Why do we see so many severely mentally ill people on the street off treatment? Delaney has seen her paranoid schizophrenic father in this state and f...

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.

Public safety short about the dangers to children who accept rides from strangers

Júlia, tries to keep up appearances and routine, while questioning her own sanity.