Mental Illness Movies

James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn't enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same...

Alex, an experienced surgeon, makes a mistake in the diagnosis of his seven-year-old godson. The boy dies on the operating table. Stunned, the man...

An unsuccessful meeting with her estranged father leaves Noel questioning whether or not he deserves a role in her life.

In January 2017, a video showing a young Gambian man named Pateh Sabally drowning in the waters of Venice’s Grand Canal went viral on social...

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.

A woman stalked by depression makes some extreme decisions.

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...

Amid the relentless chaos of war, a young soldier struggles to protect his younger brother as fear, memory, and violence blur together. As the...

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...

Two strangers meet on a bridge where they have both come to commit suicide.

The daughter of two famous writers, Helena upholds her late father's reputation, reciting his poems on various occasions and cherishing the memory of...

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...

The film follows a young man caught between conflict and reconciliation within his family. Haunted by past mistakes and unresolved emotions, he finds...

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...

The app buzzes: a new urgent order. A delivery rider's race against time turns into a claustrophobic nightmare when he gets trapped inside the home...

Short subject documentary by Julien Nitzberg about the legendary "psychobilly" musician and infamous wild man Hasil Adkins. Filming takes place in...

Filmmaker Paul Gallasch is 30 and still lives at home with his mentally ill mother. When he meets the woman of his dreams, Paul decides that if he's...

'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...

An elderly nursing home resident faces down nightfall, neglectful nurses, and the things that come for him in the night... armed with only a straw...