Mental Illness Movies

Berlin, 1930, during the rise of Nazism. Hermann Hermann, a Russian emigrant and chocolate manufacturer, married to the capricious Lydia, loses his...

In downtown Manhattan, twentysomething Allie, whose father is not around and whose mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He...

Sélima, 25 years old, barmaid. Nothing special, except for her extreme sensitivity and empathy. It is even said that she is able to absorb...

Working-class British housewife Myra Savage reinvents herself as a medium, holding seances in the sitting room of her home with the hidden assistance...

Violet realizes that her entire life is built on fear-based decisions, and must do everything differently to become her true self.

One day in the life of Thomas who is dealing with his partner Ann's mental illness. A day that calls into question Thomas's desire to keep it all...

A depressed man spirals as he struggles to open up about his mental health. James, a mid-20s modern day man, has battled with anxiety and depression...

A partially autobiographical film about Leona, an actress living in a communal household with her husband, her son, two models, and three drag queens.

A sensationalist television show unravels the sordid story of Luciano Fernández and analyzes the possible motives that led him to murder a...

Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister, anorexic aspiring wrestler brother,...

A taxi driver kicks a homeless woman out of his car. It'll be a long night until he can make amends.

When an idealistic romance novelist and a cynical literary fiction writer—rival authors with dramatically opposing worldviews and a serious...

If you could look in on the breakdown of a relationship without them knowing, would you?

A Victorian scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water,...

LITTLE CHENIER: A CAJUN STORY is the story of a young man who lives a simple life on a houseboat in the Louisiana bayou with his mentally handicapped...

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre...

An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.

When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from...