Mental Illness Movies

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...

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...

In 1983, the director's 24-year-old sister developed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her parents couldn't accept it—refusing to seek treatment for...

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...

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....

After going through a breakup and moving back home, James navigates through a "quarter life crisis" while dealing with mental illness, a spandex...

Seven strangers trapped overnight in a mall restroom, where hidden agendas collide and a suspicious death forces everyone to confront their darkest...

A series of interrelated stories that bring Nena, Sean and Alan together. Alan, gentle and insecure, yearns for acceptance and connection. Vibrant...

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...

A mysteriously injured young woman is looked after by a troubled ex-soldier in his secluded cabin, becoming trapped in a strange and disturbing cycle...

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...

After a close friends suicide; Will, a Punk and Post-Punk musician living in the US is struggling with doubts about his relationship, his identity...

What causes mental illness? Do our thoughts, moods, and behaviours depend upon what we eat? Psychiatrists Abram Hoffer and Humphry Osmond met in...

Follows Ernest Hemingway's last years, as his closest friends A.E. Hotchner and Duke MacMullen help him navigate his deepening mental struggles, his...

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

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...

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.

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...

The story of young composer, Johannes Brahms, and his relationship with, Robert and Clara Schumann, the famous music couple that aided in his rise to...