Mental Illness Movies

"Breaking the Silence" is a fresh, new-look documentary film dedicated to everyone around the world who suffers quietly and in the shadows - alone,...

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...

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...

Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human...

A mentally tormented girl, Lucia, grapples with suppressed memories that threaten her grip on reality. As she confronts the dark truths of her past,...

A program about Ted Gärdestad and his music with archival images from his entire musical career and newly made interviews with people who have...

A psychotic young man causes trouble during a Christmas gathering with his parents.

The complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.

War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically....

Case study documenting a patient’s treatment for paranoid schizophrenia. Made for health professionals, Mental Hospital shows daily life at the...

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

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

A woman relives her trauma as she recounts her experiences with immigration, disassociation, and abuse.

A cheating wife goes off the deep end when her side piece finds love with a single woman.

A Tamil-language psychological drama film starring Sivakumar and Rani Chandra. Produced and directed by A. C. Tirulokchandar. adapted from a novel by...

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