Mental Illness Movies

A documentary about Tanjuska who is a 12-year-old White-Russian schoolgirl, with a face like an icon. Two years ago she stopped eating, then talking...

A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was...

Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people...

A former soap star appears to have a narrator stuck in his head. As he moves in with his sister and works to restart his creative career, he tries to...

Sixteen-year-old Jann shields his mother Lina from the outside world in a system that has been established over the years. When Jann falls in love...

When her husband leaves for a night shift, a woman battles physical manifestations of her repressed fears and desires.

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night...

A young man tries to be open about his darkest times, before he moves on with his life.

A true story of a young woman whose abusive childhood results in her developing a multiple personality disorder.

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

Traces the life and mental illness of New York artist and photographer Ruth Litoff, and her sister's struggle to come to terms with her tragic...

A middle-aged woman, traumatized from the death of her adulterous lover, moves into a room at a New Orleans boarding house where the blind landlord...

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

A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and rehabilitate. But when he arrives, he discovers...

A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes...

Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who...

Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigates the life and death of his twin brother Attila,...

A traumatic event – a sudden suicide attempt – opens a gap in the everyday life of a family of three. Their lives change fundamentally,...

Through the Modern Looking Glass showcases the different forms and causes of depression. Online these characters look like they have it all, but in...