Mental Illness Movies

Four-time Emmy winner John Kastner was granted unprecedented access to the Brockville facility for 18 months, allowing 46 patients and 75 staff to...

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...

A mentally unstable homeless man attempts to save his new and only friend from the world and drug dealers that make his life a living hell.

Schizophrenia. It may be one word, but it immediately conjures up multiple connotations. Mad. Incurable. Violent. Suicidal. Chemical imbalances....

Billy is a film buff who films himself non-stop. During a film shoot, he meets Lawrence Côté-Collins and the two become friends. One...

Joe wants to be a rapper. Max wants to be a filmmaker. They go to a secluded house in rural Virginia to document the production of Joe's demo CD. But...

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

A young woman lives by herself surrounded by silence and subtle unease. Her days unfold in gentle routines and small rituals yet dark omens begin to...

A combat veteran returns home after a tour of duty overseas, only to be wrongly convicted of his girlfriend’s disappearance. After his release...

A young illustrator fights the haunting memories of his wife's tragic death. One day, his hope for healing is at risk when his family's desire for a...

Americans of various walks of live share their experience of schizophrenia.

A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.

Harry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff....

A woman stalked by depression makes some extreme decisions.

A man struggles with guilt and his own perception of reality as he goes about his normal daily life.

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

Under a night sky, four friends play a friendly game of poker. As time progresses, some win, some lose, but it is all fun and games. In the end,...

Eloise lives alone, shutting others out of her life, committed to her art. The film follows her internal rationale as she is forced to address a...

Eva lives cut off from the outside world in het sterile blue apartment. She's allergic to just about everything. Are her allergies caused by a...