Mental Illness Movies

On the Franco-belgian border, there's a unique place that takes in children with mental and social problems. Day after day, the adults try to understa...

When Rasmus was 15, his mother and siblings moved from the island Bornholm and left Rasmus with his mentally ill father. Influenced by his father's in...

"My uncle is schizophrenic and my grandmother suffers from a terminal illness. My grandfather, who is unable to take care of them both, must decide be...

The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to start visiting a therapist and preparing for the dem...

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

The police found a woman named Ferlina (38) dead in her own home. Rio (18) who is her only child, became a witness to the incident to uncover who is...

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

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?

An elderly woman makes the acquaintance of a strange and disturbed little girl in this haunting film based on the Truman Capote short story 'Miriam.'

Two strangers meet on a bridge where they have both come to commit suicide.

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

Marwan a superstitious OCD patient knows that his grades will be out in an hour and tries to fight his obsessive thoughts.

After an unproductive appointment, the Subject returns home as their bottled up emotions reach a boiling point.

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

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