Mental Illness Movies

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....

It’s the second semester of junior year for Pierce “Sparni” Sparnroft, a gifted jazz vibraphonist studying at Montclair State...

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

A partially autobiographical film about Leona, an actress living in a communal household with her husband, her son, two models, and three drag queens.

After the sudden death of his wife, the film's protagonist, Mr. Jochec, must take on the responsibility of caring for his two teenage...

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

After being released from a psychiatric ward, a young man attempts to lead a normal life.

A woman stalked by depression makes some extreme decisions.

In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death...

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

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...

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...

Nearly 6 million Americans have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and yet little is known about how the illness manifests itself in our brains....

David Ireland's award-winning dark comedy about sectarian hatred in Northern Ireland. Eric Miller, a Belfast loyalist, mistakes his five-week-old...

In this short film, a father (Ben Cable) tries to explain his wife's mental illness to his daughter (Sierra Nottingham).

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...

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.

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced...

An unsuccessful meeting with her estranged father leaves Noel questioning whether or not he deserves a role in her life.