Mental Illness Movies

Hyun-dong is a hikikomori. He lives off of the joy of assembling and displaying Gundams in his only space, his home. Then one day, he makes a big...

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

What if, instead of bombs, we dropped watermelons? Dreamy and hopeful, this animated short sweeps us up into a colourful world where layers of...

This short animated film looks at the relationship between social spaces and taboos surrounding mental illness and other forms of marginalization....

Drama student Bethany McKabe is starring in a student short film helmed by her friends that’s being shot over Halloween. The premise being what...

A documentary, divided into "chapters", about the life of the inmates of the asylum on Leros. From the point of view that the mentally ill are...

Scrabble is a religion. I'll tell you how I found my religion.

The portrait of a woman who is driven to illness and despair by her circumstances.

About confusion and fear of the incomprehensible, deviations, and about mental illness as a phenomenon.

The story of young composer, Johannes Brahms, and his relationship with, Robert and Clara Schumann, the famous music couple that aided in his rise to...

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

After a bitter teen Anais, gets placed in a mental hospital for the same peculiar reason as a devout-christian, Michelle, their bond rapidly grows...

Documentary about the two of the greatest Swedish artists of the 19th century, Ernst Josefson and Carl Fredrik Hill, and how their lives were changed...

A woman who had been raped and whose family wiped out by the collaborators of the occupying forces during the bloody "liberation war" of Bangladesh...

Filmmaker Evie Wray travels to rural Kansas in an attempt to reconnect with her mentally unstable mother, Evie, for the first time since Evie’s...

In early times, evil spirits were thought to possess people and make them act in strange and frightening ways. By the 1800's, the study of this...