Mental Illness Movies

The first time Regina tried to kill herself, she was 5 years old. Now she's 45 and hell-bent on trying to live.

A depressed man spirals as he struggles to open up about his mental health. James, a mid-20s modern day man, has battled with anxiety and depression...

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...

Creeping from the halls of the maze brain, corruption and terror is woven by devils born from the denied errors of mankind.

In an attempt to connect with his fiancee who's she's locked in a Sanitarium, Pavlos tries to enter in his own will without thinking of the...

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

A woman tormented by her depression and the monster in the mirror seeks refuge and finds a rare moment of honesty with herself.

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...

A young woman, Jamie, is waiting in a coffee shop for a date when an unexpected arrival sends her spinning into paranoia.

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...

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

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

An insight into the mind of a mentally ill and drug-addicted artist.

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

Unfortunately, every year eight million people die quietly due to Mental Illness. It's urgent to decrease this number. It's urgent to help. It's...

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.