Mental Illness Movies

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

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 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...

The app buzzes: a new urgent order. A delivery rider's race against time turns into a claustrophobic nightmare when he gets trapped inside the home...

A young woman who leads a lonely, mundane existence in the real world but who has the perfect life in her lucid dreams which she can somehow control,...

James has a good job, a good home, a good wife, but it isn't enough. Ali is single, single-minded, singularly focused on James. They meet in the same...

In 1983, the director's 24-year-old sister developed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her parents couldn't accept it—refusing to seek treatment for...

A human drama by director Ryôta Sakamaki which realistically depicts the daily lives of three men and women suffering from panic disorder,...

Moullet explores the causes and consequences of cases of mental disorders that were especially numerous in the Southern Alps.

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 mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and...

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and...

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...

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...

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

After a close friends suicide; Will, a Punk and Post-Punk musician living in the US is struggling with doubts about his relationship, his identity...

Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human...

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,...

A little girl, now a woman, writes to her grandfather, wounded by a mental disorder. She watches him as he seethes inwardly, pondering the place of...

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