Mental Breakdown Movies

For the first time in history, mental illness and suicide have become one of the greatest threats to school-aged children. Many parents still view...

Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.

On vacation in Stockholm, a teenage daughter is left wandering the city alone when her mother suffers from a sudden mental breakdown. Coming of age...

Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.

Backwoods bombshell Myrtle marries George, only to find out that George neither can nor wants to satisfy her desires. Lots of heavy breathing,...

Nicholas is a boy with severe mental problems. During a night of celebration, because of a joke, his madness will explode causing a massacre.

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

After a long exhausting day, a young man returns to his apartment expecting just another ordinary night, only to find himself trapped inside a...

As reality and nightmare begin to bleed into each other, a man falls apart inside the loop of his own ordinary day.

A horror screenwriter working on the very location of his story searches for the perfect terrifying antagonist—until he becomes the...

A Man having a mental breakdown and identity crisis because of the work, the stress of his wife and unboorn child, will he be able to bear all of it?

Before an important interview, Sylvie stops to rest in a small park. But when an anxiety attack overwhelms her, this ordinary place gradually takes...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

A husband with a brain disorder that affects his long-term/ short-term memories recounts his marriage & discovers why it’s ending.

A young actor recently hired for his first big production must balance his personal and professional life so that he can deliver his best performance...

When a man suspects betrayal, his quiet paranoia grows, suspicion turns into obsession, reality begins to slip, and time becomes his only witness.

A short indie film

A 1977 short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story of a woman's mental breakdown.

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas...

A farmer faces the aftermath of a destructive typhoon and struggles to cope with climate change that deeply affected his family, leading to a twist...