Mental Illness Movies

After the devastating suicide of her best friend Coli, 15 year old Natalie turns to journaling to cope with her overwhelming grief. Struggling with...

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

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...

The musical and soul-searching journey of Gabriel Belhassan, musician, former orthodox Jew and recently diagnosed with manic depression. After being...

In a country ravaged by generational trauma, a psychiatrist trains grandmothers to treat depression within their communities.

This film follows a young man who believes he's a girl, drifting through his days dressing up, whispering to fake babies, talking to pieces of...

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

An unflinching documentary of those dealing with mental illness in the criminal justice system and a profile of families who tragically fell victims...

The complex and controversial history of the mental institution in the U.S. through a detailed study of St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C.

This film tells a story about Fafa, a schizophrenic who faces discrimination from her surrounding community. Since an early age, she not only had to...

Bubu is a poet who has been committed to state institutions for the insane twelve times. He challenges the meaning of hospital-jails, hybrid...

A young woman is kidnapped by a mentally deranged man who believes she knows the person who calls him on a broken telephone.

Initially airing on HBO's "America Undercover" series, this riveting documentary focuses on three families shattered by the psychiatric disorder of...

Visible Light is a dreamlike exploration on the nature of reality as perceived by a schizophrenic man.

A prisoner belonging to a void known as “Lacuna,” longs to escape their entrapment. As they search for a way out, they confront the...

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...

Sofia is diagnosed with a mental illness. Is only what we can see and hear real?