Mental Illness Movies

A mother struggles with worsening bipolar disorder and the effects that managing her illness has on her family.

Sixteen-year-old Jann shields his mother Lina from the outside world in a system that has been established over the years. When Jann falls in love wit...

William's father is dead and his mother is mentally ill, so he lives with his uncle Nils. Nils is on early retirement, making money by buying things c...

Alex has a deeply troubled mind. He also has a seriously dysfunctional - not to say incestuous - family. Why then, has he returned from his merchant s...

After Dontre Hamilton, a black, unarmed man diagnosed with schizophrenia, was shot 14 times and killed by police in Milwaukee, his family embarks on a...

Based on the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath, a young woman's summer in New York sees her working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New Engl...

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

Two strangers meet on a bridge where they have both come to commit suicide.

A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. Afte...

Based on the novel by Güzide Sabri Aygün, the film tells the relationship of a mentally-ill woman and the doctor whom she loved in her youth.

One year after their father's death, Charlie and Betty continue to ignore their grief, each other, and the mysterious creature following them. Their e...

In this short film, a father (Ben Cable) tries to explain his wife's mental illness to his daughter (Sierra Nottingham).

Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

In May 1998, a year before the massacre at Columbine High, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel murdered his mother and father, and then opened fire at Thurston Hig...

Fact-based story about a woman whose life is shattered by a poetry-spouting stalker who manages to evade her police protectors.

“Nobody Leaves Alive” by André Ristum is shot in beautiful but also distancing black and white. Looking at the Venice line-up, this seems to be a tren...

Adrian, an irrepressibly chirpy tech nerd, has OCD. Grace, a beautiful street artist, has multiple personality disorder. It's a love story that seems...

In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death reigns, pla...

Patricia Paradise, a successful Las Vegas singer, is married to a Vegas Casino Mogul. Having made sacrifices for her career and her husbands business...