Mental Illness Movies

'When' discusses the filmmaker's experience with mental illness and how it has impacted her perception of the world around her. It mainly focuses on...

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...

Someone with a tragic background is being controlled by a larger than life group.

Mental discomfort is a field yet to be discovered. Where is the borderline between peculiarity and mental illness?

Healing a Nation (Twoub Mantal) tells the painful story of Jean-Richard Saintal, a former social worker from the Cité Soleil region of...

A young man consumed by the guilt of being a potential pedophile, is about to confess everything to his wife.

Scott Panetti was tried for the capital murder of his parents-in-law on September 8, 1992 in Gillespie County, Texas. He was subsequently sentenced...

The story of who psychiatrists are today, what they do, and what they value has been told by almost everyone but them. Psychiatrists are notoriously...

Between the walls is a psychological study of guilt, power, and the illusion of freedom. The story follows the transformation of a man who believes...

Is a label reality or fiction?

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

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

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.

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

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...

In early times, evil spirits were thought to possess people and make them act in strange and frightening ways. By the 1800's, the study of this...