Mental Illness Movies

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...

During a 48hr observation at a psych facility, Jack meets Wendy, a young woman with a unique obsession.

To get closer to each other, a mother takes her son to a house by the sea to celebrate his birthday. But something is not right, neither of them...

A mentally unstable homeless man attempts to save his new and only friend from the world and drug dealers that make his life a living hell.

Rinka Sugita is a key member of an ad agency’s marketing department. As she races back and forth between photo shoots and meetings, the shy...

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...

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

In the 1980s, writer, poet, radio personality and football enthusiast Franck Venaille is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. He decides to travel the...

Mae Driver, once driven and full of aspirations, now lives day to day needling away her time until she can escape into sleep. With the aid of a dated...

How far will you go for revenge? A cop torn between duty and his own demons is pushed to the edge in a gripping story of love, deception, and...

After the sudden death of his wife, the film's protagonist, Mr. Jochec, must take on the responsibility of caring for his two teenage...

The directorial debut of Sergei Potapov, a well-known director of original performances in his homeland, is capable of deeply touching any spectator....

Gibbi Westgermany is the name of a former sailor with a Mick Jagger look—leather jacket over the bare chest—who roams the Hamburg...

Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.

A woman tormented by her depression and the monster in the mirror seeks refuge and finds a rare moment of honesty with herself.

An officers kadett is dismissed because of his strange behavior. At work he is considered deranged. At home he is dominated by his mother and...

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

A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.

When Arnie Silverman, a manic-depressive novelist, begins a bout of self-harm and lies to his girlfriend about it, his best friend and sister’s...