Mental Illness Movies

A program about Ted Gärdestad and his music with archival images from his entire musical career and newly made interviews with people who have...

A young, unwed, pregnant girl is made an offer she can't refuse. Marry a rich young man with a wealthy estate to please his dying mother, and she'll...

A short film on the obsessive nature of love. How far can we take our attachment and devotion to our loved ones?

A psychologist who, upon receiving patients suffering from mental illness, is reminded of their own past traumatic memories and decides to consult...

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...

In part of the HBO's America Undercover series, this documentary provides an insider's view of mental illness, and the use of psychotropic drugs to...

Failing at another job, Fiadh must return home to take care of her mother, "Mental" Maggie. When the strange goings on appear to be more than her...

Based on a true story, this is a subtle tale of re-affirmation of the identity of the artist following the Armenian Diaspora. It is an encounter with...

A woman who had been raped and whose family wiped out by the collaborators of the occupying forces during the bloody "liberation war" of Bangladesh...

When Rasmus was 15, his mother and siblings moved from the island Bornholm and left Rasmus with his mentally ill father. Influenced by his father's...

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

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...

A grieving father's world unravels when he discovers his wife secretly raising their deceased son's hidden twin, forcing him to confront buried...

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

A mentally unstable woman loses her daughter's custody to her mother. Things get even more complicated when her husband has a car accident and...

Gina, 15, lives in a city on the edge of the forest. She admires her father, unpredictable and whimsical, able to take his children at night in the...

Young man, on suspicion of arson, escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the home of his parents.

A Southern Indiana man endures a fatal night of torture after being arrested for a routine traffic stop.

In a city where young people disappear, Anya goes through the process of losing her best friend, Mayra, after she transfers to another school. Anya's...

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