Mental Illness Movies

Bunky Blum is picked on in school. His only peace comes during lunch hour, when he and his mentally ill Mother eat McDonalds and visit a talking train...

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

Faceless is a documentary film about the workings of an inpatient psychiatry unit, seen through the eyes of both the patients trying to get well and t...

A documentary about Tanjuska who is a 12-year-old White-Russian schoolgirl, with a face like an icon. Two years ago she stopped eating, then talking a...

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 psycho...

Lina, a tormented teenager, is haunted by her abusive envious mother, affecting her mental and emotional sanity until she is pushed over the edge.

Remake of Wes Craven's 1991 horror comedy.

A short form exploration of the very visceral and disorienting world of living with severe anxiety and depression, the world’s biggest health problem.

The film follows a thirty-year-old man’s efforts to introduce radical changes in his own life: to start visiting a therapist and preparing for the dem...

The haunting story of a man released from a mental institution 16 years after accidentally being responsible for the death of his mother.

The Burnt House is the story of Megan and Joe, a couple who have recently experienced the death their infant son to SIDS. The tragedy has spawned a ri...

Mara, an exhausted, anxious insomniac, is continuously plagued by familiar looking visions.

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

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...

Two madmen wish to avenge the historical Peruvian ship "Monitor Huascar" under the command of Capitain Grau: a hero, and a symbol of the 19th century...

After going through a breakup and moving back home, James navigates through a "quarter life crisis" while dealing with mental illness, a spandex weari...

Jordan finds herself trapped only with the mysterious instruction from the phone that leads her to shocking revelations as she tries to escape the new...

A short film about two best friend's day out and what they accomplish in a day. This short film was inspired by a poem created by the writer (Khalid R...

​HomeBound is the story of Jamie Rockwell (Katie Vincent),a woman burdened by severe agoraphobia. After losing her therapy dog, she must muster the c...

A woman relives her trauma as she recounts her experiences with immigration, disassociation, and abuse.