Mental Illness Movies

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

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

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.

An unflinching documentary of those dealing with mental illness in the criminal justice system and a profile of families who tragically fell victims...

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

Two codependent siblings document their unraveling through daily video messages to their absent mother, only to discover that their shared devotion...

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

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

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...

Abby, a woman consumed by neglected OCD, finds herself trapped in a web of psychosis. Haunted by her inner demons, Abby battles debilitating...

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

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

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...

A man struggles with guilt and his own perception of reality as he goes about his normal daily life.

Psychotropic drugs. It’s the story of big money-drugs that fuel a $330 billion psychiatric industry, without a single cure. The cost in human...