Mental Illness Movies

Burt, a WW2 veteran suffering from battle fatigue, is deathly afraid of rain and confined to an asylum, but showing improvement. He wants to live...

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre...

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...

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

Inspired by true events, college sophomore Clemence Miller is coming home to the suburbs and a bedroom in her family's basement. After dropping out...

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

Crown Prince Sado spirals down due to his own insanity and his father King Yeongjo's complex.

Samuel is the primary carer for his father - a paranoid schizophrenic. A chance encounter with a young woman disrupts their carefully constructed...

Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters...

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being...

Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who...

Fact-based story about a woman whose life is shattered by a poetry-spouting stalker who manages to evade her police protectors.

The first time Regina tried to kill herself, she was 5 years old. Now she's 45 and hell-bent on trying to live.

An almost romantic comedy on the edge: Holocaust researcher Toto is having a major life crisis. Just when things at home and work could not get...

A teenage orphan and delinquent rebels against her evil family during a global virus outbreak.

A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman...

A partially autobiographical film about Leona, an actress living in a communal household with her husband, her son, two models, and three drag queens.

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...

Based on the true events leading up to the murder of multimillionaire Ted Ammon found bludgeoned to death at his East Hampton estate while in the...