Movies: Mental illness

A cheating wife goes off the deep end when her side piece finds love with a single woman....

Days of Madness portray an incredible odyssey of two mentally diverse and unjustly rejected people who are learning to accept it, faced with the blindness of the society and the health system that made them addicts....

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....

A tribute to Karen Anne Carpenter, the late American singer, and drummer whose soft, melancholy voice captivated millions....

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Filmmaker Paul Gallasch is 30 and still lives at home with his mentally ill mother. When he meets the woman of his dreams, Paul decides that if he's ever going to make a new life of his own, he must first find a cure for his mother's illness....

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended fam...

The Attempt Of A Child Who Doesn't Know That He Died And Trying To Live With His Parents. The Mental Pressure Of A Mother And Father Due To The Death Of Their Only Son, His Son Became A Soul To His Mother And Spend Time With Her The Husband Who Does ...

The directorial debut of Sergei Potapov, a well-known director of original performances in his homeland, is capable of deeply touching any spectator. This movie will make the viewer feel. The painting is designed in a typical Asian style. The plot is...

In January 2017, a video showing a young Gambian man named Pateh Sabally drowning in the waters of Venice’s Grand Canal went viral on social networks. From the shore, passers-by could be heard insulting him, rather than attempting to help. 4,000 kilo...

In 1983, the director’s 24-year-old sister developed symptoms of schizophrenia. Her parents couldn’t accept it—refusing to seek treatment for their sick child, they confined her to their house, to the point of even fixing a padlock on the front door ...

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

A young woman is struggling with her mental health, as it begins to slowly push her over the edge....

Short subject documentary by Julien Nitzberg about the legendary "psychobilly" musician and infamous wild man Hasil Adkins. Filming takes place in Adkins' own yard, his shack, and at various concerts. Adkins is notable for helping create an entirely ...

About confusion and fear of the incomprehensible, deviations, and about mental illness as a phenomenon....

If you could look in on the breakdown of a relationship without them knowing, would you?...

Thousands of New Yorkers with severe mental illnesses won the chance to live independently in supported housing, following a 2014 federal court order. FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate what’s happened to people moved from adult homes into apartmen...

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

FC Pol Positiu are on a 2 year unbeaten streak in a league made up of players with mental illnesses. On their journeys as a unit and as individuals they contend with hospital admissions, the pressure of the game and what it means to be a team that ac...

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