Mental Health Movies

A young Nigerian student and poet, abused and neglected by his cruel stepmother, finds solace in friendship. His wrongful arrest tests his resilience....

The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: Gabriel, a reckless young drummer who revels in re...

Kenny and Andy are brothers. Kenny suffers from Alzheimer's and has been in Andy's care for the last couple of years. When Andy can no longer face the...

A handsome and successful young man with a lovely fiancée, James Jackson seems to have everything going for him, but his life begins to unravel when h...

In this one-off documentary, Nadiya Hussain sets out to find the cause of her anxiety, exploring the most effective, available treatments.

One woman and her family trek the broken mental health system in an effort to save her brother as he descends into madness. Beginning as a testimony o...

A woman meditates on her life in an 80-minute unbroken zoom shot.

Four troubled college students attend a house party just days after one of them discovers something dreadful. All of them hold secrets.

Short film about Tinnitus & its impact on human psychology, through the personal experience of director, who also suffers from it

"You are suffering from a mental fragility,” the doctor tells Ahang as she desperately tries to understand why she sometimes feels so terribly sad, as...

Eva’s being allowed to leave the psychiatric institution she’s lived in for six years. After a long year of waiting, the news arrive: an assisted livi...

A blend of drama and documentary, this film follows several people caught up in the turmoil of the modern world. The drama centres on a woman who has...

At her mother's rambling behest, Josie enlists best friend and unofficial chauffeur Stanley, to search for clues after her sister, Andrea, mysteriousl...

Jorge is a musician, he gets fired trying to find a melody from the noise of the street, the same day his wife and youngest son died. He must appear s...

Ariel goes to therapy and talks to his psychologist. In the course of the session he talks about his mother and his ex-boyfriend, whom he last saw due...

What happens to a relationship if a partner suddenly becomes severely disabled after an accident? For Gosia it is clear that she will stand by her boy...

In this farewell letter to Ana (aka Anorexia),I reveal the suffering associated with this illness. I express my desire to regain my freedom and vital...

With unique and exclusive testimonies from doctors, nurses, loved ones, and patients we go behind closed doors to examine a high security psychiatric...

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 in...

Civil discourse is vanishing from modern society. Improv comedians heal the divide in this documentary feature film starring Colin Mochrie (Whose Line...