Mental Health Movies

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...

"Breaking the Silence" is a fresh, new-look documentary film dedicated to everyone around the world who suffers quietly and in the shadows - alone,...

Starring Sigmund Freud is a video memento for Sigmund Freud's little-known film career. Based on an essay John Menick published in Frieze in 2011,...

In the underground world of diffing, a community finds solace in their passion, as they navigate personal struggles and challenges both on and off...

Dutch ice freediver Kiki Bosch swims in the world's coldest waters without a wetsuit as therapy for a trauma she experienced, and to inspire others.

When Jake, a tech support agent, forms an unexpected connection with Tom, a stranger seeking help on a video call, their lives intertwine as they...

This 3-minute short film by Iain Delavan was created at a dark time in his life. In his usual abstract and expressive style, Delavan depicts an...

After her boyfriend leaves for the night, a curious young woman is left alone to deal with the horrors of her mental health.

Jordon (Michael Charles Wagner) reconnects with mother Wendy (Lisa Ludwig), in the midst of a mental health crisis, over the course of an afternoon...

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...

Kirsty must survive an afternoon in the city centre until her accomodation can be arranged at a homeless shelter.

A girl who's living abroad, alone for the first time, misses her cat.

'Smile Now, Cry Later, a film that explores the complexities of mental health and the power of human connection. Directed, written, and produced by...

MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients,...

When overwhelming expectations tower over him, Cecil must silence the doubt controlling him, while an aspiring film career slowly becomes the least...

A tormented man struggling with his inner demons, seeks desperately a way to be at peace with himself.

A folktale in Los Angeles.

A fiction feature shot with real patients and their therapists that shows the day-to-day life of a group of anorexia nervosa patients during their...

An original semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama very loosely inspired by Max Hechtman's adolescence and college experience as a young filmmaker.