Mental Health Movies

An underground MMA fighter diagnosed with ADHD not only fights his opponents but also faces his battles within. What lies ahead in this black...

True story of the life of Jimmy Piersall, who battled mental illness to achieve stardom in major league baseball.

A young man is bullied by a physical personification of his anxiety before a date.

17-year-old Lennon struggles with her mental health amid the instability of a fractured family — a single mother trying to hold things together...

A movie musical about eating disorder recovery and overcoming perceptions of perfection. It follows the first couple of weeks of college for Gracie,...

Laura cannot sleep after a nightmare, so she goes for a walk with her dog.

A man opens up about his fears in a long-overdue therapy session, only to learn there is something deeply more sinister to be afraid of.

A thoughtful and humorous navigation of personal conversations on mental health, through the lens of a group therapy session led by some of today's...

A young man sets out to challenge the world and himself after a hard partying. Along his manic journey, he encounters his Sancho Panza, the party...

Jonah is proud to be the loner at the teenage mental health clinic, taking pleasure in making the other patients uncomfortable. But when he is forced...

Filmmaker Stephen Hosier takes a journey with Richard Csanyi, his childhood friend, as he investigates the life and death of his twin brother Attila,...

A poetic journey of memory and fantasy told through the eyes of four versions of an artist as she creates her own self-identity.

Filmed over five weeks at the Warrendale residential treatment center near Toronto, "Warrendale" observes twelve emotionally disturbed children and...

Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will...

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

In this autobiographical documentary, Rosa explores her anxiety, derealisation, and a mother-daughter bond shaped by shared trauma.