Mental Breakdown Movies

JOHN, his wife EMILY, and their small son EDWARD leave the city for what they believe will be a brief foray to the countryside to claim John's...

This compelling film represents a rare record of an original genius. In Jung on Film, the pioneering psychologist tells us about his collaboration...

On vacation in Stockholm, a teenage daughter is left wandering the city alone when her mother suffers from a sudden mental breakdown. Coming of age...

A young woman experiences the worst panic attack of her life as the world around her seems to be going faster and faster.

A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously...

Struggling with the pressures of homophobia when her partner is taken away by a hateful mother, a young gay woman struggles to cope with the traumas...

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

A short indie film

A man takes to a remote hideout with his sick wife, where they live in isolation as he battles to protect her life, and his own sanity, from a...

A drug-addicted alcoholic shaves his head, yells at his housemate, gets fired, and ODs. It's a comedy.

Edgar finds himself in the middle of a cafe robbery, but little by little he discovers that there is more to it than meets the eye.

A professor brings her personal struggles into her workday.

Glimmer, an aspiring performance artist, debuts her one woman show: "Glimmer - One Last Shine!" However, something about this show isn't quite right...

A 1978 short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story of a woman's mental breakdown.

A short amateur film made by G.D Stami which deals with ambiguities of one's ill-fated life.

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid...

Growing up on an isolated island off the coast of Croatia during the reign of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, young Serafin Skoko's formative years were...

Nicholas is a boy with severe mental problems. During a night of celebration, because of a joke, his madness will explode causing a massacre.

A mentally unstable teen transforms himself into a clown to deal with and mask his own disturbing, nihilistic worldview and deteriorating mental...

A young woman’s carefully managed routine spirals out of control when she runs out of antipsychotics.