Mental Breakdown Movies

A professor brings her personal struggles into her workday.

Haunted by the scars of childhood bullying, JJ is a young man trying to outrun the anger and isolation that have followed him into adulthood. Pushing...

Devoted son Tom struggles to care for his elderly mother Mary, whilst battling his own mental health issues. When Mary goes missing, Tom's grip on...

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 short indie film

After a long exhausting day, a young man returns to his apartment expecting just another ordinary night, only to find himself trapped inside a...

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.

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...

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

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

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

A young actor recently hired for his first big production must balance his personal and professional life so that he can deliver his best performance...

This is Kamikai

Before an important interview, Sylvie stops to rest in a small park. But when an anxiety attack overwhelms her, this ordinary place gradually takes...

Elena, an obsessive artist who dreams of one day appearing on the silver screen in Hollywood, slowly begins to lose her sanity as she waits for the...

A 1977 short based on Charlotte Perkins Gilman's story of a woman's mental breakdown.

A horror screenwriter working on the very location of his story searches for the perfect terrifying antagonist—until he becomes the...

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