Mental Breakdown Movies

Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her a...

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the history of the Crownsville State Mental Hospital in...

For the first time in history, mental illness and suicide have become one of the greatest threats to school-aged children. Many parents still view dan...

A professor brings her personal struggles into her workday.

Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair.

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

Housewife Katalin Munk has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student o...

On her birthday, Juliette is too upset to worry about the strange cleaner who imitates her every move and lusts after her clothing.

After a tragic accident Grace is lost and alone in the Smoky Mountains. Grace's struggle for survival is made more complicated by her troubled past. B...

After getting fired from his teaching job and dumped by his girlfriend, Jack, a painter, embarks on a soul searching road trip with his dog, Scout. Ho...

Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather wor...

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

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

A short indie film

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 inherit...

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 be...

A farmer faces the aftermath of a destructive typhoon and struggles to cope with climate change that deeply affected his family, leading to a twist th...

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 superna...

A husband with a brain disorder that affects his long-term/ short-term memories recounts his marriage & discovers why it’s ending.