Mental Illness
Movies with Mental Illness as a prevailing theme.
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- DirectorRobert AldrichStarsJoan CrawfordCliff RobertsonVera MilesA lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened after the man's troubled past reveals itself.Joan Crawford plays a middle-aged woman who marries a younger man. The man turns out to have a serious mental problem, and she has to commit him. She's afraid that after he's cured he won't want her.
- DirectorJames P. LayStarsJackie KreislerShane ElliottJonathan BreckMeghan and Dylan are crossing the Nevada desert in an old car to visit her foster parents, and Meghan sees a little girl alone in the desert. They stop at the "Little A'Le'Inn" diner, a weird place decorated with alien motif, to eat a hamburger with milkshake and they have a conversation with the bartender Blake, who tells stories about UFOs. They leave the diner and they have to stop in the middle of nowhere due a car problem. Dylan faints and Meghan sees the little girl and ghost that tell her that they know who she is. Is Meghan losing her mind or are the weird events for real?
- DirectorKaren LamStarsKayleigh ShikanaiLucy RohatynchukLouise SeidelAn intense thriller about a lonely bookseller's obsessive love affair, and her protective best friend, who alone knows the horrible truth about her obsession.
- DirectorGavin WildingStarsCynthia PrestonAdrian PaulChristopher LloydA young journalist is assigned to work with a more experienced writer on a scandal paper. On an assignment to write about a mental hospital patient who supposedly can predict people's deaths, the younger reporter suddenly experiences a recurrence of lost feelings she had from a near-death experience years previous in an air crash.
- DirectorJordan MelamedStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittMichael BacallZooey DeschanelAfter attacking another player with a bat during baseball at school, Lyle's sent to the psych ward. He meets other teenagers with problems. Will group therapy help?
- DirectorAndrew CymekStarsWilliam B. DavisJohn Rhys-DaviesBrigitte KingsleyA group of people get trapped in an asylum with several dangerous patients, but one person in there is a serial killer responsible for the deaths of many children.
- DirectorRob SchmidtStarsEliza DushkuCary ElwesTimothy HuttonBased on the true story of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY.a cop going thru the onset of schizophrenia is determined to catch a killer targeting young girls ” True story
- DirectorMark TonderaiStarsJennifer LawrenceElisabeth ShueMax ThieriotAfter moving with her mother to a small town, a teenager finds that an accident happened in the house at the end of the street. Things get more complicated when she befriends a boy. A double murder is not an accident.
- DirectorSimone NorthStarsGuy PearceMiranda OttoRuth BradleyThis is what every parent fears: their child not coming home when they're meant to. When the fifteen-year-old student, Rachel Barber, doesn't climb off the tram to meet her dad, Elizabeth, her mother, and Mike, her dad, bolt into action.
- DirectorMåns MårlindBjörn SteinStarsJulianne MooreJonathan Rhys MeyersJeffrey DeMunnA forensic psychiatrist discovers that all but one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
- DirectorDustin Dugas SchuetterStarsKeith DavidJaime MurrayDeborah Kara UngerIn a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
- DirectorBill CondonStarsEric StoltzJennifer Jason LeighJudith IveyTwo sisters turn their family mansion in Louisiana into a guest house. One of their guests is an aide to a congressman, and turns their lives inside out.
- DirectorAdam SimonStarsBill PullmanBill PaxtonBud CortIn a showdown of man versus machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation.Bill Pullman
dreams, hallucinations, then afterlife - DirectorStevan MenaStarsMichael BiehnAlexandra DaddarioBrett RickabyThe horrific account of 6 year old Martin Bristol, abducted from his backyard swing and forced to witness the brutal crimes of a deranged madman.
- DirectorMark Edwin RobinsonStarsKelly OvertonJames HavenJennette McCurdyA medical student is assigned to a psychiatric patient to discover the truth about a brutal murder, but he instead rants about danger in the outside world. The student dismisses his claims as paranoia - until someone begins.
- DirectorMartin KempStarsJane MarchAnna BreconJennifer MatterA writer struggling with her second novel is terrorised by a homicidal PA.
- DirectorWilliam ButlerStarsJoshua LeonardJordan LaddNatasha LyonneA young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
- DirectorChris KentisLaura LauStarsElizabeth OlsenAdam TreseEric Sheffer StevensA girl is trapped inside her family's lakeside retreat and becomes unable to contact the outside world as supernatural forces haunt the house with mysterious energy and consequences.
- DirectorMichael AlmereydaStarsRachel O'RourkeLois SmithAlison ElliottAn alcoholic American couple travel to Ireland with their son so he can meet his grandmother but they walk in on their crazed uncle who is in the midst of reviving a centuries-old Druid witch.
- DirectorDavid OndaatjeStarsAlfred MolinaHope DavisShane WestA couple rents out a room to a mysterious young man, who may or may not be guilty of a series of grisly neighborhood murders.
- DirectorA.D. CalvoStarsBrendan FehrShirley KnightChad LindbergA depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
- DirectorJeff BuhlerStarsJesse MetcalfeKiele SanchezPeter StormareAfter he's institutionalized in order to cover for his sister, a young man encounters a doctor who is turning his patients into flesh-eating psychopaths.
- DirectorAnthony C. FerranteStarsTrish CorenRachel HarlandJilon VanOverThere are rumors that a long shut down and neglected hospital is haunted by the inhabitants that died there in a fire. Four college students are about to discover that the myths might just be true.
- DirectorNaoko TajimaStarsJack DiamondJulia DuvallVictoria Gilson"The 5th Mind" is a harrowing portrait of two siblings torn apart by a shared childhood experience. One sibling has completely blocked abuse, incest and madness. The other has created 5 minds to deal with the pain.
- DirectorDavid MunStarsRae OlivierChristian OliverMarietta MarichAfter a family tragedy in the chaotic city, Chris and Maggie Conley, in a last-ditch effort to save their dying marriage, purchase an isolated home in the deepest woods, to which they quickly discover evil has a key.