Mental Breakdown Movies

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.

Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental...

On the outskirts of a city, two brothers live in a run-down apartment. When the older one hits a run of bad luck, he gets himself a gun and...

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

A Tokyo psychiatrist is hoping to better his career by marrying the daughter of a prominent doctor. The match is threatened however when an...

A Holocaust survivor moves to Israel and experiences difficulty adjusting to life.

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...

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...

Follows a Serbian refugees mother and daughter, as they struggle to navigate the many obstacles facing newcomers to Canada.

Serafin Skoko grew up on a lonely lighthouse island off of the coast of the Adriatic Sea, with nothing more than birds, the sea and the rocks to keep...

A psychiatrist secretly films his female patients as an experiment; he pushes both him and his customers in ways that induce his own mental breakdown.

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

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...

A carpenter, who was executed in the electric chair, comes back to finish his dream house, now inhabited by a young married couple.

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

When her only son’s birthday party is ruined by a runaway pony, a stressed mother deals with the comically chaotic aftermath.

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

Backwoods bombshell Myrtle marries George, only to find out that George neither can nor wants to satisfy her desires. Lots of heavy breathing,...

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

It only happens at midnight; a station jingles out of nowhere and a radio starts playing a music. As days progress it becomes addictive to him. He...