Movies: Mental breakdown

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

This compelling film represents a rare record of an original genius. In Jung on Film, the pioneering psychologist tells us about his collaboration with Sigmund Freud, about the insights he gained from listening to his patients' dreams, and about the ...

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

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 inheritance - a small shack. They find themselves in a strange back-woods rural setting. Nothing is what it...

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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 notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her rev...

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 and anxieties of her life. Her dreams descend, taking the shape of shadows which reach into her life....

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

An overworked female executive is haunted by strange dreams. She is compelled to travel to a remote fishing village where she is inexplicably kidnapped and sold to a peasant farmer on a remote island....

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 as her audience is forced to watch as Glimmer's sanity slowly unravels....

It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, musician and diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. A promising athlete as a child, Philip began experiencing mood swings in his early 20s. His extended fam...

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

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 as repressive as they were lonely....

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

A mentally unstable teen transforms himself into a clown to deal with and mask his own disturbing, nihilistic worldview and deteriorating mental health. the further the film continues, the more prominent his descent into madness becomes....

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