Depression Movies

In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary...

After the suicide of a teenage boy, his friends go through their own personal turmoil in isolation, on the Monday of his funeral.

Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a...

An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to...

The film follows Michael Moskowitz’s work with a New York-based therapist named Kirkland Vaughns, one of the few African-American Freudian...

An intimate study of two women friends who come to each other because of troubles with everyday life and with men and thus try to enjoy a life based...

Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.

Fourteen years after her son and estranged husband were presumed lost at sea, Kristen believes she glimpses them in the background of a friend's...

The photographer Jan is in his bubble of reflections and thought on life. And girls. Mostly girls. Jan has a complicated relationship with the...

A former South Asian bodybuilder moves back in with his aging father to become his primary caregiver, forcing him to balance the physical strength...

A young IT worker is in search of meaning in his life as he struggles to fulfill his dreams.

Weighed down and despondent from crushing depression, Millie tries to escape the daily grind by deciding today will be different. However, she must...

An intimate documentary chronicling the rise of the band Counting Crows and the unrelenting pressure that followed their breakout success. Centered...

Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve...

When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's...

Following both the death of her father-in-law and a divorce, Jesse, a New Yorker, returns to a small town to live with her now widowed mother-in-law....

The Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing is one of the most famous bridges in China. It is also the most popular place in the world to commit suicide. For...

Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have...

A woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the Balkan war.