Self Harm Movies

A woman stalked by depression makes some extreme decisions.

Amir has a secret. He’s tormented by visions of his leg rotting and longs to cut it off, convinced it doesn’t belong to him. So, he...

Rex, a DJ, is convinced he can find a better 'sound' for his work by experimenting with deafness.

Gabrielle is 16. She inflicts pain to herself, cut herself. Her father doesn’t understand why. At the hospital she meet Étienne, who...

Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can...

This 3-minute short film by Iain Delavan was created at a dark time in his life. In his usual abstract and expressive style, Delavan depicts an...

Charlie Davis is a young woman recently released from a Minnesota psychiatric ward following a suicide attempt. After a move across the country to...

Not wanting to die in a body that repulses him, Lev, a trans college student, resorts to the most extreme measures possible.

Chapter Five from ‘The Angela Chapters’.

The 18-year-old Jona tries to hold his family together—consisting of his self-harming sister and overwhelmed mother—while grappling with...

When Arnie Silverman, a manic-depressive novelist, begins a bout of self-harm and lies to his girlfriend about it, his best friend and sister’s...

Vito, a depressed young man planning to kill himself on his 27th birthday, meets Gina - a self-harming riot of chaos who appoints herself as his...

Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing...

Best friends turned soulmates, Fang Hui and Lin Xi dreamed of forever—until their perfect world began to crack.

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now...

Alex Anna’s body is a canvas: her scars come to life to tell a new story of self-harming.

After her boyfriend leaves for the night, a curious young woman is left alone to deal with the horrors of her mental health.

A disturbed man enters a room and, unbeknownst to others, is having psychotic episodes.

When wildlife photographer Tara returns home from a photo trip to the California mountains, she's beset by violent agoraphobia. Her boyfriend Matthew...