Sybil (1976), Apocalypse Now (1979), Who You Think I Am (2019), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Alice (1990), My Best Friend (2006), A Coffee in Berlin (2012), The Man Who Loved Women (1977) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychological Exploration movies.
Storyline: In order to escape her isolation, wheelchair-bound Christine makes a life changing journey to Lourdes, the iconic site of pilgrimage in the Pyrenees Mountains.
Plot Keywords: religion, faith, miracle, illness, disability, healing, catholicism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Documentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career.
Plot Keywords: documentary, korean cinema, independent film, autobiographical, experimental film, psychological exploration, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The good-hearted Harbour has spent his whole life trying to take care of his motherless and suicidal little brother, Wilbur. The brothers are inseparable. When in their thirties, they lose their father and inherit his second-hand bookshop. One day Alice enters the shop with her little daughter. Alice is a cleaning lady at the nearby hospital and she sells the books that the patients leave behind. The daughter Mary yearns for a home where the books don't always get sold. Harbour falls in love with Alice and soon all four of them are closely intertwined in each other's lives - and perhaps even deaths.—Laplisse4
Plot Keywords: black comedy, family drama, life struggles, psychological exploration, emotional conflict, loneliness, small-town life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Award-winning comedy about a lonely young man who finds himself at a restaurant with two strangers and his best friend.
Plot Keywords: comedy, independent film, drama, dialogue-driven, black comedy, interpersonal relationships, psychological exploration ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The American artist couple Port and Kit Moresby travels aimless through Africa, searching for new experiences that could give new sense to their relationship. But the flight to distant regions leads both only deeper into despair.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, adventure, desert, marital crisis, cultural clash, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother, who wishes--quite ironically--that she could run away from the circus and join 'real life'. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey into the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. She must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get back home.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, surreal, dreamlike, dark fairy tale, coming of age, visual art ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.—David Carroll <davidc@atom.ansto.gov.au>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, psychological thriller, surrealism, dreams, psychological horror, coming of age, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Thomas Jerome Newton is a humanoid alien who comes to Earth to get water for his dying planet. He starts a high technology company to get the billions of dollars he needs to build a return spacecraft, and meets Mary-Lou, a girl who falls in love with him. He does not count on the greed and ruthlessness of business here on Earth, however.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, drama, alien, isolation, identity, cultural conflict, addiction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young boy named Max has an active imagination, and he will throw fits if others don't go along with what he wants. Max - following an incident with Claire (his sister) and her friends, and following a tantrum which he throws as a result of his Mother paying more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including one named Carol who is much like Max himself in temperament. Instead of eating Max like they normally would with creatures of his type, the wild things befriend Max after he proclaims himself a king who can magically solve all their problems.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, family, coming of age, imagination, loneliness, emotion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Monkey Beach is a supernatural mystery. Layering tragedy, humor and redemption, it tells the story of Lisa, a rebellious young woman who must accept her true heroic nature in order to save Jimmy, her brother who is lost at sea. Monkey Beach is set in the magnificent forests and waterways of the Pacific Northwest and the Haisla village of Kitamaat. Haisla cultural stories are woven into the contemporary lives of Lisa and her family, along with a cast of otherworldly characters including ghosts and Sasquatches - the 'monkeys' of Monkey Beach.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, canadian film, indigenous culture, mysticism, supernatural, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternative reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality, World War II had never occurred, mankind had not yet travelled into space, and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality, he is no longer a scientist, but rather a well-known author. He also finds that he is married to a beautiful woman with whom he instantly falls in love, but for whom his alternate self never cared. He has some difficulty convincing anyone that he is not actually who they think he is. With the help of a physics professor who believes his story, he finally manages to convince his "wife" that he is not the man she knew before. After a personal tragedy in this alternative world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman with whom he fell in love in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.—Kevin Steinhauer <K.Steinhauer@BoM.GOV.AU>
Plot Keywords: science fiction, romance, time travel, drama, british film, 1970s, destiny ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of well-established rut.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, dark, surreal, dreamlike, gothic, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A woman's life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they're planning.
Plot Keywords: crime, drama, comedy, family, fraud, los angeles, indie film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Left by Joachim, an artist with whom she shared her life for 10 years, Paula finds herself wandering the streets of Paris, lonely and fixated.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, female protagonist, independent film, french film, urban life, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar. He soon finds his previous incarnation's wife. This woman, Marcia Curtis, sees in Peter startling characteristics which he shares with her dead husband, Jeff. Even the sound of his voice seems at times to be that of the dead man.—Mark Fleetwood <mfleetwo@mail.coin.missouri.edu>
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, supernatural, reincarnation, psychological thriller, murder, revenge ...
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