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: This tale of child abuse and and its deep psychological scars, based on a true story, follows Sybil (Sally Field), an introverted student living alone in New York City who suffers from multiple personality disorder. Haunted by nightmares of her past, Sybil starts seeing a psychiatrist named Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur (Joanne Woodward). When Dr. Wilbur discovers Sybil has over a dozen different personalities, she becomes obsessed with uncovering her patient's tortured childhood in order to heal her.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, schizophrenia, based on true story, trauma, female protagonist, psychological drama, tv movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, 'does not exist - nor will it ever exist'. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard's job is to eliminate him. Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz's outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will...
Plot Keywords: war, vietnam war, psychological thriller, madness, existentialism, moral ambiguity, jungle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A 50-year-old divorced teacher creates a fake online persona of a beautiful 24-year-old woman, only to become trapped by her deceit when she falls for a man who has become smitten with her profile.
Plot Keywords: drama, thriller, romance, psychological, suspense, french film, identity deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Trendy West Coasters Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood) try wife-swapping with square Ted (Elliott Gould) and Alice.
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, romance, marriage, sexual liberation, 1960s, american culture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A pampered Manhattan housewife embarks upon a mystical odyssey of self-discovery following a visit to a Chinatown healer.
Plot Keywords: fantasy, adventure, dark, fairy tale adaptation, surreal, gothic, dreamlike ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Francois (Daniel Auteuil), a Parisian antique dealer, has little time or desire for personal relationships. When his business partner (Julie Gayet) challenges him to prove that he has a friend, the buddy-less Francois tries to find one. When his pathetic attempts fail, he hires a cab driver (Dany Boon) to teach him how to make and keep a real pal.
Plot Keywords: comedy, friendship, french film, humor, human relationships, social satire, midlife crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. The film deals with the desire to participate in life and the difficulty to find one's place.
Plot Keywords: independent film, german cinema, urban life, existentialism, black comedy, social satire, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about romantic relationships, the need to charm, and the literary creation.—Yepok and Brian McInnis
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, french cinema, desire, women, erotic, psychological analysis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.
Plot Keywords: surrealism, black comedy, coming of age, dreams, absurdity, american dream, alienation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Precocious Oliver struggles with being popular in school but when a dark-haired beauty takes interest in him, he's determined to become the best boyfriend in the world. Meanwhile, his parents' already rocky relationship is threatened when his mother's ex-boyfriend moves in next door. Oliver makes some unorthodox plans to ensure that his parents stay together and that Jordana still likes him.
Plot Keywords: coming of age, dark comedy, romance, first love, family dynamics, self-discovery, melancholy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Following the death of his father in Mexico, Stéphane Miroux, a shy insecure young man, agrees to come to Paris to draw closer to his widowed mother Christine. He lands a boring job at a calendar-making firm and falls in love with his charming neighbor Stéphanie. But conquering her is no bed of roses for the young man and the only solution he finds to put up with the difficulties he is going through is escape into a dream world...
Plot Keywords: fantasy, romance, comedy, dream, surreal, art, imagination ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On the brink of her 30th birthday, Fanny feels the door to marital happiness closing up on her. She is obsessed with death, even visits evening classes on dying and so it seems fitting, that she encounters a skeleton in the malfunctioning elevator of her apartment building. The skeleton is her neighbour Orfeo, a black, gay self-declared psychic, who convinces her that she is about to meet "him". But is it really Lothar, the new yuppie apartment manager ...?—<tm@txk.com>
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, german film, independent film, female director, urban life, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Since her husband pronounced her frigid on her wedding night, Antonia DeAngelis has been an invalid. When he disappears, she believes him dead: she leaves her bed and takes over his business, traveling to see clients. She discovers her husband's passions, his political writing, mistresses, and his indifference to the peasants on her family's land. She improves their lot, begins an affair with a young foreign doctor, and publishes her husband's writings. All this time, he's hiding from a murder charge in a house across the square. Amazed, he watches her become his sexual and social equal. After the police drop the murder charge, will he disappear, end his life, or rejoin her on new terms?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, erotic, italian cinema, marriage, infidelity, romance, female perspective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ricky is released from a mental hospital, and knows exactly what he wants to do. He hunts down Marina, a porn film star he once had sex with, and tries to convince her to be his wife. She is a bit reluctant, so he ties her up. Will this approach endear him to her?
Plot Keywords: black comedy, erotic, crime, romance, kidnapping, complex relationships, independent film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man runs into a woman at a wedding. They start to flirt and talk and find that they get along. Throughout their discussion, the man talks about certain memories as if they were common to the two of them. We gradually learn that there may have been a previous connection between these two when they were younger. This just leaves more questions as their past is slowly revealed.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, love, dialogue-driven, independent film, new york, wedding ...
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