A Season in France (2017), The Day After (1983), Where Is Kyra? (2017), ...And Justice for All (1979), War Photographer (2002), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Night of the Living Dead (1968), Gravity (2013) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychological Stress movies.
Storyline: When Johnny comes home from the navy he finds his wife Helen kissing her substitute boyfriend Eddie, the owner of the Blue Dahlia nightclub. Helen admits her drunkenness caused their son's death. He pulls a gun on her but decides she's not worth it. Later, Helen is found dead and Johnny is the prime suspect.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, mystery, detective, murder, veteran, marital issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A down on his luck gambler links up with free spirit Elliot Gould at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of his possessions and goes to Reno for the poker game of a lifetime. A film set mainly in casinos and races, as the two win and lose (but mainly win), get robbed, and get blind drunk.—David B-2
Plot Keywords: gambling, friendship, addiction, adventure, comedy, drama, 1970s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tom Rath lives in Connecticut and commutes to work every day in Manhattan. He's happily married and has a loving wife and three children. Money is a bit tight and when the opportunity arises, he applies for a public relations job with a major television network. During his long commute to work everyday, Tom reminisces about the war. Although 10 years have gone by, he is still haunted by the violence and the men he killed. He also thinks of Maria, an Italian girl with whom he had an affair while stationed in Rome. At his new job, the head of the network Ralph Hopkins takes an immediate liking to him. Tom soon realizes that he will have to choose between becoming a wholly dedicated company man or maintaining a healthy work-life balance. When he learns that Maria gave birth to his son after he left Italy, he decides to let his wife know and ensure that the boy is cared for.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: drama, family, society, moral dilemma, midlife crisis, marriage, psychological stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two people meet by chance in Busan, South Korea. Indah works at the Indonesian Embassy in Busan. Abi, a sailor who suffers heart attack and Indah was assigned as his guardian.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, apocalyptic, survival, disaster, dark, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sarah Tobias goes to her local bar and is gang-raped by three men. The district attorney on the case is Katheryn Murphy who wants to prove that although Sarah had taken drugs that night and was acting provocatively while in the bar, this is no reason for her to be so brutally attacked and the men responsible should be brought to justice.
Plot Keywords: courtroom drama, based on true story, female protagonist, justice system, revenge, social justice, sexism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An idealistic girl, Patsy Newquist, saves a young apathetic photographer, Alfred Chamberlain, from a gang of hooligans. She falls for him, but he turns out to be a nihilist. They go out anyway. All this happens against the background of random shootings in NYC (at the time the play the movie is based on was written, the city was going broke). Her family accept him, but when she tries to change him and get him to find meaning in life, things go horribly wrong in a cruel twist of fate.—John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net>
Plot Keywords: black comedy, satire, absurdist, social critique, urban life, violence, psychological stress ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A corporate drone experiences the first symptom of a strange epidemic that makes people explode.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, dystopian, absurdist, social satire, psychological stress, modern life, existentialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to blow up a bridge next to a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. Unusually realistic picture of war as long quiet stretches of talk, punctuated by sharp, random bursts of violent action whose relevance to the big picture is often unknown to the soldiers.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: war, world war ii, soldiers, psychological stress, military operation, tactics, sacrifice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film is about Marlo, a mother of three, including a newborn. Marlo's brother gives her a night nanny as a gift. Hesitant with the extravagance at first, Marlo comes to form a unique bond with the thoughtful, surprising, and sometimes challenging young nanny named Tully.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, family, motherhood, parenting, marriage, midlife crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bloomington, Minnesota, 1967: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job, his pot-head son, who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah, only wants him round to fix the TV aerial and his useless brother Arthur is an unwelcome house guest. But both Arthur and Larry get turfed out into a motel when Larry's wife Judy, who wants a divorce, moves her lover, Sy, into the house and even after Sy's death in a car crash they are still there. With lawyers' bills mounting for his divorce, Arthur's criminal court appearances and a land feud with a neighbour Larry is tempted to take the bribe offered by a student to give him an illegal exam pass mark. And the rabbis he visits for advice only dole out platitudes. Still God moves in mysterious - and not always pleasant - ways, as Larry and his family will find out.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, jewish culture, moral dilemma, existentialism, fate, religion, midlife crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out, and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom, adrenaline, heat, worry about his girlfriend finding someone else, losing it and nearly killing a mate, demotion, latrine cleaning, faulty gas masks, and desert football, Desert Storm begins. In less than five days, it's over, but not before Swoff sees burned bodies, flaming oil derricks, an oil-drenched horse, and maybe a chance at killing. Where does all the testosterone go?
Plot Keywords: war, military, iraq war, desert, sniper, psychological stress, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain. During a camping trip to Ayers Rock in outback Australia, she claimed that she witnessed a dingo stealing her baby daughter, Azaria, from the family tent. Azaria's body was never found. Police noted some apparent inconsistencies in her story, and she was charged with murder. The case attracted a lot of attention, turning an investigation into a media circus, with the public divided in their opinions.—Murray Chapman <muzzle@cs.uq.oz.au>
Plot Keywords: true story, courtroom drama, australia, murder case, miscarriage of justice, family tragedy, public opinion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film depicts a day and a half in Harry Stoner's life. Harry is down on his luck, and trapped in his own indulgences. He daydreams about his youth, trying to escape from the fact that business is rotten and his company owes bundles of money. His day is filled with unusual episodes as he picks up a hitchhiker/prostitute, arranges for his company's warehouse to burn down so he can collect the insurance-money, he hires strippers for his buddies and gets engaged in an animal rights campaign, a fashion show and experiences a rather uncomfortable flashback to the war.—Kristian Krokfoss <krokus@online.no>
Plot Keywords: drama, moral dilemma, midlife crisis, corporate corruption, psychological stress, american dream, self-destruction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Manager Michele lost his job but didn't tell his wife Eve, who was completing her art history PhD. Michele ponders whether to accept quickly a less lucrative job or hope for a better one. He opts to look for a higher paying job, in an attempt to retain their upper-middle class status and lifestyle, but is disappointed time and time again. Eventually, they are forced to sell their home and rent an apartment in a working class neighborhood. Meanwhile, she is forced to take two part-time jobs, and stop her volunteer work restoring a fresco. As the reality of their new working-class status emerges, they struggle to hold onto their sense of selves and their relationship.—EA Bianco
Plot Keywords: drama, family, marriage, unemployment, midlife crisis, italian cinema, emotional conflict ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: As her friends and family withdraw, a young woman (Radha Mitchell) tries to cope with her firstborn infant's death.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, tragedy, psychological, social issues, motherhood, grief ...
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