Crazy, Not Insane (2020), Sybil (1976), Intimate Strangers (2004), La pazza gioia (2016), Now, Voyager (1942), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Ordinary People (1980) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Psychotherapy movies.
Storyline: Psychiatrist Dorothy Otnow Lewis stirs controversy for her views on serial killers and the death penalty.
Plot Keywords: documentary, psychology, criminal psychology, interview, true story, mental illness, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !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: When a beautiful woman named Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) mistakes a psychiatrist's office for that of tax attorney William (Fabrice Luchini), she unwittingly confesses her deepest and darkest secrets to a perfect stranger. Sexually repressed and lonely, William doesn't have the courage to reveal his true identity to Anna. Maintaining the deception, William begins to enjoy the fake therapy sessions. Every week, the pair meet, and they forge an odd and erotic relationship.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, mystery, psychological, french film, emotional, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Tuscany, two women escape from a psychiatric facility and go on an adventure that will change their lives.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, women, friendship, italy, freedom, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Boston spinster Charlotte has had her life controlled entirely by her mother; a wealthy mother, Mrs. Henry Vale. Feeling despondent, she's convinced to spend some time in a sanitarium. Soon, Charlotte's transformed into a sophisticated, confident woman. On a cruise to South America, Charlotte meets, and begins a torrid affair with Jerry Durrance, a married architect. 6 months later, she returns home, and confronts her mother with her independence. One day, after a brief argument, her mother has a heart attack and dies. Charlotte inherits the Vale fortune but feels guilty for her mother's death. She returns to the sanitarium, where she befriends a depressed, young adolescent, named Tina. The young girls' depression brought on by having been rejected by her mother; Charlotte's former lover, Jerry's wife. Charlotte takes Tina home to Boston with her
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, classic, black and white, psychological growth, female lead, self-discovery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) and Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) help Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin) rescue an abducted patient.
Plot Keywords: mystery, suspense, adventure, drama, psychological, sherlock holmes, victorian era ...
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: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
Plot Keywords: family, psychological trauma, depression, father-son relationship, mother-son relationship, grief, guilt ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Virginia Cunningham finds herself in a state insane asylum...and can't remember how she got there. In flashback, her husband Robert relates their courtship, their marriage, and her developing symptoms. The asylum staff are not demonized, but fear, ignorance, and regimentation keep Virginia in a state of misery as pipe-smoking Dr. Mark Kik struggles through wheels within wheels to find the root of her problem. Then a relapse plunges Virginia back into the harrowing 'Snake Pit.'—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, mental illness, female protagonist, social criticism, film noir, drama, 1940s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) is a psychiatrist at Green Manors mental asylum. The head of Green Manors has just been replaced, with his replacement being the renowned Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck). Romance blossoms between Dr. Petersen and Dr. Edwards, but Dr. Edwards starts to show odd aversions and personality traits...
Plot Keywords: suspense, psychological thriller, film noir, romance, amnesia, murder, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Frustrated by his inability to help an African-American patient who hates whites, a psychiatrist (Peter Falk) asks his superior (Sidney Poitier) to release him from the case. The superior relates a case from his own past during World War II when he treated a young Nazi (Bobby Darin) who despised blacks. Explaining the tragic results of the case, the older psychiatrist encourages his younger colleague not to be swayed by the patient's attitude, to remain objective and to stick with his treatment.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, race relations, psychoanalysis, black and white, american film, 1960s, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A rare, intimate glimpse into the life and mind of Jordan Peterson, the academic and best-selling author who captured the world's attention with his criticisms of political correctness and his life-changing philosophy on discovering personal meaning. Christened as the most influential public intellectual in the western world, University of Toronto psychology professor Jordan Peterson skyrocketed to fame after he published a controversial viral video series entitled "Professor Against Political Correctness" in 2016. Within 2 years, he sold over 3 million copies of his self-help book, 12 Rules For Life, and became simultaneously branded by some as an academic rockstar selling out theatres around the world, and by others as a dangerous threat to progressive society. THE RISE OF JORDAN PETERSON intimately traces the transformative period of Peterson's life while visiting rare moments with his family, friends and foes who share their own versions of the Jordan Peterson story.—Holding Space Films Ltd.
Plot Keywords: documentary, psychology, social commentary, ideology, biography, media influence, social media ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Ben is different. His life is a universe to itself, where he plays his favorite on line computer game Archlord avidly, trying hard to train himself for the real world he lives in. The harsh world of a technical school is for him a daily kind of hell. As the horror of being a daily subject to bullying grows, Ben devises a plan. Then Scarlite comes into his life, the girl he has met in his on-line game. That wasn't part of the plan...
Plot Keywords: psychological trauma, autism, virtual world, loneliness, social exclusion, teenager, depression ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, drama, mystery, psychological, alien, healing, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. As he is about to be honored for his writing by the college that expelled him, he faces writer's block and the impending marriage of his latest flame to a writer friend. As scenes from his stories and novels pass and interact with him, Harry faces the people whose lives he has affected - wives, lovers, his son, his sister.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, psychological analysis, moral dilemma, self-destruction, interpersonal relationships, satirical humor, reality vs fantasy ...
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