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 7.7
 44K
Zelig (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, ...
Style: mockumentary, surreal, black and white, humorous, parody ...
Plot: celebrity, psychiatrist, satire, character study, justice, fictional biography, artists and showbiz, switching roles, missing person, disappearance, therapy, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: new york, paris france, germany, bronx new york city
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Strait-Jacket (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, farm, psychiatrist, insanity, decapitation, mental breakdown, doctor, murder, mental illness, hagsploitation, mother daughter relationship, mother daughter estrangement ...
Time: 60s
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 6.2
 19K
Prozac Nation (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elizabeth is on the verge of losing her grip on life after she leaves her emotionally fraught home to start college. Quickly, her life takes a turn for the worse: She clashes with her roommate and decides her boyfriend, Rafe, is her sole salvation. ...
Style: psychological, depressing, emotional, melancholic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, depression, college, university, teenage girl, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, coming of age, therapy, bipolar disorder, female nudity, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 2001, 2010s, 90s
Place: harvard university, austin texas
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Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays is a Canadian television sitcom that debuted on CBC Television in 2011. Described by the National Post as a cross between What About Bob? and Frasier, the show stars Matt Watts as Michael, a neurotic young man who ...
Style: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, sitcom ...
Plot: psychiatrist, introspection, friendship, doctors and patients, therapy, workaholic, betrayal, exploitation, hopes, dishonesty, office, gain trust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Road Within (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: road trip, mental illness, tourette's syndrome, on the road, friendship, psychiatrist, coming of age, father son relationship, obsessive quest, mentally unstable protagonist, social misfits, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, reno nevada
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 7.3
 184
Soul Mechanic (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: How do you deal with anger? Where does happiness actually come from? These questions are at the heart of Fix You, a touching drama about a quirky psychiatrist on a mission to help people heal, and a rising star whose emotional wounds run deep. Lee ...
Style: psychological, emotional, sincere, humorous, captivating
Plot: psychiatrist, mental health, psychiatry, healing, doctor patient relationship, hospital, doctor, psychiatric patient, emotional manipulation, doctors and patients, medical
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A Long Way Home (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Family members struggle to heal their emotional wounds after an incident of sexual abuse.
Style: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: psychiatrist, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, domestic disturbance, redemption, life is a bitch, family in crisis, hopes, parents and children, family problems, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 5.4
 347
Hidden Love (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psychiatrist tries to help a suicidal woman who despises her grown daughter.
Style: psychological, touching, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: psychiatrist, parent child relationship, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, power relations, family relations, doctors and patients, mental institution, parents and children, clinic, therapy ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.4
 192K
K-PAX (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychological, touching, cerebral, sentimental, surprise ending ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: alien, mental institution, patient, planet, extraterrestrial, mysterious character, hypnosis, space and aliens, mental illness, psychiatrist, science, investigation ...
Time: future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, persia, new york, greenland, newfoundland ...
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Nobody Else But You (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's ...
Style: semi serious, erotic, sexy, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: investigation, mysterious death, blonde, small town, suicide, psychiatrist, misogyny, model, nude model, voyeurism, sex, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, year 2005, year 2000, year 1999, year 2009 ...
Place: france, europe
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An Unlikely Romance (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Story: Luisa and Erika are prototypes of young women who plunge into relationships with the "wrong" men. Luisa (Berenika Kohoutová) wants to become an actress, which upsets her husband Igor to no end. Erika (Alzbeta Pazoutová) is trying to work ...
Style: lgbt cinema, psychological, compassionate, romantic, crying ...
Plot: psychiatrist, mental institution, lesbian, lesbian interest, husband wife relationship, doctor patient relationship, gay interest, doctor, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, jealousy, hospital ...
Place: prague
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 5.5
 4K
Danika (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The story follows Danika, a woman whose fears for her children are manifested in premonitions of death and disaster. Bierko plays Tomei's husband, while Hall is her psychiatrist and confidant.
Style: serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: psychiatrist, mentally unstable, mental illness, family relations, infidelity, fear, nanny, obsession, dishonesty, danger, parents and children, love affair ...
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 24K
House of Games (1987)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Style: neo noir, clever, suspenseful, surprise ending, tricky ...
Plot: gambling, twists and turns, psychiatrist, con artists, fraud, betrayal, caper, obsession, mentor, greed, crime gone awry, loneliness ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
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 6.6
 8K
Agnes of God (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough ...
Style: atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: nun, mental illness, psychiatrist, murder, investigation, clergy, religion, trial, convent, life is a bitch, women, psychiatry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: montreal, quebec, canada
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 7.7
 73K
Open Your Eyes (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style: psychological, enigmatic, surreal, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot: disfigurement, dream, surrealism, psychiatrist, love, nightmare, paranoia, car accident, love triangle, memory loss, jealousy, insanity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
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 7.3
 546K
Split (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style: suspense, psychological, twist ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, mental illness, murder, psychopath, psycho, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, insanity, paranoia, serial killer, schizophrenia, violence ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
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 7.4
 2K
The Red Room (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A therapy-situated series that will explore every day problems of every day people. Based on a book by Dr. Gülseren Buğdayıcıoğlu.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychology, psychiatry, therapy, therapist, psychotherapy, psychological manipulation, doctors and patients, relationship problems, doctor, marital problem ...
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 5.5
 7K
Communion (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: alien, alien abduction, ufo, alien contact, psychiatrist, hypnosis, alien invasion, writers, halloween, supernatural, paranoia, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new york
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 28K
The Watcher (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Vietnam
Duration: 97 min.
Story: FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, fbi, psychopath, psychiatrist, obsession, serial murder, chase, mind game, race against time, police investigation, killer ...
Time: y2k, year 2000, 90s
Place: chicago, los angeles, usa, california
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 6.1
 5K
Asylum (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: psychiatrist, couple relations, obsession, love, love and romance, destructive relationship, hospital, affair, crumbling marriage, family problems, infidelity, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, year 2005, 50s, 1950s, 60s
Place: europe, london, wales, united kingdom, england
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 7.3
 13K
Shock Corridor (1963)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style: independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: mental institution, insanity, journalism, mental illness, murder, investigation, psychiatrist, murder mystery, macabre, serial killer, obsession, doctors and patients ...
Time: 60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place: america, mount fuji, usa, africa, japan
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 5.8
 8K
Mr. Jones (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.
Style: compassionate, melancholic, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, psychiatrist, psychology, hospital, loneliness, adaptation, addiction, love affair, forbidden love, rehabilitation ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
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 8.1
 452K
The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style: scary, suspense, satanic, demonic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: religion, supernatural, demon, exorcism, devil, priest, macabre, possession, demonic possession, occult, exorcist, supernatural horror ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: persia, usa, washington d.c., asia, new york ...
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 6.3
 44K
Hope Springs (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
Style: melancholic, romantic, light, sweet, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: elderly, couple relations, relationships, therapy, marriage counselor, psychiatrist, therapist, depression, happy ending, honest, love and romance, doctors and patients ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: maine, usa
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 6.1
 21K
Vampire's Kiss (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues to visit and drink his blood, and as his ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, psychological, funny, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, mental illness, insanity, supernatural, female vampire, secretary, psychiatrist, nightclub, hallucination, cockroach, character study, psychology ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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 8.2
 1.4M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time: 1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: boston, persia, iran, america
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The Boogey Man (1980)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, murder, vengeance, childhood trauma, psychiatrist, fear, danger, nightmare, curse, family in danger, haunted by the past, abusive mother ...
Time: 70s
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 8.0
 7K
Sybil (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.
Style: psychological, touching, disturbing, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, psychology, mental disorder, psychiatrist, children, child abuse, women, psychiatry, illness, mental health ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1950s
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 6.8
 34K
The Brood (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, creepy ...
Plot: body horror, killer child, murder, creepy child, transformation, supernatural, child abuse, psychiatrist, mental illness, strangulation, monster, surrealism ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 6.8
 30K
Dead Again (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hypnosis, murder, memory loss, private detective, dual role, reincarnation, amnesia, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural, mysterious character, nightmare ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: los angeles, san francisco, usa
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