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87
8.6
/1698750/
85
/36099/
83
/17501/
4.3
/2717742/
95
/158/
95
/29660/
86
/20/
cc age 17+

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.3
/23105/
81
/387/
81
/392/
4.4
/32161/
73
/15/
94
/388/
90
/10/

Red Beard (1965)
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
86
8.5
/44907/
83
/1795/
80
/561/
4.4
/90342/
94
/51/
96
/1065/
82
/11/
cc age 16+

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)
In 2001, Andrew Bagby, a medical resident, is murdered not long after breaking up with his girlfriend. Soon after, when she announces she's pregnant, one of Andrew's many close friends, Kurt Kuenne, begins this film, a gift to the child.
poster
MGM Plus
83
7.7
/61281/
74
/1063/
74
/673/
4.0
/60784/
90
/105/
88
/1360/
86
/18/
cc age 14+

Ordinary People (1980)
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.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.7
/59144/
74
/1615/
74
/1154/
3.8
/78663/
97
/58/
85
/957/
92
/16/
cc age 11+

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
poster
82
7.4
/16901/
73
/303/
71
/254/
4.0
/18300/
98
/42/
80
/548/
81
/15/

You, the Living (2007)
In the Swedish city of Lethe, people from different walks of life take part in a series of short, deadpan vignettes that rush past. Some are just seconds long, none longer than a couple of minutes. A young woman remembers a fantasy honeymoon with a rock guitarist. A man awakes from a dream about bomber planes. A businessman boasts about success while being robbed by a pickpocket, and so on. The absurdist collection is accompanied by Dixieland jazz and similar music.
poster
Kanopy
82
8.3
/964406/
81
/18576/
80
/10692/
4.1
/1486727/
80
/182/
93
/28637/
71
/32/
cc age 18+

Requiem for a Dream (2000)
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
poster
Hoopla
81
7.6
/45782/
75
/852/
74
/900/
3.9
/39252/
97
/31/
88
/774/

Zelig (1983)
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, Babe Ruth, and others.
poster
Kanopy
80
8.0
/579247/
79
/13052/
77
/6862/
3.9
/485636/
88
/137/
90
/9816/
65
/18/
cc age 14+

Rain Man (1988)
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
poster
79
8.0
/674971/
79
/18670/
76
/8875/
3.9
/420472/
88
/75/
88
/14943/
75
/20/
cc age 17+

Twelve Monkeys (1995)
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up in a mental hospital. There he meets psychiatrist Dr. Kathryn Railly and the son of a famous virus expert who may hold the key to the Army of the 12 Monkeys; thought to be responsible for unleashing the killer disease.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
7.7
/76581/
75
/1678/
74
/1143/
3.9
/59307/
87
/45/
88
/1481/

Open Your Eyes (1997)
Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.
poster
79
7.2
/28323/
69
/835/
69
/654/
3.7
/81493/
92
/72/
73
/443/
85
/16/

Cat People (1942)
A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.
poster
MGM Plus
79
7.2
/25495/
71
/527/
68
/331/
3.7
/24354/
93
/30/
79
/463/
78
/13/

House of Games (1987)
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.
poster
78
7.2
/6686/
71
/108/
67
/77/
3.9
/10345/
89
/28/
72
/84/
79
/14/

An Unmarried Woman (1978)
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
poster
79
77
7.8
/20524/
76
/329/
74
/221/
3.9
/22659/
91
/33/
90
/546/
70
/12/
cc age 12+

Now, Voyager (1942)
A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.
poster
77
7.5
/56099/
73
/997/
73
/950/
3.8
/63004/
86
/43/
82
/798/
78
/16/

Spellbound (1945)
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.7
/278156/
77
/6684/
76
/3744/
4.0
/404258/
77
/47/
89
/3807/
47
/18/
cc age 17+

Primal Fear (1996)
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chicago. Vail finds himself up against his ex-pupil and ex-lover, but as the case progresses and the Church's dark secrets are revealed, Vail finds that what appeared a simple case takes on a darker, more dangerous aspect.
poster
76
6.9
/27049/
72
/789/
70
/569/
3.7
/47974/
92
/12/
79
/1234/

I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task: to cure Young-goon's mental problem and have her eat real food.
poster
Kanopy
81
75
7.8
/9853/
73
/193/
76
/207/
4.0
/12246/
94
/17/
87
/112/

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
7.0
/3974/
65
/69/
66
/52/
3.5
/1217/
87
/15/
83
/81/

The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995)
Graham Young is a teenage misfit living in suburban London in the 1960s. He hates his stepmother but loves chemistry, and the two impulses unite in a wicked plot to slowly poison her. After she dies, he's found guilty and sent to a psychiatric hospital, where an idealistic doctor thinks he can be cured.
poster
Hulu
75
7.4
/228247/
74
/4016/
70
/1986/
3.5
/159632/
86
/190/
88
/25926/
67
/37/
cc age 17+

Garden State (2004)
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
poster
74
7.3
/40464/
73
/894/
69
/538/
3.6
/12639/
77
/148/
86
/1210/
62
/32/
cc age 14+

Antwone Fisher (2002)
A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a horrific childhood. Through the guidance of his doctor, he confronts his painful past and begins a quest to find the family he never knew.
poster
Hoopla
74
6.8
/3717/
69
/61/
57
/48/
3.5
/2526/
77
/22/
78
/84/

The President's Analyst (1967)
At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away. Now spies from all over the world are after him, either to get him for their own side or to kill him and prevent someone else from getting him.
poster
Criterion Channel
74
6.6
/5754/
63
/111/
60
/89/
3.6
/7921/
87
/15/
74
/121/

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
73
6.9
/2882/
71
/202/
72
/79/
3.4
/4869/
78
78
/7/

Crazy, Not Insane (2020)
Fascinated by the human brain and its capacity for ruthlessness, psychiatrist Dr. Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent her life investigating the interior lives of violent people. With each case, she came closer to developing a unified field theory of what makes a killer. Along the way - steering away from the conventional wisdom of her colleagues - she explored the world of multiple personality disorder.
poster
MGM Plus
73
7.0
/55497/
69
/1429/
70
/1075/
3.6
/113790/
83
/60/
74
/579/
74
/16/

Dressed to Kill (1980)
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
poster
Netflix
73
7.1
/204078/
71
/5593/
66
/3245/
3.4
/91333/
82
/225/
70
/3506/
75
/40/
cc age 17+

Side Effects (2013)
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
poster
MUBI
71
6.5
/31873/
66
/1842/
66
/814/
3.4
/142108/
87
/134/
70
/152/
65
/22/
cc age 16+

Swallow (2020)
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
poster
71
6.9
/14324/
65
/416/
67
/299/
3.5
/30885/
89
/36/
69
/206/

The Black Cat (1934)
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
poster
71
7.0
/78316/
73
/2096/
68
/879/
3.5
/58974/
82
/44/
79
/4008/
60
/17/
cc age 12+

What About Bob? (1991)
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
poster
70
6.8
/8227/
68
/102/
65
/100/
3.3
/2251/
83
/77/
71
/190/
69
/26/

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
poster
Kanopy
70
7.0
/1781/
68
/25/
60
/26/
3.4
/726/
83
/6/
67
/16/

The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)
Arthur Goldman is a rich Jewish industrialist, living in luxury in a Manhattan high-rise. He banters with his assistant Charlie, often shocking him with his outrageousness and irreverent musings on aspects of Jewish life. Nonetheless, Charlie is astonished one day when Israeli secret agents burst in and arrest Goldman for being a Nazi war criminal. Whisked to Israel for trial, Goldman forces his accusers to face, not only his presumed guilt, but their own.
poster
70
6.8
/21097/
69
/385/
66
/294/
3.4
/13760/
68
/34/
70
/403/
65
/21/

The Prince of Tides (1991)
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
7.1
/19011/
70
/572/
70
/329/
4.0
/85783/
59
/111/
59
/2089/
76
/17/

Safe (1995)
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
poster
70
7.3
/289283/
73
/7880/
71
/4200/
3.4
/190218/
63
/168/
75
/6722/
64
/34/
cc age 18+

Identity (2003)
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
poster
Criterion Channel
71
69
7.4
/18881/
73
/301/
72
/304/
3.8
/20999/
68
/22/
83
/392/
54
/9/

Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
poster
69
7.1
/9208/
63
/98/
70
/141/
3.7
/5507/
70
/23/
77
/216/

Equus (1977)
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
poster
Disney Plus
69
6.4
/175476/
68
/6736/
65
/4181/
3.5
/869711/
88
/160/
58
/21284/
70
/36/
cc age 8+

Freaky Friday (2003)
Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.
poster
Pluto TV
68
7.3
/232019/
75
/5366/
76
/4054/
3.9
/1288178/
53
/113/
84
/8009/
51
/32/
cc age 17+

Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
poster
66
7.4
/201602/
74
/5598/
72
/2643/
3.4
/52917/
41
/140/
75
/3023/
49
/31/
cc age 15+

K-PAX (2001)
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.
poster
66
6.7
/168322/
69
/3807/
65
/2050/
3.3
/78913/
70
/105/
62
/2402/
60
/30/

Analyze This (1999)
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.
poster
75
65
7.8
/6093/
72
/157/
73
/144/
3.8
/4235/

It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
65
7.3
/6075/
71
/101/
73
/118/
3.7
/9404/
73
/11/
76
/59/

I Live in Fear (1955)
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring the atomic threat is any saner.
poster
73
65
7.1
/6335/
72
/120/
69
/85/
3.5
/5050/
83
/12/
76
/96/

Possessed (1947)
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
65
6.6
/14161/
67
/336/
66
/444/
3.4
/26568/
81
/21/
54
/190/
63
/5/

The Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
6.5
/44147/
66
/1261/
65
/859/
3.3
/56767/
76
/46/
61
/1161/
68
/11/

The Howling (1981)
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
poster
64
6.7
/55030/
67
/910/
67
/783/
3.1
/17386/
70
/37/
68
/2037/
63
/19/

Don Juan DeMarco (1994)
John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.
poster
Kanopy
64
6.9
/68047/
70
/1328/
67
/673/
3.4
/33783/
59
/129/
71
/5605/
54
/25/
cc age 16+

Charlie Bartlett (2008)
Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.


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