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- DirectorJonathan LevineStarsJoseph Gordon-LevittSeth RogenAnna KendrickInspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsMichael FassbenderKeira KnightleyViggo MortensenA look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
- DirectorStuart ZichermanStarsAdam ScottRichard JenkinsCatherine O'HaraA grown man caught in the crossfire of his parents' 15-year divorce discovers he was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children and is enlisted in a follow-up years later, which wreaks new havoc on his family.
- DirectorStuart BlumbergStarsMark RuffaloTim RobbinsGwyneth PaltrowA romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon: sex addiction.
- DirectorDavid FrankelStarsMeryl StreepTommy Lee JonesSteve CarellAfter thirty years of marriage, a middle-aged couple attends an intense, week-long counseling session to work on their relationship.
- DirectorAndrew WalkingtonStarsBruce MarchianoRobert PurdyClaire WalkingtonFor Love's Sake is a faith-based drama based on a true story. After the tragic death of her husband, Mary Walker falls into a spiral of suicidal depression and subsequently loses custody of her two boys. Through the intervention of her church community and a caring therapist, Mary regains her faith, experiences emotional healing, and finds the strength to fight a skeptical bureaucracy for custody of her children.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsJames SpaderAndie MacDowellPeter GallagherA sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
- DirectorRobert RedfordStarsDonald SutherlandMary Tyler MooreJudd HirschThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsRobin WilliamsMatt DamonBen AffleckWill Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
- DirectorLouis MalleStarsMaurice RonetLéna SkerlaYvonne ClechDepressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living. Will this help him?
- DirectorJeff MalmbergStarsMark HogancampEmmanuel NnejiEdda HogancampDocumentary about Mark Hogancamp. After a vicious attack leaves him brain-damaged and broke, Mark seeks recovery in "Marwencol", a 1/6th scale World War II-era town he creates in his backyard. Inspired the movie Welcome to Marwen (2018)
- StarsJoanne WoodwardSally FieldBrad DavisA young woman whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed sixteen different personalities is treated by a doctor.
- DirectorFrank PerryStarsKeir DulleaJanet MargolinHoward Da SilvaTeenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people.
- DirectorJonathan LevineStarsJosh PeckBen KingsleyOlivia ThirlbyIt's the summer of 1994, and the streets of New York are pulsing with hip-hop. Set against this backdrop, a lonely teenager named Luke Shapiro spends his last summer before university selling marijuana throughout New York City, trading it with his unorthodox psychotherapist for treatment, while having a crush on his stepdaughter.
- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsRobert De NiroRobin WilliamsJulie KavnerThe victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.
- DirectorNunnally JohnsonStarsJoanne WoodwardDavid WayneLee J. CobbA doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
- DirectorEmile ArdolinoStarsCybill ShepherdRobert Downey Jr.Ryan O'NealA reincarnated man unknowingly falls in love with his own daughter from his previous life. Once he realizes this, he tries to end their relationship before angels erase his memory.
- DirectorJohn Cameron MitchellStarsSook-Yin LeePeter SticklesPJ DeBoyA group of New Yorkers caught up in their romantic-sexual milieu converge at an underground salon infamous for its blend of art, music, politics, and carnality.
- DirectorMel BrooksStarsMel BrooksMadeline KahnCloris LeachmanA psychiatrist with intense acrophobia (fear of heights) goes to work for a mental institution run by doctors who appear to be crazier than their patients, and have secrets that they are willing to commit murder to keep.
- DirectorDanny LeinerStarsMaggie GyllenhaalSeth GilliamJim ParsonsThe Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
- DirectorRobert CaryStarsJennifer WestfeldtChris MessinaJason AlexanderA hastily married couple quickly devolve into a life of affairs, meddling parents, and therapy.
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsNicolas CageAlison LohmanSam RockwellA phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
- DirectorHenry BromellStarsWilliam H. MacyNeve CampbellJohn RitterAlex, a hit man, tries to get out of the family business, but his father won't let him do so. While seeking the help of a therapist, he meets a sexually charged 23-year-old woman with whom he falls in love.
- DirectorWilliam Peter BlattyStarsStacy KeachScott WilsonJason MillerAn ex-marine psychiatrist attempts to rehabilitate his patients by indulging their fantasies, and seeks to prove the existence of a loving God to one especially troubled inmate.
- DirectorJohn DahlStarsBen KingsleyTéa LeoniLuke WilsonWhile drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hitman befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
- DirectorSidney MeyersStarsGary MerrillDonald ThompsonClarence CooperA documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed Black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.
- DirectorHarold RamisStarsRobert De NiroBilly CrystalLisa KudrowA comedy about a psychiatrist whose number-one patient is an insecure mob boss.
- DirectorJeanne LabruneStarsIsabelle HuppertBouli LannersSabila MoussadekDrawing some intriguing parallels between the work of the prostitute and that of the psychiatrist-both have clients, both charge for sessions, both take on roles that serve the needs, psychological or otherwise, of those they serve, like Alice, a disaffected call girl and Xavier, a shrink with a crumbling domestic situation. With sex more talked about than shown, the film is filled with pointed dialogue and double entendres.
- DirectorJon PollStarsAnton YelchinRobert Downey Jr.Hope DavisA rich kid becomes the self-appointed psychiatrist to the student body of his new high school.
- DirectorHubert CornfieldStarsSidney PoitierBobby DarinPeter FalkA black prison psychiatrist is assigned the distasteful task of helping a paranoid American Nazi charged with sedition.
- DirectorOren RudavskyStarsChris EigemanIan HolmFamke JanssenJake Singer is at loose ends in New York City, and neck deep in psychoanalysis with the outrageous Dr. Morales, when he meets the enigmatic and beautiful widow Allegra Marshall.
- StarsRoy ThinnesLuther AdlerPete DuelDr. James Whitman is a psychiatrist at a major LA facility who shakes things up with newer techniques, like group therapy. Dr. Altman is his sometime mentor who helps him evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment.
- DirectorJames MangoldStarsWinona RyderAngelina JolieClea DuVallA directionless teenager, Susanna, is rushed to Claymoore, a mental institution, after a supposed suicide attempt. There, she befriends a group of troubled women who deeply influence her life.
- DirectorRudolph MatéStarsWilliam HoldenNina FochLee J. CobbAn escaped psychopathic killer who takes the family and neighbors of police psychologist hostage reveals a recurring nightmare to the doctor.
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsBibi AnderssonKathleen QuinlanBen PiazzaA disturbed, institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
- DirectorBen YoungerStarsUma ThurmanMeryl StreepBryan GreenbergA career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst.
- DirectorRob MargoliesStarsJane AdamsJosh PaisJoe MortonA day that starts like any other turns out to be one family's bitterly hilarious, ultimately painful, day-long journey of self-realization. "Lifelines" chronicles the hapless Bernstein family - Ira, Nancy, Michael, Meghan and Spencer, as they try to catch up to the life they are living... Exploring flawed characters, never allowing any excuses for their ugly behavior beyond their basic humanity, the story reflects the realistic experience of pausing long enough in your typical autopilot day to create the necessary time for truth to emerge.
- DirectorMartin RittStarsBarbra StreisandRichard DreyfussMaureen StapletonA high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
- DirectorPeter BillingsleyStarsVince VaughnMalin AkermanJon FavreauA comedy centered around four couples who settle into a tropical-island resort for a vacation. While one of the couples is there to work on the marriage, the others fail to realize that participation in the resort's therapy sessions is not optional.
- DirectorMike BinderStarsAdam SandlerDon CheadleJada Pinkett SmithA man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
- DirectorMilton Moses GinsbergStarsRip TornSally KirklandRobert BlankshinePsychiatrist installs a concealed movie camera in his apartment to record the screwed-up lives of the women who visit him.
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsBurt ReynoldsJulie AndrewsKim BasingerA womanizing sculptor named David goes to seek help from a psychiatrist, Marianna, to cure him of his obsession with women.
- DirectorHarold RamisStarsRobert De NiroBilly CrystalLisa KudrowMobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol's care, where only more chaos ensues.
- DirectorOlatunde OsunsanmiStarsMilla JovovichElias KoteasWill PattonA thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.
- DirectorRobert AltmanStarsJulie HagertyJeff GoldblumGlenda JacksonA few unusual characters and their unconventional therapists cross paths resulting in hilarious interactions.
- DirectorSteve CollinsStarsCourtney DavisJohn MerrimanMacon BlairGretchen has bigger problems than abysmal fashion sense: She's 17, painfully awkward and stuck in the most unforgiving place on earth - high school. When her obsession with school bad boy Ricky gets out of hand, her mother sends her to an emotional treatment center to recover. She has to travel elsewhere, however, to truly begin to understand why she fixates on the wrong kind of guy.
- DirectorDouglas BuckStarsChloë SevignyStephen ReaLou DoillonA reporter witnesses a brutal murder and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of Siamese twins who were separated at birth, one of them forced to live under the eye of a watchful, controlling psychiatrist.
- DirectorJonas PateStarsKevin SpaceyMark WebberKeke PalmerUnable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
- DirectorK. Lorrel ManningStarsMichael CuomoJ.D. WilliamsMonique Gabriela CurnenA war-torn Marine returns home to face his fiercest battle yet - the one against himself.
- DirectorMiles BrandmanStarsMacaulay CulkinKuno BeckerAlexis DzienaTwo young couples take a swing at handling their relationship problems through psychologist-prescribed partner-swapping.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiLaura MoranteJasmine TrincaA psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba-diving accident.
- DirectorClive DonnerStarsPeter SellersPeter O'TooleRomy SchneiderA playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
- DirectorNorman Z. McLeodStarsDanny KayeVirginia MayoBoris KarloffA clumsy daydreamer gets caught up in a sinister conspiracy.
- DirectorRay LawrenceStarsAnthony LaPagliaGeoffrey RushRachael BlakeThe relationships of four couples unravel after the discovery of a young woman's body in Lantana bush in suburban Sydney.
- DirectorJohn HustonStarsMontgomery CliftSusannah YorkLarry ParksAn examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
- DirectorRobert B. BeanStarsRenée TaylorJoseph BolognaPaul SorvinoAn eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.
- DirectorJeremy LevenStarsJohnny DeppMarlon BrandoFaye DunawayA psychiatrist must cure a young patient who presents himself as Don Juan, the world's greatest lover.
- DirectorFrank OzStarsBill MurrayRichard DreyfussJulie HagertyA successful psychotherapist loses his mind after one of his most dependent patients, an obsessive-compulsive neurotic, tracks him down during his family vacation.
- DirectorCharles VidorStarsChester MorrisRalph BellamyAnn DvorakGangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.
- DirectorAram AvakianStarsStacy KeachHarris YulinDorothy TristanAfter a stay in an asylum, Jacob takes a job as an English lecturer and begins a disastrous affair with Rennie, the wife of a colleague.
- DirectorTahmineh MilaniStarsMahnaz AfsharMohammad Reza GolzarAtila PesianiThe domestic problems of a wealthy young couple goes through the scrutiny of an adroit psychologist to be solved.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsJan TrískaPavel LiskaAnna GeislerováA man takes up residence with a mysterious marquis and is soon persuaded to enter into an asylum for preventative therapy. Things are not what they seem, and the marquis may be even more sinister than what the young man may've predicted.
- DirectorGeorges FranjuStarsPierre BrasseurPaul MeurisseJean-Pierre MockyIn order to get rid of his troublesome son François, Maître Gérane manages to have him committed to a mental hospital owned by Dr. Varmont, a supporter of traditional treatments, in constant conflict with Dr. Emery, whose therapy takes the psychology of patients into account. François soon makes friends with Heurtevent, a sweet epileptic, and both decide to escape from the place. Their attempt is a failure and Heurtevent, unable to get over what he considers a return to hell, commits suicide. But rebellious François tries again and this time around he is successful. He finds shelter at his friend Stephanie's home...
- DirectorIain SoftleyStarsKevin SpaceyJeff BridgesMary McCormackPROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
- DirectorDavid Burton MorrisStarsAnthony EdwardsGrace ZabriskieCynthia BainA smalltown boy moves to the big city to go to medical school. He never tells his proud mother that he dropped out and does not have a successful psychiatry practice like she assumes. He is actually getting by as a waiter. He travels home to tell his mom the truth, but the mayor makes him an offer to move his "practice" back home...
- DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsLoren DeanHope DavisJason LeeIn the small town of Mumford, a psychologist of the same name moves in and quickly becomes very popular, despite a questionable past.
- DirectorPinchas PerryStarsBen CrossArmand AssanteJoanna PaculaViennese doctor Josef Breuer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
- DirectorHugo HaasStarsEleanor ParkerRichard BooneJoan BlondellDuring the 1950s, a Los Angeles psychiatrist uses hypnosis to treat a 25-year-old woman who's suffering from multiple personality disorder.
- DirectorJames KeachStarsChris PineAnjali JayEddie Kaye ThomasA young blind man (Pine) thinks he's found love with an Indian woman (Jay) though their relationship is fraught with cultural differences.
- DirectorYves Christian FournierStarsMaxime DumontierChloé BourgeoisMaxime BessetteJosh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb, wedged between the high school, the mine and the skate park. One morning, he finds his friend Thomas's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more and more detached from the world around him. Only Mia, his best friend's girl, can reach him. With more questions than answers, Josh's is the story of a survivor. It is a modern portrait of today's teens: invincible yet fragile, clear-thinking yet confused, idealistic yet jaded.
- DirectorDavid Lee MillerStarsGabriel SundayDavid CarradineMariel HemingwayA teen coming-of-age romantic dramedy about a media-obsessed geek and the most beautiful and twisted girl in school.
- DirectorHarris GoldbergStarsMatthew PerryLynn CollinsKevin PollakA chronically-depressed screenwriter desperately tries to cure his condition when he meets the girl of his dreams.
- DirectorYves SimoneauStarsPhilip JohnsonRosie O'DonnellRuby DeeDr. Maureen Brennan, a psychiatrist at a youth treatment center, encounters her newest patient, a bi-racial boy named America. Through their sessions, Dr. Brennan helps America come to terms with his roller-coaster life, which began when, as an infant, he was taken by authorities from his crack-addicted mother and placed into foster care. A short time of stability in his life occurred when he lived with Mrs. Harper, the elderly nanny of one of his foster families. He was reunited with his mother at one point, but she soon abandoned him and he went back into foster care. Full of anger and lagging behind in school, America retreats further away from society after years of sexual abuse. After attempting suicide, America is placed in a treatment center where Dr. Brennan helps him open up about his painful past and discover the support and courage he needs to get his life back on track.
- DirectorDaniel Sánchez ArévaloStarsAntonio de la TorreRoberto EnríquezVerónica SánchezFollows the excesses and deprivation of life. Complexes, phobias, obsessions, traumas, fears, and sex are aired in a weight-loss therapy group.
- DirectorScott CaanStarsGiovanni RibisiLynn CollinsScott CaanWhen Solo, the writer of one book, runs out of money for therapy, his therapist suggests getting a dog. Problems arise.
- DirectorAlessandro CaponeStarsIsabelle HuppertGreta ScacchiMélanie LaurentThe secrets and hidden pain of a woman recovering from a suicide attempt reveal themselves through a series of sessions with her psychiatrist.
- DirectorAmanda GoodwinStarsSean MaherJaime Ray NewmanJanet CarrollTold by a psychic of his imminent death on his next birthday, Jack lives out the year, as a hopeless agoraphobic, until he meets a young woman who slowly coaxes him out of his self imposed bondage.
- DirectorMarius VaysbergStarsAleksey ChadovVolodymyr ZelenskyyVille HaapasaloThree Russian expatriates are loving life and seducing women in New York City until they meet up with Saint Valentine in disguise and he curses them with impotence until they learn about true love. No love - no sex.
- DirectorJulio Cesar EstradaStarsLudwika PaletaPlutarco HazaEvangelina SosaJulieta is a young child psychologist hired by millionaire Eugenio Ruvalcaba, to work with his only daughter, Sylvia, who has severe emotional problems, while staying in their isolated island mansion. Once there, she finds out there's much more to Sylvia's imaginary friend than what everybody knows... and the results can be horrifying...
- DirectorJosé Alvarenga Jr.StarsLília CabralJosé MayerReynaldo GianecchiniIn Rio de Janeiro, the forty-something year old, Mercedes, goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life - from a child who lost her mother. Over three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces her husband, Gustavo, and has love affairs with Theo and other young men, always supported by her best friend Monica.
- DirectorGuy MazarguilStarsMathieu DemyJulie GayetValérie DonzelliJean-François, a psychoanalyst, is in love with one of his patients. However, when she decides to stop his therapy, things begin to go awry.
- DirectorGerry PoulsonStarsBarry EvansLiz FraserHilary PritchardA British sex comedy about a doctor, a bevy of beautiful women and their sexual problems. Can the overworked and over-titillated doctor help his patients while resisting the urge to help himself?
- DirectorLinda OttoStarsJoanna KernsMichael BrandonShelley HackDark memories of her father are revealed by a new mother's nightmares and depression after childbirth.
- DirectorPun-Hei LeungStarsSimon YamVeronica YipFarini CheungStricken professionally as well as emotionally after a traumatic attack, Dr. Ivy Yip inadvertently neglects a patient, who subsequently winds up with brain damage. Ivy flees to Macau in shame, where, by coincidence, she crosses paths with that very patient and attempts to make amends. A budding friendship soon escalates into romance, but difficulties arise as neither is equipped to confront the painful memories that eventually resurface.
- DirectorGabriel Le BominStarsGrégori DerangèreAnouk GrinbergAurélien RecoingA psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran to the edge of insanity.
- DirectorRocky CostanzoStarsRichard MeeseAndrew MartinSteve De ForestA well respected child psychologist finds his life turned upside down when he is accused of sexually molesting a young boy under his care.
- CreatorKay MellorStarsSuranne JonesCristian SolimenoTristan GemmillUnable to have children with her husband, sex therapist Linda turns to her brother-in-law for help. Life only gets more complicated when Linda is called in to consult on a sordid murder case.
- DirectorStella OliverosStarsStella OliverosJenna Adare-HaeraSandra AraqueA Lolita incarnated, lost girl, seeks a psychiatrist to help her dissect her life and the secret behind her obsession with red.
- DirectorSteve DiMarcoStarsCharisma CarpenterKatya GardnerKrista BridgesA killer stalks three women who are having adulterers affairs at the bequest of their nymphomaniac psychologist who is also murdered.
- DirectorDouglas JacksonStarsTracy NelsonLinden AshbyHeather TomA couple unable to have children enlist the aid of a surrogate, only for the wife to be driven to insanity and murder by her paranoia.
- DirectorTamara TunieStarsJustin KirkEstella WarrenLiza LapiraLindsay is abandoned by her therapist all August. All NYC therapists are on vacation. She complains on Craigslist - hundreds respond. Ten start a group (therapy session).
- DirectorJesús FrancoStarsWilliam BergerMontserrat ProusEdmund PurdomA doctor unleashes a nightmare of hypnosis curtailing mad violence on the family of a crippled young woman.
- DirectorVilgot SjömanStarsKjell BergqvistHanna FernholmMarc Klein EssinkA woman about to start in psychoanalysis finds out that it's a long waiting period, during which she goes to Asia. Seven months later, she's back. In an inner monologue, she describes what happened during the trip in Asia.
- DirectorGlen GrefeStarsBill BraggDavid HessChristine Marie SchneiderIt's another crazy Christmas and psychotherapist Dr. Carlton Fairfax, Jr. is losing control of his patients and his sanity - then he meets one particularly mysterious patient who sees to it that he definitely continues down that road.
- DirectorRichard LaxtonStarsBenedict WongEddie MarsanOmid DjaliliAn English community gets testy when a refuge family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
- DirectorWayne ReynoldsStarsWayne ReynoldsBryan CallenJorge GarciaDumped by his girlfriend, and in need of therapy, Cooper joins a support group for sex addicts. With the help of group member Mitch, and obscure celebrity Sergio, Cooper tries to pick up the pieces and get another chance at love.
- DirectorJason RuscioStarsKip PardueTed HartleyPetra WrightRepressed memories start to resurface for an unhappy housewife in suburbia.
- DirectorRobert JonesStarsJohn ConnonHeather LeonardiBarry PhillipsA teenager is impregnated by an Alien visitor to Earth.