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1. A Dangerous Method (2011)
R | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.
Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 108,451 | Gross: $5.70M
2. The Haunting (1999)
PG-13 | 113 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Dr Marrow enlists Theo, Luke and Nell for a study of sleep disorders at the Hill House. As soon as the terrifying truth about the mansion is revealed, everyone is found fighting for their lives.
Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor
Votes: 80,561 | Gross: $91.41M
3. The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1971, twenty-four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez | Stars: Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Billy Crudup, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 46,179 | Gross: $0.64M
4. The Jacket (2005)
R | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them.
Director: John Maybury | Stars: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson
Votes: 119,401 | Gross: $6.30M
5. The Experiment (2010)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Director: Paul T. Scheuring | Stars: Adrien Brody, Cam Gigandet, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace
Votes: 57,234
6. The Experiment (2001)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Votes: 96,166 | Gross: $0.14M
7. The Wave (1981 TV Movie)
TV-G | 46 min | Drama
An experiment in an American High School where students learn how easy it is to be seduced by the same social forces which led to the horrors of Nazi Germany. Based on a true story.
Director: Alexander Grasshoff | Stars: Bruce Davison, Lori Lethin, John Putch, Johnny Doran
Votes: 3,397
8. Experimenter (2015)
PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey authority.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 19,708 | Gross: $0.16M
9. Meadowlands (2007)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A married couple and their teenage twins move to Meadowlands, a friendly and seemingly safe suburban town, to start a new life. Here, they will soon realize that secrets and mysteries are plentiful, and past is a difficult thing to bury.
Stars: David Morrissey, Lucy Cohu, Ralph Brown, Tristan Gemmill
Votes: 1,293
10. Shadow People (II) (2013)
PG-13 | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A radio talk show host unravels a conspiracy about encounters with mysterious beings known as The Shadow People and their role in the unexplained deaths of several hundred victims in the 1980s.
Director: Matthew Arnold | Stars: Dallas Roberts, Alison Eastwood, Mattie Liptak, Anne Dudek
Votes: 3,308
11. Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
R | 90 min | Horror
A psychiatrist tells stories of four special cases to a colleague.
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Georgia Brown, Donald Houston
Votes: 2,155
12. The Public Woman (1984)
113 min | Drama
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Francis Huster, Valérie Kaprisky, Lambert Wilson, Patrick Bauchau
Votes: 1,775
13. The Third Part of the Night (1971)
107 min | Drama, Horror, War
Set during the occupation of Poland during World War II. Some German soldiers slaughter a woman, her son, and mother-in-law. The husband and his father escape by being in the forest. The ... See full summary »
Director: Andrzej Zulawski | Stars: Malgorzata Braunek, Leszek Teleszynski, Jan Nowicki, Jerzy Golinski
Votes: 2,710
14. My American Uncle (1980)
PG | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society.
Director: Alain Resnais | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre, Nelly Borgeaud
Votes: 6,862
15. I... For Icarus (1979)
120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Conspiracy thriller inspired by the conspiracy theories surrounding the assassination of JFK. After a fictional president is assassinated, a determined, tough prosecutor investigates the emerging conspiracy behind it.
Director: Henri Verneuil | Stars: Yves Montand, Michel Albertini, Roland Amstutz, Jean-Pierre Bagot
Votes: 4,581
16. The Mind Snatchers (1972)
PG | 94 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A German scientist works on a way of quelling overly aggressive soldiers by developing implants that directly stimulate the pleasure centers of the brain.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Christopher Walken, Joss Ackland, Ralph Meeker, Ronny Cox
Votes: 682
17. Intimate Games (1976)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
A psychology teacher assigns his university class a project about personal fantasies.
Directors: Tudor Gates, Martin Campbell | Stars: George Baker, Monika Ringwald, John Benson, Dudley Stevens
Votes: 272
18. Mind Games (1989)
R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rita and Dana Lund's marriage is in a crisis, Rita's frustrated from being just a housewife. To save their marriage, they set out for a camping trip through California with their son. At a ... See full summary »
Director: Bob Yari | Stars: Maxwell Caulfield, Edward Albert, Shawn Weatherly, Matt Norero
Votes: 316
19. Dogra Magra (1988)
109 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A young man kills his bride on the day of his marriage and goes insane. He wakes up in an asylum with no memory, left in the hands of two mysterious doctors who relate his condition with his biological identity.
Director: Toshio Matsumoto | Stars: Yôji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota, Eri Misawa
Votes: 602
20. The Attic Expeditions (2001)
R | 100 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
An amnesiac awakens in an asylum for the criminally insane and must find answers as those around him die one by one.
Director: Jeremy Kasten | Stars: Andras Jones, Seth Green, Jeffrey Combs, Wendy Robie
Votes: 1,917
21. Hysteria (1997)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
The inmates of an insane asylum are subjected to experiments using collective consciousness and surgically implanted chips in an attempt to create perfect citizens.
Director: Rene Daalder | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Amanda Plummer, Michael Maloney, Joanne Vannicola
Votes: 346
22. Lesson Plan (2010)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Biography, History
'Lesson Plan' is a documentary featuring interviews of the original students and teacher of the 1967 Third Wave experiment. This exercise in fascism took place in Palo Alto, California. ... See full summary »
Directors: David Jeffery, Philip Carr Neel | Stars: Ron Jones, Philip Zimbardo, Scott Thomson, Sherry Tousley
Votes: 184
23. Inshite miru: 7-kakan no desu gêmu (2010)
107 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Ten people who agree to take the same lucrative "job" find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days.
Director: Hideo Nakata | Stars: Kin'ya Kitaôji, Nagisa Katahira, Shinji Takeda, Masanori Ishii
Votes: 1,388
24. (Dis)Honesty: The Truth About Lies (2015)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Drama, News
From ticket-fixing in our police departments to test-score scandals in our schools, from our elected leaders' extra-marital affairs to financial schemes undermining our economy, dishonesty ... See full summary »
Director: Yael Melamede | Star: Dan Ariely
Votes: 1,967
25. Experiment (2005)
R | 95 min | Thriller
A man and woman walk the streets of a foreign city with no memory of who they are and plagued by nightmarish visions. Unknown to them their every action is being guided by unseen forces from the dark underground shadows of the city.
Director: Dan Turner | Stars: John Hopkins, Georgina French, Mem Ferda, David Gant
Votes: 1,034
26. Le jeu de la mort (2010 TV Movie)
95 min | Documentary
Adapting Milgram's experiment into a game show format, this documentary explores the limits of human obedience to a new type of authority figure: television.
Directors: Thomas Bornot, Alain-Michel Blanc, Gilles Amado | Stars: Philippe Torreton, Laurent Le Doyen, Denis Loubaton, Tania Young
Votes: 260
27. The Shock Doctrine (2007)
6 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
Drawing surprising connections between market methods and CIA torture techniques developed in the 1950s, the film explores how well-known events of the recent past have been theaters for the shock doctrine, from Pinochet's coup in Chile, to the Tiananmen Square Massacre, to the war in Iraq today.
Director: Jonás Cuarón | Star: Naomi Klein
Votes: 878
28. Operation Dead End (1986)
95 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In order to find out what will happen to people in a concrete shelter in a post-nuclear situation some scientist are looking for three volunteers to stay isolated on a small island. After ... See full summary »
Director: Nikolai Müllerschön | Stars: Hannes Jaenicke, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Isabelle Willer, Günther Maria Halmer
Votes: 61
29. Mechanical Love (2007)
79 min | Documentary
"Mechanical Love" is a documentary on the interrelationship between robots and humans. The film portrays people who have a close relationship with a robot, and it takes us from the high ... See full summary »
Director: Phie Ambo | Star: Hiroshi Ishiguro
Votes: 137
30. Celebs in Solitary (2018– )
Documentary
Celebs In Solitary is a celebrity edition of In Solitary: The Anti-Social Experiment on Channel 5, in which Anthea Turner, Professor Green, Eddie Hall, and Shazia Mirza attempt to spend five days in solitary confinement.
Stars: George Lamb, Sandra Scott, Eddie Hall, Shazia Mirza
Votes: 16
31. Robolove (2019)
79 min | Documentary
A contemplation on the strategies of men and women involved with the creation of humanoid, android robots. Robots that will perhaps one day expand the human body and the human life.
Director: Maria Arlamovsky | Stars: Bruce Duncan, Ayanna Howard, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Votes: 37
32. Das Spiel (2007)
25 min | Short, Thriller
Director: Daniel Schumann | Stars: Nenia Rauscher, Andre Borkowski, Kathrin Scholz, Yvo René Scharf
34. Das Spiel 2.0 (2008)
Thriller
Director: Daniel Schumann | Stars: Nenia Rauscher, Kathrin Scholz, Yvo René Scharf, Andre Borkowski
35. The Process of Creative Deception (2001)
106 min | Drama
Four artists test their theory on a naive model, with deadly results.
Director: Christopher Romero | Stars: Greg Romero Wilson, Annie Biggs, Schnele Wilson, Mark Romero Wilson
Votes: 22
36. Randgruppe (2003)
22 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Teenagers make exploitative video-interviews with social minorities.
Director: Alexander Tavakoli | Stars: Ines Baric, Joseph Bolz, Luke Förster, Florian Müller-Mohrungen
Votes: 13
37.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962–1965)
Episode:
Anyone for Murder?
(1964)
TV-PG | 48 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
James Parkerson is a professor and dean of psychology. He places a classified ad in the newspaper offering to help husbands and wives who want to be relieved of their spouses, ostensibly to... See full summary »
Director: Leo Penn | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Barry Nelson, Patricia Breslin, Richard Dawson
Votes: 353
38.
Becker (1998–2004)
Episode:
The Hypocratic Oath
(2000)
TV-PG | Comedy
Reggie and a fellow student study rat behavior using a maze. Coincidentally, John's waiting room turns into a maze of boxes when Linda orders too many supplies. Margaret learns that a former patient died and has included her in her will.
Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Ted Danson, Terry Farrell, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith
Votes: 124
39.
Becker (1998–2004)
Episode:
The Ugly Truth
(2001)
TV-PG | Comedy
Reggie conducts an experiment on Becker for a psychology course to see if he treats attractive patients more favorably than unattractive ones. Jake is accidentally sent a driver's license.
Director: Andy Ackerman | Stars: Ted Danson, Terry Farrell, Hattie Winston, Shawnee Smith
Votes: 114
40.
City Guys (1997–2001)
Episode:
The Players
(1999)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Comedy
After seeing Cassidy perform in a student film, Jamal and Chris decide to make their own movie and enter it in a film festival. But when their ideas clash, they end up competing with each ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Bonner | Stars: Wesley Jonathan, Scott Whyte, Caitlin Mowrey, Dionysio Basco
Votes: 10
41.
Horizon (1964– )
Episode:
The Boy Who Was Turned Into a Girl
(2000)
52 min | Documentary
A boy whose penis was burnt off when a circumcision goes wrong is turned into a girl as an attempt to prove a theory about gender identity.
Stars: Dilly Barlow, Alvin Davies, Milton Diamond, Roger Gorski
Votes: 26
42.
The Human Zoo (2000– )
Episode:
Crimes of Obedience
(2000)
51 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
How far will people "go along to get along"? A reality-based experiment that tracks the behavior of 12 people isolated in a country house in Britain. Teams of psychologists conduct and ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Curwin | Stars: Mandy Card, Chris Cresswell, Pete Edmunds, Jane Elliott
43.
The Human Zoo (2000– )
Episode:
Following the Herd
(2000)
52 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
In this program - day two at The Human Zoo - the group is divided into two separate but distinctly unequal teams in order to study the concept of herd mentality. In a struggle to reconcile ... See full summary »
Stars: Dominic Abrams, Mandy Card, Chris Cresswell, Andria Hall
44.
The Human Zoo (2000– )
Episode:
Brief Encounters
(2000)
51 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
We are all amateur psychologists, because most of what we do is designed to influence what others think of us. What do people look for when sizing up others during an initial meeting? How ... See full summary »
Directors: Lisa Gilchrist, Iain Scollay, Nick Curwin | Stars: Mark McDermott, Philip Zimbardo, Dilly Barlow, Charlie Skelton
45.
Huset på Christianshavn (1970–1977)
Episode:
Nordøstlig kuling, det blæser på Hebriderne
(1972)
26 min | Comedy, Family
Director: Tom Hedegaard | Stars: Lis Løwert, Paul Hagen, Helle Virkner, Poul Reichhardt
Votes: 12
46.
Murdoch Mysteries (2008– )
Episode:
Shock Value
(2021)
TV-PG | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A part time university student is found dead with electrical burns on the head and two newly arrived American psychology professors with a penchant for unusual experiments may be responsible.
Director: Ruba Nadda | Stars: Yannick Bisson, Helene Joy, Thomas Craig, Jonny Harris
Votes: 209
47.
1899 (2022)
Episode:
The Pyramid
(2022)
TV-MA | 52 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Tove has scary flashbacks and wants to kill the boy. Daniel follows Maura and the captain into a strange place. Maura's father appears with a message.
Director: Baran bo Odar | Stars: Emily Beecham, Aneurin Barnard, Andreas Pietschmann, Miguel Bernardeau
Votes: 4,191
48.
Community (2009–2015)
Episode:
Introduction to Film
(2009)
TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy
Britta comes between Abed and his father when she signs him up for a film class, and Jeff risks failing a class unless he "seizes the day."
Director: Anthony Russo | Stars: Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown
Votes: 5,194
49.
Through the Wormhole (2010–2017)
Episode:
Did We Invent God?
(2012)
TV-PG | 43 min | Documentary
Did God invent humanity? Or did we invent God? Since our brains are where we experience reality, does imagining God make God real? One neuroscientist is trying to find the answer by peering... See full summary »
Director: James Younger | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jesse Bering, Olaf Blanke, Bruce Hood
Votes: 120
50.
Uncanny (2023)
Episode:
Case 1: Miss Howard
(2023)
59 min | Reality-TV, Documentary
The hit podcast comes to TV. Danny Robins asks if a young girl in rural Cambridgeshire was visited by the apparition of an Edwardian school teacher? He also examines a Canadian psychological experiment and a time slip in Liverpool.
Directors: Chris Holt, Christopher Poole, Joe Myerscough | Stars: Danny Robins, Cate Baum, Evelyn Hollow, Ciarán O'Keeffe
Votes: 24