Top Psychiatry Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Simone Simon

Kent Smith

Tom Conway

Jane Randolph

Cat People (1942)

6.9 675 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 73 min.

Audience: NR

Story: 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.

Plot: work, jealousy, love triangle, isolation, cat, smoking, office, zoo, ...

Time: 1940s

The Bride of Habaek (2017) TV Show

6.9 90 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-14

Story: Yoon So Ah is a pragmatic neuropsychiatrist who carries a tremendous financial burden to run her own practice. Her family has been tasked with serving Ha Baek, a reincarnated water god, for many generations, and So Ah is forced to do the same. Ha Baek starts to develop feelings for So Ah, but he has competition for her heart from Hoo Ye, the CEO of a resort company, who clashes with So Ah over a piece of land but then falls in love with her. Can a relationship between a mortal female and a god have a future?

Plot: god, romcom, romance, psychiatrist, interspecies romance, based on webcomic or webtoon, special power, based on manhwa

The Jacket (2005)

6.9 1.7K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

Plot: amnesia, experiment, smoking, psychology, hallucination, time travel, medicine, iraq war veteran, ...

Berlin Calling (2008)

6.8 365 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: Germany

Duration: 105 min.

Story: A man tours clubs around the globe with his manager and girlfriend. On the eve of their largest album release he is admitted to a psychiatric clinic after overdosing at a gig.

Plot: drug abuse, techno, drugs, psychiatry

Cast

Billy Warlock

Connie Danese

Ben Slack

Evan Richards

Society (1990)

6.7 636 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: Bill Whitney is worried that he is different to his sister and parents. They mix with other upper-class people while Bill is more down to earth. Even his girlfriend seems a bit odd. All is revealed when Bill returns home to find a party in full swing.

Plot: high school, orgy, transformation, secret society, cult, surrealism, human body, psychiatrist

Cast

Rooney Mara

Jude Law

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Channing Tatum

Side Effects (2013)

6.6 3.3K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

Plot: depression, new york city, fraud, insomnia, deception, cover-up, murder, lawyer, ...

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Matthew Goode

Liv Lisa Fries

Jodi Balfour

Freud's Last Session (2023)

6.6 182 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.

Plot: based on true story, author, historical fiction, belief in god, psychiatry, lesbian, independent film, sigmund freud

Time: world war ii, 1940s, 1930s

Cast

Dee Wallace

Patrick Macnee

Dennis Dugan

Christopher Stone

The Howling (1981)

6.6 897 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: adultery, based on novel or book, shapeshifting, secret society, woods, murder, serial killer, cabin, ...

Cast

Ewan McGregor

Naomi Watts

Ryan Gosling

Kate Burton

Stay (2005)

6.6 1.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Switzerland, United States of America

Duration: 99 min.

Audience: R

Story: Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

Plot: loss of sense of reality, time warp, suicide attempt, psychiatrist, parallel world

Cast

Haley Bennett

Austin Stowell

Elizabeth Marvel

David Rasche

Swallow (2020)

6.6 862 votes

Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America, France

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: sexual abuse, housewife, loneliness, psychological thriller, psychiatrist, therapy, mental illness, eating non food, ...

Cast

Lindsay Lohan

Jamie Lee Curtis

Harold Gould

Chad Michael Murray

Freaky Friday (2003)

6.6 4.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 97 min.

Audience: PG

Story: 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.

Plot: high school, concert, sibling relationship, single parent, mistake in person, bride, body exchange, fortune cookie, ...

Analyze This (1999)

6.5 2.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America, Australia

Duration: 103 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Plot: new york city, mafia boss, wedding, psychiatrist

Cast

Alan Thicke

Joanna Kerns

Kirk Cameron

Tracey Gold

Growing Pains (1985) TV Show

6.5 171 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 162

Audience: TV-G

Story: Fatherhood has taken on a whole new meaning for Jason Seaver, who has assumed the chores of cooking, cleaning and minding the kids so that his wife, Maggie, can pursue a career in journalism after spending 15 years as a housewife.

Plot: long island, new york, psychiatrist, family, sitcom

Cast

Mia Farrow

William Hurt

Joe Mantegna

Alec Baldwin

Alice (1990)

6.4 347 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.

Plot: infidelity, new york city, husband wife relationship, chinatown, miracle, saxophonist, housewife, deceived husband, ...

Cast

Malachi Pearson

Christina Ricci

Bill Pullman

Cathy Moriarty

Casper (1995)

6.3 5.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.

Plot: friendship, afterlife, supernatural, halloween, bullying, treasure hunt, based on comic, friends, ...

Mirrors (2008)

6.3 2.1K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery

Country: Romania, United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Plot: schizophrenia, subway, night watchman, possession, hallucination, morgue, alcoholism, ex-cop, ...

Harlan Coben's Lazarus (2025) TV Show

6.3 78 votes

Genre: Mystery

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Story: Forensic psychiatrist Dr Joel 'Laz' Lazarus is forced to confront long-buried demons after his father Dr L dies in suspicious circumstances. At first assured his dad's death is a suicide, Laz is soon sucked into a world of murderous conspiracy, and a race to find the killer, by strange visions of people he knows to be dead.

Plot: suicide, murder, miniseries, psychological thriller, psychiatrist, depressed, thriller

The Voices (2014)

6.3 1.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.

Plot: serial killer, psychiatrist, killer, evil, woman director

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nick Stahl

Claire Danes

Kristanna Loken

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

6.2 7.3K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Germany, United Kingdom

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: It's been 10 years since John Connor saved Earth from Judgment Day, and he's now living under the radar, steering clear of using anything Skynet can trace. That is, until he encounters T-X, a robotic assassin ordered to finish what T-1000 started. Good thing Connor's former nemesis, the Terminator, is back to aid the now-adult Connor … just like he promised.

Plot: man vs machine, artificial intelligence (a.i.), saving the world, leather jacket, cyborg, killer robot, dystopia, nanotechnology, ...

Time: 2030s

Cast

Richard Gere

Kim Basinger

Uma Thurman

Eric Roberts

Final Analysis (1992)

5.8 322 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: A psychiatrist becomes romantically involved with the sister of one of his patients, but the influence of her controlling gangster husband threatens to destroy them both.

Plot: infidelity, gangster, sister, murder, arson, lust, psychiatrist, extramarital affair, ...

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