American films about psychiatrists

List of the best American films about psychiatrists, selected by visitors to our site: The Invasion, Split, Small Apartments, Fractured, The Road Within, Love Sick Love, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1, All Light Will End, Clinical, Wonder Wheel.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.9
Genrefantastic, thriller
CountryUSA, Australia
Duration01:39

    Washington, D.C. psychologist Carol Bennell and her colleague Dr. Ben Driscoll are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an epidemic running rampant through the city. They discover an alien virus aboard a crashed space shuttle that transforms anyone who comes into contact with it into unfeeling drones while they sleep. Carol realizes her son holds the key to stopping the spread of the plague and she races to find him before it is too late.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration02:27

    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 Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:24

    Dori and Norman, two stunning and sophisticated serial daters, are destined to endure a terrifying journey through perfect couple-hood: Valentine's, Easter, Halloween, Christmas and New Year. Except with psychopath Dori, it all needs to take place over one weekend deep in the isolated countryside far from help. "Love Sick Love" is a complex and suspenseful journey into the darker side of love.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, cartoon, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:13

    Batman has not been seen for ten years. A new breed of criminal ravages Gotham City, forcing 55-year-old Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. But, does he still have what it takes to fight crime in a new era?

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA

    When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    The story of four characters whose lives intertwine amid the hustle and bustle of the Coney Island amusement park in the 1950s: Ginny, an emotionally volatile former actress now working as a waitress in a clam house; Humpty, Ginny’s rough-hewn carousel operator husband; Mickey, a handsome young lifeguard who dreams of becoming a playwright; and Carolina, Humpty’s long-estranged daughter, who is now hiding out from gangsters at her father’s apartment.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:47

    In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    Eddie Miller struggles with his hatred of women, he's especially bothered by seeing women with their lovers. He starts a killing spree as a sniper by shooting women from far distances. In an attempt to get caught, he writes an anonymous letter to the police begging them to stop him.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:43

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:38

    In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Sweden
    Duration01:32

    A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration02:24

    A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:22

    Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    The film tells the story of documentary filmmaker Michael King (Shane Johnson), who doesn’t believe in God or the Devil. Following the sudden death of his wife, Michael decides to make his next film about the search for the existence of the supernatural, making himself the center of the experiment – allowing demonologists, necromancers, and various practitioners of the occult to try the deepest and darkest spells and rituals they can find on him – in the hopes that when they fail, he’ll once and for all have proof that religion, spiritualism, and the paranormal are nothing more than myth. But something does happen. An evil and horrifying force has taken over Michael King. And it will not let him go.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration01:36

    The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.

    Markimdb: 3.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A young couple moves into what appears to be the perfect home, but when they discover that they will soon become parents, things begin to fall apart. Rachel, the expectant mother, is haunted by a ghost in a red dress, while Kevin, the soon to be father, has frightening nightmares even while he’s awake. The once happy couple is torn apart by horrific events, which all seem to be centered around the birth of their unborn child.

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A down to earth school psychologist tries to help a mentally ill student who actually believes his brother is coming back from the grave for revenge on the students who killed him.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom
    Duration01:53

    Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
    Duration01:39

      Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, drama, detective
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration02:00

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O’Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantastic, action, short
      CountryUSA
      Duration14:19

      Deboot of the Power Rangers. Joseph Kahn's take on the FAN FILM. Not a pilot, not a series, not for profit, strictly for exhibition. This is a bootleg experiment not affiliated or endorsed by Saban Entertainment or Lionsgate nor is it selling any product. He claims no rights to any of the characters. This is the NSFW version.

      Markimdb: 8.6
      Genrecomedy, documentary, cartoon, music, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:27

      The raucous adventures of some of music’s most legendary artists, as told by those who knew them best. Featuring animated interviews with former bandmates, friends and other erstwhile associates, who share uncensored anecdotes about these artists, brought to life with animated reenactments and woven together with live-action archival performance footage and photos.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:17

        As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUSA, Spain
        Duration01:21

        V/H/S: VIRAL's segments include the story of a deranged illusionist who obtains a magical object of great power, a homemade machine that opens a door to a parallel world, teenage skaters that unwillingly become targets of a Mexican death cult ritual, and a sinister, shadowy organization that is tracking a serial killer. The segments are tied together by the story of a group of fame-obsessed teens following a violent car chase in LA that unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:31

        Based on the play of the same name by Pulitzer Prize Winner Cormac McCarthy, this searing two-character drama mixes humor and pathos while examining the relationship between strangers who are brought together by desperate circumstances. Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men - a deeply religious black ex-con who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on a rational, spiritual and emotional level, the other remains steadfast in his hard-earned despair. Locked in a philosophical debate, both passionately defend their personal credos and try to convert the other.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genremelodrama, drama, family
        CountryUSA

        With her husband jailed for Wall Street-based fraud, Faith has to leave behind her luxury life in New York to return home to North Carolina and the widower father and dutiful older sister she left behind. Together, they have to deal with the buried emotions of sudden death of Faith’s mother years ago, and learn to be a family again. Like the Prodigal story, Heart of the Country is a tale of a father’s unconditional love. He simply wants a relationship with his children, and once that relationship is restored, he begins to create healing for his broken daughter. Her marriage has to be rebuilt, her belief in herself, and her peace with her mother’s death all come together through the quiet, selfless guidance of her loving father. The novel, written by Rene Gutteridge from the original screenplay by filmmaker John Ward, takes us from the glamour of Manhattan to the open beauty of the fields of rural Columbus County, North Carolina as the timeless tale of the Prodigal Son is reborn!

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:11

        The series follows Detective Carter, a radical LAPD detective, and Detective Lee, a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong, as they are forced into forming an unlikely partnership

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrefantastic, comedy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration03:15

        When Lou, who has become the "father of the Internet," is shot by an unknown assailant, Jacob and Nick fire up the time machine again to save their friend.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:04

        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.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrethriller
        CountryUSA, Chile, Israel
        Duration02:02

          When a devoted husband and father is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, documentary
          CountryUSA

          As mass hysteria breaks-out over an alleged demonic possession in an Indiana home, referred to as a “Portal to Hell,” Ghost Adventures host and paranormal investigator Zak Bagans buys the house, sight unseen, over the phone. He and his crew then become the next victims of the most documented case of demonic possession in US history… the “house of 200 demons.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrecomedy, drama, music
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          I'm Still Here is a portrayal of a tumultuous year in the life of actor Joaquin Phoenix. With remarkable access, the film follows the Oscar-nominee as he announces his retirement from a successful film career in the fall of 2008 and sets off to reinvent himself as a hip-hop musician. The film is a portrait of an artist at a crossroads and explores notions of courage and creative reinvention, as well as the ramifications of a life spent in the public eye.

          Markimdb: 3.8
          Genrehorror
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:58

          Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:30

          Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her Mother isn't telling her everything and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.

          Markimdb: 6.9
          Genredrama, biography, sport
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          The true story of Gabby Douglas who becomes the first African American to be named Individual All-Around Champion in artistic gymnastics at the Olympic Games.




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