TOP 10 Best Movies About Psychoanalysts: Watch and Enjoy

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In autumn, you usually want to learn new things, think a lot, feel nostalgic and analyze. Although it is too early to wrap yourself in a blanket and drink hot tea, we have prepared an interesting activity for you.

Radio Maximum offers to spend cold autumn evenings watching a movie. We have collected the best films about psychoanalysts that will make you think.

To everyone who loves autumn, long thoughts and is interested in psychology, we dedicate our selection of cool films about psychoanalysts.

TOP-10 best movies about psychoanalysts:

1. “It doesn't get better”

Original title: “As Good As Its Gets”
Country: USA
< em>Genre: Comedy
Director: James L. Brooks
Rating: 7.7

The psychotherapist in the film is almost off-screen, but the incredible power of his influence is present in every desire of Nicholson's character to experience real human feelings. In the middle of the film, the role of a psychotherapist is unknowingly taken on by the main character, giving her assessment of what is happening. A film about the fact that love also needs to be learned.

2. “My best lover”

Original title: “Prime”
Country: USA
Genre: Melodramas, Comedy, Dramas
Director: Ben Junger
Rating: 6.2

In the plot of the film “My Best Lover”, 37-year-old Rafi is a bright representative of successful, self-sufficient New Yorkers who have a good job, a great apartment in Manhattan, and a beloved husband. It was only with the last one that Rafa had a complete disaster, the result of which was a divorce. To cope with the difficulties that have piled up, Rafi begins to attend psychotherapy sessions with a professional Lisa Metzger.

3. “Smart Will Hunting”

Original title: “Good Will Hunting”
Country: USA
Genre: Melodramas, Dramas
Director: Gus Van Sant
Rating: 8.3

The film is about a brilliant 20-year-old young man who is forced to visit a psychotherapist. The hero of Robin Williams, a psychotherapist, helps the boy (Matt Damon) not with classic reasoning on the couch or hypnosis sessions, as is customary in highly respected America, but with his openness, sincerity and sincere love for a person. The wonderful dialogue of the main characters is a psychotherapeutic session when the hero of Robin Williams tells his ward about his wife.

4. “Analyze This”

Original title: “Analyze This”
Country: USA
Genre : Comedy, crime
Director: Harold Ramis
Rating: 6.7

The film “Analyzing it” is a comedy about the sudden friendship between a mobster and his psychoanalyst. Any strong and powerful person, be it a strict teacher, top manager or business owner, is first of all a person with his own emotions and experiences. What a simple clerk can afford, a top manager can't, that's why it's more difficult for top/business owners. And what about a psychotherapist or a coach who helps a powerful client solve his problems? He should be not just strong, but professionally strong. And to begin with, imagine him in a situation of house cleaning, with a rag in his hand. It will help.

5. “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”

Original title: “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”
Country: USA, France< br> Genre: Drama, Biography
Director: Julian Schnabel
Rating: 8

The editor-in-chief of Elle France magazine at the age of 43 ends up in the hospital with a stroke. After coming to his senses after a few days, he realizes with horror that he is paralyzed and the only thing that still obeys him is his left eye. Having developed his system of communication with the outside world, Jean-Dominique adapted to talking about himself.

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Winking with his left eye at the person dictating the alphabet, he thereby indicated the right letter. So he told what it was like to be wrapped in one's own motionless body. Gradually, he dictated a whole book about his mental anxieties and about the fantastic worlds he visited in his dreams.

6. “What strangers talk about”

Original title: “Bajo terapia”
Country: Spain
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Director: Gerardo Herrero
Rating: 6.7

Three married couples who do not know each other find themselves at a group psychotherapy session. But instead of meeting with a psychologist, they have to open eight envelopes with provocative tasks. An evening of revelations about love, jealousy and sex leads to unforeseen consequences.

7. “You belong to me”

Original title: “You Belong to Me”
Country: USA
Genre: Thriller
Director: Von Stein
Rating: 5

When a psychiatrist could not deal with the problems of one of his patients, she ended up committing suicide. In the hope of making up for his guilt, the doctor begins to communicate with the brother of the deceased, but this only complicates his life, due to the fact that he manages to seduce both his wife and daughter at the same time.

“You belong to me ”

8. “Three Christs”

Original title: “Three Christs”
Country: USA
Genre: Drama
Director: John Evnet
Rating: 6.7

The action of the American dramatic film “State of Mind” takes place in the fifties of the last century in a well-known psychiatric hospital in the state of Michigan. Outstanding psychiatrists work here, including Alan Stone, a highly qualified specialist in the field of psychiatry. He devoted many years to researching the capabilities of the human brain and the causes that cause this or that mental disorder. However, an experienced doctor often has disagreements with colleagues who apply electroshock and chemical therapy to patients.

9. “A Dangerous Method”

Original title: “A Dangerous Method”
Country: Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Switzerland
Genre: Melodramas, Dramas, Thrillers, Biography, Subtitled Movies
Director: David Cronenberg
Rating: 6.4

The story of the founders of psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud and their complicated relationship with patient Sabina Spielrein. David Cronenberg's drama about unpredictable human nature with Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender.

A young girl named Sabina Spielrein comes to Carl Gustav Jung in a state of extreme hysteria. The method developed by Jung and Sigmund Freud helps Spielrein recover and later engage in psychoanalysis herself. An interesting adaptation of an equally interesting story.

10. “The son's room”

Original title: La stanza del figlio
Country: Italy, France
Genre: Dramas
Director: Nanni Moretti
Rating: 7.3

A friendly family from a small Italian town. Father – Giovanni, mother – Paola and their two children: the elder Irene and Andrea. Giovanni is a psychoanalyst. He receives patients in an office adjacent to the apartment. All he gets from his work is a huge list of human neuroses, which is in striking contrast to his own peaceful life. One Sunday morning, Giovanni receives an urgent call from one of the patients. He can't go jogging with his son as he promised. Andrea goes diving with friends. He won't come back.

“Son's Room”