Movies: Psychology

POSSESSED enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions. The film questions whether hoarding is a symptom of mental illness or a revolt against the material recklessness of cons...

The history of psychoanalysis is littered with the discarded psyches of the women whose diagnoses were key to the fame of the great masters. One such woman was Sabina Spielrein. Unlike the rest, she didn't vanish forever from history. Elisabeth Márto...

The life and work of the woman described as "The Rosa Parks of Gay Rights". During the repressive 1950's, Dr. Evelyn Hooker undertook ground breaking research that led to a radical discovery: homosexuals were not, by definition, "sick." Dr. Hooker's ...

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In a society in which conscious lies and double morals are easily justified with excuses and laughs, a needlessly complex society is created, that deviates from the core of tangible life. Freek has a difficult time maintaining himself in his normal ...

A young university freshmen enters university with hopes of pursuing his art, but is challenged by a dark reality of human existence which has haunted him since his childhood....

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Suffering from addiction and homelessness, Abigail wanders the city on a cold winter late afternoon, suffering withdrawal, slipping in and out of hallucinations and dreams as the cold sets in....

A junior psychologist provides consultation sessions to three of her patients, but their experiences trigger her to question her position in this world....

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John, a baby who has never been without his parents, spends nine days in a nursery without them....

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A Lonely Teenager decides to take a psychological challenge which may lead to the dark past which he is unaware of....

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In this short documentary, filmmaker Aidan Porier asks his friends what it means to be human. Here's what they said......

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In Japan, a million young men have shut the door on real life. Almost one man in ten in his late teens and early twenties is refusing to leave his home – many do not leave their bedrooms for years on end....

Thomas Renner, an aspiring painter, struggles to make his masterpiece while dealing with complete colour-blindness....

Alex dreams of a mysterious girl he has never seen before and he can't remember the end of the dream. Using the regression technique, Alex relives the dream and discovers the sad truth about the girl....