Tag Archives: psychiatrist

The Cell

IMDB Rating: 6.10
25060 votes

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Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a secret area where they are kept for about 40 hours until they are slowly drowned. Unfortunately, the killer has fallen into an irreversible coma which means he cannot confess where he has taken his latest victim before she dies. Now, Catherine Deane must race against time to explore the twisted mind of the killer to get the information she needs, but Stargher's damaged personality poses dangers that threaten to overwhelm her.
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Catherine DeaneJennifer Lopez
FBI Agent Peter NovakVince Vaughn
Carl Rudolph StargherVincent D'Onofrio
Also posted in 2000, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, High IMDB rating, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (27)

As Good as It Gets

IMDB Rating: 7.70
61556 votes

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New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will tolerate him, must leave work to care for her sick son, making it impossible for Melvin to eat breakfast.
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Melvin UdallJack Nicholson
Carol ConnellyHelen Hunt
Simon BishopGreg Kinnear
Also posted in 1997, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Twelve Monkeys

IMDB Rating: 8.00
93017 votes

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An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
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Young ColeJoseph Melito
James ColeBruce Willis
JoseJon Seda
Also posted in 1995, Drama, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (1)

The Departed

IMDB Rating: 8.40
95623 votes

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Two just-graduated officers from Massachusetts State Police Academy follow opposite sides of the law: William Costigan is assigned to work undercover with the Irish mobster Frank Costello to get evidences to arrest him. His true identity is only known by his superiors Dignam and Oliver Queenan. The protégée of Costello, Colin Sullivan, is promoted in the Massachusetts State Police and is the informer of Costello. Each police officer gives his best effort trying to disclose the identity of the other "rat".
Actors
Billy CostiganLeonardo DiCaprio
Colin SullivanMatt Damon
Frank CostelloJack Nicholson
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Basic Instinct 2

IMDB Rating: 3.70
8163 votes

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The decadent life of novelist Catherine Trammell (Sharon Stone) continues int his sequel that finds her in the opening sequence speeding through the streets of London using the hand of her obviously under-the-influence soccer star boy friend to masturbate herself. After the car goes out of control, she manages to escape but he drowns leading to an investigation of whether she had in fact murdered him with an implication that he was already dead before the car even entered the water. Officials bring in a police psychologist (David Morrissey) to determine her mental state. Obsession sets in and the psychiatrist is drawn into her manipulations and dangerous world. As deaths occur around the pair involving acquaintances of both parties, including the psychiatrist's ex-wife, the story twists (and doesn't answer) to make you wonder who is committing the crimes. David Thewlis also co-stars as a perhaps corrupt police inspector and Charlotte Rampling appears as a colleague of the psychiatrist. Contains frequent nudity, depiction of orgies and graphic sexual encounters, constant profanity and violence that is mostly committed off-camera.
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Catherine TramellSharon Stone
Dr. Michael GlassDavid Morrissey
Milena GardoshCharlotte Rampling
Also posted in 2006, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (7)

Stay

IMDB Rating: 6.80
10583 votes

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A thought-provoking and haunting exploration of how reality and dream-states may combine to form complex interactions in the mind of an accident victim. The line between the imagination and reality blurs when an accomplished Psychiatrist takes on a patient that appears to be suicidal.
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Sam FosterEwan McGregor
Henry LethamRyan Gosling
Mrs. LethamKate Burton
Also posted in 2005, Drama, High IMDB rating, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (0)

Assault on Precinct 13

IMDB Rating: 6.30
13361 votes

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On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick (Hawke) must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop (Fishburne).
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RoenickEthan Hawke
John Leguizamo
SmileyJa Rule
Also posted in 2005, Action, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Identity

IMDB Rating: 7.30
30933 votes

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Strangers from all different walks of life: a limo driver escorting a movie star, parents with a young son, a cop transporting a convict, a prostitute, a young couple, and a motel manager are caught up in a nasty rainstorm, stuck at a motel in desolate Nevada. Soon they realize they may be at the motel for another reason when one by one, people start getting killed off. As tensions flare and fingers are pointed, they have to get to the bottom of why they're there. Meanwhile in an undisclosed location, a psychiatrist is trying to prove the innocence of a man accused of murder in an eleventh hour trial. How these two through-lines are related can only be found in Identity.
Actors
EdJohn Cusack
RhodesRay Liotta
ParisAmanda Peet
Also posted in 2003, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | Comments (7)

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

IMDB Rating: 6.80
52318 votes

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More than 10 years after 'Terminator 2', John Connor now exists only as a drifter - living 'off the grid', so no more Terminators from the future can hunt him down. Unfortunately, SkyNet does send another one back - and this one is called the T-X, even more powerful & advanced than the dreaded T-1000. However, another CSM-101 Terminator is also sent back to protect John against the T-X. Now, Skynet is patiently assuming control of civilian computer systems, under the guise of a computer virus. John has also met his future wife, Kate Brewster, whose father - a U.S. Air Force General - is in charge of the military computer systems & is leery of up linking SkyNet. However, when the SkyNet virus infects the U.S military computers & leaves the country open to attack, the machines begin their horrific takeover. Soon a nuclear war will result - and the war against the machines will begin. Can the outdated CSM-101 Terminator eliminate the highly advanced T-X - or will a darker future await man following the nuclear attack?
Actors
TerminatorArnold Schwarzenegger
John ConnorNick Stahl
Kate BrewsterClaire Danes
Also posted in 2003, Action, Adventure, High IMDB rating, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (10)

Dreamcatcher

IMDB Rating: 5.20
17158 votes

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Four friends sruggling with life meet in the Maine woods for their annual hunting trip. When a stranger stumbles in to their camp disoriented mumbling things about lights in the sky the four friends put in a struggle with a psychotic army colonel and a being that has taken control of one of their minds.
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Col. Abraham CurtisMorgan Freeman
Dr. Henry DevlinThomas Jane
Joe 'Beaver' ClarendenJason Lee
Also posted in 2003, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (8)