Tag Archives: psychological drama

The Ugly

IMDB Rating: 6.40
1078 votes

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Simon is a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state. Dr.Karen Shoemaker wants to get through to him and starts visiting him in the hospital, and his previous life comes to us in flashbacks.
Actors
Simon CartwrightPaolo Rotondo
Dr. MarloweRoy Ward
PhillipPaul Glover
Also posted in 1997, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Lolita

IMDB Rating: 7.70
16753 votes

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Humbert Humbert, a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze, his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita, with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love, but whose affections shall be thwarted by a devious trickster named Clare Quilty.
Actors
Prof. Humbert Humbert/NarratorJames Mason
Charlotte Haze/HumbertShelley Winters
Dolores 'Lolita' Haze/Mrs. Richard SchillerSue Lyon
Also posted in 1962, Comedy, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Fearless

IMDB Rating: 7.00
6879 votes

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After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is racked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
Actors
Max KleinJeff Bridges
Laura KleinIsabella Rossellini
Carla RodrigoRosie Perez
Also posted in 1993, Drama, High IMDB rating | Comments (0)

The Bounty

IMDB Rating: 6.70
5620 votes

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The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Actors
Fletcher Christian Master's MateMel Gibson
Lieutenant William BlighAnthony Hopkins
Admiral HoodLaurence Olivier
Also posted in 1984, Adventure, Drama, High IMDB rating, History | Comments (0)

Pacific Heights

IMDB Rating: 6.20
5029 votes

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A yuppie couple buy a large house in an exclusive San Fransisco neighborhood. They renovate it and plan to rent two apartments on the first floor to cover the costs. A prosperous looking man moves in but is not the ideal tenant. He never pays any rent, drives the other tenants away and systematically ruins the lives of his landlords.
Actors
Patty PalmerMelanie Griffith
Drake GoodmanMatthew Modine
Carter HayesMichael Keaton
Also posted in 1990, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Mr. Brooks

IMDB Rating: 7.60
19221 votes

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The story follows a man with a murderous alter ego. Tracy Atwood is a tough detective whose devotion to her craft catches the attention and respect of the serial killer she is hunting, which leads to a symbiotic relationship.
Actors
Mr. Earl BrooksKevin Costner
Tracy AtwoodDemi Moore
Mr. SmithDane Cook
Also posted in 2007, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Thriller | Comments (0)

Black Snake Moan

IMDB Rating: 7.40
3050 votes

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A God-fearing bluesman (Jackson) takes to a wild young woman (Ricci) who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, looks everywhere for love, never quite finding it.
Actors
LazarusSamuel L. Jackson
RaeChristina Ricci
RonnieJustin Timberlake
Also posted in 2006, Drama, High IMDB rating, Romance | Comments (0)

Cape Fear

IMDB Rating: 7.20
28913 votes

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Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years, ago Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Actors
Max CadyRobert De Niro
Sam BowdenNick Nolte
Leigh BowdenJessica Lange
Also posted in 1991, Crime, Drama, High IMDB rating, Horror, Thriller | Comments (0)

Event Horizon

IMDB Rating: 5.90
23098 votes

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A rescue crew in space comes to investigate and if possible, rescue a government spaceship gone missing for seven years. When they board the ship, they learn that the ship has been somewhere beyond space and brought something back with it that is an unspeakable evil.
Actors
Captain MillerLaurence Fishburne
Dr. William WeirSam Neill
Peters, Med TechKathleen Quinlan
Also posted in 1997, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | Comments (1)