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Here’s a list of psychological films that incorporate psychological concepts.
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- A Beautiful Mind (2001)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- A Monster Calls (2016) – Film review by Dr Berney Wilkinson and Dr Richard Marshall
- A Serbian Film (2010)
- About Time (2013) – Film review by Isabel William
- Adaptation (2002)
- American Psycho (2000)
- As Good As It Gets (1997)
- Awakenings (1991)
- Berlin Syndrome (2017)
- Black Swan (2011)
- Bridget Jones (2001) – Film review by Isabel William
- Cape Fear (1991)
- Cocoon (1985) – Film review by Jan Cutt
- Colors of Night (1994)
- Crash (2004)
- Dirty Filthy Love (2004)
- Donnie Darko (2001)
- Dr Strange (2016) – Film review by Adam Knowles
- Duel (1971)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Experimenter (2015) – Film review by Dr Berney Wilkinson and Dr Richard Marshall
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
- Faces in the Crowd (2011)
- Fatal Attraction (1987)
- Fight Club (1999)
- First Love (2019)
- Get Out (2017)
- Girl, Interrupted (1999)
- Gone Girl (2014)
- Good Will Hunting (1997)
- Hannibal Rising (2007)
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
- Identity (2003)
- I am Sam (2001)
- Inception (2010)
- Inside Out (2015) – Film review by Dr Berney Wilkinson and Dr Richard Marshall
- Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
- Joker (2019)
- Journey’s End (2017) – Film review by Dr Stella Compton-Dickinson
- Killing Me Softly (2002)
- Limitless (2011)
- Ma (2019)
- Memento (2000)
- Me, Myself & Irene (2000) – Film review by Scott Trettenero
- Missery (1990)
- My Life (1993)
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) – Film review by Maxwell Guttman
- Paprika (2006)
- Pretty Woman (1990)
- Psychology of Secrets (2013)
- Rain Man (1988)
- Raising Cain (1992)
- Red Dragon (2002)
- Requiem for a Dream (2000)
- Robocop 2 (1990) – Film review by Maxwell Guttman
- Room (2015)
- Sex and the City (2008) – Film review by Isabel William
- Shutter Island (2010)
- Side Effects (2013)
- Spider (2002)
- Split (2016)
- Sybil (1976)
- Taxi Driver (1976)
- The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)
- The Aviator (2004)
- The Blind Side (2009)
- The Breakfast Club (1985)
- The Cable Guy (1996)
- The Deer Hunter (1978)
- The Experimenter (2015)
- The Game (1997)
- The Girl on the Train (2016)
- The Jungle Book (2016) – Film review by Jean-Luc Vannier
- The Machinist (2005)
- The Madness of King George (1994) – Film review by Maxwell Guttman
- The Number 23 (2007)
- The Naked Face (1984)
- The Naked Face (1984)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) – Film review by Dr Berney Wilkinson and Dr Richard Marshall
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
- The Shining (1980)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- The Soul Keeper (2002)
- The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
- The Stepfather (2009)
- They (2002)
- Three Faces of Eve (1957)
- Titanic (1997) – Film review by Dale Burden
- Trading Places (1983) – Film review by Dale Burden
- Up (2009)
- Us (2019)
- Vanilla Sky (2001)
- Veronika Decides to Die (2009)
- Vertigo (1958)
- What About Bob (1991)
- What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1994)
- When a Stranger Calls (2006)
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- 28 Days (2000)
The psychology of film is a subfield of the psychology of art that studies the characteristics of film and its production in relation to perception, cognition, narrative understanding, and emotion.