PSYCHOLOGY
Below is a list of movies that include some
aspect of psychology. If you have a movie you would like to add, please email the title to me at merrill@smccd.net. Please check back
occasionally, as new titles are continuously added.
PLEASE ENJOY THE LIST, BUT DO NOT EMAIL ME FOR HELP WITH
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Psychopathology and the Cinema.
This course syllabus (taught at
Listmania! Movies for Psych Majors
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (internet
reader recommendation)
Abnormal Psychology
Donnie Darko
(internet reader recommendation)
Abnormal Psychology
Benny and Joon
(internet reader recommendation)
Abnormal Psychology
Identity (internet reader
recommendation)
Psych disorders
The Cell (internet reader
recommendation)
Futuristic therapy
Running With Scissors (internet
reader recommendation)
Psych disorders, unethical therapy
Lars and the Real Girl (internet
reader recommendation)
Delusional disorder
Little Miss Sunshine (internet
reader recommendation)
Psych disorders
The Long Kiss Goodnight
(internet reader recommendation)
DID
Reign on Me
PTSD
Silence of the Lambs (student
recommendation)
Psychological disorders
Copycat
Psychological disorders
Awakenings (internet reader recommendation)
Rainman (internet reader
recommendation)
Autism
American Psycho (internet reader
recommendation)
A Clockwork Orange (internet
reader recommendation)
Dexter (series on Showtime)
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Train-Man (internet reader
recommendation)
Social anxiety disorder
The Butterfly Effect (internet
reader recommendation)
Primal Fear (internet reader
recommendation)
Psych disorders
12 Angry Men
Social psychological concepts
As Good As it Gets (student
recommendation)
OCD
Passion of Mind (student
recommendation)
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Control (student
recommendation)
Antisocial Personality Disorder, experimentation
K-Pax (internet reader
recommendation)
Psych disorders
Memento (internet reader
recommendation)
Memory
A Beautiful Mind (student
recommendation)
Schizophrenia
Mr. Jones
Bi-Polar disorder
Girl, Interrupted
Psych disorders
Spun
Drug Addiction
Iris
Alzheimer’s disease
Fight Club
Psych disorders
About Schmidt
Issues faced in older adulthood
Secretary
Sadomasochism
Crash (student recommendation)
Attitudes, prejudice, discrimination
Touching the Void
Theories of motivation
Gender Identity Disorder
Matchstick Men (student
recommendation)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
The Aviator (student recommendation)
Psych disorders
Rosemary’s Baby (student
recommendation)
Good illustration of persuasive techniques
Seven (student
recommendation)
Psychological disorders
15 Minutes (student
recommendation)
Provides examples of media influence
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Punch-Drunk Love (student
recommendation)
The Manchurian Candidate (original
1962 version)
Hypnosis, classical conditioning
The Experiment (student
recommendation)
Based loosely on Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Study
Spider
Psych disorders
American History X (student
recommendation)
Prejudice, discrimination, attitudes
The Ted Bundy Story (student
recommendation)
Antisocial personality disorder
Heavenly Creatures
Shared psychosis
Thirteen
Issues of
adolescence
Capturing the
Friedmans
(student recommendation)
Pedophilia