The 8 Best Psychological Movies To Marvel Your Mind

Psychology invades everything, because everything we know has a mental part. If only because we humans are thinking about it. Thus, the cinema does not stop being less!

Here are seven films that, if you are curious about how our mind works, you will like:

-Instinct:  this is a 1999 film starring Anthony Hopkins and Cuba Gooding Jr, both very good actors, without a doubt. The film meets all the expectations of the public. The second is a young psychiatrist with a promising career, who tries to swim deep into the mind of an anthropologist (Hopkins), and learn his best kept secrets. The man has been accused of killing some park rangers, however, instead of showing a routine prison task, the film narrates it as if it were a trip to the darkest part of our society. For example, the desire for control and power are questioned. It will generate a lot of questions in those who see it.

-A wonderful mind: this film is from 2001 and starring Russell Crowe, who plays John Forbes Nash, Nobel Prize winner in Economics who suffers from schizophrenia. It is preceded by the homonymous novel written by Sylvia Nasar and won the Oscar for best film, in addition to three other statuettes. The film recounts the journeys and mysteries of this still unknown disease, showing the darkest stages and, at the same time, the hope that exists for patients. He explains that schizophrenia is not something negative as society believes.

-K-Pax: this film is from 2001 and stars Kevin Spacey, in relation to the homonymous book. Talk about mental illness and a very frequent question , how real is what we have in hand? Spacey is a patient who is supposedly afflicted by a type of psychosis, he affirms that he came from another planet and that from one moment to another it will be his time to leave here. The psychiatrist, Jeff Bridges, tries to make contact with that reality, however while he is in the analysis and investigation stage in the psychiatric hospital, the convictions begin to flank.

-Someone Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Played by the great Jack Nicholson, this 1975 film also features other renowned actors, such as Danny DeVito and Louise Fletcher. He won five Academy Awards. At first it may be a bit “slow” but then, it catches the viewer with a “surge of emotions”. The film takes place mostly inside the psychiatric hospital, where Nicholson is admitted, and the doctors are evaluating whether his supposed mental illness is real or is he pretending, since he has been accused of rape. It is a heartbreaking and at the same time “nice” story, where the typical problems of these mental institutions are reflected. The question is, was the protagonist a free spirit who succumbed to the inflexible rules of the place or did he really suffer from some kind of psychiatric disorder?

-The Black Swan: The lead actress of this 2010 film, Natalie Portman, won an Oscar for her performance. In addition, Mila Kunis and Vincent Cassel, directed by Darren Aronofsky, work. Portman, a dancer pressured by her mother to be a star on stage (due to her fame not getting pregnant) and at the same time by her partner / rival Kunis, begins to see how her physical and mental reality is going. changing and diminishing as his darker side begins to emerge, to the point of suffering a psychotic break where it is not known what is the product of his imagination and what really happens.

-The experiment: it is a film of German origin from 2001, it is based on a famous experiment in prison. This was carried out by Zimbardo, during the early 70s. It is an incredible film, where you can appreciate the precision of the changes that occur within all those who have to do with the prison, both the incarcerated and the Guardians. A “relationship” is established between them, which makes us think about the roles in society, what the norms are and what the nature of the human being is like.

-The indomitable Will Hunting: He has had 9 Oscar nominations and also, this 1997 film stars actors of great artistic quality, none other than Matt Damon, Robin Williams and Ben Affleck. The first of them is a bright young man from the lower class, where his talent is not taken into account, since he works as a janitor at the University. One day he manages to solve a very complex mathematical enigma and this is how a teacher names him a kind of “protégé.” When the young man is faced with the possibility of going to jail, he is forced to go to a peculiar psychiatrist (Williams), who manages to find an effective way to reach him and help him with his problems. An unusual relationship between patient-doctor is shown, because the professional is not “free of ghosts and sins” either.

-Shutter Island: starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese, it is a film that has the audience attentive until the end. DiCaprio arrives on an island where a psychiatric facility has been built investigating an alleged murder. As the plot progresses, everything changes and the memories of the past come to the mind of this policeman, until they “remember” a murder that he committed. He refuses to accept his responsibility and considers that these are only disturbing dreams.