Are you planning to spend the evening watching a good movie? This is a great way to spend your leisure time, but how to find a movie, seeing that, you will not regret the wasted time? We present you a list of twenty of the best psychological (and not only!) Films according to the version of the site PsSovet24.ru, which are really worth seeing.
Let's figure out what kind of movie.
20. Real love
Love is real everywhere — it is inexplicable and unforgettable, unexpected and unattainable. Love is not important gender, age or social status. Everything is submissive to her - from a ten-year-old boy who first experienced love to a country's prime minister who fell in love with his employee.
The picture “Real Love” is dedicated to this wonderful feeling and shows several magical love stories that are closely intertwined on Christmas Eve.
19. Talk to her
The journalist Marco, in search of an interesting topic for his article, meets with Lydia, who is a famous female torero. They have mutual sympathy, which gradually develops into fiery love. However, the couple’s happy future is ruined by a bullfight tragedy that led to Lydia’s coma.
Spending days and nights near the woman he loves, Marco meets Benigno, an orderly who turns out to be his “friend in misfortune”. He learns that Beninho went to work at this hospital after his beloved Alicia fell into a coma to take care of her. Seeing how much Marco suffers, Beninho gives him important advice: “talk to her” ...
18. On the needle
The story of the lives of four friends who are linked only by dependence on drugs. They are not interested in creating a family, good work, their own home and just a normal life. Heroin became their raison d'etre.
One of the heroes - Scottish boy Mark Renton - periodically tries to engage with this incredibly pernicious addiction and find his own place in life. But, after sitting for a long time on a needle, it is very difficult to throw in an instant. Besides, Mark is surrounded only by idlers and drug addicts who do everything to prevent him.
17. Mind Games
Outstanding scientist John Nash made a huge contribution to the development of mathematics. His work in the field of game theory became a scientific achievement and brought him worldwide fame. He leads a solitary life with his wife, and can not find a common language with anyone from the others, except neighbor Jim and his niece Marcy.
Already in adulthood, John unexpectedly meets a man from the secret service, who assigns him an extremely important task, on which the fate of people depends. His task is to analyze and search for the secret messages of the enemies of the United States in the published information and transmit reports by mail. However, over time, it turns out that this work is not at all what it seems at first glance ...
16. Butterfly effect
Evan is a seven-year-old boy who lives with his mother and dreams of his father returning to the family. However, this is impossible, since Evan’s father is in a psychiatric hospital. For the same reason, the boy sometimes suffers from memory lapses and visits a psychiatrist. The doctor gave him advice to keep a diary and write down everything that happens to him.
Growing up, Evan remembers his old diaries and decides to read them. He understands that he can travel in time to any part of his past and prevent this or that event. But only the next version of reality he likes no more than the previous ...
15. Start
Cobb is a unique and unsurpassed specialist in the modernist field of corporate espionage, which steals secrets from the depths of the human subconscious. Cobb and his colleagues penetrate the dreams of others and create their own reality there in order to get the information they need.
One day he gets an offer to do the opposite - not to steal, but to inject a thought into a person’s subconscious. Implementing an idea is an incredibly complex process, fraught with a lot of difficulties. But, performing this work, Cobb will have the opportunity to return home to children whom he has not seen for a long time ...
14. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
A touching story about the life of Benjamin Button - a man who lived the opposite. He was born under strange circumstances with the appearance and health of an old man. His father, in horror, gave him to a nursing home, where nurse Quinney looked after him.
But here is a mystery: over the years, Benjamin began to look younger. During his unique life, he managed to survive a large number of adventures, as well as meet his only love - Daisy.
13. Amelie
Since childhood, Amelie Poulain was very different from other children. She was used to being alone and playing with her imaginary friends, as a result of which she invented a whole world of fantasy and dreams. Growing up, Amelie moved into her own apartment and began working in a cafe. Being an incredibly inventive person, Amelie finds pleasure even in small everyday joys.
Several times she tried to establish love relationships with men, but these attempts were unsuccessful. A girl's life changes when she finds a cache in her room. She decides to return the found tin box with children's “treasures” to its owner. If this idea succeeds, Amelie will devote her life to caring for the happiness of the people around her.
12. 300
In 480 BC King of Persia Xerxes, along with his numerous army, began his invasion of Greece with the aim of seizing independent peoples. But the ruler of Sparta Leonid and his people were not going to surrender to the conqueror and were ready to defend their lands and their people.
Despite the fact that the oracles predicted defeat, Leonid with a detachment of Spartans went on a campaign. Only 300 brave warriors will meet with the Persian army in Fermopilsky gorge. Neither negotiations nor the number of opponents instill fear in the hearts of the Spartans. This day will forever glorify Sparta and her king Leonid ...
11. Interstellar
The concentration of nitrogen in the Earth’s atmosphere is growing inexorably, worsening the climate and threatening humanity with extinction. Food is sorely lacking, the army and NASA are not there, and most people are deep in farming.
A former NASA pilot, and now a farmer and father, Cooper suddenly finds out that the planet will die out in the coming years, but there is a chance for salvation. A group of scientists discovered a "wormhole", which will quickly overcome a huge distance and be in another galaxy, where perhaps there is a suitable planet for life. Ready to do anything to save their children, Cooper, along with three other researchers, will make a dangerous journey into the unknown.
10. Perfume
Paris XVIII century. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille from childhood did not know love - his mother died immediately after his birth, and the surrounding people treated him with disgust. But the boy was different from other people: he had a terrific sense of smell, he could smell it even at a great distance.
In Paris, filled with a variety of different flavors, Jean-Baptiste became a student of an outstanding perfumer, and later went to Grasse, where they teach the best perfumers in France. In search of the formula for the perfect smell, Grenouille is ready to go far, even take the life of a beautiful girl.
9. Double castling
A sharp story about the life of two professionals who every second risk their lives for work. Chen Win Yan entered the police academy because he hoped to serve the law and order. The management appreciated his efforts and made him one of the undercover agents. All evidence of his belonging to the police was destroyed, and Chen Wing Yan was introduced into the Hong Kong triad.
It takes a full ten years, and Yan is almost desperate to return to his past life. But then it turns out that the authorities urgently need his help. A “mole” appeared in the police - a man from the mafia working undercover. Now the fate of men depends entirely on who is exposed first.
8. In the wild
Christopher McCandless did not need anything from childhood: he lived in a wealthy family and always had everything he needed. He never had to worry about his future, so Christopher decides to commit an unexpected act. Immediately after graduating from college, he rejects his inheritance, transfers his own savings to charity and goes in search of real life.
For two years, Christopher under the pseudonym Alexander Superbun traveled to North America, working part-time jobs and meeting new people.
7. 1+1
French drama with elements of comedy, telling the real story of two men who would hardly have met under normal circumstances. Philip is a wealthy aristocrat who became disabled as a result of an accident. A paralyzed man needs an assistant and suddenly takes on the job of Driss, a black guy who has interested him in his defiant behavior.
None of the inhabitants of the estate is delighted with the choice of Philip, but over time it turns out that Driss is not only a good nurse, but also a good friend. From a paralyzed rich man and a former prisoner, a truly cohesive team is obtained.
6. Descendants
A successful lawyer from Hawaii Matt King prefers work time spent with his family. In pursuit of success and career growth, he has become very distant from his family and does not know what his wife and daughters live with. But suddenly the family is overtaken by tragedy - Matt's wife falls into a coma, and there is no chance of recovery.
Soon the man finds out that she had a lover. Matt decides that not only relatives but everyone she loved should say goodbye to his wife. Therefore, together with two daughters, he goes in search of him, simultaneously trying to establish relations with them, because they are the most important thing in his life.
5. Equilibrium
In the future, people are forbidden to feel and express any emotions in the name of preserving the world. Keeping books, music or art objects is severely punished and punishable by death. In order to suppress emotions, the drug "Prozium" is produced, which must take all without exception. People who disagree with these rules riot and arrange mass escapes to unpopulated places.
The job of John Preston is to catch those who break the generally accepted rules. But one fine day, he forgets to take the drug himself, and with him a spiritual transformation occurs, releasing long-repressed feelings outside.
4. American Beauty
The protagonist of Lester Burnham caught a midlife crisis. At work, no one appreciates him, but in family life he feels dissatisfaction - Caroline's wife got a lover, and a teenage daughter got carried away by a neighbor boy who recently left the walls of a psychiatric hospital.
And on top of that, Lester falls in love with beautiful Angela, her daughter's classmate. Encouraged, the man quits his job, begins to play sports, and just enjoy life, smoking weed. But how long will this feeling of joy last?
3. Mr. Nobody
118-year-old old Nemo Nobody is the last of the mortals on the planet Earth. The rest of the people have long been immortal and have completely forgotten what the loss of loved ones is. Their only entertainment is watching a TV show about a mad old man, Nemo, living out his last days.
On the eve of his death, a journalist comes and asks Nemo to tell the audience about his long and exciting life. The old man tells several stories at once, jumping from one reality to another, parallel. Every time when he had a choice, his life was split and developed according to several scenarios ...
2. 99 francs
Gorgeous satire on the modern advertising business. Octave Parango knows a lot about advertising and beautiful women; he lives a fun life full of alcohol, drugs, parties and sex. In his world everything is for sale and everything has its own price. He earns good money and considers himself a real genius.
But soon two extraordinary events radically change the life of a man: falling in love with the most beautiful colleague in the company, Sofia, and a meeting in a large dairy concern about the commercial he creates. Octave flies off the coils and wants to sabotage his advertising campaign.
1. Large fish
William Bloom works as an ordinary servant and is a pragmatic and mundane man. His father, living the last days of his life, decides to tell him a fantastic story of his life, in which there are giants, werewolves, mermaids, white magicians and evil sorceresses, fields full of daffodils and terrible gloomy thickets.
His story is so much like a fairy tale that it is incredibly difficult to believe in it. William reproaches his father for excessive fantasizing and posturing, but gradually the tale gains more and more realism, and he is convinced that the story is partly true ...
