Last year quite a lot of really good and interesting films appeared on our screens. We have prepared for you a list of the 20 best films of 2014 - according to the psychological portal PsiSovet24.ru.
Among them are both comedies and dramas, thrillers, and, of course, fantastic! Not all of these films are directly related to psychology, but to see these films, in our opinion, is really worth everyone.
Let's see what the best psychological films of 2014 we have selected for you.
20. Hector's journey in search of happiness.
A film that tells the story of a young psychiatrist named Hector. Living an ordinary life, he devotes most of his time to his work. It helps people overcome various fears, midlife crises and other mental disorders.
Such a life clearly does not please Hector, and he decides to cardinal changes. After talking with a colleague by the name of Clara, who pushes him on the idea to make a world tour.
Hector goes on a trip that will give him a lot of unforgettable acquaintances, various dangerous situations and incredible adventures. He visited China, America, Africa, spoke with representatives of different races and peoples, was captured and found new friends. All this is for the sake of finding the answer to the main question: what is happiness? Hector expects many completely different answers to this question, but can he find the one for which he started this journey?
19. Edge of the future
In the near future, our planet will suffer dramatic changes. Earth was captured by the most real aliens, to whom pity, regret and other human emotions are alien. They ruthlessly exterminate humanity, wanting to wipe it off the face of the earth. Bill Cage (Tom Cruise) falls into the whirlpool of events, which accidentally drew him into the thick of human opposition to the invaders. Bill enters the battlefield, completely without battle skills. Only by chance he manages to be in the right place and seize the secret technology of aliens.
The main character of the film dies at the very beginning, but thanks to the events on the battlefield, he wakes up again in his bed. Is this an unusual dream or was he truly able to escape death?
18. Adolescence
The film tells the story of a young man named Mason. Alcoholism father leads to the disintegration of the family. The next marriage suffers the same fate, because Mason is forced to grow up without a father, with a single mother and sister.
The young man is going through various stages of personality formation, from a Star Wars fan and Harry Potter, to a real music lover. The period of his sexual maturity does not pass by, revealing to Mason the craving for the opposite sex, as well as alcohol and marijuana.
The film is based on arguments about the transience of life, and events unfold over the course of 12 years of the protagonist’s life. Each of the stages of life is completely different from each other, talking about how the attitudes, preferences, fashion and the personality of Mason change.
17. X-Men: Days of Future Past
The film is based on the same story about the hard life of mutants who have absolutely no place in the human world. Two completely opposite opinions of friends, who see the development of relations with humanity in their own way, become aggravated and turn into a real conflict.
Movie events show two time periods simultaneously. One shows the formation of mutants, and the other shows what this course of events will lead to. Only through the combined efforts of mutants, they manage to transfer the famous Wolverine into the past, so that he could rewrite the history of mutants and give civilization a chance to survive.
Charles Xavier is increasingly turning from an impulsive youth into a real Professor X, who is the wisest and most reasonable among the mutants. While Eric Lehnsherr is more and more disappointed in the peaceful resolution of the issue and the path of his friend Charles, seeing in people only evil. Will they be able to come to a common decision, when the mutants are more and more actively divided into two camps and can Wolverine influence the young professors X and Magneto?
16. The Incredible Life of Walter Mitty
Walter Mitty lives an ordinary and completely uninteresting life. He works in the famous magazine Life and is responsible for the department of illustrations. Walter is so engrossed in the routine work and uninteresting life that his imagination begins to draw completely incredible events in which he is the main character.
He has no luck in dating women, he is an object for ridicule of colleagues. But all this comes to an end, when Walter Mitty is forced to travel to find a lost, but incredibly important photo for one of the most significant issues of the magazine.
Will Walter be able to achieve his goal, and also experience absolutely incredible adventures, not only in his head, but also in reality?
15. Thief books
The film shows the life of a young Lizel, who lives in a very difficult time. The film takes place in 1939 in Munich, which is one of the centers of Nazism. The main character moves to another family, revealing a small story in a huge world full of hostility and violence.
It all starts when Liesel begins to learn to read and learn about life. She is fascinated and fascinated by the incredible world of books, in which she experiences the most incredible adventures, falls into the fabulous worlds, and also meets the most outstanding book heroes.
Gradually, she is so fascinated by the book world that she can no longer imagine real life without immersion in their atmosphere. Because of her thirst for reading, she begins to steal books, which is where her real adventures begin.
14. Disappeared
The story begins with the ordinary life of a couple who lives a measured life. Amy and Nick Dunn gradually begin to lose attraction to each other, and marriage turns into a routine.
But the celebration of the fifth anniversary of their life turns life upside down. It all starts with the fact that Nick does not find his wife at home and calls the police. Soon, the officer finds traces of the struggle and the events take an even more mysterious turn.
Nick finds a clue - an envelope with a riddle, which is the first link in the chain, which should lead the main character to the answers to all his questions. All anything, but this is the favorite way of playing his wife, who always arranged the game in the "quest" on each anniversary. Will this time the same game or events really bode well for a young couple?
13. Wind grows stronger
Jiro Horikoshi is an ordinary boy with an unusual dream. He dreamed of becoming a real pilot and conquer the sky. In 1918, the boy began to turn his passion into a specific aspiration, studying everything connected with airplanes, and also taught various languages.
But very soon he is overtaken by a completely unpleasant news, which crosses out all his aspirations - because of problems with his eyesight, the road to the pilots is closed for him. But Jiro's love for the sky does not change even such unpleasant news.
He decides to become an engineer and create flying machines, which he sought all his life. His story begins with the fact that he goes to Tokyo, wanting to get an education that will help him make his dream a reality.
12. Noah
The film tells about one of the most famous biblical stories - the Great Flood and Noah, who is the savior of all mankind.
Noah led the life of the true righteous, which is why he became God's chosen one. Seeing events that predict the death of all mankind, he begins to build his ark. But this turns out to be not such an easy task, because besides the complexity of building a huge ship-ark, he has to endure the absolute power of the greedy ruler of people.
Will Noah be able to carry out the mission assigned to him? Will he lead humanity to a new existence, or will it collapse under the onslaught of circumstances and dangers that will lie at every turn?
11. The farther into the forest ...
The ordinary life of the baker and his wife completely changes after the witches' trail has appeared in their lives. The baker's wife lived in sorrow, because they had no children at all.
One day she learns that her husband is to blame for all this. Once he got into the garden of the witch, he could not resist the temptation and stole the magic beans. The witch decided to take revenge on the thief, cursing him for a life in which he would never hear a child's laugh.
What will take a wife who understood the cause of all the failures to acquire offspring?
10. Imitation game
The film is based on the events of the Second World War. A young and very ambitious mathematician is called to help British intelligence.
Germany uses an incredibly complex technical encryption machine, which is completely impossible to crack, because it uses millions of combinations. Alan Turing is recruiting a team of equally talented people with one goal - breaking the cipher, which will turn the tide of the war.
In the process of selecting candidates, the main character meets a girl who will play a significant role in his life. Can he achieve his goal, despite the obstacles?
9. Kingsman: Secret Service
Trouble and embarrassing situations are completely normal things for Harry. He has a sharp mind and excellent analytical skills. But there is one problem: he uses all his talents against the law.
One day, a stranger comes to him, who appears to be his father's friend. He reports that he works as a secret agent and confronts the most dangerous criminals on the planet.
He invites Harry to become his student in order to unite his efforts in the struggle for the common cause. But is everything as simple as it seems at first glance?
8. Dallas Shoppers Club
Ron Woodruff is a true Texan to the core. Cool hat, real cowboy boots and a lifestyle in which he absolutely did not limit himself to entertainment.
A carefree life led Ron to a completely terrible outcome when it turns out that he has AIDS. Doctors gave a forecast that he had no more than a couple of months left to live.
But Ron is not one of those who surrender. The stubborn Texan takes everything into his own hands and independently tries to figure out what this terrible affliction is, and also looks for any ways to survive. Will stubbornness and unwillingness to accept the facts help him or will the doctors predict to be correct?
7. Obsession
Andrew dreams of success by becoming an outstanding musician. Everything is going according to plan, and the conductor of the best orchestra of the country notices him. All the cards in the hands of Andrew, but his desire to become popular very quickly goes all the edges, turning into a real obsession
Mentor turns into a ruthless tyrant, and his methods are completely incomprehensible. All this leads Andrew to the fact that he fails, and all his dreams are shattered.
Andrew's revenge further exacerbates the confrontation with a mentor. What will result and what will their conflict eventually lead to?
6. Only lovers will survive
Adam and Eve are not so biblical characters. They have lived on earth for countless years, losing interest in almost everything. They are indifferent to people, their problems and everything that happens in life.
In fact, Adam and Eve are millennial vampires who decided to stop feeding on human blood two centuries ago. Bored with each other, they decide to disperse. Life scatters in a completely different city, where they lead a normal life, typical of most people.
Both of them are plagued by forebodings of strange and threatening events, thanks to which they again meet in Detroit. But are they just a premonition, or are all their alarms for real?
5. In your eyes
The film tells about the life of completely different people. They live in cities that are far away. Each of them leads his own way of life, and they would not know about the existence of each other, if not for one circumstance.
At one point, they were able not only to see everything that was happening through the eyes of each other, but also to feel the emotions and feelings of someone on the other side of the planet. Gradually, Dylan and Rebecca realize that their unusual gift was a gift of fate and romance began to develop between them.
Where such unusual circumstances lead them, and will the gift that brought them together prevent them?
4. Lefiafan
The story of the difficult fate of Nicholas, who tried to build his happiness in the modern world. The film’s actions take place in the north of Russia, where the main character of the film has built a house, his own workshop and is trying to provide for his family.
The mayor of the city, dishonest in his hand, is trying to take away from Nicholas everything that he had built so long. He liked the house and the workshop, because he uses all the influence of his position to achieve the desired.
Nikolai is forced to ask for help from the only person who can help - Dmitry's army friend. He is one of the most successful lawyers in the capital and is happy to respond to such a request. Despite the fact that Nikolai got a serious ally in the fight against corrupt government, his problems only continue to get worse.
3. The magic of the moonlight
Stanley Crawford is a famous illusionist who acts as the mysterious magician Wei Ling Soo. He is self-confident, convinced of his own talent and does not have excess modesty. He is preparing for the wedding, and in his life everything is laid out on the shelves. Stanley is successful and firmly knows that real magic does not exist, and all that magicians resort to is an optical illusion and an illusion.
After an old friend asks Stanley to help in one business, his whole life begins to change drastically. He is being asked to expose a young fraudster named Sophie, who has sunk into the trust of a wealthy family in the form of a medium.
Stanley Crawford agrees with absolute certainty that he can easily expose a cheat, because he knows all the subtleties of magic tricks. But on the first evening he fails, after which he remains to live on the estate until he can finish the job. Will he be able to uncover the deceiver or face the fact that Sophie really has a mysterious gift?
2. Interstellar
Mankind has always sought to explore space, trying to know the unknown, as well as to unravel all the secrets of existence. Scientists have explored new planets, trying to find those that will be suitable for life. Only when humanity was faced with an insurmountable threat, these searches became necessary for survival.
Cooper, a former engineer and pilot of the space shuttle, had long forgotten about his career and led an ordinary farm life, trying to ensure the survival of himself and his family, but a completely different fate awaited him. The desire to save the family coincided with the mission to save the entire human race, and he was one of the few who were fit for the last space mission.
Will the search for a small team, which was entrusted with the mission to save all of humanity, be successful, and will they be able to find a planet that will give hope to a new life?
1. Hotel Grand Budapest
The events of the film take place in the most famous hotel, which is located on the top of the mountain in the fictional European country Zubrovka. Concierge Gustave is a true expert in his field. He is very attentive to the needs of his guests, ambitious and often provides personal services to very wealthy ladies who stay at the hotel.
One of these women, having died at a very old age, left Gustave a real masterpiece of the Renaissance - the painting "A Boy with an Apple". Such behavior of the mother incredibly angered her son Dmitri, who had the intention of returning whatever he considered as his own, no matter what.
Dmitry sends his faithful servant to the hotel, after which a whole series of incredible events begins that will lead to murder, theft, many chases and other, completely unpredictable consequences ...
