We present to your attention a list of the best psychological series of the XXI century.
There are much more psychological films than TV shows, but we have found for you something interesting.
What is this genre?
In the movies and TV shows "psychological genre" emphasis is placed on the inner experiences of the heroes, highlights the situations in which the characters face difficult moral and moral problems, where you need to make a choice, what to do.
Most of the audience is occupied by people who have professional interest to this kind of films, but also they are watched by those who are interested to find out what a person feels on the other side of reality, what he feels like he lives.
Psychological series
Dr. House / House M.D. Years of release: 2004-2012. Age restrictions: 16+. Cast: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Jennifer Morrison, Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer, Omar Epps, Olivia Wilde and others.
The center of the plot is a group of doctors whose task is to make a reliable diagnosis and save human lives.
At the head of the team - Dr. Gregory Houseforced to walk with a cane after an accident - a muscular heart attack in his right leg was correctly diagnosed too late.
House is a brilliant doctor, but by nature is not very emotional in dealing with patients and happily avoids them as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
He himself all the time leads a bitter struggle with his pain and the cane in his hand only emphasizes his caustic, poisonous manner of communication.
Sometimes his behavior may seem immoral, but he is still a brilliant doctor, a holder of a unique mind and impeccable instinct, thanks to which people are filled with respect for him ...
Mr Robot / Mr. Robot. Year of release: 2015 - the present. Age restrictions: 18+. Cast: Rami Malek, Portia Doubleday, Karly Chaikin, Christian Slater, Martin Wahlstrom and others.
Elliot - young programmersuffering from social phobia. He decided that in his case, the best way to interact with people is hacking.
Thus, he quickly finds himself in the very place where the interests of his employer - a cybersecurity company - and illegal organizations trying to recruit him for the sake of the collapse of the most influential American corporations intersect.
Sherlock / Sherlock. Years of release: 2010 - the present. Age restrictions: 12+. Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Una Stubbs, Martin Freeman, Andrew Scott, Rupert Graves, Louise Brealy, and others.
Events occur in our days. is he passed Afghanistan, but remained disabled. Having returned to his native places, he meets with a strange, but non-standard, brilliant man. He is just looking for a flatmate.
London, 2010. There are a number of unexplained murders. Scotland Yard have no idea what to grab. There is only one person who can solve a case and give answers to confusing questions.
Films about psychology and logic
Lie to Me. Years of release: 2009-2011. Age restrictions: 16+. Cast: Tim Roth, Brendan Hines, Kelly Williams, Monica Raymund, Mekhai Feifer, Hayley McFarland, and others.
Dr. Lightman convinced that everyone is lying. He needs a few minutes of communication with a person to prove it.
Movement, gesture, speech, glance - everything will help to reveal a liar in you. The most ordinary person lies three times in ten minutes of conversation.
The task of Dr. Lightman and his team - recognize this lieand, with the help of his talents, save innocent people from prison and punish the criminals.
The Government, the Congress, the feds and even the Prime Minister of Uzbekistan turn to Lightman Agency for help. But can there be a happy person who sees that everyone around is constantly lying?
Think like a criminal / Criminal Minds. Years of release: 2005-present. Age restrictions: 16+. Cast: Thomas Gibson, Joe Mantegna, Matthew Gray Gubler, Shemar Moore, Mandy Patinkin, AJ Cook and others.
In a short period, four young girls are missing in Seattle. There is a version that in the city serial killer maniac appeared. The special unit of the FBI specializing in analyzing the behavior and actions of criminals takes on the investigation of this case.
The head of the unit, Jason Gideon, with teammates, tries to figure out a criminal by creating his psychological portrait.
Jason not often visits forensic labs fbi. With the team, they go to the crime scene, search and interview witnesses, analyze and study the psychological side of the life of the criminal.
Patients / In Treatment. Years of release: 2008-2010. Age restrictions: 18+. Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Michelle Forbes, Dianne Wiest, Mia Wasikowska, Blair Underwood, Josh Charles and others.
Paul Weston - dedicated psychotherapist. Every day he spends a huge amount of energy to help and support his patients. However, Paul himself is exactly the same person as everyone who constantly struggles with his own problems and experiences.
Pictures about psychologists and psychotherapists
Being Erica / Being Erica. Years of release: 2009-2011.
Age restrictions: 16+. Cast: Erin Karplak, Reagan Pasternak, Michael Reidley, Tyrone Leitsau and others.
Erica Strange made quite a few bad decisions in the past. Now she forced to seek help from a psychotherapist - Dr. Tom, a great lover of all sorts of quotes. But he is not only the savior for young Erica, but also the worst of her nightmares.
Erica gave the doctor a list of important moments of her life, which she thinks messed up everything, but she didn’t know what he wanted to do with this list.
And he decided to transfer it to each of these moments in the past, so that she, taking into account all that is known about the present, I was able to fix my life with a chain of correct decisions.
Web Therapy / Web Therapy. Years of release: 2011-2015. Age restrictions: 16+. Cast: Lisa Kudrow, Dan Bukatinsky, Jennifer Elise Cox, Victor Garber, Lily Tomlin, Alan Cumming and others.
Fiona Walls - highly eccentric psychotherapistwho developed a unique method of communicating with patients: only three minutes of conversation and no unnecessary words and memories.
The new reception is broadcast on the Internet through a webcam to attract investors, who should help Fiona spread her methodology throughout the world.
Necessary cruelty / Necessary Roughness. Years of release: 2011-2013. Age restrictions: 16+. Cast: Callie Thorn, Mark Blucas, Scott Cohen, Mehkad Brooks, Patrick Johnson, Hanna Marks and others.
Dr. Dani Santino - Long Island psychotherapist - learns that her husband is deceiving her, after which her personal life is crumbling. In order to get away from grief, she is completely given to work and soon becomes one of the most sought after specialists.
Popular people turn to her for help. All of them are sure that only her unique method of rigid therapy will save them during a crisis. But now a successful career is becoming a serious obstacle in her family relationships. It’s not so easy to be the lonely mother of two teenagers.
Tapes about mental disorders
Hannibal / Hannibal. Years of release: 2013-2015. Age restrictions: 18+.
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Lawrence Fishburne, Lara Jean Czorostecki, Carolin Davernas, Gillian Anderson and others.
Will Graham - gifted expert in revealing lies - Helps the FBI look for a serial killer. Thanks to his amazing way of thinking, he is able to understand the feelings of other people, even the mentally ill.
He understands what drives them. But when the mind of the wanted killer turns out to be too complicated, Graham turns to Dr. Lecter, one of the best psychiatric minds in the country, for help.
Wilfred / Wilfred. Years of release: 2011-2014. Age restrictions: 18+. Cast: Elijah Wood, Jason Gann, Chris Klein, Fiona Gubelmann, Allison Mack, Dorian Brown and others.
The basis of the plot is a young man named Ryan. He shows sympathy for a girl who has a dog. Wilfred and Ryan did not immediately like each other. Fuel to the fire is added by the fact that instead of a dog the guy sees a talking person in a dog costume.
United States of Tara / Such a different Tara / United States of Tara. Years of release: 2009-2011. Age restrictions: 12+. Cast: Tony Collett, Rosemary, Brie Larson, Dewitt, Keir Gilchrist, John Corbett, Patton Oswalt and others.
At first glance it may seem that Tara is the most ordinary housewife.
She has a husband and two children. But ... everything would be fine if not for the multiple personality cleavage.
Then she Buck - rednek homophobic, then Ellis - a housewife from the mid-50s, the teenager T, loving low jeans and thongs ...
Jekyll / jekyll. Years of release: 2007. Age restrictions: 16+. Cast: James Nesbitt, Denis Lawson, Gina Bellman, Mira Sayal, Fenella Woolgar, Michelle Ryan and others.
England, our time. A modern descendant of Stevenson's heroes, Dr. Jackman, continues to fight the "family" curse - the dark side of his personality.
With the help of modern technology, he is trying to tame his inner maniac Mr. Hyde and save his relatives from him. Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jackman are being hunted by a clandestine organization with the aim of subduing the dark side of the Doctor and using it to their advantage.
Some series of the psychological genre are not recommended for viewing by especially sensitive and impressionable people.
We hope this list of TV shows will suit your taste. Enjoy watching!
