Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "impersonation", "psychiatrist"

1. Good Will Hunting (1997)

R | 126 min | Drama, Romance

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.

Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 1,070,854 | Gross: $138.43M

2. Joker (I) (2019)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Director: Todd Phillips | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy

Votes: 1,493,650 | Gross: $335.45M

3. The Terminator (1984)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.

Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield

Votes: 925,692 | Gross: $38.40M

4. Shutter Island (2010)

R | 138 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, two US marshals, are sent to an asylum on a remote island in order to investigate the disappearance of a patient, where Teddy uncovers a shocking truth about the place.

Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley

Votes: 1,459,975 | Gross: $128.01M

5. Psycho (1960)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Votes: 719,433 | Gross: $32.00M

6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)

PG-13 | 103 min | Drama

Charlie, a 15-year-old introvert, enters high school and is nervous about his new life. When he befriends his seniors, he learns to cope with his friend's suicide and his tumultuous past.

Director: Stephen Chbosky | Stars: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd

Votes: 548,796 | Gross: $17.74M

7. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

R | 109 min | Action, Sci-Fi

A machine from a post-apocalyptic future travels back in time to protect a man and a woman from an advanced robotic assassin to ensure they both survive a nuclear attack.

Director: Jonathan Mostow | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes

Votes: 418,894 | Gross: $150.37M

8. Overboard (1987)

PG | 112 min | Comedy, Romance

A cruel but beautiful heiress mocks and cheats a hired carpenter. When she gets amnesia after an accident, he decides to introduce her to regular life by convincing her that they're husband and wife.

Director: Garry Marshall | Stars: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond

Votes: 68,017 | Gross: $26.71M

9. Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)

PG-13 | 86 min | Comedy, Crime

A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.

Director: John Whitesell | Stars: Jamie Kennedy, Ryan O'Neal, Blair Underwood, Taye Diggs

Votes: 20,905 | Gross: $34.31M

10. Ghost World (2001)

R | 111 min | Comedy, Drama

Two eccentric best friends graduate high school and respond to a man's romance-seeking newspaper ad as a gag, only to find their lives becoming increasingly complicated.

Director: Terry Zwigoff | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro

Votes: 126,938 | Gross: $6.22M

11. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Not Rated | 67 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover

Votes: 70,164

12. The Net (I) (1995)

PG-13 | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When Angela Bennett, a computer programmer, stumbles upon government secrets, she finds herself on the run from an unknown enemy hell-bent on destroying her completely.

Director: Irwin Winkler | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam, Dennis Miller, Diane Baker

Votes: 73,914 | Gross: $50.73M

13. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson

Votes: 75,022

14. Unsane (2018)

R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion?

Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple

Votes: 49,982 | Gross: $7.73M

15. Prescription: Murder (1968 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Peter Falk, Gene Barry, Katherine Justice, William Windom

Votes: 5,550

16. Blood and Black Lace (1964)

Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner, Arianna Gorini

Votes: 13,050

17. The Dream Team (1989)

PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperon, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish the job.

Director: Howard Zieff | Stars: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst

Votes: 16,399 | Gross: $28.89M

18. Human Experiments (1979)

R | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.

Director: Gregory Goodell | Stars: Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle

Votes: 885

19. The Ruling Class (1972)

PG | 154 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alastair Sim, Arthur Lowe, Hugh Owens

Votes: 6,824

20. Asylum (I) (1972)

PG | 88 min | Horror

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Peter Cushing

Votes: 8,199

21. Strait-Jacket (1964)

Approved | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John

Votes: 6,671

22. The in Crowd (2000)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.

Director: Mary Lambert | Stars: Lori Heuring, Susan Ward, Matthew Settle, Nathan Bexton

Votes: 4,868 | Gross: $5.22M

23. Hunk (1987)

PG | 102 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A computer nerd makes a deal with the Devil and gets a new beefcake body.

Director: Lawrence Bassoff | Stars: John Allen Nelson, Steve Levitt, Deborah Shelton, Rebeccah Bush

Votes: 1,567 | Gross: $1.75M

24. Used People (1992)

PG-13 | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

At her husband's funeral, Pearl (Shirley MacLaine), Jewish mother of two divorced and antagonistic daughters, meets an old Italian friend (Marcello Mastroianni) of her husband, whose advice... See full summary »

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni

Votes: 1,715 | Gross: $17.96M

25. The Couch Trip (1988)

R | 97 min | Comedy

A burnt-out shrink needs a temp. A charming escaped convict takes over his practice and radio show.

Director: Michael Ritchie | Stars: Dan Aykroyd, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Donna Dixon

Votes: 5,605 | Gross: $11.01M

26. Move Over, Darling (1963)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

After being lost at sea for several years, a missing wife thought long dead returns just after her husband has remarried.

Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter

Votes: 6,496

27. My Favorite Brunette (1947)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson tells reporters how he got there.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr.

Votes: 3,848

28. Hollow Triumph (1948)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity, with unfortunate results.

Directors: Steve Sekely, Paul Henreid | Stars: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks

Votes: 3,193

29. Madhouse (2004)

R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller

A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.

Director: William Butler | Stars: Joshua Leonard, Jordan Ladd, Natasha Lyonne, Lance Henriksen

Votes: 6,959

30. Three on a Couch (1966)

Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Romance

An artist has an opportunity to go to Paris and wants to bring his fiancee along. However, she's a psychiatrist who currently has three female patients who don't like men. So, he guises ... See full summary »

Director: Jerry Lewis | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Mary Ann Mobley, Gila Golan

Votes: 1,204 | Gross: $2.80M

31. Mr. Jealousy (1997)

R | 103 min | Comedy, Romance

A writer becomes obsessed with his girlfriend's former boyfriend, now a very successful novelist. To discover if the ex-boyfriend still has feeling for his old love, the writer joins the novelist's group therapy meetings.

Director: Noah Baumbach | Stars: Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Chris Eigeman, Carlos Jacott

Votes: 2,607 | Gross: $0.29M

32. Enjeru dasuto (1994)

116 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

Every Monday at 6 pm a young woman is murdered in the subway. The psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to assist the police. The trail leads to another psychiatrist - Dr Rei Aku - who ... See full summary »

Director: Gakuryû Ishii | Stars: Kaho Minami, Takeshi Wakamatsu, Etsushi Toyokawa, Ryôko Takizawa

Votes: 1,315

33. Suture (1993)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Thriller

After his brother tries to kill him, a man survives only to find himself in another man's body.

Directors: Scott McGehee, David Siegel | Stars: Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill

Votes: 2,156 | Gross: $0.10M

34. The Shrink Is In (2001)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Romance

A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming.

Director: Richard Benjamin | Stars: Courteney Cox, David Arquette, David James Elliott, Carol Kane

Votes: 1,593

35. Rage in Heaven (1941)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Thriller

Robert Montgomery and George Sanders team-up to play against type in this probing psychological thriller that features Ingrid Bergman as the object of their obsessions.

Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert B. Sinclair, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Ingrid Bergman, George Sanders, Lucile Watson

Votes: 1,355

36. Fingers at the Window (1942)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An unemployed actor in Chicago aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of axe murders, apparently committed by a "lunatic".

Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford

Votes: 1,146

37. Shock Treatment (1964)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An actor hired to locate $1 million in stolen loot endures the rigors of an insane asylum.

Director: Denis Sanders | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Carol Lynley, Roddy McDowall, Lauren Bacall

Votes: 616

38. The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)

Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

An agitated and desperate man spares no expense in insisting that Mason represent him against a neighbor's howling dog and act as executor of his will.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins, Grant Mitchell

Votes: 1,025

39. Maisie Goes to Reno (1944)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

Exhausted from wartime riveting, a chorus girl (Ann Sothern) goes to Nevada and falls for a card dealer (John Hodiak).

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Ann Sothern, John Hodiak, Tom Drake, Marta Linden

Votes: 537

40. Fright (1956)

Approved | 68 min | Film-Noir, Horror

A woman believes herself to be the reincarnated spirit of an ancient prince's lover. Meanwhile, a murderer turns out to be the reincarnated spirit of the prince himself.

Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Eric Fleming, Nancy Malone, Frank Marth, Humphrey Davis

Votes: 216

41. Alias John Preston (1955)

Approved | 71 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

John Preston meets Sally who agrees to marry him. Then, Preston begins to have dreams about Sylvia, a woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles. He seeks help from Doctor Walton.

Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Betta St. John, Alexander Knox, Christopher Lee, Sandra Dorne

Votes: 280

42. 'Ctyri vrazdy stací, drahousku' (1971)

103 min | Comedy, Crime

Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply ... See full summary »

Director: Oldrich Lipský | Stars: Lubomír Lipský, Jirina Bohdalová, Iva Janzurová, Marie Rosulková

Votes: 789

43. T.M.A. (2009)

Not Rated | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A man leaves his busy city life for the peace of the country home where he spent his early childhood. His new life is soon disturbed by strange events.

Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Ivan Franek, Lenka Krobotová, Malgorzata Kozuchowska, Andrej Hryc

Votes: 207

44. Americaner Shadchen (1940)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance

Nat Silver has been engaged 7 times already. This time, his 8th, he's really going to get married. But a visitor shows up, Shirley's old boyfriend. With a gun ! He'll kill himself unless he... See full summary »

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Leo Fuchs, Judith Abarbanel, Judel Dubinsky, Anna Guskin

Votes: 118

45. Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)

Passed | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner Baxter, Ellen Drew, William Frawley, Frank Sully

Votes: 341

46. Crime Ring (1938)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Newspaper reporter Joe Ryan and District Attorney Thomas Redwine strike a deal. In exchange for having access to jailed actress Judy Allen, Joe must help Thomas on a tough racketeering case.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Allan Lane, Frances Mercer, Clara Blandick, Inez Courtney

Votes: 120

47. Opus K (2011)

80 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A freelance journalist is hired by a psychiatrist to investigate the death of a patient, but as the case progresses he fears he is being groomed to replace the dead man. Or worse: join him.

Director: Eamonn Gray | Stars: Steve Gunn, Patrick O'Donnell, John O'Donoghue, Jason Healey

Votes: 13

48. Les aventures d'archives

Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi | Post-production

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Director: Tyler Meyer | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Elvis Presley, Walt Disney, Barack Obama

49. The Storyteller (1969)

87 min | Comedy

A cheery ground attendant decides to impersonate his cousin who is a successful pilot to impress a beautiful nouveau-riche socialite; however, his fiancée uncovers his shameless shenanigans. Can he keep both his future wife and his job?

Director: Errikos Thalassinos | Stars: Dimitris Papamichael, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Thanasis Mylonas, Anna Matzourani

Votes: 75

50. Eftyhos... trellathika! (1961)

91 min | Comedy

Hard-pressed to the point of no return, the desperate founder of a family-owned distillery decides to fake insanity and has himself admitted to a mental institution. But, will his last-minute plan keep him afloat?

Director: Kostas Andritsos | Stars: Nikos Stavridis, Gely Mavropoulou, Martha Karagianni, Thanasis Vengos

Votes: 155