Topic: Psychological Drama

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Nobuo Kaneko · Kyôko Seki · Makoto Kobori

Plot Kanji Watanabe has served in a monotonous bureaucratic position in City Hall for 30 years, providing for a son who only seems to care about his money. He is seemingly...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Plot The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Kanu Bannerjee · Karuna Bannerjee · Pinaki Sengupta · Smaran Ghosal

Plot The second chapter in director Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy ('Pather Panchali', 'Aparajito', 'The World of Apu'). Following Apu and his family to the city, Ray explores the crowded streets and...

Direction Satyajit Ray

Cast Soumitra Chatterjee · Sharmila Tagore · Alok Chakravarty · Swapan Mukherjee

Plot Forced to abandon his education, Apu´s prospects look bleak until fate intervenes in the form of an insane bridegroom. To save the abandoned bride from public disgrace, Apu marries her,...

Direction Erich von Stroheim

Cast Gibson Gowland · ZaSu Pitts · Jean Hersholt · Chester Conklin

Plot Miner-turned-dentist McTeague wins young Trina Sieppe away from her cousin Marcus, McTeague's friend. When Trina wins five thousand dollars in a lottery, Marcus accuses McTeague of marrying her for her...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Laurence Olivier · Michael Caine · Alec Cawthorne · John Matthews

Plot Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a famous writer of crime novels. Moreover, his passion for puzzles and riddles has led him to transform his mansion into a museum where bizarre...

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast James Stewart · Kim Novak · Henry Jones · Barbara Bel Geddes

Plot San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An old...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Jack Nicholson · Shelley Duvall · Danny Lloyd · Scatman Crothers

Plot Writer Jack Torrance takes a job as a winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel in the remote Colorado mountains. He moves in, along with his wife Wendy and son Danny,...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Bibi Andersson · Jan Malmsjö

Plot TV Miniseries (1973). 6 Episodes. Follows the relationship of Marianne and Johan as they separate, engage in extramarital affairs, bond, re-bond and eventually divorce. Their relationship continues after the divorce,...

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Bette Davis · Joan Crawford · Victor Buono · Wesley Addy

Plot In a decaying Hollywood mansion, Jane Hudson, a former child star, and her sister Blanche, a movie queen forced into retirement after a crippling accident, live in virtual isolation.

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Eiji Okada · Kyôko Kishida · Hiroko Ito · Hideo Kanze

Plot An entomologist looking for insects in the desert accepts locals' offer to stay with a widow whose house is at the bottom of a sandpit, accessible only by a rope...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Erland Josephson · Bibi Andersson · Jan Malmsjö

Plot Follows the relationship of Marianne and Johan as they separate, engage in extramarital affairs, bond, re-bond and eventually divorce. Their relationship continues after the divorce, it seems this is a...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Kei Sato · Minoru Chiaki

Plot Second World War. Forced to join the japanese army, Kaji is sent to Manchuria. There, he becomes friends with a soldier who sympathizes with communism. After a visit from his...

Direction David Fincher

Cast Edward Norton · Brad Pitt · Helena Bonham Carter · Meat Loaf

Plot A nameless disillusioned young urban male (Edward Norton) fights insomnia by attending disease support groups until he meets a kindred spirit -and soap salesman (Brad Pitt). Together they form Fight...

Direction Jean Eustache

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Françoise Lebrun · Bernadette Lafont · Jean Douchet

Plot It focuses on three twentysomething Parisians in a bizarre love triangle: Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Léaud) is a seemingly unemployed narcissist involved with both a live-in girlfriend (Bernadette Lafont) and a Polish...

Direction Todd Phillips

Cast Joaquin Phoenix · Robert De Niro · Zazie Beetz · Frances Conroy

Plot Year 1981. In Gotham City, mentally-troubled Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) works as a clown-for-hire and lives with his mother, Penny. Arthur, whose motivation in life is to make people laugh,...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Liv Ullmann · Lena Nyman · Halvar Björk

Plot Charlotte (Ingrid Bergman) is an acclaimed concert pianist who is visiting her daughter Eva (Liv Ullmann) for the first time in seven years. While Charlotte and Eva struggle to be...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Charles Boyer · Ingrid Bergman · Joseph Cotten · Dame May Whitty

Plot Gregory Anton (Boyer) is a smooth and cunning gentleman who seduces and marries the gullible Paula Alquist (Bergman). They take up residence in Paula's childhood home, long abandoned since the...

Direction Kyōhei Ishiguro

Plot TV Series (2014-2015). 1 season. 23 episodes. Arima Kousei is a former child prodigy who lost his ability to play the piano when his mother died. His daily life is...

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gloria Grahame · Frank Lovejoy · Carl Benton Reid

Plot Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred...