I Need A Good Psychological Film

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

damn nice movie list but anyways
The Prestige- Christopher Nolan director
Lucky Number Slevin
Sunshine-(probably my favoriite movie)

 

[drdamo]

Moar!:

"Number 23", "Battle Royale", "Cashback" (sortoff), "Gerry", "Paranoid Park", "Elephant", "My Own Private Idaho", "Festen", "The Idiots", "Adam and Paul", "Event Horizon" (bit like "Sunshine") and "Paha Maa" (also named "Frozen Land")

I guess you got something to work with now!

 

[octafish]

Shock Corridor, it's a classic so may seem a little slow paced, but fuck it, it's a Sam Fuller film.

Videodrome, uh what, what just happened?

Black Cat White Cat, a Yugoslav Romantic Comedy that has a heavy magic realist influence.

Chinatown, forget it Enigma6667 it's Chinatown, there is a fantastic reveal in this, one of the greatest films of the 20th century.

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Give Southland Tales a try. It's by the same guy that did Donnie Darko. Also if your really in the mood for weird, try A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Sounds like you need some Hitchcock, Rear Window is a good place to start. There's a reason why they call him "The master of suspense".

 

[GothmogII]

Seeing as you've seen 12 Monkeys, you might want to give Brazil a shot too if you haven't already. It starts of as a kind of quirky sci-fi/comedy, but turns very psychological as things progress. Recommend getting the version with the 'sad' ending for best results.

 

[Tankenstein]

silence of the lambs! or inceptinon.

 

[tehroc]

Moar!:

"Number 23", "Battle Royale", "Cashback" (sortoff), "Gerry", "Paranoid Park", "Elephant", "My Own Private Idaho", "Festen", "The Idiots", "Adam and Paul", "Event Horizon" (bit like "Sunshine") and "Paha Maa" (also named "Frozen Land")

I guess you got something to work with now!

Event Horizon is nothing like Sunshine, it supposed to be sci-fi/horror.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

I can think of a few:


Requiem for a Dream (but ONLY if you have a strong stomach)

Brazil (Good for a laugh, as well)

John Carpenter's The Thing (Extremely claustrophobic)

Apocalypse Now Redux (Much more character development than the original)

The Birds (Quite scary, as well)

A Beautiful Mind (Do yourself a favor, and go into this one without reading ANYTHING about it)

Vertigo (Quite an unsettling mystery)

Rear Window (Yet another Hitchcock movie)

ANYTHING by Stanley Kubrick


That's all I got at the moment.

EDIT: OH! How could I forget David Cronenberg! "The Fly", "Videodrome", and "Naked Lunch" are all excellent.

 

[drdamo]

Moar!:

"Number 23", "Battle Royale", "Cashback" (sortoff), "Gerry", "Paranoid Park", "Elephant", "My Own Private Idaho", "Festen", "The Idiots", "Adam and Paul", "Event Horizon" (bit like "Sunshine") and "Paha Maa" (also named "Frozen Land")

I guess you got something to work with now!

Event Horizon is nothing like Sunshine, it supposed to be sci-fi/horror.

I saw Sunshine with a few of my mates and at some point we all looked at eachother and said "I've seen this before". "Sunshine" might be less horrory, but the main plot in both stories are quite alike.

And saying "Nothing like", while both are about a group of unwilling spacers on a craft to a forgotten structure at the other side of the galaxy and when getting there they are being mind-fcked all the same, isn't exactly an accurate statement if you ask me.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Read do Robots dream of Electric Sheep

Androids. And there's also a question-mark. It's also a book, not a film. The film is called 'Blade Runner'.
I'd still recommend adaptations of Philip K. Dick's work, though they're never as good as the books.

OT: 'Wristcutters: A Love Story', though I don't know whether it's deemed 'psychological', whatever that means. I suppose it makes one think. Still a weird umbrella term that I'd hesitate to use.

I'm going to throw The Matrix in there as well, just to state the obvious, get ninja'd and possibly be shouted at.

 

[C.G.B.S]

The Number 23

 

[tehroc]

Moar!:

"Number 23", "Battle Royale", "Cashback" (sortoff), "Gerry", "Paranoid Park", "Elephant", "My Own Private Idaho", "Festen", "The Idiots", "Adam and Paul", "Event Horizon" (bit like "Sunshine") and "Paha Maa" (also named "Frozen Land")

I guess you got something to work with now!

Event Horizon is nothing like Sunshine, it supposed to be sci-fi/horror.

I saw Sunshine with a few of my mates and at some point we all looked at eachother and said "I've seen this before". "Sunshine" might be less horrory, but the main plot in both stories are quite alike.
And saying "Nothing like", while both are about a group of unwilling spacers on a craft to a forgotten structure at the other side of the galaxy and when getting there they are being mind-fcked all the same, isn't exactly an accurate statement if you ask me.

Sunshine was about reigniting our dying sun, the only thing similar was they were in space and there was two ships. There was an "Event Horizon" subplot that was a bit silly, but I still maintain they were two different movies. Sunshine I would just classify as straight Science Fiction and Event Horizon as Horror set on a spaceship. I like both movies for what they are.

 

[Redweevil]

The Prestige, that will get your mind working

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

I highly recommend the movie "Silence of the lambs".
It's not much of a mind fuck horror but none the less brilliant if you enjoy that kind of stuff.
I personally love it.

 

[Bat Vader]

I don't think this would qualify as pure psychological film but the film Synecdoche, New York had some psychological parts in it. A lot of the films written by Charlie Kaufman is really good and psychological.

 

[Aerowaves]

The Devil's Backbone.

Not that psychological, but a really good horror film seen from the perspective of a young boy during the Civil War. I highly recommend it.

 

[drdamo]

Sunshine was about reigniting our dying sun, the only thing similar was they were in space and there was two ships. There was an "Event Horizon" subplot that was a bit silly, but I still maintain they were two different movies. Sunshine I would just classify as straight Science Fiction and Event Horizon as Horror set on a spaceship. I like both movies for what they are.

Fair enough!
I personally still see many similarities in both plots, yet i agree on the "Event Horizon" = Horror/Sci-Fi and "Sunshine" = Thriller/Sci-Fi. And yeah, i do like both movies aswell, altho my personal choice will always be Event Horizon as i've seen that one about 25 times more often then Sunshine, ghehe.