Films and media
Documentaries, films and series, with one sentence on what each covers.
Desiree Akhavan · Film · 2018
In 1993, teenager Cameron is sent to a gay conversion camp after being caught with a girl, where she and other queer youth endure a regime built to shame their desire.
Woody Allen · Film · 1977
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer looks back on his love affair with the free-spirited Annie Hall, sifting years of analysis, memory and jokes for what went wrong.
Sidney Lumet · Film · 1977
Psychiatrist Martin Dysart treats a boy who blinded six horses, and as he uncovers the worship and desire behind the act he confronts the emptiness of his own life.
Barbra Streisand · Film · 1991
Tom Wingo travels to New York to help his suicidal sister's psychiatrist, and in their sessions a brutal buried family trauma and his own defences come to the surface.
Tom Hooper · Film · 2010
A future king who cannot get his words out submits to an unorthodox speech therapist on the edge of war.
David Cronenberg · Film · 2011
In early 1900s Zurich and Vienna, Jung treats and then loves the patient Sabina Spielrein while his bond with Freud frays over the young science of psychoanalysis.
Lars von Trier · Film · 2009
After their toddler dies while they have sex, a therapist takes his grief-stricken wife to a woods cabin to treat her, where mourning turns into terror and violence.
David O. Russell · Film · 2012
Released from a psychiatric hospital, Pat schemes to win back his wife and meets Tiffany, a grieving widow, and the two strike a bargain that draws them together.
Paul Mazursky · Film · 1978
When her husband abruptly leaves her for a younger woman, Manhattan wife Erica rebuilds her sense of self and desire, with her therapy sessions woven throughout.
Jonathan Demme · Film · 1991
A young FBI trainee trades pieces of her own history to an imprisoned psychiatrist in exchange for his reading of a killer.
Alma Har'el · Film · 2019
A young actor in rehab writes a screenplay about his childhood, and in the film of it a boy plays the volatile stage-father who raised him.
Hayao Miyazaki · Film · 2001
A sullen ten-year-old girl, trapped in a spirit world after her parents are turned into pigs, must work in a bathhouse and recover her name to save them.
Richard Linklater · Film · 2001
A young man drifts through a series of vivid conversations about consciousness and reality, slowly realising he cannot wake from the dream he is in.
Ildiko Enyedi · Film · 2017
Two reserved slaughterhouse workers discover they meet each night as deer in the same shared dream, and haltingly try to build that closeness while awake.
Lee Chang-dong · Film · 2007
A widow moves with her young son to her late husband's hometown to start over, but when the boy is abducted and killed she is thrown into unbearable grief.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne · Film · 2002
A carpentry teacher at a youth centre quietly takes on a new teenage apprentice, who turns out to be the boy who killed his young son years earlier.
Andrew Haigh · Film · 2015
Days before their forty-fifth anniversary party, a wife learns her husband's first love has been found preserved in an Alpine glacier, unsettling their marriage.
Samuel Maoz · Film · 2017
An Israeli couple are told their soldier son has died, but the report of his fate turns out to be more twisted than the shattering news they first receive.
Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson · Film · 2024
A grieving construction worker unexpectedly joins a community theatre staging of Romeo and Juliet, and the role opens the family loss he has been unable to face.
Noah Baumbach · Film · 2019
A theatre director and an actress love each other but come apart, and their bicoastal divorce turns increasingly adversarial as lawyers reshape the split.