10 Movies For Those Students Who Love Studying

1 – The Help (Tate Taylor, 2011)

The film concentrates its plot in the decade of 1960, working with the social aspects of the time, always raising the figure of the racism very latent for all the exposed personages. ‘The Help’ manages to be light-hearted by dealing with complex themes and even showing strong graphic content. One of the best films with the theme racism of this century.

2 – Time Out (Laurent Cantet, 2001)

After losing his job, a man omits the fact of his family, making his daily life tortuous until the sad apparition of truth. The film shows the effects of the current exacerbated social construction that ends up compromising the well-being of many families, also explaining the psychological load that certain subjects cause in an individual.

3 – My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan, 1989)

The film features the life of Christy Brown, a man born with cerebral palsy, showing the most substantial fragments of his journey in the world, exposing his adaptive power and talents. ‘My Left Foot’ is a great movie to understand the basic precepts of the effects of cerebral palsy on the human being and his quality of life. However, the film still shows the concept of perseverance contained in man.

4 – A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, 2011)

Working with two of the greatest names in the history of psychology, the film presents some substantial fragments of their lives, as well as the turbulent relationship between them. Here we will have a biographical plot about the lives of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. In spite of the possible exaggerations pertaining to the cinema, “A Dangerous Method” manages to bring all the exacerbated aura that regulated the relation between the two names of the psychology, also exposing a third personage crucial for the general proposal of the film. The great direction of the film is of David Cronenberg, perhaps the most appropriate name for such work, since consummated its filmography exposing the most basic elements of the psychoanalytic construction on the human being.

5 – Tony Manero (Pablo Larraín, 2008)

In the plot, set in the 1970s in Chile, we will follow in the footsteps of Raul Peralta, a middle-aged man, unemployed and fanatic by the character of John Travolta in the movie ‘Saturday Night Fever’. History gains its substance by exploring man’s exacerbated and pathological way of governing his social intercourse, breaking with social and moral rules in pursuit of his goals. Rustic in its resolutions, ‘Tony Manero’ asserts its place in this list by offering the viewer a glimpse of the erratic social compendium that comprised the South American country at that time with a destructive dictatorial regime that worked to exterminate the subjectivity of its people , as well as enhancing damaging enclosures, such as the protagonist of the work.

6 – A Beautiful Mind (Ron Howard, 2001)

The film portrays the life of John Nash, a mathematician plagued by his exacerbated psychological state. Here, we will know a little of man’s way of governing his social contacts with the world, going through a great period of his life. ‘A Beautiful Mind’ is conceived in a very assertive way, allowing the viewer to experience some of the problems faced by individuals affected by schizophrenia.

7 – Brainstorm (Laís Bodanzky, 2000)

We will enter the life of Neto, a normal young man who, after his parents find out that his eventual drug use, is hospitalized in a psychiatric institution. However, the process that should improve one’s health only serves to destroy any possibility of improvement. Disturbing, ‘Brainstorm’ traces a study of the interior of the psychiatric institutions scattered throughout our country, explaining how pathological this compendium of our society is. A film that offers a real look at what really happens in those institutions.

8 – Code Unknown (Michael Haneke, 2000)

In the plot, we will see innumerable fragments of the lives of distinct personages, having as only connection an incident due to the social prejudice. Belonging to the visceral cinema of the Austrian Michael Haneke, ‘Code Unknown’ offers us a study of the pathological meanders that permeate the model of a modern Western society to behave. A hard film, as well as all the spectacular filmography of the director, who tells us a world afflicted by an inexorable degenerative process.

9 – As Good as It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997)

A man full of manias and morally reprehensible social behavior has his daily life transformed after meeting people completely different from what he was accustomed to. ‘As Good as It Gets’, in addition to having a dynamic plot and incredible performances, is a great choice for those who like the field of psychopathology, bringing a character with obsessive-compulsive disorder, offering a wide range of fragments about the lives of individuals afflicted with this condition.

10 – Good Will Hunting (Gus Van Sant, 1997)

In the plot, a young janitor with a troublesome behavior is discovered by a teacher after solving a math question. Now, it is up to this teacher to harness the talents of the young man, helping him to solve his behavioral problem with therapeutic sessions. Dynamic, ‘Good Will Hunting’ features a productive direction, a quality cast and a concise script, getting marked in the 1990s.