Directed by Frank Perry • 1962 • United States
Starring Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva
One of the first films to treat the issue of mental illness with sensitivity and compassion, this groundbreaking independent drama traces, with profound humanity, the relationship that develops between David (Keir Dullea), an obsessive young man with a fear of being touched, and Lisa (Janet Margolin), a woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder, amid the confines of a psychiatric institution. A sleeper sensation on the 1960s art-house circuit, DAVID AND LISA was heralded by no less than Jean Renoir as “a turning point in the history of world cinema.”
Directed by Hubert Cornfield • 1962 • United States
Starring Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk
A young psychiatrist (Peter Falk), exasperated by his failed attempts to help a black patient who hates whites, asks to be reassigned. In a story told in flashback, his seasoned superior (Sidney ...
Directed by Theodore J. Flicker • 1967 • United States
Starring James Coburn, Godfrey Cambridge, Severn Darden
This wild, psychedelic satire stars James Coburn as Dr. Sidney Schaefer, psychiatrist to none other than the president of the United States. When the pressures of his job push Schaefer ...
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1972 • Soviet Union
Starring Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Yuri Yarvet
Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to i...
