Therapeutic Themes and Relevant Movies:

Humanistic/Humane/Effective:
American Beauty
Babette’s Feast
Bagdad Café
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
Billy Elliot
Brokeback Mountain
Color Purple, The
Dead Poets Society
Eat Drink Man Woman
Erin Brockovich
Forest Gump
Fried Green Tomatoes
Gandhi
Glass Castle, The
Gloria Bell
Groundhog Day
Hours, The
Hurt Locker
Joy Luck Club
King’s Speech, The
Lost in Translation
Moonstruck
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Notebook, The
On Golden Pond
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Ordinary People
Patch Adams
Piano, The
Precious
Quartet
Schindler’s List
Sideways
Silver Linings Playbook
Sophie’s Choice
What About Bob
When Harry Met Sally
Zero Dark Thirty

Intellectual Disability:
I Am Sam
Other Sister, The
Still Alice
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape

LGBT:
8 the Mormon Proposition
Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert, The
All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre)
And the Band Played on
Bad Education
Beginners
Bird Cage
Boys Don’t Cry
But I’m a Cheerleader
Call Me by Your Name
Celluloid Closet, The
Children’s Hour, The
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean
Desert Hearts
Far from Heaven
Fire
Girls Will be Girls
Go fish
How to Survive a Plague
Imitation Game
Incredible Adventures of Two Girls in life, The
Kids Are Alright, The
Kinky boots
La Cage aux Folles
La mission
Laramie Project
Longtime Companion
Love, Simon
Marwencol
Milk
My Life in Pink
Normal
Our Sons
Outrage
Philadelphia
Prayers for Bobby
Pride
Reinas
Stranger Inside
Times of Harvey Milk, The
To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Nemar
Torch Song Trilogy
Transamerica
Watermelon Woman
We Were Here
Wedding banquet
Wedding Wars
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Mental Illness:
Black Swan
Don Juan De Marco
Fatal Attraction
Hours, The
House of Cards
It’s Kind of a Funny Story
King of Comedy, The
King of Hearts
Lars and the Real Girl
Mr. Jones
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Silver Linings Playbook
Young Adult
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Non-Traditional Therapy:
Good will Hunting
Harold and Maude

OCD:
As Good as it Gets
Breaking the Waves
Matchstick Man
Number 23, The
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Pace of Life:
Groundhog Day
Multiplicity
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing

Phobias:
Agoraphobia: Copy Cat
Germ-Phobia: As Good as it Gets

Prejudice (coping with):
A Single Man
Bagdad Cafe
BlacKkKlansman
Brokeback Mountain
Color Purple, The
Crash, The
Dance Me Outside
Flags of our Fathers
Fried Green Tomatoes
Grand Canyon
Help, The
Imitation Game
Invictus
Get on the Bus
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
How to Fold a Flag
In the Heat of the Night
Jungle Fever
Leave No Trace
Letters From Iwo Jima
Milk
Mississippi’s Burning
Outsider, The
Philadelphia
Pride and Prejudice
Restrepo
Ryan White Story, The
Skins
To Kill a Mockingbird
Traffic
Visitor, The
WAR
Windtalkers
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Psych. of Modern Tech-Digital Age:
Citizenfour
Her
Social Network, The
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Post-Traumatic Growth:
Bucket List
Good Will Hunting
Pursuit of Happiness, The
Rudy
Seabiscuit
Secretariat
Seven Pounds
Shawshank Redemption
Unbroken
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PTSD:
American Sniper
An Act of War
Born On The Fourth of July
Coming Home
Deer Hunter, The
First Blood
Forrest Gump
Hurt Locker, The
In Country
Iron Man 3
Jacob’s Ladder
Mystic River
Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian
Saving Private Ryan
Thank You For Your Service
Valley of Elah
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Relationships & Love:
Accidental Tourist, The
As Good as it Gets
Before Midnight
Before Sunset
Blade Runner 2049
Blue Valentine
Closer
Crimes of the Heart
Descendents, The
Eat Drink Man Woman
Education, An
English Patient, The
Enough Said
Father of the Bride
Frankie and Johnnie
Gathering, The
Good Mother, The
High Fidelity
Hot Spells
Joy Luck Club
Juliet, Naked
Kids Are All Right, The
King’s Speech, The
Last Chance Harvey
Last Hangman, The
Little Miss Sunshine
Lost in Translation
Memories of Me
Moonstruck
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Once
Ordinary People
Parenthood
Phantom Thread
Philadelphia Story
Postcards From the Edge
Pretty Woman
Safe Passage
Secret Lives of Dentists
Sideways
Singles
Sliding Doors
Stanley and Iris
Story of Us, The
Soul Food
Steel Magnolias
Two Family House
Under the Tuscan Sun
Victor, Victoria
Walk on the Moon, A
War of the Roses
Way We Were, The
We Have a Pope
When Harry Met Sally
You Can Count on Me

Relationships, Non-Traditional:
Beginners
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Philadelphia
Single Man, A

Relationships, Online:
Her
Men, Women and Children
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Retirement:
About Schmidt
Artist, The
Baby Boom
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The
Broke
Bucket List, The
Gran Torino
Harry and Tonto
On Golden Pond
Quartet
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Risk:
Apollo 13
Erin Brockovich
Full Monty, The
Sliding Doors

Sacrifice:
It’s a Wonderful Life
Lord of the Rings
Sophie’s Choice

Schizophrenia:
A Beautiful Mind
Clean Shaven
Dear John
Foxcatcher
Jupiter’s Wife
King of Hearts
Proof
Shine

Self-Esteem:
Gattaca
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Other Sister, The
Sliding Doors

Separation & Divorce:
Kramer vs. Kramer
Story of Us, The
Under the Tuscan Sun

Sexual Abuse:
A Thousand Acres
Bad Education
Black Snake Moan
Cider House Rules
Dolores Clairborne
Mystic River
Precious
Sleepers
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Sexuality:
50 Shades of Grey
Bliss
Bull Durham
Kinsey
Sessions, The
Working Girls
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Social Justice:
Angela’s Ashes
Constant Gardner
Erin Brockovich
Green Book
Hotel Rwanda
Made in Dagenham
Motorcycle Diaries
Selma
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Spirituality and Religion:
Apostle, The
Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Contact
Last Temptation of Christ, The
Razor’s Edge, The
Resurrection

Spirituality and Spiritual Awareness:
Avatar
City of Angels
Hereafter
It’s a Wonderful Life
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Made In Heaven
Powder
What Dreams May Come

Stress Management:
Happy
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Trauma:
See Abuse, PTSD, War

Vocational Issues:
Company Man, The
Erin Brockovich
Full Monty, The
Jerry Maguire
Patch Adams
Up in the Air

War (Horrors of and Aftermath):
A Very Long Engagement
American Sniper
Black Hawk Down
Casualties Of War
Cold Mountain
Courage Under Fire
Dear John
Dr. Strangelove
Full Metal Jacket
Gettysburg
Gone with the Wind
Hamburger Hill
Hurt Locker
Lincoln
Lions For Lambs
MASH
Paths of Glory
Pianist, The
Platoon
Saving Private Ryan
Zero Dark Thirty

Willpower:
Bend it Like Beckham
Blind Side, The
Bohemian Rhapsody
Cast Away
Cinderella Man
Fighter, The
Gladiator
Good Night and Good Luck
Horse Whisperer, The
Hugo
Invictus
Julie & Julia
King’s Speech, The
Lorenzo’s Oil
Million Dollar Baby
Moneyball
Pianist, The
Piano, The
Princess Bride, The
Ray
Seabiscuit
Shawshank Redemption
Social Network, The
Whiplash