Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "forensic-psychologist"

1. Evil (2019–2024)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

A skeptical clinical psychologist joins a priest-in-training and a blue collar contractor as they investigate supposed abnormal events, including, demonic possession, and other extraordinary occurrences to see if there's a scientific explanation or if something truly supernatural's at work.

Stars: Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi, Michael Emerson

Votes: 33,447

2. Bones (2005–2017)

TV-14 | 40 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

F.B.I. Special Agent Seeley Booth teams up with the Jeffersonian's top anthropologist, Dr. Temperance Brennan, to investigate cases where all that's left of the victims are their bones.

Stars: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne

Votes: 176,675

3. Batman Forever (1995)

PG-13 | 121 min | Action, Adventure

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.

Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman

Votes: 266,943 | Gross: $184.03M

4. Cure (1997)

Not Rated | 111 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa

Votes: 23,324 | Gross: $0.09M

5. Copycat (1995)

R | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara

Votes: 66,117 | Gross: $32.05M

6. Kiss the Girls (1997)

R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Police hunting for a serial kidnapper are helped when a victim manages to escape for the first time.

Director: Gary Fleder | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur

Votes: 81,353 | Gross: $60.53M

7. The Black Dahlia (2006)

R | 121 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two policemen see their personal and professional lives fall apart in the wake of the "Black Dahlia" Elizabeth Short murder investigation.

Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Aaron Eckhart, Scarlett Johansson, Hilary Swank

Votes: 77,091 | Gross: $22.52M

8. Cracker (1993–1996)

TV-MA | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald is a criminal psychologist. He is rather anti-social and obnoxious but he has a gift for solving crimes. Thus he is employed as a consultant by the Manchester Police.

Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Geraldine Somerville, Kieran O'Brien, Barbara Flynn

Votes: 7,905

9. Miss Marple: Nemesis (1987)

54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Miss Marple receives a cryptic letter requesting her to right an unknown injustice, but receives no hint other than a ticket for guided tour of historic homes.

Stars: Joan Hickson, Peter Tilbury, Helen Cherry, John Horsley

Votes: 2,575

10. 88 Minutes (2007)

R | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

On the day that a serial killer that he helped put away is supposed to be executed, a noted forensic psychologist and college professor receives a call informing him that he has 88 minutes left to live.

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Ben McKenzie, Leelee Sobieski

Votes: 78,360 | Gross: $16.93M

11. Den som dræber (2011)

90 min | Action, Crime, Drama

About the hunt for a type of violent criminal who has yet to strike in Denmark, and who is surrounded by fear and mystique - the serial killer.

Stars: Laura Bach, Jakob Cedergren, Lars Mikkelsen, Lærke Winther

Votes: 3,981

12. Murderous Intent (2006)

PG-13 | 110 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A forensic psychologist (Collette) is tasked with determining whether or not a minor should face murder charges for killing his schoolmate.

Director: Gregory Read | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Sturridge, Toni Collette, Richard Roxburgh

Votes: 5,522

13. Prime Suspect 2 (1992)

102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis

Votes: 4,117

14. Sworn to Justice (1996)

R | 97 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

After attackers kill her sister and nephew, a female psychologist becomes a defense witness by day and an avenger by night.

Director: Paul Maslak | Stars: Cynthia Rothrock, Tony Lo Bianco, Kurt McKinney, Brad Dourif

Votes: 971

15. Cracker (2006 TV Movie)

109 min | Crime, Drama

Fitz returns to Manchester after living 10 years in Australia with his wife and youngest son. He is soon drawn into the investigation of a British soldier who may have been traumatized by his years serving in Northern Ireland.

Director: Antonia Bird | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Anthony Flanagan, Stefanie Wilmore, Andrea Lowe

Votes: 2,029

16. Stephanie Daley (2006)

R | 92 min | Drama

Pregnant forensic psychologist Lydie Crane is hired to learn the truth behind the case of 16-year-old Stephanie Daley, who is accused of concealing her pregnancy and murdering her infant.

Director: Hilary Brougher | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, Timothy Hutton, Vincent Piazza

Votes: 1,897 | Gross: $0.03M

17. Crime Puzzle (2021)

Drama, Mystery, Romance

A criminal psychologist, sent to prison for murdering a political candidate, and the criminal profiler, who lost his father to a murder, conduct interviews about killings that happened in prison.

Stars: Yoon Kyesang, Ko Ah-sung, Yoon Kyung-ho, Kim Roe-ha

Votes: 116

18. The Murder That Changed Britain (2022 TV Movie)

90 min | Documentary, Crime

Documentary looking at one of the most high-profile miscarriages of justice in British legal history. Colin Stagg was wrongly charged with the murder of Rachel Nickell in 1992, it would take 14 years for the real culprit to be caught.

Stars: Paul Britton, Gary Copson, Colin Stagg

Votes: 8

19. Hush (I) (2020)

TV-14 | 88 min | Drama

A forensic psychologist must determine if her patient on trial for murdering her parents is criminally insane. She soon discovers her patient's demons may not be the only ones she has to face.

Director: Miki Blak | Stars: Debbie Scaletta, Melissa Rae Bender, Hamilton Ray Hodge, Jason Klingensmith

Votes: 17

20. Loverboy (2023 Video Game)

Crime, Thriller

During an interrogation by a forensic psychologist, we are taken into the mind's eye of a killer and see firsthand the devastation caused by his warped perspective.

Director: Nicholas Baldas | Stars: Michael Plumb, Neveen Hanna, Seaton Kay-Smith, Greta Lee Jackson

21. Halifax f.p. (1994–2001)
Episode: Without Consent (1996)

PG-13 | 93 min | Crime

When a series of rapes take place, the M.O. matches exactly that of recently released William Reedman (Steve Jacobs). Trouble is, his alibi is Jane Halifax.

Director: Michael Offer | Stars: Rebecca Gibney, Steve Jacobs, Annie Jones, Gary Day

Votes: 31

22. Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode: White Ghost (1996)

TV-MA | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A British businessman operating in Hong Kong has feelings of inferiority and turns to murder when he faces bankruptcy.

Director: Richard Standeven | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Michael Pennington, Dennis Chan, Freda Foh Shen

Votes: 309

23. Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode: Best Boys: Part 1 (1995)

TV-MA | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Stuart Grady, a lonely factory foreman, befriends a young male employee and the disturbed runaway involves them both in murder.

Director: Charles McDougall | Stars: John Simm, Suzy Yannis, Liam Cunningham, Geraldine Somerville

Votes: 311

24. Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode: The Big Crunch: Part 1 (1994)

TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A charismatic cult preacher finds that he has impregnated one of his 16 year old students and must silence her to protect his position.

Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: Jim Carter, Samantha Morton, Cherith Mellor, Robbie Coltrane

Votes: 346

25. Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode: Brotherly Love: Part 1 (1995)

TV-14 | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A married father of four, addicted to kinky sex with prostitutes, kills one when he cannot pay and she threatens to expose him to his wife.

Director: Roy Battersby | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Rodney Litchfield, Lorcan Cranitch, Mark Lambert

Votes: 293

26. Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode: The Mad Woman in the Attic: Part 1 (1993)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The second of two beautiful women is murdered on a train, and the primary suspect is an amnesiac man. A psychologist, Dr. Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, an old friend of the second victim, is brought in to help.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Rob Palmer, Jeffrey Robert, Andy Devine

Votes: 545

27. Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode: Men Should Weep: Part 1 (1994)

TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young black man, product of an interracial marriage, seethes with resentment and turns from being a serial rapist to murder.

Director: Jean Stewart | Stars: Robbie Coltrane, Alexander Newland, Graham Aggrey, Julie Saunders

Votes: 308

28. Cracker (1993–1996)
Episode: True Romance: Part 1 (1995)

TV-MA | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A lab technician, working at the same university as Fitz, begins to electrocute male students in order to gain the attention of the psychologist.

Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Elizabeth Estensen, Robbie Coltrane, Emily Joyce, Katie Purslow

Votes: 290

29. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999– )
Episode: Resilience (2002)

TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The attempted suicide of a 15-year-old girl leads to her family, promiscuity, and her regression to a child.

Director: Joyce Chopra | Stars: Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer, Stephanie March

Votes: 995

30. The Outer Limits (1995–2002)
Episode: Nest (2000)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A scientific team based in the Arctic discover an ancient species of Polar Mites that infest humans and cause them to go insane.

Director: Scott Peters | Stars: Robert Sean Leonard, Martin Cummins, Kelly Rutherford, Paul Jarrett

Votes: 177

31. A Touch of Frost (1992–2010)
Episode: Near Death Experience (2005)

TV-14 | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A beautiful, media savvy forensic psychologist is recruited to assist Frost in profiling a serial murderer who targets women at home.

Director: Paul Harrison | Stars: David Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Lyons, Philip Jackson

Votes: 282

32. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: The Blind Beggar: Part 1 (2001)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A skeleton is discovered during building work at a church.

Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 176

33. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Life Sentence: Part 1 (2002)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A serial rapist/killer currently serving a life sentence may hold the key to solving a copycat murder.

Director: Edward Bennett | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 193

34. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)
Episode: Every Breath You Take: Part 2 (2001)

TV-14 | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Boyd and the team track down murdered police officer Debbie's married lover, but he denies killing her. Meanwhile, stalker Christopher Redford is ready to confess to the murder, but Grace is not convinced he's the guilty man.

Director: Gary Love | Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Holly Aird, Claire Goose

Votes: 161

35. Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode: The List Murders (1996)

TV-14 | 22 min | Documentary, Crime

For 18 years, a man who murdered his entire family successfully eluded the FBI. This episode describes how investigators used both art and forensic science to catch the killer, John List.

Director: Mike Werteen | Stars: Peter Thomas, List John Jr., Frederick List, Helen List

Votes: 215

36. Fringe (2008–2013)
Episode: One Night in October (2011)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

The "Over Here" team helps the "Over There" team look into a string of murders in which the victims are frozen from the inside out.

Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown

Votes: 2,038