Films like Awakenings
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the e...
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If I Stay
Film · 2014 · also dramaMia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard...
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Breakthrough
Film · 2019 · also dramaTragedy strikes when a woman named Joyce's son falls through the ice on a frozen lake and is trapped underwater for over 15 minutes. After being rushed to the hospital, t...
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Brain on Fire
Film · 2017 · also dramaSusannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Film · 2017 · also dramaAn African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
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The Cider House Rules
Film · 1999 · also dramaHomer is an orphan who was never adopted, becoming the favorite of orphanage director Dr. Larch. Dr. Larch imparts his full medical knowledge on Homer, who becomes a skil...
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The Rainmaker
Film · 1997 · also dramaFresh out of law school and desperate for work, idealistic rookie Rudy Baylor takes on a powerful insurance company accused of denying a dying boy’s claim. Teaming up wit...
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Richard Jewell
Film · 2019 · also dramaRichard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a co...
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The Sunchaser
Film · 1996 · also dramaA young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.
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Fathers and Daughters
Film · 2015 · also dramaA Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of h...
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Clouds
Film · 2020 · also dramaYoung musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware th...
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