Films like Patch Adams
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
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Awakenings
Film · 1990 · also dramaDr. 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 co...
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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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JOY
Film · 2024 · also dramaA young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s fi...
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No Way Out
Film · 1950 · also dramaTwo hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
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Something the Lord Made
Film · 2004 · also dramaA dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
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Chloe and Theo
Film · 2015 · also comedy and dramaA young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to p...
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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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Housekeeping
Film · 1987 · also comedy and dramaIn the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conve...
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Before I Fall
Film · 2017 · also dramaSamantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over,...
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A Dog Year
Film · 2009 · also comedy and dramaJon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kenne...
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