George is an uptight surgeon with a rebellious teenage son. Edith is a free spirit with an overachieving teenage daughter. When they meet during an admissions tour with their kids at the small, idyllic Middleton University, they decide to ditch the group. Though adversaries at first, they soon discover that the only thing better than the college tour, is the detour.

The Brain That Wouldn't Die

1962

English

4.6

♡ 7

33%

Joseph Green Director

Jason Evers as Dr. Bill Cortner

Virginia Leith as Jan Compton / Jan in the Pan

Doris Brent as Nurse

Arny Freeman as Photographer

Dr. Bill Cortner and his fiancée, Jan Compton, are driving to his lab when they get into a horrible car accident. Compton is decapitated. But Cortner is not fazed by this seemingly insurmountable hurdle. His expertise is in transplants, and he is excited to perform the first head transplant. Keeping Compton's head alive in his lab, Cortner plans the groundbreaking yet unorthodox surgery. First, however, he needs a body.

Gang Related

1997

English

6.4

♡ 38

50%

Jim Kouf Director

Lela Rochon as Cynthia Webb

Dennis Quaid as Joe Doe / William

Gary Cole as Richard Simms

Brad Greenquist as Richard Stein

After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.

Playing God

1997

English

5.6

♡ 28

16%

los angeles, california

surgeon

Thriller

Andy Wilson Director

Angelina Jolie as Claire

Andrew Tiernan as Cyril

Michael Massee as Gage

Peter Stormare as Vladimir

Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a "gun-shot doctor" when Raymond's associates cannot risk visiting a hospital, Eugene is lured deep into the criminal world and becomes entangled with his boss's girlfriend.

Wandering Eye

2011

English

5.3

♡ 7

25%

François Dompierre Director

Janique Kearns as Cop

Krista Bridges as Jacqueline Fitzpatrick

Amanda Righetti as Maren Abbott

Tim Post as Mr. Federman

Neglected by her workaholic husband, a young wife, Maren Abbott, meets a man through Wandering Eye - a networking website designed to facilitate extramarital liaisons. Charming as he is, she realizes she can't go through with the affair. When he is found brutally murdered in their hotel room, infidelity is the least of Maren's worries as she finds herself in the cross-hairs of a serial killer who uses the website to trawl for his next victims.

Lady Frankenstein

1971

Italian

5.2

♡ 12

19%

Mel Welles Director

Joseph Cotten as Baron Frankenstein

Mickey Hargitay as Captain Harris

Ada Pometti as Farmer's wife

Marino Masé as Stack

When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue his experiments.

Painkillers

2018

English

4.2

♡ 8

67%

Roxy Shih Director

Madeline Zima as Chloe Clarke

Adam Huss as John Clarke

Naomi Grossman as Nurse Sheralyn

Kim Estes as Reporter #1

After a terrible car crash in which his son dies, a brilliant surgeon becomes prey to unbearable physical pain, and it can only be eased by the taste of human blood. When he encounters a man who claims he can help him get his life back, he embarks upon a nightmarish journey through which he will either have to come to terms with his pain… or become a monster.

Excision

2012

English

6.1

♡ 40

85%

Richard Bates Jr. Director

Natalie Dreyfuss as Abigail

Malcolm McDowell as Mr. Cooper

Ray Wise as Principal Campbell

John Waters as William

An outcast teenager, Pauline, practices surgical skills and harbors increasingly violent psychosexual fantasies.

Kokô no mesu

6.9

Izuru Narushima Director

Hiroki Narimiya as Kôhei Nakamura

Yutaka Matsushige as Kôji Shimada

Katsuhisa Namase as Rokurô Nomoto

Kimiko Yo as Shizuka Takei

Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operation to remove a patient’s liver cancer, something that normally would not be done at this hospital, he quickly gains a very good reputation amongst the town’s people. Some of his colleagues become so jealous they are resentful and waiting patiently for the perfect opportunity to crucify him. Soon they get their chance as Dr Toma considers performing a controversial operation…

Pulse

2010

English

5.3

♡ 1

James Hawes Director

Arsher Ali as Adam Hussein

Claire Foy as Hannah Carter

Jo Hartley as Loz Westmoor

Stephen Campbell Moore as Nick Gates

A year after her mother's death, Hannah resumes her training at one of the country's top teaching hospitals. She is soon terrified by strange visions and the threatening behaviour of her ex-boyfriend and star surgeon Nick and wonders if she has come back too soon. But beneath the hospital's reputation of medical excellence she discovers a secret network of dangerous experiments pushing back the boundaries of science.

Not as a Stranger

1955

English

6.7

♡ 4

10%

marriage of convenience

Stanley Kramer Director

Gloria Grahame as Harriet Lang

Juanita Moore as Mrs. Clara Bassett

Irene Tedrow as Nurse Snow

Dorothy Neumann as Patient

Lucas Marsh, an intern bent upon becoming a first-class doctor, not merely a successful one. He courts and marries the warm-hearted Kristina, not out of love but because she is highly knowledgeable in the skills of the operating room and because she has frugally put aside her savings through the years. She will be, as he shrewdly knows, a supportive wife in every way. She helps make him the success he wants to be and cheerfully moves with him to the small town in which he starts his practice. But as much as he tries to be a good husband to the undemanding Kristina, Marsh easily falls into the arms of a local siren and the patience of the long-sorrowing Kristina wears thin.

Mad Love

1935

English

7.2

♡ 5

100%

81%

based on novel or book

Karl Freund Director

Ramsay Hill as Actor

Peter Lorre as Doctor Gogol

Ian Wolfe as Henry Orlac -, Stephen's Stepfather

Matty Roubert as Newsboy

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer.

The Quiet Duel

1949

Japanese

7.3

♡ 13

74%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Takashi Shimura as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki

Toshirô Mifune as Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki

Isamu Yamaguchi as Patrolman Nosaka

Kenjirô Uemura as Susumu Nakada

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.

Hands of a Stranger

1962

English

5.2

♡ 1

10%

Newt Arnold Director

Barry Gordon as Skeet Wilder

Sally Kellerman as Sue

George Sawaya as Tony Wilder

James Noah as Vernon Paris

A concert pianist loses his hands in a car crash, but a surgeon gives him new ones. The experimental medical procedure goes awry when the new hands drive the pianist mad.

Hangmen Also Die!

1943

English

7.4

♡ 10

Fritz Lang Director

Gene Lockhart as Emil Czaka

John Abbott as Hostage

Margaret Bert as Market Woman

Edward Earle as Professor

During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.

Black Jack: The Movie

1996

Japanese

6.7

♡ 9

Osamu Dezaki Director

Akio Ôtsuka as Black Jack

Bridget Hoffman as Ellen Shryer

Mary Elizabeth McGlynn as Jo Carol Brane

Peter Spellos as Mr. Brane

Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!

King of Chinatown

1939

English

6.3

♡ 4

20%

Nick Grinde Director

Pierre Watkin as Dist. Atty. Philips

Eddie Marr as Henchman Bert

Anthony Quinn as Mike Gordon

Philip Ahn as Robert 'Bob' Li

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

2009

English

7.4

♡ 11

85%

1970s

Action

based on a true story

husband wife relationship

surgeon

Thomas Carter Director

Cuba Gooding Jr. as Ben Carson

Aunjanue Ellis as Candy

Maestro Harrell as Joe - Teen

Kimberly Elise as Sonya Carson

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.

Death Saved My Life

2021

English

6.0

♡ 9

71%

husband wife relationship

Seth Jarrett Director

Joseph Castillo-Midyett as Detective Byrant

Meagan Good as Jade

La'Myia Good as Leigh

Ian Blackman as Rob

On the surface it seems Jade has it all, including a successful marketing career, a heart surgeon husband who is admired and respected in the community, and a young daughter they both dote on. However, behind closed doors, her life is far from perfect.

The Ugly Truth

2009

English

6.4

♡ 130

14%

Robert Luketic Director

Jesse D. Goins as Cliff

Eric Winter as Colin

Gerard Butler as Mike

Nick Searcy as Stuart

A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.

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Kokô no mesu

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Not as a Stranger

Mad Love

The Quiet Duel

Hands of a Stranger

Hangmen Also Die!

Black Jack: The Movie

King of Chinatown

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

Death Saved My Life

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