The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017

English

6.4

♡ 8

69%

George C. Wolfe Director

John Benjamin Hickey as Bill Watson

Peter Gerety as Paul Lurz

Rose Byrne as Rebecca Skloot

Courtney B. Vance as Sir Lord Keenan Kester Cofield

An 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.

Arctic Heart

2016

French

5.2

♡ 5

Marie Madinier Director

Charlotte Le Bon as Christophine

Anne Le Ny as Nadine

Guillaume Canet as Professeur Quignard

Damien Chapelle as Siegfried

A timid young grad student madly in love with her scientist boss offers her body to his research.

What's So Bad About Feeling Good?

1968

English

6.5

♡ 2

56%

George Seaton Director

Arny Freeman as 1st Mate

Lou Martini Jr. as Crying Boy At City Hall

Mary Tyler Moore as Liz

John P. Ryan as Roger

A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.

The Bleeding Edge

2018

English

7.6

♡ 8

100%

83%

Action

bayer company

doctor patient relationship

Kirby Dick Director

Rita Redberg as Herself

Angie Firmalino as Herself - Essure contraceptive victim

Robert Bridges as Himself - Diagnostic Radiologist

Donald Trump as Self - 45th President of the United States

Each year in the United States, unparalleled innovations in medical diagnostics, treatment, and technology hit the market. But when the same devices designed to save patients end up harming them, who is accountable?

The Nature of Things The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World

2018

English

7.8

♡ 3

Annamaria Talas Director

Robert R. Dunn as Self

Anne A. Madden as Self

John Sheppard as Self

You find fungi in Antarctica and in nuclear reactors. They live inside your lungs and your skin is covered with them. Fungi are the most under appreciated and unexplained organisms, yet they could cure you from smallpox and turn cardboard boxes into forests. They could even transform Mars into Eden. There are vastly more fungi species than plants and each and every one of them play a crucial role in life’s support systems. Join us on a journey into the mysterious world of Fungi to witness their beauty, unravel their mysteries and discover how this secret kingdom is essential to life on Earth, and may in fact hold the key to our future.

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

2019

English

7.2

♡ 44

78%

Alex Gibney Director

Bill Clinton as Himself

Henry Kissinger as Himself

Charlie Rose as Himself

Sanjay Gupta as Himself

With a magical new invention that promised to revolutionize blood testing, Elizabeth Holmes became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, heralded as the next Steve Jobs. Then, overnight, her 10-billion-dollar company dissolved. The rise and fall of Theranos is a window into the psychology of fraud.

Extreme Measures

1996

English

6.2

♡ 25

55%

Michael Apted Director

J.K. Simmons as Dr. Mingus

David Morse as FBI Agent Frank Hare

Vincent Laresca as Patches

Jackie Richardson as Triphase Nurse

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

No Telling

1991

English

5.7

♡ 8

40%

Larry Fessenden Director

Larry Fessenden as Eden Ridge Employee

Ashley Arcement as Frances Boyd

Stephen Ramsey as Geoffrey Gaines

Richard Topol as Philip Brown

Happy couple Geoffrey and Lillian move out to a rural country location so Geoffrey can concentrate on his work. Shutting himself off in a shed out back, Geoffrey is slowly consumed by his work as well as his impending madness.

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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The Nature of Things The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

Extreme Measures

No Telling