Code Blue: The Movie

2018

Japanese

6.0

♡ 5

Masaki Nishiura Director

Rino Katase as

Yûko Araki as Akari Yokomine

Masanobu Andô as Hiroki Shinkai

Yui Aragaki as Megumi Shiraishi

A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians are assigned to this latest medical system. The doctors experience traumatic medical situations, deal with personal ambitions, witness the fragility of life, and they grow personally and professionally.

Touched by Romance

2014

English

6.9

♡ 1

Bradford May Director

Elizabeth Bond as Amber Fells

Ernie Hudson as Dr. Beck

Rachael Carpani as Emma

Chris Gartin as Henry Luther

Acclaimed author and recluse Norma Boswell is reaching the end of her days. She has kept her terminal diagnosis secret from everyone around her, her housekeeper and gardener, as well as her estranged son, Justin. As her health continues to decline, her doctor insists it is time to bring in a live-in nurse at home. Stubbornly proud, Norma rejects every candidate for the job straight away. That is until she comes across Emma Keating, who refuses to take no for an answer and whole-heartedly agrees to keep Norma’s secret.

Madhouse

2004

English

5.4

♡ 14

44%

William Butler Director

Natasha Lyonne as Alice

Patrika Darbo as Betty

Joshua Leonard as Clark Stevens

Lance Henriksen as Dr. Franks

A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.

The Best of Men

2012

English

7.9

♡ 1

Tim Whitby Director

Rob Brydon as Corporal Wynne Bowen

Richard McCabe as Dr Cowan

Eddie Marsan as Dr Ludwig Guttmann

Mali Harries as Shirley Bowen

Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.

The Last Shaman

2016

English

6.6

♡ 3

44%

Raz Degan Director

James Freeman as James

Guillermo Arevalo as Self

James, giving himself 12 months before he has "a license to kill himself," sets off to the Amazon rainforest with hopes of finding a shaman who can save his life.

The Song That Calls You Home

2020

English

8.2

♡ 6

Luis Robledo Director

Cvita Mamic as Self

Anastasia Onegina as Self

Tony Moss as Self

Estela Pangoza as Self

A personal, scientific, mystical exploration of Amazonian curanderismo, focus on Ayahuasca and Master Plants, their healing and visionary properties and risks, along with the Shipibo people and their songs.

Homunculus

2021

Japanese

5.5

♡ 17

32%

Takashi Shimizu Director

Seiyô Uchino as Kumicho

Yukino Kishii as Mysterious woman

Gô Ayano as Susumu Nokoshi

Doug Erholtz as Susumu Nokoshi

A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

Control

2004

English

6.2

♡ 12

95%

Tim Hunter Director

Polly Walker as Barbara Copeland

Willem Dafoe as Dr. Michael Copeland

Ray Liotta as Lee Ray Oliver

Ivan Kaye as Norton

Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

2019

English

7.7

♡ 3

100%

Ric Burns Director

Andrew Gelles as

Fenton Li as

Oliver Sacks as Self

Shane Fistell as Self

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life explores the life and work of the legendary neurologist and storyteller, as he shares intimate details of his battles with drug addiction, homophobia, and a medical establishment that accepted his work only decades after the fact. Sacks was a fearless explorer of unknown mental worlds who helped redefine our understanding of the brain and mind, the diversity of human experience, and our shared humanity.

Medicine Man

1992

English

6.0

♡ 33

17%

pharmaceutical industry

research

Romance

John McTiernan Director

Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Rae Crane

Sean Connery as Dr. Robert Campbell

José Lavat as Government Man

Edinei Maria Serrio Dos Santos as Kalana

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.

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!

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

8.3

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers Director

Follow filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers as she creates an intimate portrait of her community and the impacts of the substance use and overdose epidemic. Witness the change brought by community members with substance-use disorder, first responders and medical professionals as they strive for harm reduction in the Kainai First Nation.

Restoration

1995

English

6.6

♡ 18

71%

Michael Hoffman Director

Robert Downey Jr. as Merivel

David Thewlis as Pearce

Sam Neill as The King

Ian McKellen as Will Gates

An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.

Unrest

2017

English

7.5

♡ 1

100%

Jennifer Brea Director

Jennifer Brea as Self

Patricia E. Gillespie as Self

Omar Wasow as Self

Jessica l e Taylor as Self

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.

Neurons to Nirvana

2013

English

7.6

♡ 2

Oliver Hockenhull Director

Lesley Ewen as Narrator

Ronald Reagan as Self

Rick Doblin as Self

Julie Holland as Self

Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of four powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA and Ayahuasca) and their previously established medicinal potential. Strictly focusing on the science and medicinal properties of these drugs, Neurons to Nirvana looks into why our society has created such a social and political bias against even allowing research to continue the exploration of any possible positive effects they can present in treating some of today's most challenging afflictions.

Junior

1994

English

4.8

♡ 62

37%

Ivan Reitman Director

Pamela Reed as Angela

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dr. Alex Hesse

Emma Thompson as Dr. Diana Reddin

Megan Cavanagh as Willow

A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.

Lorenzo's Oil

1992

English

7.3

♡ 22

93%

80%

Action

based on a true story

parent child relationship

washington dc, usa

George Miller Director

Kathleen Wilhoite as Deirdre Murphy

Susan Sarandon as Michaela Odone

Mary Pat Gleason as The Librarian

Laura Linney as Young Teacher

Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.

The Tiger and the Snow

2005

Italian

7.0

♡ 4

21%

Roberto Benigni Director

Abdelhafid Metalsi as Dottore Salman

Jean Reno as Fuad

Noah Lee Margetts as Private Roadblock

Francesco De Vito as Valeri

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?

Safe

1995

English

7.1

♡ 21

88%

Todd Haynes Director

Julianne Moore as Carol White

Kate McGregor-Stewart as Claire

K Callan as Mother

Dean Norris as Mover

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Sicko

2007

English

8.0

♡ 18

91%

Michael Moore Director

Bill Clinton as Self

Hillary Clinton as Self

George W. Bush as Self

Ronald Reagan as Self

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.

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Code Blue: The Movie

Touched by Romance

Madhouse

The Best of Men

The Last Shaman

The Song That Calls You Home

Homunculus

Control

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

Medicine Man

Black Jack: The Movie

Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy

Restoration

Unrest

Neurons to Nirvana

Junior

Lorenzo's Oil

The Tiger and the Snow

Safe

Sicko