Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Sister Kenny (1946), Breathe (2017), The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017), Self/less (2015), Calling Dr. Kildare (1939), Decoding Annie Parker (2013), Mesmer (1994) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Medical Breakthrough movies.
Storyline: Until about the age of seven, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD (adrenoleukodystrophy): an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder. Frustrated at the failings of doctors and medicine in this area, the Odones begin to educate themselves in the hope of discovering something which can halt the progress of the disease.
Plot Keywords: disease, medical, family, parents, struggle, research, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Elizabeth Kenny, as a young nurse out in the Australian bush discovers an effective treatment for polio, but can't get official recognition or sanction for her techniques and theories. For more than three decades (while she tells her fiancée she can't marry him, and repeatedly confronts the pigheaded orthopedic specialist Dr. Brack), she is prevented from treating acute cases and is ridiculed, while she seeks formal recognition for the efficacy of her treatment.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, medical, inspirational, female lead, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When Robin is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of Diana's twin brothers (Tom Hollander) and the groundbreaking ideas of inventor Teddy Hall (Hugh Bonneville), Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together - raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, romance, true story, inspirational, medical, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1951, cancerous cells from Henrietta Lacks lead to breakthroughs that change the face of medicine forever. Aided by writer Rebecca Skloot, Deborah Lacks embarks on a quest to learn about the mother she never knew.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, history, medical, ethics, race, social justice ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An extremely wealthy man, dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, mystery, action, crime, drama, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him for it, he has to try and prove his patient's innocence, especially for his sister Rosalie's sake.—Kathy Li
Plot Keywords: medical drama, classic film, black and white film, 1930s, mgm, american film, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Love, science, sex, infidelity, disease and comedy, the wild, mostly true story of the irrepressible Annie Parker and the almost discovery of a cure for cancer.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, medical, cancer, scientist, true story, female lead ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The 18th-century Viennese medical establishment is threatened by the radical yet successful healing methods of Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer. Blind pianist Maria Theresa Paradies, daughter of a well-to-do businessman, becomes Mesmer's patient after he calms her seizure at a concert. As the two are drawn into an intimate relationship, the situation is used as an excuse to banish Mesmer from Vienna. Undaunted, he moves on, becoming a court favorite in Paris.—Bhob Stewart <bhob@genie.com>
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, 18th century, historical figure, independent film, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected.—Arcadia Motion Pictures
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, future, cloning, artificial intelligence, human nature exploration, romance, life and death ...
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