MASH (1970), Sister Kenny (1946), Young Dr. Kildare (1938), The Young Doctors (1961), Puncture (2011), Brain on Fire (2016), Calling Dr. Kildare (1939), A Little Bit of Heaven (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Medical Drama movies.
Storyline: The personnel at the 4077 MASH unit deal with the horrors of the Korean War and the stresses faced in surgery by whatever means. The tone at the MASH is established by recent arrivals, surgeons Captains 'Hawkeye' Pierce, 'Duke' Forrest, and 'Trapper' John McIntyre - the latter who Hawkeye knows he's met somewhere, but Trapper who won't divulge where - whose antics can be best described as non-regulation, and in the negative words of one of their fellow MASH-ers: unmilitary. The unit's commanding officer, Colonel Henry Blake, doesn't care about this behavior as long as it doesn't affect him, and as long as they do their job and do it well, which they do. Their behavior does extremely bother fellow surgeon, Major Frank Burns, and recently arrived head nurse, Major Margaret Houlihan, who obtains the nickname 'Hot Lips' based on information they glean about her through underhanded means. Beyond their battles with Frank and Hot Lips, Hawkeye, Duke and/or Trapper help unit dentist Painless ...
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, black comedy, korean war, anti-war, absurdist, satire ...
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: Fresh out of medical school, young Dr. James Kildare decides to take a position at a large New York hospital instead of joining his father's country practice. In New York he meets the famous Dr. Leonard Gillespie who becomes his mentor. Kildare finds himself in serious trouble when he saves a suicidal woman who turns out to be an heiress with a powerful family.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: medical, doctor, hospital, coming of age, mentor, medical ethics, illness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two pathologists -- a veteran department head (Fredric March) whose perspective has been shaped by years of red tape and day-to-day frustrations, and his new assistant (Ben Gazarra), a young, somewhat aggressive man who is more up-to-date but who lacks his colleague's personal touch -- clash in a small hospital's lab. The gulf between their approaches is dramatically illustrated by two critical cases that both are intimately involved in.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: medical drama, hospital, medical ethics, power struggle, institutional corruption, idealism, realism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Idealistic lawyers Mike Weiss and Paul Danziger are partners. Mike is a drug-addict and Paul is a family man with a pregnant wife. When nurse Vicky Rogers seeks them out, they learn that she contracted AIDS a couple of years ago when she was accidentally pinpricked with a contaminated needle by a violent patient. Vicky shows a retractable safety needle invented by engineer Jeffrey Matthew Dancort, who owns the Safety Point Company, but is unable to sell his product to any hospital from the United Medical group, apart from San Antonio Memorial. Danziger and Weiss accept the case and go to court against United Medical, defended by powerful lawyer Nathaniel Price. Soon, they see all the doors closed in their fight against the powerful mafia of the medical supply system.
Plot Keywords: legal drama, courtroom drama, true story, corruption, whistleblower, social justice, addiction ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film follows the harrowing experience of a writer struggling with a rare neurological disease from when she first suffers symptoms to the many attempts at diagnosing it and the eventual discovery of the real cause of her illness. Based on the book, 'Brain On Fire', the true story of Susannah Cahalan, a journalist for the New York Post.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, medical drama, psychological, true story, illness, mental health ...
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: An irreverent young woman who uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious has a life-changing visit with her doctor.
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, drama, love, meaning of life, healing, friendship ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dr. Peter Carey is a pathologist at a Boston hospital. The daughter of the hospital's Chief of Staff dies after an illegal abortion goes wrong, and Carey's friend and colleague Dr. David Tao is accused of performing the abortion. Carey doesn't buy it, and so he digs deeper, angering the girl's father in the process. Questions abound: Who performed the abortion? Was the girl really pregnant? And what does it have to do with stolen morphine, blackmail attempts, and a mysterious and dangerous masseur?—reservoirdog909
Plot Keywords: mystery, crime, drama, thriller, hospital, murder, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Based on the true story about the famous murderers, 'Burke And Hare' follows the hapless exploits of these two men as they fall into the highly profitable business of providing cadavers for the medical fraternity in Nineteenth Century Edinburgh, then the centre of medical learning. The one thing they were short of was bodies.
Plot Keywords: black comedy, historical, crime, based on true story, dark humor, 19th century, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Benjamin Stone is a young doctor driving to L.A., where he is interviewing for a high-paying job as a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. He gets off the highway to avoid a traffic jam, but gets lost and ends up crashing into a fence in the small town of Grady. He is sentenced to 32 hours of community service at the local hospital. All he wants is to serve the sentence, get his car fixed and get moving, but gradually the locals become attached to the new doctor, and he falls for the pretty ambulance driver, Lou. Will he leave?
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, medical, small-town life, coming of age, love story, doctor ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: comedy, romance, british film, nurse, countryside, medical, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Marian, a middle aged nurse, devotes herself to her patients like a saint. Sometimes she even takes on the role of a redeemer, by helping the gravely ill to the soothing order of ultimate silence. When she gets linked to a neighbor in an act of common voyeurism, she becomes fascinated by him. Faced with the fragility of these newfound emotions, Marian surrenders to her human needs...—IDTV Film
Plot Keywords: medical, emergency, drama, doctor, nurse, hospital, life and death ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For two couples the future unfolds in different decades and different places, but a hidden connection will bring them together in a way no one could have predicted. Based on an inspirational true story, 2 Hearts is a romantic journey that celebrates life, love and generosity of spirit, and challenges audiences to believe miracles are possible.—Freestyle Releasing
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, youth, romantic, touching, life, destiny ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sarah Carter (30s), eight months pregnant, is abruptly rear-ended on Mulholland Drive, and ends up in a deep road side ditch...Transported to the hospital, she delivers her baby. Little does she know that she is the victim of a nefarious plan of her new husband's unhinged secret girlfriend. Soon Sarah will be racing against time to save her baby, in an emotional thriller written by Mike Feiffer (Cradle Swapping) that will lead the viewers from Los Angeles to Palm Springs and ultimately the gloss and grit of Las Vegas.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, emotional, motherly love, medical, redemption, struggle ...
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