Sound and Fury (2000), Sybil (1976), The Body Snatcher (1945), How to Die in Oregon (2011), You Don't Know Jack (2010), Dr. Feelgood: Dealer or Healer? (2016), Baby God (2020), Three Identical Strangers (2018) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Medical Ethics movies.
Storyline: Cousins Heather and Peter Artinian -- ages 6 and almost 2, respectively -- are deaf. Their condition could be changed by a cochlear implant, a device that stimulates hearing. The benefits are obvious, but this documentary focuses on why the children's families face a tough decision. There are concerns about how the device will change the recipient's relationship with deaf culture and whether there can ever be a true connection between those who hear sounds and those who hear only silence.
Plot Keywords: documentary, usa, family, cultural conflict, medical ethics, social issues, controversy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This tale of child abuse and and its deep psychological scars, based on a true story, follows Sybil (Sally Field), an introverted student living alone in New York City who suffers from multiple personality disorder. Haunted by nightmares of her past, Sybil starts seeing a psychiatrist named Dr. Cornelia B. Wilbur (Joanne Woodward). When Dr. Wilbur discovers Sybil has over a dozen different personalities, she becomes obsessed with uncovering her patient's tortured childhood in order to heal her.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, schizophrenia, based on true story, trauma, female protagonist, psychological drama, tv movie ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A carriage cabby (Boris Karloff) sells cadavers to a medical-school doctor (Henry Daniell) in 19th-century Edinburgh.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, film noir, science fiction, mystery, psychological horror, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person's request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had legalized the practice. 'How to Die in Oregon' tell the stories of those most intimately involved with the practice today -- terminally ill Oregonians, their families, doctors, and friends -- as well as the passage of a similar law in Washington State.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: documentary, end-of-life care, medical ethics, social issue, emotional impact, true story, moral dilemma ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian (Al Pacino) as he advocates assisted suicide.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, true story, medical, ethics, legal, controversy ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The ethical dilemma of opioid prescriptions is examined through the story of Dr. William Hurwitz, a preeminent doctor sentenced to 25 years in prison for overprescribing painkillers.
Plot Keywords: documentary, addiction, drug abuse, medical ethics, patients, crisis, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: For more than 30 years, Dr. Quincy Fortier covertly uses his own sperm to inseminate his fertility patients. When his secret is revealed, his children seek the truth about his motives and try to make sense of their own identities.
Plot Keywords: documentary, crime, true story, medical ethics, family secrets, identity crisis, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but it also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives - and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.
Plot Keywords: documentary, true story, psychology, family separation, identity, adoption, secret experiment ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone cortisone. Ed makes a remarkable recovery, and returns home to his wife, Lou, and their son, Richie. He must keep taking cortisone tablets regularly to prevent a recurrence of his illness. But the "miracle" cure turns into its own nightmare as Ed starts to abuse the tablets, causing him to experience increasingly wild mood swings.—Eugene Kim <genekim@concentric.net>
Plot Keywords: drama, family, psychological, social critique, film noir, 1950s, drug abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Five children in an apparently ideal American small town find their lives changing as the years pass near the turn of the century in 1900. Parris Mitchell (Robert Cummings) and Drake McHugh (Ronald Reagan), both of whom have lost their parents, are best friends; Parris dreams of becoming a doctor, studying under the father of his sweetheart Cassandra Tower (Betty Field), while Drake plans on becoming a local businessman when he receives his full inheritance - juggling girlfriends in the meantime. As they become adults, the revelations of local secrets threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.—scgary66
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, film noir, psychological drama, small town life, social issues, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alice Howland is a renowned linguistics professor happily married with three grown children. All that begins to change when she strangely starts to forget words and then more. When her doctor diagnoses her with Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family's lives face a harrowing challenge as this terminal degenerative neurological ailment slowly progresses to an inevitable conclusion they all dread. Along the way, Alice struggles to not only to fight the inner decay, but to make the most of her remaining time to find the love and peace to make simply living worthwhile.
Plot Keywords: disease, family, emotion, drama, psychological, identity crisis, motherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Women are being jailed, physically violated and at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America.
Plot Keywords: documentary, women's rights, social justice, human rights, gender equality, social movements, social change ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After the untimely death of 16-year-old Martin's father on the operating table, little by little, a deep and empathetic bond begins to form between him and the respected cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Steven Murphy. At first, expensive gifts and then an invitation for dinner will soon earn the orphaned teenager the approval of Dr Steven's perfect family, even though right from the start, a vague, yet unnerving feeling overshadows Martin's honest intent. And then, unexpectedly, the idyllic family is smitten by a fierce and pitiless punishment, while at the same time, everything will start falling apart as the innocents have to suffer. In the end, as the sins of one burden the entire family, only an unimaginable and unendurable decision that demands a pure sacrifice can purge the soul. But to find catharsis, one must first admit the sin.
Plot Keywords: psychological thriller, drama, mystery, horror, moral dilemma, revenge, 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: 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 ...
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