Movies and TV shows like Nurse Jackie

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Nurse Jackie (2009)
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Nurse Jackie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story: Every day is a matter of life and death in a hectic New York City hospital, but for Nurse Jackie that's the easiest part. Between chronic back pain that won't quit, and a personal life on the constant edge of collapse, it's going to take a white lie here, a bent rule there, and a handful of secret strategies to relieve the pain, and stay one step ahead of total disaster.
Style: realistic, medical drama, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy, erotic, epic, sensual, thrilling, tragicomedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: addiction, hospital, nurse, doctors and patients, double life, medical, workplace situations, conflict, drug abuse, responsibility, suffering, medicine, doctor, dark humor, family relations, infidelity, love and romance, rivalry, depression, strong female lead, illness, suicide, mental illness, anti hero, mother ...
Time: y2k, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, usa
Keyword: doctors, reluctant

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Most similar movies to Nurse Jackie

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, medical drama, serious and captivating films and TV series with plots about medical, hospital, workplace, doctors and patients, doctor, medicine and workplace situations mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Nurse Jackie: Six Feet Under (2001), Dag (2010), Emily Owens M.D. (2012), Private Practice (2007), Royal Pains (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Six Feet Under (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.  When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as ...
Style: emotional, surreal, captivating, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot: funeral home, gay, dealing with death, gays and lesbians, dark humor, dysfunctional family, sibling relationship, depression, hopes, family drama, lgbt, self discovery ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5K
Dag (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: Meet Dag, a couple's therapist who holds a 90% divorce rate. His philosophy in life is that people should live alone and he's happy to share that with his patients. Dag leads a quiet life and the only thing he loves more than his solitude ...
Style: cynical, humorous, realistic, funny, captivating ...
Plot: loner, love and romance, marital problem, dark humor, therapy, antisocial behavior, dating, doctors and patients, friends, therapist, alienation, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Emily Owens M.D. (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Emily Owens, M.D. is an American medical drama television series created by Jennie Snyder Urman. It was picked up by The CW on May 11, 2012, It premiered on The CW on October 16, 2012, and aired on Tuesdays at 9:00 pm Eastern/8:00 pm Central. On ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: doctor, medical, hospital, medicine, workplace, workplace romance, love and romance, intern, lifestyle, workplace situations, treatment, surgery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Private Practice (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: doctor, medical, hospital, treatment, surgery, parenthood, friendship, psychiatrist, workplace, workplace romance, workplace situations, clinic ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, santa monica california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Royal Pains (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A young E.R. doctor who, after being wrongly blamed for a patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes the reluctant "doctor for hire" to the rich and famous. When the attractive administrator of the local hospital asks him to ...
Style: medical drama, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: doctor, medical, doctors and patients, family relations, physician, high society, starting over, rich, flirting, millionaire, mogul, health situation ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Young Doctor's Notebook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story: A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new ...
Style: realistic, clever, medical drama, historical drama, sitcom ...
Plot: doctors and patients, dark humor, hospital, doctor, medical, self destructing, drug addict, morphine, diary, society, health situation, doubts and hesitations ...
Time: 1910s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: russia, europe, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Night Shift (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The stories of the men and women who work the overnight shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. They are an irreverent and special breed, particularly adrenaline junkie T.C. Callahan.
Style: medical drama, realistic, tense, humorous, semi serious
Audience: teens
Plot: hospital, emergency room, medical, doctor, doctors and patients, lifesaver, friendship, surgery, medicine, workplace, power relations, patient ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san antonio texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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House (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 7788 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Style: medical drama, cynical, clever, emotional, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doctor, medicine, hospital, talented, mastermind, prodigy, loner, patient, expert, surgery, unconventional method, human nature ...
Time: 2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, syria, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Mercy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Mercy is a medical drama which aired on NBC from September 23, 2009 to May 12, 2010. The series initially aired on Wednesday nights at 8/7c, as part of the 2009 fall season, but was pushed back to 9/8c in April. On October 23, 2009, Mercy was ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: nurse, medical, doctor, doctors and patients, workplace, friendship, friends, love triangle, medicine, coworker relationship, women, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Monday Mornings (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Monday Mornings was an American medical drama television series that ran on TNT from February 4 to April 8, 2013 and aired Mondays after Dallas. It is based on a novel of the same name by Sanjay Gupta. In May 2012, TNT placed a ten-episode order for ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: hospital, surgery, medicine, doctor, doctors and patients, treatment, staff, intern, workplace situations, patient, workplace, boss ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
St. Elsewhere (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teaching doctors at a lightly-regarded Boston hospital ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, talky, serious, witty ...
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, dark humor, doctors and patients, workplace, power relations, intern, workplace situations, surgery, medicine, villain ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Getting On (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a geriatric extended care wing of a down-at-the-heels hospital, Getting On follows put-upon nurses, anxious doctors and administrators as they struggle with the darkly comic, brutally honest and quietly compassionate realities of caring for ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Plot: workplace, hospital, friendship, doctors and patients, elderly, aging, workplace situations, patient, dark humor, nurse, colleague, medical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.0
 3K
Hawthorne (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Hawthorne is an hour-long medical drama on the TNT television network starring Jada Pinkett Smith and Michael Vartan. It premiered on June 16, 2009. On Thursday, September 16, 2010, it was announced that Hawthorne has been renewed for a third and ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: hospital, african american woman, nurse, workplace, doctors and patients, medical, family relations, single parent, workplace situations, friendship, doctor, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 29K
Chicago Med (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in ...
Style: medical drama, exciting, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: hospital, medical, doctor, medicine, doctors and patients, patient, medical profession, doctor patient relationship, physician, workplace situations, medical student, workplace ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 31K
The Resident (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
Style: medical drama, realistic, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, emergency room, doctors and patients, medical student, treatment, intern, nurse, medicine, surgery, patient ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.5
 157
MDs (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Medicine could be a lucrative business if it weren't for all those sick people. So goes the motto of the mega-sized, mega-frugal HMO that runs Mission General Hospital in San Francisco, where two renegade doctors bend the rules and find the ...
Style: serious, humorous, realistic, medical drama
Plot: hospital, workplace, workplace situations, fighting the system, doctors and patients, medicine, power relations, buddies, boss and employee, nurse, medical, patient ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.1
 2K
Nurses (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Follow five young nurses working on the frontlines of a busy hospital in downtown Toronto, dedicating their lives to helping others, while struggling to help themselves.
Style: medical drama, realistic, intellectual, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: medical, doctor, doctors and patients, nurse, hospital, physician, relationship vs career, coworker, nursing, ambition, health situation, staff ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.7
 445
3 lbs (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: 3 lbs is a drama that aired on CBS from November 14 to 28, 2006, replacing the cancelled series Smith. The show itself was then canceled three weeks later due to poor ratings. The title refers to the fact that the average human brain weighs ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, partner, reluctant partners, doctors and patients, doctor, workplace, power relations, neurosurgeon, medicine, friendship, rivalry, colleague ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Strong Medicine (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of staff in the womens' health clinic of a fictitious hospital in Philadelphia.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: medical, hospital, clinic, workplace, workplace situations, family relations, doctors and patients, lifestyle, boss and employee, lifesaver, medicine, doctor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.9
 67K
ER (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Style: medical drama, sincere, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, medical, emergency room, surgical operation, workplace situations, workplace romance, suffering, surgery, nurse, interracial relations, intern ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 464
No Angels (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: No Angels is a critically acclaimed British television comedy drama series, produced by the independent production company World Productions for Channel 4, which ran for three series from 2004 to 2006. It was devised by Toby Whithouse.
Style: sexy, humorous, light, captivating, feel good ...
Plot: nurse, hospital, female friendship, couples, workplace romance, promiscuity, sexual relations, workplace, dating, doctor, treatment, strong female lead ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Red Band Society (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Children and teenagers become friends in a hospital where they are all patients. Together they try to escape the sad reality to create their own world with their own codes , while the nursing staff do their best to bring them a little happiness ...
Style: touching, captivating, compassionate, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, medical, doctors and patients, teenager, friendship, sick child, medicine, anorexia, child cancer, youth, hospital, friends ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.6
 788
AfterMASH (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: AfterMASH is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September 26, 1983, to December 11, 1984. A spin-off of the series M*A*S*H, the show takes place immediately following the end of the Korean War and chronicles the adventures of three ...
Style: sitcom, retro, realistic, not serious, feel good ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, military, korean war veteran, partner, lifestyle, doctors and patients, buddies, friendship, workplace, couple relations, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 1950s
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 7.1
 252
A Poem A Day (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Story follows a group of physical therapists, nurses, radiological technologists and trainees. Ye Jae-Wook works as a physical therapist and also teaches in the same field. He begins to work as a team leader at a hospital. Woo Bo-Young has been ...
Style: psychological, satirical, thrilling, captivating, dorama
Plot: slice of life, poetry, therapist, hospital, nurse, coworker, doctor, workplace, romantic relationship, doctors and patients, love and romance, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.7
 58K
Nip/Tuck (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.
Style: sexy, medical drama, realistic, erotic, sexual ...
Plot: plastic surgery, friendship, surgical operation, couples, womanizer, husband wife relationship, family problems, hospital, surgery, doctor, partnership, medical ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Doogie Howser, M.D. (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Doogie Howser, M.D. is an American television comedy-drama starring Neil Patrick Harris as a teenage physician who also faces the problems of being a normal teenager. Creators Steven Bochco and David E. Kelley, partnering with ABC, aired the show ...
Style: sitcom, medical drama, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot: genius, medical, doctor, hospital, teenager, high school, badass, drug, family relations, diary, boy genius, photographic memory ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Critical Care (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they really fighting over their father's care, or over his $10 million ...
Style: black comedy, cynical, humorous, dark comedy, independent film ...
Plot: medical, hospital, medicine, dark humor, satire, law, business, half sister, nun, family problems, power relations, family relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 8.0
 13K
Code Black (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by the award-winning documentary, this medical drama is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation where the extraordinary staff confront a challenged system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the ...
Style: medical drama, suspense, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: hospital, medical, doctor, emergency room, medical profession, reanimation, medicine, saving a life, nurse, team, coping, nursing ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 1K
Monroe (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Monroe is a British medical drama television series created and written by Peter Bowker and produced by Mammoth Screen for the ITV network. The series follows a neurosurgeon named Gabriel Monroe, played by James Nesbitt. The six-part series was ...
Style: medical drama, serious, emotional, realistic, fast ...
Plot: doctor, hospital, workplace, intern, surgery, family relations, workplace situations, patient, fighting illness, doctors and patients, family problems, boss and employee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Boppin' at the Glue Factory (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A junkie nurse rules the night shift at a convalescent hospital.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film, realistic
Plot: satire, workplace, dark humor, life is a bitch, against the rules, dishonesty, workplace situations, addiction, drug abuse, cons and scams, retirement home, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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