Movies like The Hospital

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The Hospital (1971)
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The Hospital (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
Style: dark comedy, cult classic, clever, talky, black comedy, funny, social, aesthetic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: hospital, medical, satire, midlife crisis, doctor, suicide, murder, medicine, dark humor, sex crime, psychiatrist, mental illness, insanity, business, native american, psychology, feminism, age difference, bureaucracy, nurse, workplace, medical malpractice, mood swing, chaos, rape turns to consensual sex ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
Keyword: doctors, twilight

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and witty films with plots about dark humor, couples, satire, love and romance, power relations, workplace situations and workplace mostly in Drama, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Hospital: Network (1976), Critical Care (1997), Article 99 (1992), St. Elsewhere (1982), Bartleby (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Network (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.
Style: talky, political, realistic, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot: media, journalism, satire, television, media manipulation, social commentary, media satire, corruption, adultery, business, older man younger woman relationship, workplace ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, middle east, california, los angeles
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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
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47%
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Article 99 (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, thought provoking ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, disability, politics, medicine, psychiatrist, medical, surgery, patient, die hard, intern, war veteran ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
41%
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Bartleby (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
Style: surreal, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, art house ...
Plot: insubordination, office, mysterious character, dark humor, boss and employee, workplace, fish out of water, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, name calling, employer employee relationship, fired from the job ...
Time: year 2001
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38%
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The New Age (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find ...
Style: satirical, disturbing, melancholic, meditative, cynical ...
Plot: dark humor, suicide, satire, adaptation, society, self discovery, crumbling marriage, filmmaking, lifestyle, starting over, rise and fall, couple relations ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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38%
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.
Style: philosophical, talky, humorous, witty, meditative ...
Plot: adultery, murder, infidelity, mistress, existentialism, justice, guilt, blackmail, satire, couple relations, moral dilemma, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
They Might Be Giants (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: They Might be Giants chronicles the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in modern-day New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the ...
Style: surreal, offbeat, mind bending, psychedelic, slasher ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: mental illness, satire, dark humor, psychiatrist, superhero, marriage, female psychiatrist, delusion, psychiatry, doctors and patients, investigation, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Comedy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.
Style: cynical, realistic, mumblecore, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: introspection, estrangement, satire, social decay, shallowness, society, hipster, life is a bitch, dull life, bare breasts, female nudity, nude dance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Such Good Friends (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Otto Preminger directs this comedy-drama based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted by Elaine May (under the pseudonym Esther Dale). Julie Messinger (Dyan Cannon) is an intense woman who hides her wild emotions and desires under her ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, biting, humorous
Plot: infidelity, hospital, feminist, mole, male nudity, blood donor, friends, escape, best friend, love and romance, doctors and patients, blind ambition ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york
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36%
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Crazy People (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bitter ad executive who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Style: funny, satirical, black comedy, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: advertising, mental illness, marketing, advertising agency, advertising executive, mental institution, business, insanity, office work, talk show host, mental disorder, illness ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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35%
Clockwatchers (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The relationship between four female temps all working for the same credit company is threatened with the arrival of a new hire, who lands a permanent position one of the women was vying for.
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, satirical, dark comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: office, workplace, women, friendship, existentialism, office politics, storytelling, loneliness, workplace situations, heist, fighting the system, secretary ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
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34%
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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 ...
Style: realistic, medical drama, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: addiction, hospital, nurse, doctors and patients, double life, medical, workplace situations, drug abuse, conflict, responsibility, suffering, medicine ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Falling Sky (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Reidar is a resident at Solihøgda psychiatric institution. He is expecting the Earth to be hit by a huge meteor any time now, but until then he is busy trying to keep his fellow patient, Juni, from killing herself.
Style: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, couples, love affair, collision, crumbling marriage, couple relations, workplace, winter, christmas, nordic, sex crime ...
Time: 21st century
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34%
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Hurlyburly (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Based on a play by David Rabe, Hurlyburly is about the intersecting lives of several Hollywood players and wannabes, whose dysfunctional personal lives are more interesting than anything they're peddling to the studios.
Style: talky, dark comedy, cynical, captivating, philosophical ...
Plot: hollywood, addiction, drug abuse, drug, insanity, marijuana, showbiz, buddies, friendship, love triangle, filmmaking, destiny ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The House of God (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
Plot: medical, medicine, health, intern, dark humor, power relations, misfit, unfulfillment, doctors and patients, mental illness, hospital, urban ...
Time: 80s
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34%
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, ...
Style: sexy, romantic, semi serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: infidelity, feminist, love triangle, satire, women, child abuse, domestic violence, abuse, domestic abuse, adultery, housewife, marital problem ...
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Dying of Laughter (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Nino and Bruno are two comedians who reach the heights of success with their duo act, turning them into huge TV celebrities. However, the hate between them grows as fast, and as much, as their fame
Style: dark comedy, captivating, biting, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: buddy, satire, behind the scenes, comedian, friends, dark humor, nightclub, media satire, workplace situations, rise to the top, buddies, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 90s
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Dinner at Eight (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A wry, insightful comedy of manners in which somewhat dizzy society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat while remaining oblivious to her husband's health and financial problems as well as her ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: couple relations, nothing goes right, dishonesty, love and romance, rivalry, intrigue, couples, disorder, bad attitude, dinner party, high society, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Mother, Jugs & Speed (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mother (Bill Cosby), Jugs (Raquel Welch) & Speed (Harvey Keitel) work for a ambulance company competing for a L.A. city contract.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: satire, murder, chase, paramedic, black, truck, trucker, medical, rivalry, nothing goes right, fighting the system, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Medicine Show (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, independent film ...
Plot: hospital, opposites attract, couple relations, terminal illness, love affair, against the odds, introspection, workplace, life is a bitch, fall in love, family problems, couples ...
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33%
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
Style: controversial, sexy, depressing, sex comedy, realistic ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: mate swapping, sex, college, sexual awakening, relationships, coming of age, friendship, love triangle, battle of the sexes, sexual content, friends, depression ...
Time: 1940s, year 1971, 60s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, vietnam, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Almost You (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Alex and Erica Boyer are a young couple in crisis. Alex, despite his loving wife, beautiful home and high-paying job, feels trapped. When Erica has an accident that leaves her temporarily confined to a wheelchair and requiring the services of a ...
Style: independent film, cynical, talky, biting, semi serious ...
Plot: troubled marriage, wall street, midlife crisis, adultery, nurse, couples, disability, twentysomething life, infidelity, cold relationship, urban, introspection ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Shrink (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
Style: realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, serious ...
Plot: suicide, mental illness, therapist, psychiatrist, hollywood, character study, loneliness, life philosophy, widower, suicide attempt, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Chicago Hope (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The series is set in a fictional private charity hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show is set to return ...
Style: emotional, medical drama, serious, talky, touching ...
Plot: medical, doctor, hospital, medicine, doctors and patients, boss and employee, human nature, workplace, chief of staff, workplace situations, administration, medical research ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
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33%
Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous ...
Plot: satire, rise to the top, desire for fame, workplace romance, filmmaking, workplace situations, lifestyle, actor's life, love and romance, workplace, rising to stardom, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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That Day (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, mind bending, witty ...
Plot: murder, family in crisis, serial killer, family problems, family life, hitman, couples, double murder, mental illness, obsession, mental disorder, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Mistress (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) whose old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has his own mistress that he wants put into the ...
Style: humorous, cynical, cult classic, light, captivating ...
Plot: filmmaking, mistress, screenwriter, hollywood, showbiz, artists and showbiz, dark humor, film producer, financier, interracial, satire, media satire ...
Time: year 1992, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style: talky, witty, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, dark humor, human nature, artists and showbiz, couple relations, ego clash, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, love and romance, lifestyle, family problems, family relations ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The story of a young, gay black con artist who, posing as the son of Sidney Poitier, cunningly maneuvers his way into the lives of a white, upper-class New York family.
Style: talky, semi serious, realistic, humorous, cult classic ...
Plot: art, high society, racism, art dealer, investigation, character study, lgbt, social differences, urban setting, social climbing, life is a bitch, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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