Movies like Almost Paradise 2016

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Almost Paradise (2016)
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Almost Paradise (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story: Catherine (Catherine Enoe) is native to Grenada and works as a nurse caring for outpatients. She travels from patient to patient healing them and taking the pulse of contemporary Grenada.
Plot: jungle, medical, nurse

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out medical drama, captivating, serious and disturbing films with plots about nurse, medical, hospital, doctor, medicine, physician and doctors and patients mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Almost Paradise: Living Lost (2016), A Mother's Prayer (1995), Nurses (2020), Dear Doctor (2009), Nightingales (US) (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Living Lost (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Gene Timbault, a corporate executive, is engaged in the deal of a lifetime, but learns he has an incurable disease. In an escape to the jungles of Central America he finds that all may not be lost.
Plot: jungle, corporate executive
Place: guatemala
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A Mother's Prayer (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
Plot: aids, hiv, homeless, poverty, hiv positive, orphan, youth, medical, psychiatry, nurse, adoption, needle ...
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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
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90%
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Dear Doctor (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Charming little story about a local town's doctor - but he is hiding a secret. He will have to come face to face with this truth, despite being great at his job... he will be forced to explain his actions and take responsibility.
Plot: medicine, sociology, medical, asian, country doctor, dark secret, social status, scandal, village life, con game, lie, man with glasses ...
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89%
Nightingales (US) (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Nightingales is an American medical drama television series that aired on NBC from January 21, 1989 to April 26, 1989. The series, produced by Aaron Spelling Productions, follows the stories of Christine Broderick, a supervisor of student nurses, ...
Style: medical drama
Plot: pretty girl, hospital, nurse, medical, roommate, female bonding, doctor
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Nightingales (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Five pretty nurse students and their boss Leonore are the focus of this TV series. They are all living together in a villa called "Nightingale House" located in Los Angeles. Leonore has a complicated private relation to one of the ...
Style: tv series pilot
Plot: blonde, physician, nurse
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Florence Nightingale (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Reflective drama of pioneering nurse, writer and noted statistician Florence Nightingale
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, christian film, period drama
Plot: medicine, nurse, nursing, revolution, society, medical, physician, fighting the system, revolutionary, female protagonist, social problems, medieval ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
100 Days in the Jungle (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: jungle, amazon jungle, amazon rainforest, hostage, captive, kidnapped, survival, amazon, kidnapping, abduction, partisan, conflict ...
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Nurse (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Nurse is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from April 2, 1981 to May 1982. Series star Michael Learned won an Emmy in 1982 for her role on the show.
Style: medical drama
Plot: hospital, nurse, doctor nurse relationship, medical, female bonding, neighbor, nursing, widow, female friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Fifth Monkey (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, ...
Plot: chimpanzee, monkey, snake, jungle
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Icaros: A Vision (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In search of a miracle, an American woman embarks on a journey to the Peruvian Amazon and finds hope in a community, through rituals involving an ancient psychedelic plant known as ayahuasca. With her perception forever altered, she forges a bond ...
Style: spiritual
Plot: jungle, healing, retreat, amazon river, amazon, shaman, indigenous
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85%
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The Interns (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals.
Plot: hospital, business, medical, surgery, surgeon, medicine, pharmacy, mercy killing, patient, misogyny, ambulance, stress ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Cutter to Houston (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cutter to Houston is an American medical drama starring Shelley Hack, Jim Metzler, and Alec Baldwin that aired on CBS on Saturday night from October 1 to December 31, 1983 at 8 p.m Eastern time. The series was created by Sandor Stern.
Style: medical drama
Plot: hospital, doctor, small town, nurse, medical
Place: texas
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85%
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Why me? (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.
Plot: disfigured, car accident, nurse, disfigurement, miscarriage, plastic surgery
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85%
Nurse Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 63 min.
Story: NURSE SISTERS is a drama about relationships and commitment that stars the oh-so-hot Sasaki Sisters (yes! They are real-life sisters!)
Style: captivating, sexy
Plot: doctor nurse relationship, nurse, sister sister relationship, medical, hospital, doctor, family relations, relationship vs career, physician, medicine, love interest, relationships ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Shift (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: The Shift is the story of one 12 hour night shift in the ER and the life and death decisions that have to be made. With the issue of euthanasia in the headlines this is a timely and compelling story.
Style: thought provoking, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: medical, nurse, hospital, trainee, nursing, cancer, emergency room, moral dilemma, medicine, doctors and patients, fighting illness, physician ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink ...
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot: friendship, hospital, nurse, coming of age, terminal illness, child illness, boy, wrestling, youth, life is a bitch, human spirit, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The New Interns (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: erotic
Plot: business, medical, hospital, rape, trauma, lovers, married couple, dancing, police officer, man dressed as a woman, gang war, juvenile delinquent ...
Time: 60s
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Marcus Welby, M.D. (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Marcus Welby, M.D. is an American medical drama television program that aired on ABC from September 23, 1969, to July 29, 1976. It starred Robert Young as a family practitioner with a kind bedside manner and James Brolin as the younger doctor he ...
Style: medical drama, retro, vintage
Plot: medical, hospital, medicine, doctor, doctor nurse relationship, nurse, medical profession
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
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83%
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The Doctor (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that ...
Style: psychological, sentimental, touching, emotional, uplifting ...
Plot: hospital, medical, cancer, medicine, doctor, redemption, health, doctors and patients, coldhearted, nurse, tumor, brain tumor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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82%
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Secret Name (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Nelie escaped a miserable existence by becoming a frontline nurse in 1914. One day, she takes the identity of Rose, a young woman from a good family, who dies in front of her. She presents herself in her place at Madame de Lengwil's house, to ...
Plot: medical, fake identity, world war one, false identity, prostitution, disfigured, german soldier, impersonation, police commissioner, locket, church, presumed dead ...
Time: year 1914
Place: paris france
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82%
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The Caretakers (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Style: psychotronic, serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing
Plot: medical, hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital, psychopath, kitchen sink realism, medicine, nurse, kids in trouble, power relations, disability, terminal illness ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: europe, ireland
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82%
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Tate's Voyage (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tate, a young and crooked businessman, thinks he can get rich quick by buying a Russian freighter in the port of Rotterdam. This turns out to be a fiasco because the ship has been arrested, the freight has been sealed by the customs and the crew has ...
Plot: immigrant, harbor, compassion, nurse, hospital, suicide, girlfriend, ship, cargo ship
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82%
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Orinoco, New World (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The Orinoko: main character in the film. The first part is set during the pre-conquest and is represented as an earthly paradise. A shaman has precognitive visions: go to Columbus and the Catholic missionary in 1498.
Style: allegory, experimental, silent
Plot: jungle, spanish conquest, indigenous people, male nudity, female nudity, shaman, native american, missionary, conquering, rain forest, indigenous, no dialogue
Place: venezuela, latin america
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81%
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Jozi-H (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Jozi-H is a one-hour hospital drama series set in Johannesburg, South Africa, set in the Johannesburg General Hospital. It is a Canada-South Africa co-production. It first aired in Canada on CBC Television on 13 October 2006, and in South Africa on ...
Style: medical drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: hospital, doctor, nurse, medical profession, doctors and patients, workplace situations, medicine, physician, job, workplace, medical, latex gloves ...
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The Travel Nurse (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
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Story: Nasuda Ayumi is a young travel nurse who gives a bad first impression. In fact, he had been an excellent nurse practitioner in the US. He has the qualifications to carry out certain medical procedures and assist doctors in surgeries. However, some ...
Style: captivating, medical drama, serious, exciting, realistic
Plot: medical, nurse, doctors and patients, journey, medicine, surgical operation, doctor nurse relationship, travel, doctor, physician
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81%
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Wit (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style: depressing, sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: cancer, medical, hospital, nurse, doctor, poetry, terminal illness, chemotherapy, dying, philosophy, hopes, regret ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
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81%
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Ns' Aoi (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Based on the same-titled manga on a newbie nurse, Misora Aoi and the problems she encounters in medical work. Aoi Misora is a third-year nurse at a prestigious hospital. After she is involved in trouble at the Emergency Center, she is transferred ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: nurse, workplace, female protagonist, lifestyle, female doctor, doctors and patients, medical, doctor, workplace situations, medicine, physician
Place: japan
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80%
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Arrhythmia (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Finland, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA ...
Style: art house, depressing, melancholic, disturbing, sad ...
Plot: hospital, paramedic, doctor, nurse, male objectification, married couple, drinking alcohol, medical, family relations, bureaucracy, humanity, emergency ...
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Mundane History (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Explores the relationship between Ake, a young man who is paralyzed from the waist down after an accident, and Pun, the male nurse who takes care of him, and of course Ake's father. Ake is at first cold towards his nurse Pun, but as Pun ...
Plot: minimalism, masturbation, gay subtext, nurse, paralysis, male pubic hair, poverty, loneliness, male nudity, handicapped, grass, wheelchair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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