Movies like Sally Pacholok
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Sally Pacholok (2015)
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Feisty ER nurse takes on the medical establishment when she uncovers an epidemic of misdiagnosis.
Style:
medical drama, realistic, dramatic, tense, inspirational, emotional, suspenseful, intense
Plot:
hospital, investigation, medical malpractice, whistleblower, ethical dilemma, activism, investigative journalism, doctor, nurse, kiss, wheelchair, stethoscope, white coat, investigative
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Most similar movies to Sally Pacholok
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, intense, tense and realistic films with plots about hospital, ethical dilemma, doctor, investigation, urban, medical and biopic mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres. Some movies like Sally Pacholok: The Littlest Victims (1989), State of Emergency (1994), Special Ed (2005), Second Victims (2025), Sarkaaru Noukari (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tim Matheson play a doctor that treats children with AIDS. He tries to convince his colleagues that the children got the disease from their parents. Based on a true story.
Style:
compassionate, medical drama, emotional, bleak, inspirational ...
Plot:
biopic, hospital, public health, aids, social commentary, activism, mortality, diagnosis, investigation, medical, children, nurse ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Medical drama about a major hospital whose emergency room regularly faces an overload of patients. One of the doctors finds it necessary to adopt an unorthodox procedure to try to save a patient, and finds himself in trouble in consequence.
Style:
medical drama, intense, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
emergency room, hospital, doctor, ethical dilemma, compassion, teamwork, urban, medical malpractice, empathy, surgery, bureaucracy, medical ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dr. David Edwards is a cancer specialist, and his life is his work. His only friend is Lou Rosen, 73. Lou is also David's patient, but at his age, chances are grim. Still, everyone deserves a chance, or at least that's what David thought ...
Style:
emotional, medical drama, intense, realistic, reflective ...
Plot:
cancer, doctor patient relationship, compassion, hospital, terminal illness, mature, character study, ethical dilemma, mortality, morality, friendship, bittersweet ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
During a hectic shift in the neurological department, skilled doctor Alexandra takes on extra responsibility. But a misjudgment ends in tragedy.
Style:
medical drama, psychological, emotional, tension, intense ...
Plot:
guilt, doctor, hospital, trauma, neurology, ethical dilemma, death, confrontation, investigation, reputation, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Baek Kang-hyuk, a genius trauma surgeon who used to travel in war zones, is appointed to the severe trauma team at a university hospital, where the deficit accumulates as patients are saved.
Style:
medical drama, serious, tense, intense, fast paced ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hospital, surgeon, heroism, reanimation, urban, sacrifice, professional rivalry, nurse, doctor, medical, coworker relationship, medicine ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young music student has a seizure forcing her to undergo brain surgery. She comes out of the surgery unable to count or read and has difficulty adapting to life.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, serious, dramatic, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
capture, hospital, doctor patient relationship, female protagonist, trauma, identity crisis, amnesia, biopic, resilience, ethical dilemma, recovery, mortality ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the year 1996, the entire nation was politically facing a serious issue. In addition, the country was suffering from another dangerous problem. In this scenario, a Government Employee took up the responsibility.
Style:
serious, realistic, dramatic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social commentary, moral dilemma, bureaucracy, political intrigue, power struggle, government corruption, conspiracy, whistleblower, investigation, activism, legal battle, urban
Time:
90s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Things appear to be looking up for a cash-strapped, regional hospital when it hires a reputedly brilliant cardiac surgeon to head up its pediatric cardiac surgery unit. But when increasing numbers of children begin dying on the operating table, the ...
Style:
medical drama, captivating, suspense, intense, tension ...
Plot:
medical malpractice, heart surgery, nurse, death of child, whistleblower, doctor, medical, fake doctor, problem, medicine, physician, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Deepak Pradhan, a young police officer, gets transferred to North Bengal where his junior officers are involved in corrupt practices. When disturbing events from the past start to surface and the pressure builds, will Deepak be able to hold on to ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, tense, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
corruption, corrupt system, integrity, justice, ethics, moral dilemma, small town, betrayal, power struggle, investigation, social issues, whistleblower ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Major Trauma Centre is a state-of-the-art unit which treats only the most gravely ill or seriously injured. Whether that patient lives or dies is determined by knife-edge decisions and procedures, but can the diverse team of medical ...
Style:
medical drama, realistic, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
hospital, doctor, realism, doctors and patients, emergency, nurse, power relations, workplace, emergency room, reanimation, intensive care, teamwork ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Hungary
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the ...
Style:
medical drama, historical drama, serious, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
scientific discovery, epidemic, biopic, maternity ward, hospital, investigation, realism, social criticism, ethical dilemma, character study, obsession, tragic hero ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
54%
9K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A group of ER residents navigate medical crises and personal drama amid a divisive allegation at their Miami hospital.
Style:
medical drama, tension, emotional, intense, fast paced ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
doctor, hospital, ethical dilemma, urban, power struggle, investigation, morality, leadership, heartbreak, healing, guilt, emergency ...
Place:
miami
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Larry McAfee is paralyzed from the neck down following a motorcycle accident. He gradually loses the will to live, in the meantime befriending a talk radio DJ over the phone. The two meet each other and become friends, though Larry still wishes to ...
Style:
emotional, medical drama, thought provoking, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
disability, paralysis, euthanasia, suicide, compassion, friendship, hospital, connection, ethical dilemma, desperation, empathy, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
51%
514
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A driven young medical resident transfers to a rural hospital for a fresh start. There, the demons of his past start to catch up to him when he becomes consumed by the case of a young asthma patient.
Style:
medical drama, dramatic, tension, intense, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, hospital, obsession, guilt, doctor patient relationship, intimate, isolation, slow burn, mortality, asthma, ethical dilemma, burnout ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A drama directed by Lou Antonio.
Style:
medical drama, tense, intense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
rape, doctor, hospital, female protagonist, revenge, trauma, life & death, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, vengeance, justice, character study ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Style:
medical drama, tense, tension, dramatic, suspense ...
Plot:
panic, urban, epidemic, public health, social justice, disaster, fear, whistleblower, racial tension, infection, investigation, mistrust ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
After her private life falls apart, a young doctor seeking a fresh start takes over the emergency room in Berlin's toughest, most chaotic hospital. Battling staff resistance and a run-down system, she must unite her maverick team to save lives.
Style:
medical drama, tense, intense, fast paced, realistic ...
Plot:
emergency room, life & death, doctor, hospital, urban, redemption, leadership, team building, resilience, burnout, trauma, female empowerment
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Explores the idea that not everyone accused of a crime is guilty. Delves into how even good people can be affected by the errors in the system and turn gangsters.
Style:
crime thriller, realistic, tense, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
courtroom, wrongful accusation, innocence, moral ambiguity, corruption, perjury, ethical dilemma, miscarriage of justice, social commentary, evidence, police investigation, vigilantism ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Syndrome is a 2012 South Korean medical drama series, starring Han Hye-jin, Song Chang-eui and Park Gun-hyung. It is set in the world of neurosurgery where a medical student finds herself in a love triangle with two fellow doctors. The television ...
Style:
medical drama, exciting, entertaining, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hospital, medical, surgeon, doctor, nurse, doctors and patients, doctor patient relationship, neurosurgeon, patient, male doctor, ethical dilemma, family secret ...
Place:
seoul, korea
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nichole Jolly is a nurse at the town’s hospital, who begins her day as usual, only to face an unimaginable crisis when a wildfire rapidly engulfs the town. Torn between her duty to protect her patients and her desperate need to find her husband ...
Style:
inspirational, heartfelt, uplifting, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
wildfire, courage, heroism, hopes, survival, natural disaster, evacuation, hospital, tribute, biopic, sacrifice, tragedy ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Fact-based story of Mike Mills, a teen with muscular dystrophy, who is placed in a state nursing home by his destitute single mother. There he must contend with being the only young person in the clinic and with an abusive head nurse.
Style:
medical drama, realistic, emotional, heartfelt, tear jerker ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disability, hospital, perseverance, biopic, resilience, social issues, retirement home, isolation, hopes, injustice, family drama, compassion ...
Time:
20th century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tony Danza stars in this prison drama about Jerome "Jerry" Rosenburg, a self-professed "jailhouse lawyer" who defends himself against the homicide charge that has put him on death row. This tense movie, made in Canada, has the ...
Style:
intense, tense, dramatic, thought provoking, emotional ...
Plot:
maximum security prison, death row, wrongful conviction, innocence, death sentence, biopic, execution, survival, courtroom, redemption, character study, isolation ...
Similarity:
40%
129K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh - even if it means risking his own ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, uplifting, feel good, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
medical school, hospital, human spirit, doctors and patients, life philosophy, compassion, medical profession, friendship, dealing with death, doctor, happy ending, stereotypes ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 90s, year 1998, 60s ...
Place:
usa, virginia
Similarity:
39%
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141
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Marlene is a film inspired by Marlene Truscott, a housewife who fought to exonerate her husband from a crime he didn't commit. Marlene became involved in the fight for justice at a young age, when Steven was arrested at 14 and sentenced to be ...
Style:
inspirational, psychological, tense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
true crime, justice, determination, female protagonist, wrongful conviction, resilience, biopic, framed for a crime, love story, love and romance, accused of murder, love affair ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A husband going through a divorce learns his ex-wife is pushing for full custody of their daughter. How far will he go to keep his family together?
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
divorce, child custody, family drama, custody battle, custody, parenting, protective parent, sacrifice, family values, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, empathy ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
A television drama that revolves around a family that runs a pharmaceutical company.
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, dramatic ...
Plot:
family business, pharmaceutical company, family relations, workplace, family problems, parents and children, love, rivalry, couples, ethical dilemma, family drama, morality ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A woman (Karin Viard) in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, inspirational, reflective, bleak ...
Plot:
breast cancer, hospital, pregnant woman, pregnancy, female protagonist, motherhood, life & death, ethical dilemma, determination, resilience, cancer, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Leon Watkins runs a community helpline in South Central LA, where anyone in need of help is welcome. One of his most frequent visitors is local gang leader, John Wesley Hunter, otherwise known as “Joker” to the streets. After a day of hustling ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, tense, atmospheric, period drama
Plot:
social justice, racial injustice, civil unrest, interracial romance, urban, activism, tragedy, police brutality, resilience, love story, redemption, legacy ...
Time:
year 1990
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Defending a teen charged with patricide drudges up dark memories for a lawyer.
Style:
dramatic, dark, serious, emotional, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
patricide, trauma, child abuse, murder, courtroom, shame, guilt, ethical dilemma, defense attorney, family secret, character study, secrets ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Hidden Truth Waiting to be Unveiled...
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspenseful, dark
Plot:
child abuse, corruption, investigative journalism, investigation, hidden truth, justice, expose, cover up, whistleblower, police procedural, social issues, fraud ...
Similarity:
32%
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