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Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris (1980)
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Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris (1980)
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, serious, emotional, dramatic, tense, heartbreaking, intense, reflective, melancholic
Audience: adult
Plot: capture, hospital, amnesia, female protagonist, identity crisis, doctor patient relationship, trauma, biopic, rehabilitation, recovery, resilience, mortality, ethical dilemma, brain injury, singer, performance art, doctor, medical, surgeon, courage, surgery, treatment, brain tumor, patient, brain damage ...

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Most similar movies to Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, medical drama, realistic and intense films with plots about biopic, hospital, doctor, disability, family drama, resilience and female protagonist mostly in Drama, Biography and Sport genres. Some movies like Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris: No Child of Mine (1993), Something the Lord Made (2004), The Switch (1993), The Stranger I Married (2005), The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
No Child of Mine (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop her daughter signing away her down syndrome grandson for adoption. Based on a true story.
Style: heartbreaking, emotional, tear jerker, realistic, intense ...
Plot: down syndrome, adoption, disability, family drama, family conflict, mother daughter relationship, domestic drama, custody battle, parenting, empathy, social issues, grandparents ...
Similarity:
95%
Something the Lord Made (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
Style: sincere, inspirational, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: surgery, medical, prejudice, racism, african american, biopic, interracial relations, blacks and whites, surgeon, following a dream, medical research, friendship between men ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place: maryland, america, baltimore, usa, nashville tennessee ...
Similarity:
90%
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The Switch (1993)
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:
84%
The Stranger I Married (2005)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The life story of Terry Evanshen, a Canadian Football League star who fell into a coma after a fatal car accident. When he wakes up, he has no recollection of his family or anything else in his life.
Style: emotional, bleak, heartfelt, psychological, intense ...
Plot: biopic, autism, memory loss, amnesia, identity crisis, brain injury, rehabilitation, loss, marriage, character study, fatherhood, self discovery ...
Place: canada
Similarity:
81%
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The Rape of Doctor Willis (1991)
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:
79%
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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, emotional, sentimental, touching, depressing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: hospital, medical, cancer, doctor, medicine, redemption, health, doctors and patients, coldhearted, surgery, business, mental health ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: san francisco
Similarity:
78%
The Patricia Neal Story (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The actress (Glenda Jackson) recovers from a 1966 stroke with help from friends and her husband, author Roald Dahl (Dirk Bogarde).
Style: emotional, heartfelt, uplifting, intense, medical drama ...
Plot: biopic, marriage, survival, resilience, family drama, disability, hollywood, inspiration, rehabilitation, writers, tragedy, intimate ...
Time: 60s
Similarity:
78%
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Brain on Fire (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.
Style: medical drama, thought provoking, neurotic, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: strong female lead, hospital, diagnosis, psychiatry, fighting illness, human brain, journalist, visual hallucination, doctor, female protagonist, newspaper reporter, catatonia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: america, new york
Similarity:
77%
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Awakenings (1990)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, ...
Style: inspirational, sentimental, cerebral, psychological, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: hospital, mental illness, mental institution, illness, doctors and patients, medical, fighting illness, doctor, medicine, catatonia, disability, patient ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 1930s, 60s, year 1969
Place: bronx new york city, new york, america, usa
Similarity:
76%
The Brooke Ellison Story (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rendered a quadriplegic since a child from a near-fatal neck injury, a young girl fights against all odds to succeed in life from grade school to her acceptance into college under the assistance of her loyal and dedicated mother.
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, saga, captivating ...
Plot: quadriplegic, disability, college, against the odds, hospital, teenage love, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, tragic hero, society, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Similarity:
71%
Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.
Style: uplifting, sincere, inspirational, christian film, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: medical, african american, against the odds, neurosurgeon, human spirit, medicine, surgeon, ambition, biopic, medical school, physician, doctor ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 2010s, 20th century, 80s
Place: cuba, usa, detroit, west germany
Similarity:
70%
Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1981, during the assassination attempt on then President Ronald Reagan, White House Press Secretary James Brady was shot and left paralyzed.
Style: emotional, intense, inspirational, tense, bleak ...
Plot: assassination attempt, biopic, gun control, disability, recovery, trauma, politics, paralysis, white house, treatment, rehabilitation, activism ...
Time: 80s
Place: washington d.c.
Similarity:
70%
Thursday's Child (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked ...
Style: medical drama, emotional, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: teen drama
Plot: heart transplant, hospital, surgery, mortality, terminal illness, coming of age, family drama, teenager, organ donation, high school, resilience, doctor patient relationship ...
Time: 80s
Similarity:
70%
 7.6
 8K
Gods (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.
Style: sexy, captivating, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: surgeon, heart, politics, doctors and patients, ambition, rise to the top, power relations, state affairs, doctor, hospital, nurse, patient ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1987, year 1985
Place: poland
Similarity:
69%
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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.
Style: medical drama
Plot: plastic surgery, female protagonist, resilience, grief, depression, accident victim, disfigured, hospital, doctor patient relationship, rehabilitation, empathy, identity crisis ...
Time: 80s
Similarity:
69%
 8.4
 102
Sally Pacholok (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: medical drama, dramatic, realistic, suspenseful, inspirational ...
Plot: hospital, investigation, whistleblower, medical malpractice, ethical dilemma, activism, investigative journalism, doctor, nurse, kiss, stethoscope, wheelchair ...
Similarity:
68%
 7.6
 2K
Vellam (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An alcoholic is left stranded by society, friends and family until he successfully completes his de-addiction. Will they accept him when he is clean and sober?
Style: dramatic, serious, disturbing, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: drug, addiction, alcoholism, medical examination, mental health, recovering alcoholic, alcoholic, social relations, family relations, family problems, relationships, rehabilitation ...
Similarity:
66%
 5.6
 375
One Half of Me (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: accident, disability, paraplegic, family relations, changing lives, lifestyle change, family problems, survival, resilience, paralysis, quadriplegic, horse trainer ...
Similarity:
63%
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
Style: period piece, emotional, dramatic
Plot: biopic, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, glamour, autobiography, resilience, legacy, motherhood, family drama, intimate, female empowerment, hollywood ...
Place: rome italy, italy
Similarity:
62%
When You Remember Me (1990)
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:
61%
 4.3
 721
Elyse (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elyse appears, on the surface, to have it all - a beautiful family, and enviable home, a charmed lifestyle. However, all is not what it seems, and her enviable existence starts to unravel. Institutionalised following a catastrophic accident, she is ...
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Similarity:
61%
The Right Mom (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
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Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: child abuse, female protagonist, domestic abuse, domestic violence, parents and children, violence, family problems, changing lives, beaten up, lifestyle change, child in peril, mentally unstable woman ...
Similarity:
61%
Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
Style: touching, realistic, serious
Plot: biopic, showbiz, friends, couples, rise and fall, musician's life, performer's life, actor's life, rising to stardom, unfulfillment, artists and showbiz, tragic hero ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s, 1940s
Place: kentucky
Similarity:
61%
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Special Ed (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
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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:
60%
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
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Style: cerebral, inspirational, psychological, heartbreaking, clever ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: aids, transsexual, fighting the system, hiv, transgender, human spirit, casual sex, treatment, hiv positive, life is a bitch, gay slur, drug ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 2000s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: texas, usa, idaho, midwest, nebraska ...
Similarity:
59%
Hello Beautiful (2025)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
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Style: emotional, inspirational, heartfelt, medical drama, tear jerker ...
Plot: transformation, cancer, female protagonist, resilience, breast cancer, biopic, empowerment, identity, self discovery, survival, women, personal growth ...
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58%
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 2K
Wildcat (2023)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing? In 1950, writer Flannery O'Connor visits her mother Regina in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling ...
Style: southern gothic, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: writers, biopic, female protagonist, literary, illness, mother daughter relationship, writer's life, aspiration, direction and purpose, lifestyle, character study, ambition ...
Time: 1950s
Place: georgia
Similarity:
57%
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.
Style: serious, period piece, bleak, historical drama, harsh ...
Plot: crime and punishment, imprisonment, injustice, escape, escape attempt, biopic, wrongful conviction, forced labor, oppression, realism, survival, brutality ...
Time: 1930s
Similarity:
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 3.0
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Elvis Lives! (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: suspenseful, dramatic, captivating, entertaining, emotional ...
Plot: elvis presley, drug addiction, addiction, redemption, celebrity, drug addict, drug abuse, singer, drug use, superstar, drug, pop singer ...
Time: 70s
Place: memphis, las vegas
Similarity:
55%
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
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Style: psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place: usa
Similarity:
55%