Movies and TV shows like Breathless

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Breathless (2013)
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Breathless (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story: Hospital drama set in London during the early 1960s, following the staff of a busy gynecology ward at a time when abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women.
Style: serious, realistic, stylized, captivating, period piece, sweet, medical drama, touching, period drama
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, society, workplace romance, treatment, patient, workplace, workplace situations, medicine, post war, intrigue, doctor, abortion, motherhood, couples, surgery, strong female presence, newcomer, couple relations, power relations, nurse, gynecologist, dimension, dress
Time: 20th century, 60s, 1960s
Place: london, england

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, medical drama and touching films and TV series with plots about workplace, workplace situations, hospital, doctors and patients, power relations, doctor and medical mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like Breathless: The Hour (2011), Presidio Med (2002), Bramwell (1995), Call the Midwife (2012), The Royal (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Hour (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalist, a producer, and an anchorman for an investigative news programme.
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, historical drama ...
Plot: journalism, espionage, politics, reporter, journalist, workplace romance, uncover truth, spy, investigation, workplace, love triangle, cold war ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: europe, england
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100%
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Presidio Med (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Presidio Med is an American medical drama that aired on CBS from September 2002, to January 2003. The series centers on a San Francisco hospital. It was created by John Wells and Lydia Woodward, who also created ER.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, medical drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, doctor, workplace, clinic, doctors and patients, public health, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, relationship vs career, love and romance, love affair, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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100%
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Bramwell (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Bramwell is a British television series starring Jemma Redgrave as Dr. Eleanor Bramwell, a woman challenging the domination of men in the medical establishment, who runs a free hospital for the poor in the East End of London, during the late ...
Style: medical drama, historical drama, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: medical, medicine, civil rights, feminist, human rights, charity, strong female presence, sexism, power relations, surgery, doctors and patients, feminism ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1890s
Place: britain, london, europe, england, east end london
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100%
Call the Midwife (2012)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama following the lives of a group of midwives working in the poverty-stricken East End of London during the 1950s, based on the best-selling memoirs of Jennifer Worth.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, stylized, costume drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midwife, childbirth, pregnancy, convent, nurse, doctor, nursing, friends, medical, family life, hospital, friendship ...
Time: 50s, 60s, 1950s, year 1961, 2020s ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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75%
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The Royal (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Style: medical drama, realistic, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, moral dilemma, workplace, nursing, workplace situations, nurse, society, love, working class, medical ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire, europe
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Love Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Love Child follows the lives of staff at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and the wild streets of Darlinghurst in the 1960s. Joan Miller is a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: hospital, workplace, love and romance, gender, workplace situations, supportive coworker, power relations, doctors and patients, single parent, workplace romance, pregnancy, unwanted pregnancy ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place: australia
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50%
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Holby City (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, workplace situations, workplace intrigue, cure, intern, medical, rivalry, workplace romance, surgery, nurse ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, europe, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Casualty (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Casualty, stylised as CASUAL+Y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: hospital, medicine, children, workplace situations, doctors and patients, workplace romance, workplace intrigue, intern, love and romance, nurse, doctor patient relationship, accident ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: europe, england
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47%
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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
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47%
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Doctors (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the fictional Midlands town of Letherbridge, defined as being close to the city of Birmingham, this soap opera follows the staff and families of a doctor's surgery.
Style: medical drama, captivating, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: medical, workplace, workplace situations, clinic, doctors and patients, supportive coworker, couples, love affair, terminal illness, couple relations, doctor, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, birmingham alabama
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46%
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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
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46%
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Pan Am (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 583 min.
TV show
Story: Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman. Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways, the series features the pilots and stewardesses of the airline as it operated in the early 1960s at the beginning of ...
Style: realistic, stylized, sentimental, serious, anime ...
Plot: stewardess, bohemian life, airport, airline, female protagonist, ambitious, american dream, sexism, workplace, sexual tension, workplace problem, parent child relationship ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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100%
Hotel Portofino (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: A classic whodunit mystery, as the characters go about their lives in 1920s Italy, when Benito Mussolini's brand of fascism was on the rise.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, period drama
Plot: hotel, seaside town, high society, british, rich, hotel receptionist, political intrigue, female protagonist, society, workplace, lifestyle, intrigue ...
Time: 1920s, 2020s, 20th century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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All Saints (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009. It had been one of Australia's highest rating dramas and also achieved ...
Style: christian film, realistic, serious, exciting, touching ...
Plot: medical, hospital, rescue, infection, strong female presence, supportive coworker, couples, power relations, couple relations, workplace, doctors and patients, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Casualty 1900s (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Featuring true cases, characters and events taken from the London Hospital records, nurse's ward diaries and intimate memoirs, these gritty medical series show the lives – and forbidden romances – of pioneering doctors and nurses a hundred ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere, period piece ...
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, workplace, workplace romance, couple relations, public health, cure, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, medicine, doctor, multiverse ...
Time: victorian era, 1900s
Place: europe, london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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 ⇓
43%
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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 ⇓
43%
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Frankie (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Frankie is a British television drama series created by Lucy Gannon. The series stars Eve Myles as the eponymous character Frankie Maddox, a district nurse more emotionally involved with her job than her personal life. The series is both set and ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: hospital, strong female presence, redemption, hopes, workplace, supportive coworker, workplace situations, female protagonist, nurse, british, patient, medicine ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
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42%
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Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the lives of three young doctors fresh from medical school, and embarking on their new careers.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, medical drama
Plot: medical school, workplace situations, couples, love and romance, couple relations, love triangle, workplace, intern, doctors and patients, power relations, renewed love, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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42%
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Peak Practice (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most ...
Style: medical drama, emotional, serious, touching, realistic
Plot: doctor, crumbling marriage, doctors and patients, couple relations, direction and purpose, power relations, workplace situations, unfulfillment, social relations, clinic, small town, infidelity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: england
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41%
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Black Box (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Catherine Black is a world-famous neurologist at the state-of-the-art medical institution known as "The Cube". Catherine is brilliant, beautiful, and at the top of her game, though she's hiding a secret of her own: she's bipolar. ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental illness, treatment, mental disorder, workplace, surgery, workplace situations, therapy, family relations, couple relations, couples, patient, medical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Trauma Center (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When a person is seriously injured in an accident, they often have only one hour to live. Dr. Michael "Cutter" Royce (James Naughton) leads a hospital's specialized emergency department that is designed to make maximum use of that one ...
Style: medical drama, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: rescue, hospital, workplace, boss and employee, doctors and patients, race against time, power relations, workplace situations, surgeon, rescue team, medical, paramedic ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Trapper John, M.D. (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father figure in San Francisco, California. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 1979, to September 4, ...
Style: medical drama, retro, captivating, serious, realistic ...
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, medicine, power relations, workplace, doctors and patients, workplace situations, lifesaver, medical profession, nurse, physician ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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
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40%
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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
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40%
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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
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40%
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Body & Soul (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Rachel Griffen returns from the Far East, planning on incorporating alternative medicine with traditional practices. Her mentor Dr. Isaac Braun is skeptical and administrator Quinten Bremmer outright hostile. Oz is the ever cheerful orderly.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental
Plot: hospital, doctors and patients, workplace, power relations, society, culture clash, workplace intrigue, doctor, female doctor, mortician, alternative medicine, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
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40%
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Rafaela (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Rafaela is a Mexican telenovela produced by Nathalie Lartilleux for Televisa. It is based on the Venezuelan telenovela of the same name produced in 1977. Scarlet Ortiz and Jorge Poza star as the main protagonists, while Chantal Andere, Diana Bracho ...
Style: captivating, serious, sentimental, realistic, soap opera ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: workplace romance, workplace, workplace situations, love and romance, couples, opposites attract, hospital, doctors and patients
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
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39%
A Dance to the Music of Time (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: Anthony Powell's 12 volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatised for television.
Style: stylized, serious, realistic, captivating, period drama
Plot: world war two, world war one, post war, love, high society, social relations, power relations, couples, lifestyle, society, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe
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39%
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The Mill (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Powerful historical drama series, based on the lives of real people, telling the story of young 19th-century apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for the first time.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot: working class, workplace, factory, society, life is a bitch, workplace situations, realism, social differences, rich and poor, mechanic, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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