Movies and TV shows like The Pitt

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The Pitt (2025)
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The Pitt (2025)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in today's America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Style: medical drama, tense, intense, fast paced, grim, serious, harsh, informative
Plot: hospital, doctor, emergency room, autism, life & death, trauma, teamwork, humanity, burnout, compassion, resilience, healing, sacrifice, urban, realism, urban setting, male nudity, family conflict, social issues, nightshift, lgbt, addiction, ambulance, medical, abortion ...
Time: 2020s
Place: pittsburgh

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Most similar movies to The Pitt

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out medical drama, emotional, captivating and realistic films and TV series with plots about hospital, doctor, medical, medicine, teamwork, workplace and workplace situations mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Pitt: Code Black (2015), Transplant (2020), ER (1994), Krank: Berlin (2025), Nurses (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Code Black (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by the award-winning documentary, this medical drama is set in the busiest and most notorious ER in the nation where the extraordinary staff confront a challenged system in order to protect their ideals and the patients who need them the ...
Style: medical drama, suspense, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: hospital, medical, doctor, emergency room, medical profession, reanimation, coping, physician, saving a life, nurse, team, nursing ...
Place: los angeles
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Transplant (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Bashir Hamed, a Syrian doctor with battle-tested skills in emergency medicine, makes the difficult decision to flee his country and build a new life in Canada with his younger sister Amira. Bash works to navigate a new environment after earning ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating, medical drama ...
Plot: medical, emergency room, syrian refugee, medicine, hospital, doctor, surgery, cure, doctors and patients, patient, medical profession, prodigy ...
Place: toronto ontario canada
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ER (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
Style: medical drama, sincere, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, medical, emergency room, surgical operation, intern, doctors and patients, workplace situations, workplace romance, suffering, surgery, coworker ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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Krank: Berlin (2025)
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
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Nurses (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story: Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said ...
Style: medical drama, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, workplace, physician, medicine, coworker, doctors and patients, medical examination, doctor nurse relationship, workplace situations, medical, lifestyle ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: eastern europe
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Night Doctor (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Doctors from various fields and with various personalities come together and formed the "Night Doctor", specialized in night-time emergencies. This drama will show the challenges they face every night and how they slowly create a unique ...
Style: medical drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological, intense ...
Plot: doctor, hospital, clinic, patient, medical, teamwork, nightshift, doctors and patients, workplace, workplace situations, physician, medical clinic ...
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Critical (2015)
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
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36%
Always and Everyone (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: Always and Everyone was a British television drama that ran from 1999 to 2002. It dramatised the hectic everyday lives of the doctors and nurses running the Accident and Emergency department of the large, busy city hospital, St. Victor's. The ...
Style: medical drama, unpredictable, fast paced, tense, emotional ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, emergency room, life & death, teamwork, trauma, frontline, morality, slice of life, idealism, humanitarian, public service ...
Place: manchester
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36%
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Heart Beat (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
TV show
Story: RK Multispeciality Hospital is a beacon of hope and healing. Its doctors are resilient even when they have to deal with medical and personal challenges.
Style: medical drama, emotional, tension, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: hospital, doctor, teamwork, compassion, healing, humanity, resilience, conflict, urban, slice of life, professional rivalry, loyalty
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35%
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Blue Code (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: A Czech medical television series that focuses on an emergency department. Each episode follows cases inspired by real-life stories and the cases of patients and healthcare professionals.
Style: medical drama, suspense, sincere, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, workplace situations, medical, physician, medicine, ambulance, co worker co worker relationship, doctors and patients, coworker, workplace, saving a life ...
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35%
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STAT (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: The daily lives of the personnel of the St-Vincent hospital in Montréal.
Style: medical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, workplace, teamwork, slice of life, coworker, medicine, workplace situations, physician, medical, job, doctors and patients ...
Time: 2020s
Place: montreal, canada
Similarity:
34%
Critical moments (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
TV show
Story: A drama about an Egyptian hospital and how the doctors deal with thier life and work.
Style: medical drama, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, teamwork, physician, doctor patient relationship, workplace, workplace situations, life & death, doctors and patients, medicine, lifestyle, coworker ...
Place: egypt, cairo egypt
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34%
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PULSE (2025)
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
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County (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: The lives of a group of young doctors, nurses, and administrators working at an underfunded Los Angeles county hospital.
Style: medical drama, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, medical, doctors and patients, workplace, female doctor, coworker, workplace situations, physician, medicine, social issues, urban ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles
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34%
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City of Angels (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: City of Angels is an American medical drama television series which ran for two seasons on CBS during the 2000 calendar year. It was network television's first medical drama with a predominantly African American cast.
Style: medical drama, serious, realistic, captivating, intense ...
Plot: hospital, save the day, society, workplace, doctors and patients, workplace situations, medical, emergency room, surgery, urban, healing, teamwork ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
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33%
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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: realistic, medical drama, serious, humorous, tense ...
Plot: hospital, workplace, workplace situations, doctors and patients, fighting the system, medicine, teamwork, urban, life & death, confrontation, dark humor, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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33%
Emergency Center (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia
TV show
Story: A Serbian remake of the classic medical TV series 'ER'.
Style: medical drama, psychological, captivating, intense, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: doctor, hospital, medical, nurse, medical profession, patient, medicine, physician, emergency room, male doctor, coworker, relationships ...
Time: 2010s
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33%
The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call (2025)
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 ...
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Breathless (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: A passionate medical team is devoted to saving lives in a bustling public hospital where tensions — and romance — keep their pulses racing.
Style: medical drama, emotional, tension, realistic, intense ...
Plot: strike, gay relationship, gay sex, hospital, social commentary, emergency room, sacrifice, ethical dilemma, activism, moral ambiguity, teamwork, morality ...
Time: 2020s
Similarity:
32%
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Under Pressure (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Inside a chaotic emergency room in Rio de Janeiro, a team of doctors are torn between their internal personal conflicts, the difficulties of the profession and the surprising dramas behind each patient‘s history, in a heroic attempt to save ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, surgery, medical, workplace, social issues, life & death, emergency room, pandemic, intensive care, public health, nurse ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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32%
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Heartland (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Dr. Nathaniel Grant is a pioneering organ-transplant surgeon who takes risks that other doctors would not in order to save the lives of his patients. He works closely with his ex-wife, Kate Armstrong, an organ-donor coordinator with whom he has a ...
Style: medical drama, captivating
Plot: hospital, surgeon, doctor, life & death, transplant, life, relationship vs career, job, relationships, lifestyle, male female relationship, physician ...
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32%
Thank You Doctor (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story: Story of two doctors, cold and arrogant Bai Shu and "fox beauty" Xiao Yan; who work in the emergency rescue department, saving lives and creating miracles.
Style: medical drama, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: doctor, hospital, death, medical, teamwork, life & death, rescue, grief, treatment, nurse, healing, heroism ...
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31%
Emergency Room 24 Hours (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Dr. Shindo seems cold, but is a competent surgeon. He is also an ER doctor capable of accurate decisions and treatment, who always tries to see things from the patient’s side. Although once retired from his profession, he one day discovers someone ...
Style: medical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Audience: adult
Plot: emergency room, surgeon, doctor, nurse, medical, compassion, hospital, empathy, life & death, medicine, physician, saving a life ...
Place: japan
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Top Knife (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Yoko Miyama works as a doctor at Touto Hospital. She specializes in brain aneurysms in the neurosurgery department. Yoko Miyama becomes involved with her colleagues, including Kengo Kuroiwa, Sachiko Kozukue, and Takuma Nishigoori. Meanwhile, she ...
Style: medical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, medical, physician, medicine, neurosurgeon, female doctor, workplace situations, workplace, medical examination, female protagonist, teamwork ...
Time: 2020s
Place: japan
Similarity:
30%
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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, captivating, realistic, exciting, compassionate ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, emergency room, doctors and patients, intern, medical student, treatment, nurse, medicine, physician, surgery ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
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30%
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The Shift (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Midwife Ella runs the best maternity ward in Denmark. The close-knit team goes about their work with conviction and fine ideals, but all too often the mental and physical strain pushes them to their personal limits.
Style: medical drama, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: midwife, hospital, medicine, physician, workplace situations, female doctor, doctor, workplace, medical, childbirth, burnout, life & death ...
Place: denmark
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29%
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Pure Genius (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A young Silicon Valley tech-titan enlists a veteran surgeon with a controversial past in starting a hospital with a cutting-edge, new school approach to medicine.
Style: medical drama, captivating, disturbing, touching, exciting ...
Plot: genius, billionaire, invention, hospital, doctor, medicine, computer genius, medical, silicon valley, fate of humanity, chance, treatment ...
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29%
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Breathtaking (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: A searing, thought-provoking and poignant account of an NHS doctor in the eye of the storm during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Style: medical drama, poignant, emotional, serious, psychological ...
Plot: hospital, medical, virus, female doctor, physician, medicine, clinic, coronavirus, compassion, crisis, sick, doctor ...
Time: 2020s
Place: britain, london
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29%
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Interns (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Following sanitary measures, the doctors holding the internal medicine service at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital find themselves confined to their homes for 48 hours. Three inexperienced interns and a medical examiner, who do not yet know each ...
Style: medical drama, captivating, tense, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: medical, hospital, doctor, isolation, medicine, epidemic, quarantine, workplace situations, workplace, coworker, intern, physician ...
Similarity:
29%
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Life Today (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Life Today is a medical and drama Turkish television series signed by O3 Medya, the first episode of which was broadcast on October 19, 2022, directed by Çiğdem Bozali and written by Ayça Üzüm and Cansu Çoban. Adapted from the 2018 American TV ...
Style: medical drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: doctor, hospital, teamwork, medicine, doctors and patients, sick, workplace situations, clinic, female doctor, medical, workplace, physician ...
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29%