Alternative medicine movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant alternative medicine movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, psychological, serious, thought provoking and humorous films and TV shows about / with alternative medicine, father son relationship, family relations, doctor, death, hospital, husband wife relationship, love and romance, female nudity and friendship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Italy, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as alternative medicine: Beatriz at Dinner (2017), Home Care (2015), Live Up To Your Name (2017), Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Charlatan (2020), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Ill Behaviour (2017), Gray's Anatomy (1996), Maniac (2018), The Magnetist's Fifth Winter (1999).

List of alternative medicine movies

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Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a health practitioner. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, their worlds ...
Style: thought provoking, light, psychological, captivating, humorous ...
Plot: class differences, alternative medicine, party, husband wife relationship, nurse, money, name calling, dinner, food, manners, social justice, restaurant ...
Time: year 2017
Place: california
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 6.9
 494
Home Care (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta attends her whimsical patients in Czech wine country and lives for her husband Lada and her daughter, but one day things change and Vlasta is forced to reach outside of her comfort zone. Drama and gentle humor ...
Style: captivating, touching, talky, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot: alternative medicine, wedding ceremony, painter, medicine, death, hospital, patient, cancer, physician, nurse patient relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, central europe
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Live Up To Your Name (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Heo Im is an oriental doctor, acknowledged as the best in acupuncture and moxibustion in Joseon. His success is blocked due to his low status. One day, Heo Im travels though time and finds himself in present day Seoul. He meets Choi Yeon-Kyung. She ...
Style: dorama, captivating, romantic, light
Plot: romantic relationship, joseon dynasty, acupuncture, time travel, medicine, alternative medicine, doctor, male female relationship, sent to the future, changing the past or future, love and romance, traditional versus modern ...
Time: future
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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, compassionate, depressing, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: aids, transsexual, fighting the system, hiv, transgender, human spirit, life is a bitch, drug, casual sex, treatment, gay slur, hiv positive ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: texas, usa, america, midwest, nebraska ...
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 6.8
 3K
Charlatan (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland, Slovakia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The breathtaking story of a man gifted with exceptional abilities set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Style: non-linear, contemplative, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, healer, lgbt, diagnosis, politics, arrested, gay lead character, gay interest, mistrust, traumatized man ...
Time: year 1935, 1950s, year 1942, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place: central europe, prague
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 7.3
 24K
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare ...
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, inspirational, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: terminal illness, human spirit, against the odds, family relations, medical, life is a bitch, disability, courage, cure, family drama, boy, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1984, year 1983, year 1986 ...
Place: washington d.c., pittsburgh, italy, rome italy, boston ...
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 6.7
 547
Ill Behaviour (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Comedy thriller about three friends who embark on a journey that takes them to the extremes of their friendship, crossing every boundary imaginable to save a life.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, satirical
Plot: cancer, chemotherapy, alternative medicine, treatment, lifestyle, friends, satire, friendship, illness, group of friends, fighting illness, prisoner ...
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The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.
Style: captivating, serious, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian sex, lesbian relationship, forbidden love, lgbt, intern, friendship, couples, family relations, fall in love, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, indiana
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Gray's Anatomy (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) he had developed.
Style: dark comedy, psychological, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: culture clash, storytelling, medical, curses spells and rituals, healing power, society, hopes, doctors and patients, obsessive quest, introspection, interview, eye ...
Time: 90s
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 7.7
 86K
Maniac (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 386 min.
TV show
Story: Two strangers find themselves caught up in a mind-bending pharmaceutical trial gone awry.
Style: psychological, futuristic, satirical, dark comedy, philosophical ...
Plot: surrealism, psychiatric patient, schizophrenia, computer, trippy, distopia, medical experiment, borderline personality disorder, alternative medicine, pills, twists and turns, social decay ...
Time: future
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The Magnetist's Fifth Winter (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable by doctors. Ignoring the objections of his colleagues, Dr. ...
Plot: winter, alternative medicine, blindness, mirror, blind girl, blind man, hypnosis, female nudity, gang rape, flashback
Time: 19th century, 1810s
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 3.0
 61
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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 3K
Resurrection (1980)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for ...
Style: serious, psychological, touching, contemplative, psychotronic ...
Plot: healer, faith healing, mind power, religion, supernatural power, philosophy, spirituality, women, deaf, god, church, metaphysics ...
Place: kansas, usa, los angeles, california
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The Good Ground (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young woman with cancer travels to a remote wilderness zone in Northern Italy in search of an alternative cure. What she and her friend, Martino, find is a secluded paradise, but their arrival threatens its fragile existence.
Plot: police chase, recluse, redemption, mountain, library, alternative medicine, female nudity, skinny dipping, nature, wilderness
Place: italy, switzerland
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Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, History, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, India
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young boy and his dog, who happens to have a genius-level IQ, spring into action when their time-travel machine is stolen and moments in history begin to be changed.
Style: humorous, computer animated, entertaining, witty, colorful ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: time travel, inventor, prodigy, dog, young heroes, time machine, talking dog, father son relationship, heroes, adoption, sent to the past, storytelling ...
Time: year 2014, 16th century, 2010s, 20th century, 18th century ...
Place: egypt, usa, italy, north africa, versailles ...
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A Speck in the Water (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Nunal sa Tubig is a story of a community living on an island where fishing is the main source of livelihood and how they are affected by progress.
Plot: contamination, fish, midwife, dead child, inspector, birth, alternative medicine, contaminated water, lake, death of husband, boat, fisherman ...
Place: the philippines
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 6.6
 21
Crisis (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Chile
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A ghost writer, a piano player and a clerk, three characters united by frustration, who will have to fight to get out of their crises, facing their insecurities, repressions and bad memories in a world of fantasies and mysteries.
Style: dark fairy tale, independent film, anthology
Plot: fantasy life, alternative medicine, magic realism, writers, orchestra, identity crisis, book, classical music, magic, celebrity, fanaticism, mail ...
Place: santiago chile, chile
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 6.8
 12K
My Life (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style: sad, emotional, touching, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, death, reconciliation, family drama, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, expectant father, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa
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 7.4
 137K
Man on the Moon (1999)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Style: offbeat, depressing, inspirational, touching, humorous ...
Plot: comedian, biopic, showbiz, wrestler, character study, prank, life philosophy, human spirit, actor's life, rising to stardom, performer's life, rise and fall ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1999, 70s ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, memphis, the philippines ...
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 7.2
 3K
The River (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In Taiwan a young man with a mysterious paralysis massages his neck with his mother's dildo, meanwhile the rain is flooding the island.
Style: contemplative, bleak, aesthetic, slow cinema, thought provoking ...
Plot: gay, gay hustler, gay incest, alienation, dysfunctional family, lgbt teen, love, gay interest, lgbt, lgbtq, love letter, minimalism ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: taiwan, china, asia, taipei
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Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Japan, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Style: atmospheric, philosophical, intellectual, black and white, ironic ...
Plot: musician, conversation, dialogue, addiction, actor, smoking, art, coffee, lifestyle, cafe, dark humor, deadpan ...
Time: year 2003, 1920s, 70s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, america, paris france, las vegas ...
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 6.6
 15K
Alice (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for the handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults Dr. Yang, an oriental herbalist who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in ...
Style: unusual plot structure, melancholic, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: self discovery, infidelity, magic, invisible man, female protagonist, magic realism, identity crisis, bored housewife, dysfunctional family, relationships, police investigation, life philosophy ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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Private Practice (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier possibilities. She reunites with her friends from medical school, joining them at their chic, co-op, Oceanside ...
Style: medical drama, realistic, touching, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: doctor, medical, hospital, treatment, surgery, parenthood, friendship, psychiatrist, workplace, workplace romance, workplace situations, clinic ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, santa monica california
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 2K
A Kid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: unknown father, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, fatherhood, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, family problems, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations, bare chested male, alternative medicine ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: quebec, france, canada, montreal
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Hungry Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, indie film, sad ...
Plot: murder, pregnancy, family problems, life turned upside down, couples, vegetarian, saving a life, tragic event, husband wife relationship, mental illness, paranoia, hunger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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