Nursing movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant nursing movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, serious, emotional, sentimental and sincere films and TV shows about / with nursing, nurse, hospital, family relations, love and romance, friendship, death, bittersweet, love and doctor plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as nursing: Call the Midwife (2012), The Little Bedroom (2010), Fly Away (2011), My Sister's Keeper (2009), Who Killed Bambi? (2003), Simple Simon (2010), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Testament of Youth (2014), The Red Band Society (2011), Links (2008).

List of nursing movies

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, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: midwife, childbirth, convent, doctor, nurse, pregnancy, nursing, friends, family life, nun, hospital, friendship ...
Time: 50s, 60s, year 1961, 20th century, year 1963 ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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The Little Bedroom (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg
Duration: 87 min.
Story: One day, a bad fall forces Edmond to accept Rose's help. Eventually, the two grow closer. The young woman finds relief in confiding painful memories to the older man; things she cannot even bring herself to tell her husband. Meanwhile, Edmond, ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: retirement home, against the rules, family relations, nursing, elderly, aging, confined, parents and children, social relations, solitude, golden years, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, switzerland
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 6.3
 363
Fly Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style: emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, single parent, youth, social misfits, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, society, family problems, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style: sad, touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, lawyer, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, sisters, sick child, life is a bitch, family life, relationships, childhood, leukemia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa, los angeles, montana
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Who Killed Bambi? (2003)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels atracted to him from the beggining and starts suffering from strange fainting; so he calls her Bambi: her legs don't ...
Style: psychological, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: hospital, psychopath, doctors and patients, missing person, mind game, murder, nursing, suspicion of murder, nurse, voyeur, blonde, voyeurism ...
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 7.0
 10K
Simple Simon (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Simon has Asperger's syndrome and doesn't like changes in his life. He lives with his big brother Sam and Sam's girlfriend Frida. When Frida can't stand having to adapt to Simon's peculiarities anymore she takes off, leaving ...
Style: touching, realistic, feel good, semi serious, offbeat
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: asperger's syndrome, autism, mental illness, obsessive quest, brother brother relationship, youth, nursing, couple relations, teenage life, escapades, misfit, psychiatry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sweden, europe, eastern europe
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 7.3
 23K
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
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, sincere, emotional, inspirational, melancholic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: terminal illness, human spirit, against the odds, family relations, life is a bitch, disability, courage, cure, boy, hopes, research, parent child relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 1984, year 1986, year 1983, 80s
Place: washington d.c., rome italy, italy, edinburgh scotland, boston ...
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Testament of Youth (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and ...
Style: touching, captivating, serious, romantic, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: world war one, war, wartime, aspiring writer, women, life is a bitch, wartime life, love and romance, love affair, death, destiny, adaptation ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s, year 1918, 19th century ...
Place: england, oxford university, london, flanders, europe ...
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The Red Band Society (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a ...
Style: serious, touching, humorous, rough, realistic ...
Plot: cancer, fighting illness, terminal illness, illness, overcoming, youth, teenage life, child cancer, anorexia, patient, everyday life, doctors and patients ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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 6.0
 123
Links (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Dexter's controlled life gets thrown into confusion when a girl appears on his work that looks exactly like his girlfriend Stella. At home his beloved Stella doesn't understand what's going on and she starts questioning their ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, touching, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: disability, fall in love, life turned upside down, emotionless, nursing, life is a bitch, love and romance, mental illness, disorder, brain, bittersweet, pets ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
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It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Tells the story of Paul (Steven C. Stewart), a man suffering from Cerebal Palsy, who spends his days wasting away in a nursing home. To pass his time, he fantasizes about the man he should be despite his twisted body. People are able to understand ...
Style: experimental, serious, surreal, atmospheric, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: disability, retirement home, introspection, love affair, writer's life, lifestyle, human spirit, love and romance, hopes, dangerous attraction, voyeurism, sexual relations ...
Time: 21st century
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The Christmas Bunny (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Christmas Bunny tells the story of a lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson), who runs a rabbit rescue in an ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, family relations, friendship, nursing, family life, pets, coming of age, orphan, youth, rabbit, farm, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
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The Window (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It is a significant day for 80 year old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged son is coming to visit. All must be perfect. There will be a toast with a very special champagne an embrace; warm words that may finally bridge the gap ...
Style: touching, emotional, atmospheric, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: introspection, redemption, parents and children, longing, family relations, nursing, hopes, elderly, aging, human nature, estate, golden years ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
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 7.5
 1K
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: captivating, realistic, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Plot: hospital, doctor, moral dilemma, doctors and patients, workplace, nursing, workplace situations, nurse, love, society, post war, countryside ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, northern england, yorkshire, europe
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The Stone Angel (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The feisty aging Hagar Shipley has lived an unconventional life. Her rebellious heart has always ruled and her choices have put her at odds with family and friends. Faced with her own mortality, and desperate to find solace, she goes on the run. In ...
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot: aging, family relations, elderly, on the run, haunted by the past, couple relations, nursing, love and romance, introspection, youth, parents and children, couples ...
Place: canada
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Hunting and Gathering (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
Style: romantic, feel good, semi serious, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Audience: date night
Plot: roommate, cleaning lady, fall in love, love and romance, friends, fighting illness, nursing, french, chef, opposites attract, neighbor, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, gothic, mysterious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, plot twist, occult, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural horror, twists and turns, suspense, ritual, black magic, macabre, supernatural ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
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 7.0
 65K
Robot & Frank (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A delightful dramatic comedy, a buddy picture, and, for good measure, a heist film. Curmudgeonly old Frank lives by himself. His routine involves daily visits to his local library, where he has a twinkle in his eye for the librarian. His grown ...
Style: touching, clever, sentimental, humorous, futuristic ...
Plot: robot, friendship, artificial intelligence, aging, androids and robots, heist, twists and turns, unlikely criminals, technology, memory loss, disorder, robbery ...
Time: future, near future, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.1
 38K
The Savages (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
Style: sentimental, realistic, emotional, compassionate, melancholic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, depression, dysfunctional family, mental illness, father daughter relationship, character study, redemption, family relations, childhood, nursing, parents and children, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: arizona, poland, new york, usa, phoenix arizona ...
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Vasool Raja MBBS (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: A goon, Rajaraman, enrols himself in a medical college to fulfil his father's dream. He defies the college rules and creates problems for Dr Vishwanathan.
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: fish out of water, fall in love, misfit, rebellion, parents and children, cons and scams, love and romance, medical school, disorder, family relations, doctors and patients, small time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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 5.8
 631
Pig (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man wakes up alone in the middle of the desert with a black hood on his head and his hands tied behind his back. At death's door, he is discovered by a woman living alone in the desert and is nursed back to health. Upon regaining ...
Style: tense, surprise ending, captivating, psychological, twisted ...
Plot: twists and turns, uncover truth, memory loss, intrigue, mysterious character, dishonesty, nursing, amnesia, society, suspense, intelligence, mind meld ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 6.7
 1K
Cartagena (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious
Plot: disability, opposites attract, paralysis, teaching the ways of the world, one more chance, fall in love, gain trust, quadriplegic, nursing, hopes, alcohol abuse, ex boxer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america, france
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Harold's Going Stiff (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Lonely pensioner, Harold Gimble, has become the first man to suffer from a new neurological disease that is slowly turning him into a zombie-like state. Harold’s hermit-like existence is shaken up when a vivacious nurse, Penny Rudge, is sent along ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, captivating, offbeat
Plot: zombie, coping, love and romance, elderly, unlikely couple, golden years, supernatural, looking for love, plague, nursing, disease, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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After Fall, Winter (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 132 min.
Story: WINTER is a dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ultimately spells the doom of their great love. WINTER begins ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: sex, s&m, dominatrix, bdsm, looking for love, couple relations, hopes, love and romance, starting over, couples, nursing, creative block ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york
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The Eye of the Storm (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, Maria and Flora, a housekeeper, Lotte, and a solicitor, Arnold, attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son Sir Basil, a famous but struggling actor in London, and daughter Dorothy, a divorced and down at heel ...
Style: touching, realistic, stylized, serious, semi serious ...
Plot: longing, family life, family problems, family relations, elderly, parents and children, nursing, golden years, dealing with death, manipulative person, family reunited, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: sydney australia, australia
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 6.1
 9K
The Future (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.
Style: surreal, emotional, meditative, thought provoking, sentimental ...
Plot: infidelity, talking cat, cat, destiny, pets, life turned upside down, follow your dream, human nature, disorder, couples, road not taken, dishonesty ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: new jersey, los angeles, california, usa
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 6.8
 117K
Patch Adams (1998)
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, emotional, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: girls' night, kids
Plot: human spirit, medical school, hospital, compassion, medical profession, doctors and patients, friendship, dealing with death, stereotypes, mad scientist, unconventional method, clinic ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1969, year 1971
Place: usa, virginia
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 7.7
 26K
Vera Drake (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Style: sincere, bleak, depressing, compassionate, gloomy ...
Plot: abortion, unwanted pregnancy, working class, pregnancy, rape, character study, neighbor, injustice, miscarriage, life is a bitch, double life, abortionist ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, post world war two
Place: england, london, europe, hamburg germany, korea ...
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The Crimson Field (2014)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In a tented field hospital on the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of men wounded in the trenches.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot: world war one, military hospital, nurse, army, wartime life, friendship, lifesaver, love triangle, nursing, french, german, doctor ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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 7.9
 114K
Talk to Her (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas.
Style: psychological, emotional, surreal, sexy, sincere ...
Plot: rape, friendship, tragic love, suicide, loneliness, obsession, tragic event, hospital, sex, love, relationships, women ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, latin america, madrid, europe ...
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