Public health movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant public health movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, serious, realistic, medical drama, emotional and suspense films and TV shows about / with public health, hospital, doctor, medicine, medical, doctors and patients, epidemic, workplace, life is a bitch and virus plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and History genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as public health: 3 Needles (2005), Plague City: SARS in Toronto (2005), The Strain (2014), DAMaN (2022), Medical Investigation (2004), Contagion (2011), Damaged Care (2002), Side Effects (2005), The Legacy (2009), Casualty 1900s (2008).
Best films
New films
| Ordinary Angels (2024) | 7.4 | |
| This England (2022) | 6.7 | |
| Frontliner (2021) | 3.8 | |
| The Dropout (2022) | 7.5 | |
| Breathless (2024) | 6.6 |
List of public health movies
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor (Ashmore) schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun (Sevigny) makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black ...
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
porn industry, aids, closeted homosexual, circumcision, plague, social worker, public health, society, life is a bitch, black market, culture clash, pregnancy ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
china, africa, south africa, canada, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city. Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, tense, medical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
epidemic, public health, disease, quarantine, doctors and patients, politics, hopes, society, life is a bitch, terminal illness, plague, medical profession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, china, canada
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient ...
Style:
scary, captivating, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vampire, infected, good versus evil, supernatural, deadly virus, epidemic, public health, survival, fate of humanity, plague, chaos and mayhem, corpse ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, montana, england, france ...
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14K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The film is set in 2015. Sid, is a young doctor who completed his MBBS has been posted to the cut-off of area of Malkangiri district Odisha having 151 villages & infamous for Naxals dominance & no basic facilities. It's journey of a ...
Style:
medical drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological, inspirational ...
Plot:
remote village, public health, doctor, malaria, remote location, disease, doctor patient relationship, adventure hero, social problems, male doctor, perseverance, real life ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, year 2015
Place:
india, asia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Medical Investigation was an American medical drama television series that began September 9, 2004, on NBC. It ran for 20 one-hour episodes before being cancelled in 2005. The series was co-produced by Paramount Network Television and NBC Universal ...
Style:
medical drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, medical, epidemic, disease, infection, public health, teamwork, doctors and patients, workplace situations, lifesaver, danger, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
329K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, medical horror, bleak, clever ...
Plot:
virus, pandemic, epidemic, deadly virus, infected, infection, death, quarantine, plague, survival, disaster, medical ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2000, distant future, future ...
Place:
hong kong, minnesota, san francisco, california, bay area ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of preventing his son Bryan being left in his first wife's bad custody with he proceeds of his present wife Linda's new job. She's the first graduate in her family and eagerly ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious
Plot:
public health, idealism, uncover truth, rebellion, ambition, fighting the system, against the odds, couples, negligence, family problems, injustice, society ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
America! Built on a better pill. Karly Hert has spent the last ten years selling drugs. Legally, that is. Karly is a pharmaceutical sales representative. She sells pills to doctors. She makes lots of money. She has a company car. She has a nice fat ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, clever
Plot:
public health, corporate crime, introspection, love affair, society, rise and fall, boss and employee, obsession, dishonesty, workplace, couples, workplace situations ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When considering taking a few weeks off, Dr. Rainville places an ad to find a replacement who would agree to take his place in Normétal, in Abitibi. Jeanne Dion from Montreal accepts the offer and goes to the site, where it comes into contact with ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
doctor, public health, hopes, small town, dehumanization, workplace situations, social relations, doctors and patients, redemption, elderly, workplace, new life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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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, sentimental, sincere, touching, period piece ...
Plot:
hospital, workplace, doctors and patients, couple relations, cure, workplace situations, workplace romance, public health, workplace intrigue, medicine, multiverse, extreme ...
Time:
victorian era, 1900s
Place:
england, europe, london
Is relevant?
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, emotional, realistic, touching, medical drama
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
hospital, doctor, workplace, clinic, public health, doctors and patients, workplace romance, disagreement, love affair, power relations, workplace situations, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Is relevant?
26K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A David and Goliath law drama about a drug-addicted lawyer who takes on a health supply corporation while battling his own personal demons.
Style:
thought provoking, independent film, inspirational, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, life & death, lawyer, courtroom, lawsuit, aids, courtroom drama, drug use, law firm, money, righting the wronged ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1998, year 1995, year 1999
Place:
washington d.c., usa, houston texas
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Mr. Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) is a retired Romanian engineer, spending his time in the company of his cats and booze. When he starts feeling unusually ill, he first seeks painkillers from his neighbors. It soon becomes apparent that Lazarescu is ...
Style:
sincere, black comedy, contemplative, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hospital, medical, paramedic, doctors and patients, ambulance, character study, storytelling, self discovery, surgery, public health, terminal illness, fighting illness ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
romania, bucharest, eastern europe, transylvania, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, suspense, f word
Audience:
adult
Plot:
unplanned pregnancy, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, public health, two sisters, breaking the law, sisters, social problems, escapades, political unrest, violence against women, badass female lead ...
Time:
90s, 2010s
Place:
north dakota, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen is a 2009 television drama. It deals with Dr James Niven's attempts to deal with the 1918 flu pandemic in Manchester. Its screenplay was written by Peter Harness and it starred Bill Paterson as Niven, along ...
Style:
medical drama, historical drama, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
epidemic, illness, public health, deadly virus, historical event, virus, society, humanity in peril, against humanity, fate of humanity, mortality, biopic ...
Time:
post world war one
Place:
manchester
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Follows the misadventures of a group of young interns at a hospital/medical school - dealing with the pressures of school and love.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, medical drama, dark comedy
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
intern, hospital, sexy nurse, female nudity, couple relations, strip show, stripper, doctors and patients, power relations, obsession, love and romance, nothing goes right ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
In the early 1980s, AIDS emerged and quickly became an epidemic. Those responsible for public safety failed. People were kept in the dark, afraid to speak out. Ignorance, arrogance, politics and economics all lead to betrayal, to cover-up, to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
aids, scandal, public health, red cross, hiv, hiv positive, life is a bitch, illness, father son relationship, parents and children, family problems, family relations ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada, vancouver
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of Elizabeth Holmes, the enigmatic Stanford dropout who founded medical testing start-up Theranos. Lauded as a Steve Jobs for the next tech generation and once worth billions of dollars, the myth crumbled when it was revealed that none of ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, disturbing, tense, medical drama
Plot:
medical, business, hospital, technology, doctor, women, ambition, public health, job, corporate world, female protagonist, direction and purpose ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
-A dangerous virus is spreading in Montreal (in Canada) among a group of ostracized and vulnerable homeless people. How long will Anne-Marie Leclerc, infectious disease specialist and director of the Laboratory for Emergency Health, take before ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
epidemic, deadly virus, laboratory, hospital, infection, infected, virus, medical research, doctor, scientist, public health, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
montreal, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
mental disorder, hospital, public health, mental illness, mental health, psychiatric hospital, social problems, patient, mental institution, life is a bitch, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
2000s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A young doctor tries to convince everyone about an impending epidemic, but he is accused of creating panic.
Style:
medical drama, tense, tension, dramatic, suspense ...
Plot:
panic, urban, epidemic, public health, social justice, disaster, fear, whistleblower, racial tension, infection, investigation, mistrust ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 500 min.
TV show
Story:
The Citadel is a 1983 BBC television adaptation written by Don Shaw from A. J. Cronin's novel The Citadel, which was originally published in 1937. It was produced by Ken Riddington. Other television versions include a British and two Italian ...
Style:
medical drama, dramatic, realistic, bleak, educational ...
Plot:
public health, poverty, literary, social realism, class conflict, strike, union, medicine, economist, quarantine, labor, miner ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s
Place:
wales, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story:
Based off the same name novel by Liu Liu, the story revolves around the lives of people in the medical field
Style:
medical drama, psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic ...
Plot:
hospital, doctor, coworker, workplace situations, medical, physician, compassion, public health, employer employee relationship, medical examination, doctors and patients, medicine ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Based on the same-titled manga on a newbie nurse, Misora Aoi and the problems she encounters in medical work.
Aoi Misora is a third-year nurse at a prestigious hospital. After she is involved in trouble at the Emergency Center, she is transferred ...
Style:
medical drama, captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nurse, female protagonist, workplace, public health, compassion, hospital, medicine, doctors and patients, physician, doctor, lifestyle, workplace situations ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama, Sport
Country: South Africa, Kenya
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On a dusty soccer pitch in Malindi, Kenya young Kalu is an aggressive striker of the “Malindi Sharks,” who dreams of playing professional soccer. He’s a selfish player and a clear stand out on his team and knows he’s destined for glory. Then ...
Style:
informative, educational, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
soccer, football, public health, problem, soccer coach, science, athlete's life, fighting illness, football player, virus, athlete and trainer, illness ...
Place:
kenya, south africa, africa
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The conflict felt by a modern Iranian woman as she is forced to choose between her career and the traditional obligations of a housewife are examined in this drama. Until she married Hamed, Zinat worked in a public health clinic in a small Iranian ...
Style:
medical drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, gender roles, small town, public health, compassion, patriarchy, female empowerment, ethical dilemma, domestic drama, women, family honor, social realism ...
Place:
iran
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, mysterious, creepy ...
Plot:
epidemic, infection, pandemic, virus, quarantine, trapped, human nature, life turned upside down, society, secret, disease, post apocalyptic ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
TV show
Story:
In all friendship - The nurses.
Style:
medical drama, compassionate, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nursing, friendship, teamwork, hospital, coworker, nurse, treatment, physician, medicine, workplace, doctors and patients, coping ...
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, Bermuda
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The film centers around a Malaysian pharmaceutical company using a new virus to generate an epidemic. A secret organization, known as "The Leaker", discloses this information. After the suicide of the pharmaceutical company's son and ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
conspiracy, epidemic, investigation, police, cover up, virus outbreak, corporate crime, pharmaceutical company, uncover truth, crime investigation, police officer, criminal ...
Place:
malaysia, china, hong kong
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