| New Amsterdam (2018) | 7.9 | |
| The Fault in Our Stars (2014) | 7.6 | |
| Awakenings (1990) | 7.8 | |
| Saving Hope (2012) | 7.4 | |
| 50/50 (2011) | 7.6 |
Patient movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant patient movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, medical drama, sincere, psychological and touching films and TV shows about / with patient, doctor, hospital, medicine, doctors and patients, medical, nurse, death, power relations and illness plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres shot in USA, Germany, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as patient: The Fault in Our Stars (2014), A Cure for Wellness (2016), The Red Band Society (2011), Side Effects (2013), K-PAX (2001), Chicago Med (2015), Girl, Interrupted (1999), New Amsterdam (2018), Grey's Anatomy (2005), Sucker Punch (2011).
Best films
List of patient movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, teenage love, love story, youth, teenage life, first love, dealing with death, illness, adolescence ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style:
gothic, psychological, dark, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
therapist, cure, patient, capitalism, health, slut, capitalist, nubile girl, sauna, hospital, spa, lust ...
Time:
year 2016, future, year 2017, 2010s
Place:
swiss alps, switzerland, alps, america, germany ...
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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, medical drama, rough ...
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, illness, fighting illness, child cancer, youth, overcoming, teenage life, anorexia, patient, doctors and patients, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, spain
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204K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatrist, manipulation, murder, patient, sleepwalking, twists and turns, doctor, mental patient, mental institution, deception ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, future, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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202K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
patient, mental institution, extraterrestrial, alien, mysterious character, psychiatry, hypnosis, psychiatrist, planet, space and aliens, investigation, delusion ...
Time:
future, year 2001, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, persia, new york, newfoundland, greenland ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An emotional thrill ride through the day-to-day chaos of the city's most explosive hospital and the courageous team of doctors who hold it together. They will tackle unique new cases inspired by topical events, forging fiery relationships in ...
Style:
medical drama, sincere, exciting, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
hospital, medical, doctor, medical profession, patient, medicine, doctors and patients, doctor patient relationship, medical student, workplace situations, coworker, physician ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Max Goodwin, the hospital's newest medical director, sets out to tear up the bureaucracy and provide exceptional care.
Style:
medical drama, inspirational, sincere, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
hospital, medical, physician, patient, doctor, surgery, nursing, doctor patient relationship, nurse, coworker relationship, rivalry, medicine ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Style:
medical drama, sincere, sentimental, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
hospital, doctor, workplace, doctors and patients, medical, surgery, surgeon, patient, coworker relationship, workplace romance, relationships, nurse ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
seattle, idaho, usa
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260K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from the mental facility.
Style:
surreal, sexy, atmospheric, modern fairy tale, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
alternate reality, steampunk, imagination, lobotomy, escape from reality, surrealism, escape, violence, murder, sexual abuse, girl gang, dream ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
vermont
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352K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style:
touching, inspirational, tragicomedy, independent film, sad ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens
Plot:
cancer, friendship, terminal illness, happy ending, relationships, chemotherapy, meaning of life, doctor, hopes, buddies, patient, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2011, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state, iran, washington d.c. ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent "Infected," a man gifted with the ability to speak the Infected's new language leads the last survivors on a hunt for Patient Zero and a cure.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic, rough ...
Plot:
virus, infected, pandemic, zombie, infection, patient, bunker, eaten alive, end of the world, epidemic, professor, survival ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2016
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, mind twisting, confusing ...
Plot:
suicide, obsession, twists and turns, death, surrealism, guilt, unfulfillment, suicide attempt, mental illness, depression, parallel universe, psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s ...
Style:
psychological, sexy, philosophical, period piece, intellectual ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, psychology, psychiatrist, mental illness, historical character, sexual perversion, psychologist, adultery, sex, biopic, introspection, psychiatry ...
Time:
1900s, year 1912, 2010s, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place:
switzerland, europe, central europe, vienna, austria ...
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140K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. As they spend time together, Alma speaks to Elisabeth constantly, never receiving any answer. Alma eventually ...
Style:
mind twisting, cerebral, surreal, black and white, sexual ...
Plot:
surrealism, mute character, actress, silence, patient, existentialism, medical, nordic, art, dream, alienation, insanity ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, touching, emotional, scenic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, love story, desert, beautiful scenery, tragic love, power of love, love and romance, passion, adultery, sex scene, doomed love, life philosophy ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1944, year 1942, 90s ...
Place:
sahara, italy, ottoman empire, cairo egypt, africa ...
Is relevant?
586K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
Style:
medical drama, clever, cynical, emotional, witty ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doctor, medicine, hospital, talented, mastermind, prodigy, loner, doctors and patients, expert, medical, patient, surgery ...
Time:
2000s, future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, syria
Is relevant?
325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Style:
touching, emotional, period piece, heartbreaking, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, wartime, redemption, tragic love, injustice, love story, unfulfilled love, sex scene, forbidden love, love and romance, false accusation, innocence ...
Time:
1930s, victorian era, 1940s, year 2007, 2000s ...
Place:
england, london, dunkirk, britain, europe ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, medical horror, cult classic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, losing-it hero, isolation, murder, mental illness, mental institution, patient, danger, obsession, doctors and patients, mind game, mad scientist ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Is relevant?
249
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1885, a female doctor helping a group of people with their phobias becomes embroiled in a murder mystery surrounding a patient that may or may not be a vampire.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
patient, phobia, who done it, medieval, character study, doctors and patients, vampire, hypnosis, mental illness, afterlife, disaster, female doctor ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, 21st century
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
La Ciudad de las Estrellas, a tiny town in the South American jungle, is home to an understaffed, understocked medical clinic where three idealistic doctors come looking for change.
Style:
sincere, medical drama, serious, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nurse, doctors and patients, doctor, patient, medical, idealism, workplace, surgery, career, love and romance, clinic, cure ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, latin america
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions and centering around Dr. Paul Weston, a psychotherapist who exhibits an insightful, reserved demeanor while treating his patients—but displays a crippling insecurity while ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, clever, tense, serious ...
Plot:
psychologist, therapist, psychotherapist, doctors and patients, introspection, psychotherapy, patient, emotional breakdown, psychology, self involved, power relations, haunted by the past ...
Time:
2000s, 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style:
inspirational, psychological, breathtaking, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
disability, hospital, paralysis, death, coma, stroke, memory, writers, courage, patient, mute or deaf, communication problem ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Dr. Peter Fales’s (Klaus Kinski) patients start getting annihilated by an unknown serial killer, he and his daughter Alison (Donna Wilkes) both come under suspicion. Part slasher film and part psychological thriller, Schizoid co-stars ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
group therapy, murder, serial killer, anonymous letter, elevator, letter, patient, widower, doctor patient relationship, doctor, violence, therapist ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 84 min.
TV show
Story:
Every day is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist.
Style:
dorama, captivating, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
medical, medical profession, patient, doctor, friendship, hospital, job, coworker relationship, medicine, doctors and patients, treatment, surgeon ...
Time:
90s
Place:
korea, thailand
Is relevant?
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, emotional ...
Plot:
hospital, surgery, medicine, doctor, doctors and patients, staff, treatment, patient, intern, workplace situations, workplace, boss ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
When Charlie Harris ends up in a coma, he leaves the Hope-Zion Hospital in chaos - and his fiancée and fellow surgeon, Alex Reid, in a state of shock. As the staff of Hope-Zion races to save lives, comatose Dr. Harris wanders the halls of Hope-Zee ...
Style:
sentimental, medical drama, serious, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
hospital, doctor, supernatural, doctors and patients, medicine, surgeon, medical, hotshot, patient, staff, surgery, lesbian ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, ontario canada, toronto ontario canada
Is relevant?
62K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Hotshot plastic surgeons Dr. Sean McNamara and Dr. Christian Troy experience full-blown midlife crises as they confront career, family and romance problems.
Style:
sexy, medical drama, sexual, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
plastic surgery, couples, partnership, husband wife relationship, surgical operation, womanizer, friendship, dark humor, family problems, hospital, plastic surgeon, surgery ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, miami, florida
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The stories of the men and women who work the overnight shift at San Antonio Memorial Hospital. They are an irreverent and special breed, particularly adrenaline junkie T.C. Callahan.
Style:
medical drama, humorous, semi serious, realistic, tense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, emergency room, medical, doctor, friendship, lifesaver, surgery, medicine, doctors and patients, medical student, war veteran, workplace ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, san antonio texas, texas
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, bloody, serious ...
Plot:
urban legend, violence, ghost, missing person, curses spells and rituals, gory, myth, blood, hospital, revenge, afterlife, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
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