Heart surgery movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant heart surgery movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspense, intense, suspenseful, captivating and tense films and TV shows about / with heart surgery, hospital, doctor, surgery, betrayal, death, murder, revenge, surgeon and physician plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as heart surgery: Dead in a Heartbeat (2002), Open Heart (2004), The Mission and Soul's Limit (2011), Hearts (2021), Hanggang Saan (2017), Poisonous Love (2025), Something the Lord Made (2004), The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Heartbeat (2017), Seven Deaths by Prescription (1975).
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Genre: Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time to track down a disturbed bomber who is inexplicably causing Dr. Hayes' patients to explode.
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, law enforcement, danger, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, chases and races, rivalry, murder investigation, bomb, swat team, medical, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Things appear to be looking up for a cash-strapped, regional hospital when it hires a reputedly brilliant cardiac surgeon to head up its pediatric cardiac surgery unit. But when increasing numbers of children begin dying on the operating table, the ...
Style:
medical drama, captivating, suspense, intense, tension ...
Plot:
medical malpractice, heart surgery, nurse, death of child, whistleblower, doctor, medical, fake doctor, problem, medicine, physician, ethical dilemma ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
TV show
Story:
The suspenseful story is set in the heart surgery department of a university hospital. Ishihara plays a medical trainee aiming to become a heart surgeon, while holding doubts about the real cause of the death of her father, who died during an ...
Style:
medical drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
hospital, heart surgery, doctor, doctors and patients, intern, secret, medical examination, workplace, medicine, medical, workplace situations, physician ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows a pioneer of Italian cardiology and a specialist who returns from America and has to struggle with male stereotypes. The challenge of research and above all the fervent and driving atmosphere of the progressive Italy of the sixties.
Style:
medical drama, psychological, captivating, tension, period piece ...
Plot:
hospital, heart transplant, ambition, love affair, heart surgery, cardiologist, relationships, male female relationship, workplace, doctors and patients, physician, medicine ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 33 min.
TV show
Story:
Hanggang Saan is a 2017 Philippine drama television series starring Sylvia Sanchez and Arjo Atayde, together with Sue Ramirez, Maris Racal, Yves Flores, Teresa Loyzaga and Ariel Rivera.
Style:
suspense, emotional, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
single mother, mother and son, mother, desperation, sacrifice, guilt, family conflict, secrets, family drama, moral dilemma, son, dark past ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
the philippines
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Genre: Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 53 min.
TV show
Story:
Dr. Prem, a flawless heart surgeon, faces chaos when her wedding is ruined by actress Pat. What begins as resentment soon turns into unexpected attraction after a fateful kiss reveals deeper feelings between them.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, intense, sensual, medical drama
Plot:
lgbtq, enemies to lovers, hospital, passion, surgeon, actress, slow burn, love triangle, jealousy, scandal, celebrity, heart surgery ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
Style:
sincere, inspirational, serious, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
surgery, medical, prejudice, racism, african american, biopic, interracial relations, blacks and whites, surgeon, following a dream, medical research, friendship between men ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
maryland, america, baltimore, usa, nashville tennessee ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, philosophical, homoerotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, obsession, dysfunctional family, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, recovering alcoholic, surgeon, psychopath, blackmail, desperation, dead father, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ancient greece, ireland, columbus ohio
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Eylul the stubborn, school girl turns up to be a strong professional doctor by the help of her teacher Ali Asaf. After years of separation they meet up again but not as a teacher and student, instead as surgeons working side by side. Their love is ...
Style:
sentimental, medical drama, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
marriage proposal, prejudice, wedding, surgeon, doctor, fall in love, coworker, hospital, teacher, doubts and hesitations, teacher student relationship, personal growth ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Plot:
gambling, desperation, harassment, husband wife relationship, dirty old man, psychiatrist, doctor patient relationship, doctor, heart surgery, surgeon, business competition, heart attack ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When guardian angel Seth -- who invisibly watches over the citizens of Los Angeles -- becomes captivated by Maggie, a strong-willed heart surgeon, he ponders trading in his pure, otherworldly existence for a mortal life with his beloved. The couple ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, sincere, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot:
angel, afterlife, life & death, love, love and romance, love story, fall in love, heaven and hell, supernatural romance, death, medical, destiny ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
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Genre: Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, atmospheric, weird
Plot:
castle, female nudity, nudity, rape, mad scientist, curse, shakespeare's king lear, earl, baron, surgery, heart surgery, bare chested male ...
Time:
17th century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, UK, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When his daughter's criminal boyfriend becomes an increasing threat to the family, a father must take action to protect them.
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
family in danger, investigation, police detective, young woman, father daughter conflict, drug addict, blackmail, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, drug, murder suspect, murder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
iceland, reykjavik iceland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $50,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim what he considers his family’s ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, disturbing, touching, sweet
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, single mother, winter, christmas romance, false identity, sick child, medical experiment, fall in love, opposites attract, life is a bitch, hopes, love ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
Story:
Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vamp. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and Lily and Herman's only child, Eddie, has his werewolf ...
Style:
semi serious, stylized, humorous, captivating, gothic ...
Plot:
werewolf, eccentric family, vampire, imaginary, parents and children, dragon, old mansion, supernatural, family relations, freak, suburbs, dracula ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A wealthy, young Mexican woman is under a werewolf's curse.
Style:
suspense, tragic ending, mysterious, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
werewolf, lycanthropy, full moon, curse, supernatural, transformation, tragic love, hound dog, night, monster, family curse, killing ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only to be dismayed to discover that his donor was murdered so Nick could live.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, dark, detective, tense ...
Plot:
murder, insurance fraud, heart transplant, organ donation, investigation, conspiracy, corruption, ethical dilemma, life & death, danger, survival, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.
Style:
reflective, melancholic, serious, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
village life, existentialism, character study, loss of faith, symbolism, identity, isolation, moral dilemma, getting home, alienation, post war, nostalgia ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hungary
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Manhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, tense, medical drama, independent film ...
Plot:
transplant, mad scientist, reanimation, body horror, ethical dilemma, macabre, moral ambiguity, obsession, taboo, gory, identity crisis, isolation ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, rough, slasher, erotic ...
Plot:
paranoia, disappearance, dying repeatedly, orgy, sect, danger, journalism, autopsy, investigation, medical examiner, delusion, reporter ...
Time:
70s, future, 60s
Place:
prague, czechoslovakia, czech republic, europe, venice ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The celebrated heart surgeon Dr. Thomas Vrain supports the research of the offbeat scientist Aldo Gehring, who is inventing an artificial heart. Dr. Vrain performs the first artificial human heart transplant against the advice of the Ethics ...
Style:
philosophical, captivating, thought provoking, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
medicine, medical, nudity, power relations, transplant, moral dilemma, society, idealism, introspection, against the rules, doctors and patients, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An economist Basque (Gorka Ochoa) based in Barcelona becomes embroiled in a difficult emotional dilemma between his girlfriend (Bárbara Goenaga), who is pregnant, and a childhood friend (Sara Cozar), heart condition, which is declared by compassion ...
Style:
romantic drama, bleak, indie film, romantic comedy, neo screwball comedy
Plot:
lie, love triangle, pregnancy, heart condition, moral dilemma, guilt, compassion, deception, mature, domestic drama, friendship, regret ...
Place:
barcelona, catalonia, basque country
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The story concerns Dr James Xavier, ably portrayed by Ray Milland. He has invented a serum for improving human vision. When his funding is cut he proceeds to experiment on himself -- with horrifying results. From the director who gave you Swamp ...
Style:
medical horror, psychological, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mad scientist, hospital, macabre, monkey, experiment, visceral, insanity, death, scientist, surgery, supernatural ability, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
california, usa, las vegas
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
All grown up in post-apocalyptic 2018, John Connor must lead the resistance of humans against the increasingly dominating militaristic robots. But when Marcus Wright appears, his existence confuses the mission as Connor tries to determine whether ...
Style:
futuristic, apocalyptic, intense, serious, saga ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, apocalypse, robot, cyberpunk, future war, androids and robots, time travel, man versus machine, post apocalypse, dystopian future, terminator, dystopic future ...
Time:
future, year 2009, near future, 2010s, year 2003 ...
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, supernatural, obsessive quest, vengeance, couples, haunted by the past, parents and children, couple relations, escapades, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, rhode island
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, absurd, visually appealing, cyber ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, evil corporation, dystopic future, rebel, fight scenes, virtual reality, biopunk, chase, hitman ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2010, 2010s
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Dorian Shanley, is a heart surgeon who abuses alcohol and drugs. Dorian trades stolen pharmaceuticals for cocaine , provided by his best friend and enabler, Teddy. While Dorian's life and career take a nosedive, Shanley numbs the pain of losing ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, bleak, biting ...
Plot:
drug abuse, hospital, addiction, couples, introspection, family problems, drug dealing, downfall, rehabilitation, dysfunctional family, parents and children, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destined to be with her. She reports a rape to the police, ...
Style:
serious, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, mindfuck ...
Plot:
couples, dangerous attraction, supernatural ability, supernatural, rivalry, danger, love and romance, dream come true, one night stand, fiance fiancee relationship, suspect, dream ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Drama series about life on the wards of Holby City Hospital, following the highs and lows of the staff and patients.
Style:
realistic, captivating, touching, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
hospital, intern, doctor, medical, doctors and patients, workplace intrigue, cure, workplace situations, rivalry, workplace romance, surgery, lesbian ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom, britain
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