Movies about doctors

Movies about doctors
List of the best movies about doctors, surgeons, nurses, etc. selected by visitors to our site: Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, The Physician, Doctor Liza, Arrhythmia, The Good Doctor, Side Effects, The Reason, To the Bone, Gods, Surgeon.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, adventure, history
CountryGermany
Duration02:30

The story of Rob Cole, a boy who is left a penniless orphan in an 11th-century English mining town when his mother dies of a mysterious illness. Vowing to become a physician and vanquish Death itself, he travels to Isfahan in Persia to study medicine under the great Ibn Sina. Through countless ordeals and challenges, and making many sacrifices along the way, he struggles on unwaveringly. His unflagging quest for knowledge leads to the blossoming of friendship and true love.

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Genredrama, biography
CountryRussia

The film is about a day in the life of Elizaveta Petrovna Glinka, also known as Doctor Liza. Moscow, 2012. The Glinka family prepares for a celebration: thirty years together. The closest friends are invited for dinner, the sons have arrived. Of course, Liza has freed up this day for her family. There’s just a trifle: to stop by the Fund and see the weekly patients at the Paveletsky Station. But the days of Doctor Liza are always full of surprises… In a hospital in a Moscow suburb a five-year-old girl is dying. The duty doctor has to discharge Eva. Due to medical formalities the child, who suffers from cancer, is left without painkillers. In utter despair, the girl’s father turns to Liza for help. When Liza cannot find a way to help the child within the system, she decides on a desperate act…

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration02:35

Oleg is a young gifted paramedic. His wife Katya works as a nurse at the hospital emergency department. She loves Oleg, but is fed up with him caring more about patients than her. She tells him she wants a divorce. The new head of Oleg’s EMA department is a cold-hearted manager who’s got new strict rules to implement. Oleg couldn’t care less about the rules – he’s got lives to save; his attitude gets him in trouble with the new boss. The crisis at work coincides with the personal life crisis. Caught up between their patients, alcohol-fueled off-shifts, and an evolving health care system, Oleg and Katya have to find the binding force that will keep them together.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

    A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genredrama, family
    CountryUSA

    The film, based on the William Sirls book, follows a small-town pastor, his wife and their sick child as a mysterious man is sent to give them hope. Sirls adapted his book for the screen, writing the screenplay with Aviv Rubinstein and Richard Clark Jr.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryPoland
    Duration02:00

    Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genredrama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:53

    A few days from the life of the neurosurgeon working in the big hospital.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller
    CountryPortugal
    Duration01:41

    Dr. Ivan has found two radical cures for unhappiness: the diagnosis of fake terminal cancers and the temporary elimination of some of the 5 senses. But will the therapies result or will they have unforeseeable side effects?

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    A battle-weary ex-Special Forces Operative buys a ranch in remote American West to flee from the world, and encounters a strange series of trespassers, including a beautiful elf princess and a Native American mystic and Orcs. When the Orcs invade his property, John must give up his isolation to become a hero, before the Orcs unleash their dragon god on our world.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    The life of reclusive and eccentric Beach Boys songwriter and musician Brian Wilson.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight for justice. Based on the true story of the Steubenville, Ohio rape case.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, family
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

    The story of a mild-mannered radio executive (Ferrell) who strives to become the best stepdad ever to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling, freeloading real father arrives, forcing stepdad to compete for the affection of the kids.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The story of the investigation and trial of abortion provider Dr Kermit Gosnell.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green (Helen Hunt) to lose his virginity.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA

    In this eerie hospital chiller, a medical student wakes up in an isolation room, gravely ill with no idea how she got there or how to get out. Trying to make sense of her plight and save herself, she finds the hospital staff distinctly unhelpful.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genredocumentary, crime, detective, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Ecuador, Germany, Norway
    Duration02:00

    Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Malta, France, United Kingdom, Hungary
    Duration02:03

    After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genreadventure, documentary
    CountryUSA
    Duration00:40

    Born to Be Wild observes various orphaned jungle animals and their day-to-day behavioural interactions with the individuals who rescue them and raise them to adulthood. The film unfurls in two separate geographic spheres. Half of it takes place in the rain forests of Borneo, where celebrated primatologist Dr. Birute Galdikas assists baby orangutans; the other half takes place on the arid savannahs of Kenya, where zoologist Dame Daphne Sheldrick works with baby elephant calves.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genredocumentary, music, biography
    CountryUSA

    The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Iceland
    Duration02:46

    Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.

    Genredocumentary, crime
    CountryUSA

    A shocking examination into Las Vegas fertility specialist, Dr. Quincy Fortier, who assisted hundreds of couples struggling with conceiving. Decades later, many children born from his interventions discover through DNA and genealogical websites, that Dr. Fortier had used his own sperm to impregnate their mothers without their knowledge or consent.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Major Crimes explores how the American justice system approaches the art of the deals as law enforcement officers and prosecutors work together to score a conviction. Los Angeles Police Captain Sharon Raydor heads up a special squad within the LAPD that deals with high-profile or particularly sensitive crimes.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

      From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantastic, action
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:19

      The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, documentary, biography, news
      CountryUSA

      Since the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, only four doctors in the United States continue to perform third-trimester abortions. These physicians, all colleagues of Dr. Tiller, sacrifice their safety and personal lives in the name of their fierce, unwavering conviction to help women.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredocumentary, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA

      The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:23

      A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family take an unexpected turn.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, India, Hong Kong, China, Canada
      Duration02:13

      In the near future, Major is the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, then cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:31

      An epidemic breaks out in Atlanta leaving the large city quarantined and those stuck on the inside fighting for their lives. This is the story of loved ones torn apart, and how the society that grows inside the quarantine reveals both the devolution of humanity and the birth of unlikely heroes.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genredrama, family
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:53

      A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      After learning that a brain aneurysm will kill him in about 90 minutes, a perpetually unhappy man struggles to come to terms with his fate and make amends with everyone he has ever hurt.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her grandmother that she has been "passing" for white while at school in the North. In addition, Pinky has fallen in love with a young white doctor, Dr. Thomas Adams, who knows nothing about her black heritage.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr Jones, and the female doctor who takes more than a professional interest in his treatment.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, military
      CountryUSA

      A wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, melodrama, adventure, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the country. Hamlin finds Lydia and, against the background of war and rebellion, they fall in love while helping the Haitians against the French.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      An ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife, while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated by another woman.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:27

      On the trail of a missing friend who had been experimenting with mind-altering drugs, a young journalist - aided by a rogue counter-culture writer, The Silence of The Lambs -- finds herself drawn into the dangerous world of top-secret government chemical research and the mystery of a disturbing radio signal of unknown origin. A fast-paced thriller blending fact and fiction, Banshee Chapter is based on real documents, actual test subject testimony, and uncovered secrets about covert programs run by the CIA.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:02

      About the lives and loves of the staff of an emergency hospital as reflected in a single frenetic night of business-as-usual.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA

      An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:47

      Prof. Millard pretends to be dead and helps Jeff King ferret out Vulcan, the evil traitor at the science academy. Donning his Rocket Man costume King goes from one hair raising rescue to the next in order to keep the newly invented Decimator out of the clutches of Vulcan and his minions.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA, Norway
      Duration02:19

      A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountryMexico, USA
      Duration02:16

      An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.




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