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Limitless(2011)

PG-13
| 1h 45min | Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction
3.6/5 (with 4,885 votes)

A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

OtherLife(2017)

3.2/5 (with 169 votes)

Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

Airplane!(1980)

PG
| 1h 28min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 1,992 votes)

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Junior(1994)

PG-13
| 1h 49min | Comedy, Science Fiction
2.6/5 (with 689 votes)

A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.

The Jacket(2005)

3.4/5 (with 688 votes)

A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

Of Gods and Men(2010)

PG-13
| 2h | Drama, History
3.3/5 (with 154 votes)

French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.

Charlie Bartlett(2007)

R
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Drama
3.3/5 (with 282 votes)

Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.

Homunculus(2021)

1h 59min | Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 45 votes)

A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

Directed by Takashi Shimizu

Lorenzo's Oil(1992)

PG-13
| 2h 15min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 228 votes)

Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.

The Tiger and the Snow(2005)

3.4/5 (with 221 votes)

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?

Madhouse(2004)

1h 31min | Horror, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 65 votes)

A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.

Safe(1995)

R
| 1h 59min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 114 votes)

Carol, a typical upper middle-class housewife, begins to complain of vague symptoms of illness. She "doesn't feel right," has unexplained headaches, congestion, a dry cough, nosebleeds, vomiting, and trouble breathing. Her family doctor treats her concerns dismissively and suggests a psychiatrist. Eventually, an allergist tells her that she has Environmental Illness.

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Medicine Man(1992)

PG-13
| 1h 46min | Adventure, Drama
3.0/5 (with 155 votes)

An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.

Directed by John McTiernan - With Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker, José Lavat

Control(2004)

R
| 1h 44min | Thriller, Action
3.0/5 (with 64 votes)

Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.

Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.(2003)

2h 36min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 120 votes)

A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.

Black Jack: The Movie(1996)

1h 33min | Animation, Drama, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!

Restoration(1995)

R
| 1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 47 votes)

An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.

Sicko(2007)

PG-13
| 2h 3min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 309 votes)

Sicko is a Michael Moore documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.

Directed by Michael Moore - With Michael Moore, Tony Benn, Linda Peeno

Control(2007)

R
| 2h 1min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 359 votes)

The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.

Hippocrates(2014)

1h 41min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 210 votes)

Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.

Kuttram 23(2017)

2h 14min | Thriller, Crime, Action
3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

A case involving the disappearance of a pregnant woman turns into a personal one for the cop who is tasked with investigating it.​.

Directed by Arivazhagan Venkatachalam - With Arun Vijay

End Game(2018)

40min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 31 votes)

Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.

Live and Become(2005)

NR
| 2h 20min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 83 votes)

In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.

Food Matters(2010)

1h 14min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 23 votes)

With nutritionally-depleted foods, chemical additives and our tendency to rely upon pharmaceutical drugs to treat what's wrong with our malnourished bodies, it's no wonder that modern society is getting sicker. Food Matters sets about uncovering the trillion dollar worldwide sickness industry and gives people some scientifically verifiable solutions for curing disease naturally.

Directed by Carlo Ledesma

The Sentinel(1992)

2h 19min | Thriller
3.3/5 (with 14 votes)

A medical intern finds himself drawn into a world of international intrigue after discovering a shrunken human head in his luggage.

The Best of Men(2012)

1h 30min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.

Directed by Tim Whitby

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie(1999)

4.1/5 (with 9 votes)

As Colorado Springs' Commisioner, Sully opposes a deal to mine for copper to make electricity. In order to sway Sully's decision, Mr. Garrick threatens Sully. Sully and Michaela's daugther, Katie, is then kidnapped while the town celebrates Michaela's birthday. The search for Katie takes Sully, Micheala, and their friends on an adventure through Mexico that is filled with danger at every turn.

Directed by James Keach

Neurons to Nirvana(2013)

1h 9min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Through interviews with leading psychologists and scientists, Neurons to Nirvana explores the history of four powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA and Ayahuasca) and their previously established medicinal potential. Strictly focusing on the science and medicinal properties of these drugs, Neurons to Nirvana looks into why our society has created such a social and political bias against even allowing research to continue the exploration of any possible positive effects they can present in treating some of today's most challenging afflictions.

Directed by Oliver Hockenhull

Cells at Work!!: A gut-wrenching resurrection of the formidable enemy!(2020)

1h 52min | Animation, Action, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

The theatrical episode will cover events from the fifth volume of the manga.

Touched(2014)

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Acclaimed author and recluse Norma Boswell is reaching the end of her days. She has kept her terminal diagnosis secret from everyone around her, her housekeeper and gardener, as well as her estranged son, Justin. As her health continues to decline, her doctor insists it is time to bring in a live-in nurse at home. Stubbornly proud, Norma rejects every candidate for the job straight away. That is until she comes across Emma Keating, who refuses to take no for an answer and whole-heartedly agrees to keep Norma’s secret.

Directed by Bradford May
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