Genre: Medical Dramas
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The Music Never Stopped (2011)
Cast: J.K. Simmons, Lou Taylor Pucci, Cara Seymour …
Directed by: Jim Kohlberg
Nearly 20 years after their son ran away from home, his estranged parents learn he has a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. Desperate to reconnect, the father realizes…
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Love and Other Drugs (2010)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt …
Directed by: Edward Zwick
Pharmaceutical representative Jamie Randall (Jake Gyllenhaal) becomes a player in the big game of male-performance-enhancement-drug sales and, along the way, finds unexpected romance with a…
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Extraordinary Measures (2010)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell …
Directed by: Tom Vaughan
After their two young children are diagnosed with a rare genetic disease for which conventional medicine has no cure, John and Aileen pin their hopes on the work of unconventional scientist…
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Johnny (2010)
Cast: Lee Majors, Musetta Vander, Mel Fair …
Directed by: D. David Morin
Still reeling from his 10-year-old son's tragic accidental death, Dr. Drew Carter attempts to assuage his family's grief by adopting Johnny Bell, a terminally ill foster child…
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You Don't Know Jack (2009)
Cast: Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman …
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Al Pacino stars in this Emmy-winning biopic that focuses on the life of Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the controversial physician who boldly advocated the legalization of euthanasia and personally…
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Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009)
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, Aunjanue Ellis …
Directed by: Thomas Carter
Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. stars as pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who overcomes enormous obstacles to study medicine and save lives at Johns Hopkins Hospital in this made-for-cable…
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Sleeping and Waking (2009)
Cast: Jeff Allin, Hope Lambert, Elizabeth Jernigan …
Directed by: Joe Banno
Faced with a grim diagnosis of terminal cancer, artist Sullivan Daniels (Jeff Allin) elects to keep living through an experimental procedure that saves his life but limits his artistic…
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Happy Tears (2009)
Cast: Parker Posey, Demi Moore, Peter Patrikios …
Directed by: Mitchell Lichtenstein
Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) return to their childhood home in Pittsburgh to look after their father, Joe (Rip Torn), a lively widower who may be slipping into dementia. The…
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The Legacy (2009)
Cast: Elise Guilbault, Jacques Godin, Eric Hoziel …
Directed by: Bernard Émond
Montreal emergency room doctor Jeanne Dion (Elise Guilbault) takes a job as the temporary replacement for Dr. Yves Rainville (Jacques Godin), an ailing physician in the rural town of…
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Living Proof (2008)
Cast: Harry Connick Jr., Paula Cale, Angie Harmon …
Directed by: Dan Ireland
Based on a true story, this biopic follows medical researcher Dr. Dennis Slamon's (Harry Connick Jr.) tireless efforts to win FDA approval for Herceptin, now recognized as an important…
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P.J.: A Journey of the Heart (2008)
Cast: John Heard, Howard Nash, Vincent Pastore …
Directed by: Russ Emanuel
Traumatized and suffering from amnesia after witnessing a terrible accident, a man who calls himself P.J. (Howard Nash) is admitted to a hospital, where psychiatrist Alan Shearson tries to…
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Schism (2008)
Cast: Terrence Smith, Ruth Thoma Andrews, Don Kirsch …
Directed by: John C. Lyons
Forced into a nursing home after he injures his hip, Neil Woodard (Terrence Smith) resents his lost independence and schemes to get back home -- until he realizes that his family doesn't…
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Awake (2007)
Cast: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard …
Directed by: Joby Harold
While undergoing a heart transplant, a man experiences "anesthetic awareness," a condition that allows him to see and feel everything that's happening to him but leaves him paralyzed --…
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Pandemic (2007)
Cast: Bruce Boxleitner, Faye Dunaway, Eric Roberts …
Directed by: Armand Mastroianni
When travelers on a plane become ill, the virus they carry spreads quickly through a Los Angeles hospital and soon endangers the entire city population. Tasked with finding a cure,…
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Imagination (2007)
Cast: Ed K. Gildersleeve, Nikki Haddad, Jessi Haddad …
Directed by: Eric Leiser
The prophetic visions of an autistic adolescent (Nikki Haddad) and her nearly blind twin (Jessi Haddad) lead a baffled neuropsychologist (Ed K. Gildersleeve) to explore imagination beyond the…
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Sybil (2007)
Cast: Tammy Blanchard, Jessica Lange, Joey Campbell …
Directed by: Joseph Sargent
Suffering from dissociative identity disorder, once known as multiple personality disorder, Sybil (Tammy Blanchard) seeks treatment from psychiatrist Dr. Cornelia Wilbur (Jessica Lange)…
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The Indian (2007)
Cast: Sal Landi, Matt Dallas, Alison Haislip …
Directed by: James R. Gorrie
An ailing man's (Sal Landi) only shot at survival lies in a transplant operation. But pulling off the surgery means reconnecting with his estranged teenage son (Matt Dallas of "Kyle…
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Divine Souls (2007)
Cast: Nancy Chartier, Kelley West, Jeffie Legend …
Directed by: James McDonald
Kerri (Nancy Chartier) is a nurse in an AIDS clinic who develops strong emotional ties with her patients. Her devotion gives her the strength to handle the tragic fact of what the clinic…
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Proof (2005)
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Anthony Hopkins, Jake Gyllenhaal …
Directed by: John Madden
As a devoted daughter comes to terms with the death of her father -- a brilliant mathematician whose genius was crippled by mental instability -- she's forced to face her own dark fears.…
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Smile (2005)
Cast: Mika Boorem, Luoyong Wang, Yi Ding …
Directed by: Jeffrey Kramer
Sheltered and privileged in sunny California, Katie's (Mika Boorem) perspective on life changes when she travels to China and meets Lin (Yi Ding), who hides her face because of a severe…
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Dawn Anna (2005)
Cast: Debra Winger, Krista Rae, Tatiana Maslany …
Directed by: Arliss Howard
Debra Winger turns in an affecting performance as single mother Dawn Anna Townsend, whose once-rocky life is on the upswing thanks to her four thoughtful kids, a new love and an ideal job.…
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Ambulance Girl (2005)
Cast: Kathy Bates, Robin Thomas, David Michie …
Directed by: Kathy Bates
In the midst of a serious depression, a food writer (Kathy Bates) changes her career path by training to become an emergency medical technician, hoping that in the process of saving others,…
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3 Needles (2005)
Cast: Shawn Ashmore, Olympia Dukakis, Lucy Liu …
Directed by: Thom Fitzgerald
This intense social drama from writer-director Thom Fitzgerald chronicles the spread of AIDS on three continents -- Asia, Africa and North America -- and the wrenching, controversial choices…
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Special Ed (2005)
Cast: Greg Germann, D.W. Moffett, Bill Cobbs …
Directed by: Jeffrey Phelps
Cancer specialist Dr. David Edwards (Greg Germann) is obsessed with his career and haunted by childhood memories of a distant father and a schoolyard bully. Those memories are revived when he…
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Plague City: SARS in Toronto (2005)
Cast: Kari Matchett, Ron White, Rick Roberts …
Directed by: David Wu
When the highly infectious and potentially lethal SARS virus starts spreading across Toronto, brave health-care workers -- including a head nurse (Kari Matchett) and Dr. Royce (Ron White) --…