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1. Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
R | 159 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field, Sydney Pollack
Votes: 375,401 | Gross: $55.69M
2. Nuovo Olimpo (2023)
TV-MA | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Two 25-year-old men who meet by chance, fall madly in love, and are then separated due to an unexpected event. For the next thirty years they pursue the hope of finding each other again.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Luisa Ranieri, Greta Scarano, Loredana Cannata, Damiano Gavino
Votes: 5,203
3. The Devil's Honey (1986)
R | 83 min | Mystery, Thriller
A young woman abducts and subjects a doctor whom she holds responsible for the death of her boyfriend to acts of sexual torture.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Brett Halsey, Corinne Cléry, Blanca Marsillach, Stefano Madia
Votes: 1,657
4. Red Beard (1965)
Not Rated | 185 min | Drama
In 19th-century Japan, a rough-tempered yet charitable town doctor trains a young intern.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Yûzô Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan
Votes: 21,118
5. Ghost Doctor (2022)
60 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Cha Young Min is a genius doctor but arrogant and selfish. One day, he gets involved in an unexpected case; his spirit possesses another doctor's body. These two doctors are complete opposites, with personalities and medical abilities.
Stars: Rain, Kim Bum, Kim You-Jin, Son Na-eun
Votes: 2,369
6. One on Top of the Other (1969)
R | 108 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An unscrupulous doctor is accused of killing his asthmatic wife as part of an insurance scam, despite discovering that she has a doppelgänger who works as a stripper and call girl.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Jean Sorel, Marisa Mell, Elsa Martinelli, Alberto de Mendoza
Votes: 2,678
7. Kate & Koji (2020–2022)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy
A working-class woman who runs an old-fashioned café in a neglected seaside town develops a strong, if sometimes volatile, friendship with an asylum-seeking African doctor.
Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Blake Harrison, Victor McGuire, Barbara Flynn
Votes: 1,053
8. Dr. Ken (2015–2017)
TV-PG | 21 min | Comedy
A frustrated doctor juggles his career, marriage, and family.
Stars: Ken Jeong, Suzy Nakamura, Tisha Campbell, Jonathan Slavin
Votes: 4,333
9. Doctor Zhivago (2002)
TV-14 | 113 min | Drama, Romance
Young and beautiful Lara is loved by three men: a revolutionary, a mogul, and a doctor. Their lives become intertwined with the drama of Russian revolution. Doctor Zhivago is about to get ... See full summary »
Stars: Keira Knightley, Sam Neill, Hans Matheson, Alexandra Maria Lara
Votes: 5,465
10. Off the Map (2011)
TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of doctors from the U.S. travel to work at a remote clinic in the South American tropics in an attempt to discover the true reasons they became doctors.
Stars: Jonathan Castellanos, Valerie Cruz, Caroline Dhavernas, Jason George
Votes: 5,307
11. Medical Police (2020)
TV-MA | 242 min | Comedy
Two American physicians in São Paulo, Brazil, discover a civilization-threatening virus and are recruited as government agents in a race against time and around the world to find a cure and uncover a dark conspiracy.
Stars: Erinn Hayes, Rob Huebel, Tom Wright, Sarayu Blue
Votes: 4,731
12. Demons of the Mind (1972)
R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest, and Satanic possession.
Director: Peter Sykes | Stars: Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills, Yvonne Mitchell
Votes: 1,832
13. Freud (1962)
Passed | 140 min | Biography, Drama
An examination of Czech-Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks, Susan Kohner
Votes: 3,320
14. Fado (I) (2016)
101 min | Drama, Thriller
Young doctor Fabian travels to Lisbon to win back his ex-girlfriend Doro. While the two of them are gradually getting closer again they are being haunted by their fears. Fabian's jealousy once again puts their relationship to the test.
Director: Jonas Rothlaender | Stars: Golo Euler, Luise Heyer, Albano Jerónimo, Pirjo Lonka
Votes: 318
15. Stigma (1972)
R | 93 min | Drama, Thriller
A knowledgeable doctor, (Philip Michael Thomas) moves to a secluded community and soon discovers a deadly virus changing the town's young people. What is more disturbing, is the conspiracy to protect this epidemic when he tries cure it.
Director: David E. Durston | Stars: Philip Michael Thomas, Harlan Cary Poe, Josie Johnson, Peter Clune
Votes: 281
16. The Citadel (1938)
Passed | 110 min | Drama
An enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison
Votes: 2,376
17. Ferat Vampire (1982)
90 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A doctor Marek is shocked when his beloved nurse Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A fellow doctor makes him believe ... See full summary »
Director: Juraj Herz | Stars: Jirí Menzel, Dagmar Havlová, Jana Brezková, Petr Cepek
Votes: 649
18. Operation Ouch (2012– )
28 min | Documentary, Animation, Comedy
Dr Chris and Dr Xand explore their way through the world of medicine and biology.
Stars: Xand van Tulleken, Chris van Tulleken, Richard Townsley, Lucy O'Byrne
Votes: 170
19. The Vampire (1957)
Approved | 75 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A kind, small-town doctor mistakenly ingests pills made from vampire bat blood and they turn him into a dangerous fanged creature.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: John Beal, Coleen Gray, Kenneth Tobey, Lydia Reed
Votes: 1,306
20. The Oklahoman (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Western
A doctor stops in a small Southwestern town to bury his wife. He decides to stay there and start a practice, but soon runs into violent cattle ranchers.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale, Brad Dexter, Gloria Talbott
Votes: 646
21. Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991 TV Movie)
Unrated | 95 min | Drama, History
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Jon Voight, Jason Robards, Sammi Davis, Annette Crosbie
Votes: 344
22. The Gold Rimmed Glasses (1987)
110 min | Drama
A Jewish family and a homosexual doctor suffer persecution in Fascist Italy. Based on a novel by Giorgio Bassani.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett, Valeria Golino, Stefania Sandrelli
Votes: 672
23. Miami Sands (1998– )
60 min | Drama, Romance
The series centres around a rich family, the Riley family. Mr Riley, an overbearing and demanding father, owned a hospital, and had two sons who had also grown to become doctors. Michael ... See full summary »
Stars: Jennifer Taylor, Jackson Rose, James Hyde, Jenna Gering
Votes: 59
24. Socket (2007)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
Dr. Bill Matthews is struck by lighting. While recovering at the hospital where he works, he begins an intimate relationship with Dr. Craig Murphy, who invites Bill to join a strange group of lightning survivors.
Director: Sean Abley | Stars: Derek Long, Matthew Montgomery, Alexandra Billings, Rasool Jahan
Votes: 612
25. The Damned (1947)
Not Rated | 105 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
In the last days of World War II, a group of Nazis and their sympathizers try to escape from reckoning using a submarine.
Director: René Clément | Stars: Marcel Dalio, Henri Vidal, Florence Marly, Fosco Giachetti
Votes: 1,134
26. That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
The story is set in 1968, when a Romanian-German family from the city of Arad starts a journey to the German Democratic Republic.
Director: Anca Miruna Lazarescu | Stars: Alexandru Margineanu, Razvan Enciu, Ovidiu Schumacher, Susanne Bormann
Votes: 658
27. My Uncle Benjamin (1969)
90 min | Comedy
In the amorous mid 18th century under Louis XV, a country doctor risks danger and prison to pursue his seduction of the women of the bourgeoisie.
Director: Édouard Molinaro | Stars: Jacques Brel, Claude Jade, Bernard Alane, Rosy Varte
Votes: 817
28. The Spies (1957)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Short of cash for his private clinic, a French psychiatrist accepts money from a NATO Intelligence agent to shelter a defecting Soviet-bloc scientist but enemy spies are closing-in.
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 1,099
29. En proie (2016)
28 min | Short, Drama
Thomas, a cardiologist can neither accept or change what he is: a pedophile. His perversion is a burden and his abstinence, a struggle. At the birthday party of his daughter Lila, he happens to meet her newest friend, Mathilde.
Director: David Guiraud | Stars: Aliocha Itovich, Annaig Briand, Elsa Romano, Leilou Schmildin
Votes: 23
30. Daria (2020)
93 min | Mystery, Thriller
When Daria disappears after their first date, Marek finds her in a psychiatric hospital. Everything might be part of a disturbing game played by powerful pharmaceutical companies, though ... See full summary »
Director: Matej Pichler | Stars: Klára Miklasová, Jaromír Nosek, Pavel Delong, Paul Louis Harrell
Votes: 114
31. Doktor Martin (2015–2016)
Comedy, Drama
Stars: Miroslav Donutil, Jitka Cvancarová, Gabriela Marcinková, Robert Miklus
Votes: 89
32. Ordinace v ruzové zahrade (2005– )
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stars: Daniela Sinkorová, Petr Rychlý, Veronika Jeníková, Ivana Jiresová
Votes: 210
33. A Voluntary Year (2019)
86 min | Drama
Urs is a single doctor who looks after his alcoholic brother Falk. Trying to prevent his daughter Jette from getting stuck in their little province, he persuades her to volunteer in South America.
Directors: Ulrich Köhler, Henner Winckler | Stars: Maj-Britt Klenke, Sebastian Rudolph, Thomas Schubert, Katrin Röver
Votes: 176
34. Skeleton on Horseback (1937)
78 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
"The White Sickness", a leprosy-like disease, ravages the world during a war.
Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Bedrich Karen, Zdenek Stepánek, Václav Vydra
Votes: 382
35. A Matter of Courage (2015)
90 min | Drama
Hermano, a successful doctor and enthusiastic rock climber, is planning to climb an almost invincible mountain in the Tierra del Fuego, when he discovers that his wife Adri is pregnant. ... See full summary »
Director: Roberto Gervitz | Stars: Armando Babaioff, Mariana Ximenes, Áurea Maranhão, Daniel Volpi
Votes: 90
36. Between Two Women (1937)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
A young surgeon loves a married nurse, then meets and falls for an heiress with appendicitis.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Franchot Tone, Maureen O'Sullivan, Virginia Bruce, Leonard Penn
Votes: 249
37. Dr. Monica (1934)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Romance
An obstetrician who is unable to have children discovers that the baby she is about to deliver was fathered by her husband.
Directors: William Keighley, William Dieterle | Stars: Kay Francis, Warren William, Jean Muir, Verree Teasdale
Votes: 461
38. Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)
Passed | 79 min | Drama
Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. ... See full summary »
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Samuel S. Hinds
Votes: 451
39. Silvestrovský trapas (1970 TV Short)
16 min | Short, Comedy
After an awkward situation in his office, the doctor goes to personally apologize to the patient, only to make things even more awkward.
Director: Petr Schulhoff | Stars: Zdena Balounová, Eduard Dubský, Milos Kopecký, Alena Vránová
40. Schweitzer (1990)
PG | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
The story of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, his adventurous life and trials in the jungles of Africa.
Director: Gray Hofmeyr | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Susan Strasberg, C. Andrew Davis, Patrick Shai
Votes: 83
41. Zboznovaný (2021)
Comedy, Drama
Zdenek's peaceful retirement is about to become a lot less carefree when both his wife and long-time lover expect that they can finally be together all the time.
Director: Petr Kolecko | Stars: Jirí Bartoska, Zuzana Krónerová, Ivana Chýlková, Petra Hrebícková
Votes: 78
42. Summer of '63 (1963)
21 min | Short, Drama
In this social guidance short film, teens on the make spread syphilis among their friends.
Director: Sid Davis | Stars: Michael Bell, Dolores Faith, Mory Schoolhouse, Charlotte Stewart
Votes: 179
43. The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Drama
A "high flying" surgeon learns a few valuable life lessons at the hands of a beautiful nurse.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Beal, Joan Fontaine, Phillip Huston, Jane Walsh
Votes: 308
44. We Are the Children (1987 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama, Romance
A doctor and a photo-journalist try to help famine victims in Africa.
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Ally Sheedy, Ted Danson, Judith Ivey, Zia Mohyeddin
Votes: 38
45. Mamas & Papas (2010)
110 min | Drama, Family
Interconnected stories revolving around children; a fertility doctor loses her only child; a couple tries desperately to conceive; an unmarried woman gets pregnant and wants to abort, but ... See full summary »
Director: Alice Nellis | Stars: Premysl Bures, Zuzana Bydzovská, Filip Capka, Michal Capka
Votes: 128
46. Konec básníku v Cechách (1993)
115 min | Comedy, Romance
The fourth part of Dusan Klein's comedy cycle, following its hero Stepán Safránek (Pavel Kríz) from his senior year in high school through medical school and his first year of medical ... See full summary »
Director: Dusan Klein | Stars: Pavel Kríz, David Matásek, Tereza Brodská, Míla Myslíková
Votes: 306
47. Tajemství krve (1953)
108 min | Biography, Drama
Biopic on Czech doctor Jan Jansky, who in his research published the classification of the four different blood types, for the first time, in 1907.
Director: Martin Fric | Stars: Vladimír Ráz, Zdenek Stepánek, Jirina Petrovická, Vlastimil Brodský
Votes: 44
48. How Poets Wait for a Miracle (2016)
Comedy
This time the "poets" are waiting for a miracle. Stepán, Kendy and Karas remained friends even after 12 years. Their inexhaustible sense of humor and self-irony, now perhaps with a touch of... See full summary »
Director: Dusan Klein | Stars: Pavel Kríz, David Matásek, Linda Rybová, Filip Antonio
Votes: 107
49. Chlap (2022– )
55 min | Drama
The successful doctor Ondřej Frank wakes up in a reality he does not know at all. He must gradually discover and understand the world around him, but especially his own personality.
Stars: Tomas Mastalir, Jitka Jezková, Andrea Ruzicková, Ivan Lupták
Votes: 10
50. Doktor Martin: Záhada v Beskydech (2018)
97 min | Comedy, Mystery
Director: Petr Zahrádka | Stars: Miroslav Donutil, Jitka Cvancarová, Robert Miklus, Jirí Bartoska
Votes: 42