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Genre "Medical Drama" Movies
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| 1. Awakenings (year: 1990) |
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Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. ...
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| 2. Charly (year: 1968) |
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In 1961, Cliff Robertson starred in The Two Worlds of Charley Gordon, a TV adaptation of Daniel Keyes' story Flowers for Algernon. Determined not to l ...
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| 3. City of Joy (year: 1992) |
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In this drama, a wealthy American doctor learns some important lessons about life in one of the poorest cities on Earth. Max Lowe (Patrick Swayze) is ...
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| 4. Drunken Angel (year: 1948) |
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Originally titled Yoidore tenshi, Drunken Angel was director Akira Kurosawa's first "auteur" project. "I finally discovered myself,&quo ...
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| 5. Finish Line (year: 1989) |
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| 6. Hilary and Jackie (year: 1998) |
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Perhaps inspired by the success of biopics like Shine and Amadeus, this film based on a true story — and a book (entitled A Genius in the Fa ...
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| 7. La Chambre des Officiers (year: 2001) |
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A man who thinks he's found an easy ride through the Army during World War I has his world turned upside down when facial injuries render him unrecogn ...
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| 8. Life as a House (year: 2001) |
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Kevin Kline stars as George, a down-on-his-luck architect in this tearjerker from Irwin Winkler (At First Sight, Guilty By Suspicion). A disdainful lo ...
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| 9. Lorenzo's Oil (year: 1992) |
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Susan Sarandon and Nick Nolte give brilliant performances as parents trying to save the life of their son in George Miller's harrowing and heartbreaki ...
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| 10. Magnificent Obsession (year: 1954) |
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This second film version of Lloyd C. Douglas' spiritual novel Magnificent Obsession is in its own way as successful as the first (filmed in 1935) in g ...
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| 11. My Left Foot (year: 1989) |
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An alternative to the general run of "triumph over the odds" biopics, My Left Foot is the true story of Irish cerebral palsy victim Christy ...
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| 12. Pandemic (year: 2007) |
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Armand Mastroianni, the gifted director of the legendary 1980 horror sleeper He Knows You're Alone, returns to helm the three-hour, all-star medical m ...
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| 13. Philadelphia (year: 1993) |
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At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues ...
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| 14. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (year: 2007) |
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The astonishing true-life story of Jean-Dominic Bauby — a man who held the world in his palm, lost everything to sudden paralysis at 43 year ...
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| 15. The Elephant Man (year: 1980) |
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| 16. Unnatural Causes (year: 1986) |
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