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1. The Babadook (2014)
Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.
Director: Jennifer Kent | Stars: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, Hayley McElhinney
Votes: 247,129 | Gross: $0.92M
2. Nurse (2013)
R | 84 min | Horror, Thriller
By day, Abby Russell is a dedicated nurse, but by night, she lures cheating men to their brutal deaths and exposes them for who they really are.
Director: Douglas Aarniokoski | Stars: Paz de la Huerta, Katrina Bowden, Judd Nelson, Corbin Bleu
Votes: 11,468
3. Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
R | 111 min | Drama, War
During World War I, a patriotic young American is rendered blind, deaf, limbless, and mute by a horrific artillery shell attack. Trapped in what's left of his body, he desperately looks for a way to end his life.
Director: Dalton Trumbo | Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Kathy Fields, Marsha Hunt, Jason Robards
Votes: 18,340 | Gross: $0.55M
4. North and South, Book II (1986)
95 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of two friends and their families on opposite sides of the American Civil War.
Stars: Kirstie Alley, David Carradine, Philip Casnoff, Mary Crosby
Votes: 6,206
5. Le bal des folles (2021)
122 min | Drama, Thriller
A woman who is unfairly institutionalized at a Paris asylum plots to escape with the help of one of its nurses. Based on the novel 'Le bal des folles' by Victoria Mas.
Director: Mélanie Laurent | Stars: Lou de Laâge, Mélanie Laurent, Emmanuelle Bercot, Benjamin Voisin
Votes: 4,141
6. Patrick (1978)
Unrated | 96 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A comatose hospital patient harasses and kills through his powers of telekinesis to claim his private nurse as his own.
Director: Richard Franklin | Stars: Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar, Bruce Barry
Votes: 3,961
7. Hawthorne (2009–2011)
TV-14 | 43 min | Drama
As a single mother and the Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, Christina Hawthorne makes care-taking her life's work.
Stars: Jada Pinkett Smith, Suleka Mathew, Hannah Hodson, Michael Vartan
Votes: 3,134
8. Nurse Betty (2000)
R | 110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Comedy about a widow's post-traumatic obsession with a soap star.
Director: Neil LaBute | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear
Votes: 36,185 | Gross: $25.17M
9. Prescription for Love (2019 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama, Romance
Nurse Claire's supervisor is intent on making her miserable. On a rare night off, she gets trapped in an elevator with a charming man. The next day she is introduced to him again but he does not recognize her.
Director: Brian Brough | Stars: Jillian Murray, Trevor Donovan, Jillian Joy, Charla Bocchicchio
Votes: 1,501
10. The Caretakers (1963)
Approved | 97 min | Drama
Medical drama about mentally-ill patients and their professional caregivers, as well as the new group-therapy sessions aiming to replace the traditional physical restraint and electroshock treatments.
Director: Hall Bartlett | Stars: Robert Stack, Polly Bergen, Diane McBain, Joan Crawford
Votes: 939
11. Adam Resurrected (2008)
R | 106 min | Drama, War
In the aftermath of World War II, a former circus entertainer who was spared from the gas chamber becomes the ringleader at an asylum for Holocaust survivors.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Cristian Motiu, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 4,447
12. Nurse (1981–1982)
TV-MA | 60 min | Drama
A widow, Mary Benjamin, a supervising nurse at Grant Memorial Hospital in New York City, returns to work after her husband dies and learns to live as a single woman again.
Stars: Michael Learned, Robert Reed, Hattie Winston, Bonnie Hellman
Votes: 90
13. Period of Adjustment (1962)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is disrupted by their friends' marital problems.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Jane Fonda, Jim Hutton, Lois Nettleton
Votes: 1,642
14. Amos (1985 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
After losing his wife and home in an accident, Amos Lasher ends up in the care of the state, specifically the Sunset Nursing Home. The head nurse of Sunset, Daisy Daws, rules the cowed ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Tuchner | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Elizabeth Montgomery, Dorothy McGuire, Pat Morita
Votes: 353
15. Tammy and the Doctor (1963)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A Los Angeles doctor falls for a Mississippi girl working as a nurse's aide in his hospital.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Sandra Dee, Peter Fonda, Macdonald Carey, Margaret Lindsay
Votes: 793
16. War Nurse (1930)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Romance, War
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, June Walker, Robert Ames
Votes: 378
17. Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Dr. Gillespie's health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn't want. So, he poses a stumper in class to discourage all the bright young students. ... See full summary »
Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Susan Peters, Richard Quine
Votes: 247
18. Life Begins (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
At a maternity hospital, future fathers pace the corridors while their wives wait for their babies either anxiously or happily. Efficient and compassionate nurse Miss Bowers keeps the ward ... See full summary »
Directors: James Flood, Elliott Nugent | Stars: Loretta Young, Eric Linden, Aline MacMahon, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 546
19. Love Potion (1987)
91 min | Drama, Thriller
Delaware, a female drug addict, joins a drugs rehabilitation program in a special clinic where the doctors' methods seem to be too unorthodox.
Director: Julian Doyle | Stars: Nancy Paul, John Rowe, Robert Ashby, Norman Chancer
Votes: 76
20. A Child Is Born (1939)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
A maternity ward, staffed by sympathetic nurses, serves mothers-to-be from all walks of life. These include a happy mother of a large family; a secretly-married teenager who thinks their ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gladys George, Gale Page
Votes: 213 | Gross: $0.04M
21. Emergency Call (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An expose of the racketeering "accident victims" who extort millions of dollars annually from American automobile owners, insurance companies and property owners by staging fake accident ... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: William Boyd, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan, George E. Stone
Votes: 194
22. Nurse (1980 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama, Romance
Michael Learned plays Mary Benjamin, a recently widowed woman who, confronted with her son's departure for college, decides to resume her career as a head nurse in a Manhattan hospital in this pilot for the short-lived TV series.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Michael Learned, Robert Reed, Tom Aldredge, Antonio Fargas
Votes: 55
23. 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: 248
24. Nobody's Baby (1937)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
After trying to break into show business, two mismatched friends become nurses. One of their patients is a new mother who has hidden her pregnancy from her husband, the nightclub dancing ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Patsy Kelly, Lyda Roberti, Lynne Overman, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 168
25. Ucitel tance (1995)
100 min | Drama, Comedy
A story about love, dancing and survival, set in the late 40s. Jan Mayer, a young dance-master, arrives in a sanatorium for lung diseases with a serious diagnosis - tuberculosis. But he ... See full summary »
Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Martin Dejdar, Jana Hlavácová, Milos Kopecký, Barbora Kodetová
Votes: 173
26. Registered Nurse (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Romance
Two doctors pursue a nurse with a secret - she's married to an insane man. Will she allow one of them to operate on her husband to save his sanity?
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Lyle Talbot, John Halliday, Irene Franklin
Votes: 253
27. Hodinu nevis (2009)
94 min | Crime, Thriller
Hynek Michánek wants to study medicine but fails his entrance exams five times. He starts a job as an orderly in a district hospital where one of the doctors on the examining board works as... See full summary »
Director: Dan Svátek | Stars: Václav Jirácek, Ivan Franek, Marián Geisberg, Stanislav Zindulka
Votes: 98
28. Winning Ticket (2015)
12 min | Short, Comedy
John Sumpton (John Livingstone) is the nursing home's resident grumpy old man. When he is begrudgingly woken up to take a flu shot, John's usual selfish antics come into play and affect his neighbors' morning.
Director: Francisco Franco | Stars: John Livingstone, Ortrud Swanson, Jill McDowell, Tolliver Rachel
29. Tomás Bocek: You Are (2017 Music Video)
4 min | Music
A depressed young man attempts to escape a mental asylum he's kept in.
Director: Adam Vopicka | Stars: Tomás Bocek, Lukás Borik, Robert Capek, Slávek Dvorský
Votes: 16
30.
ABC Afterschool Specials (1972–1997)
Episode:
Schoolboy Father
(1980)
60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
High school senior discovers his summer girlfriend has given birth to his child, and decides to fight for custody.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Rob Lowe, Dana Plato, Sharon Spelman, Nancy McKeon
Votes: 88
31.
The Carol Burnett Show (1967–1978)
Episode:
Carl Reiner, Melba Moore
(1972)
TV-G | 60 min | Comedy, Family
Carol welcomes guests Carl Reiner and singer Melba Moore. Highlights include: another installment of "Terminal Hospital"; a sketch about a writer who changes plots faster than his ... See full summary »
Director: Dave Powers | Stars: Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner
Votes: 44
32.
Mod Squad (1968–1973)
Episode:
Captain Greer, Call Surgery
(1969)
TV-PG | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Someone is stealing narcotics from area hospitals and Greer has the team go undercover in what he thinks will be the next target.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: Michael Cole, Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, Tige Andrews
Votes: 39
33.
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode:
Albatross
(1974)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Dr. McCoy is arrested and charged with causing an alien plague.
Directors: Bill Reed, Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 688
34.
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode:
Mudd's Passion
(1973)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Enterprise crew once again runs afoul of the incorrigible Harry Mudd, this time hawking a love potion that greatly influences Spock and the crew.
Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 761
35.
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode:
The Ambergris Element
(1973)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
While the Enterprise investigates a water-world, Captain Kirk and Commander Spock go missing. They've been abducted by the world's inhabitants and altered into water-breathers as well.
Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 717
36.
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode:
The Pirates of Orion
(1974)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Spock contracts a fatal disease, and the medicine required for his cure is stolen by Orion pirates.
Directors: Bill Reed, Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 705
37.
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–1975)
Episode:
The Terratin Incident
(1973)
TV-PG | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Exposed to spiroid epsilon waves, the Enterprise crew begins to shrink in size. If a way can not be found to stop their condition, they will soon be too small to control the ship.
Director: Hal Sutherland | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei
Votes: 736
38.
Dynasty (2017–2022)
Episode:
First Kidnapping and Now Theft
(2022)
TV-PG | Drama
Blake institutes damage control to help Adam. Sam finds out about an unexpected presence at La Mirage. Alexis goes to extreme measures to win over Fallon and Amanda. Kirby implements a new life policy.
Director: Pat Santana | Stars: Elizabeth Gillies, Daniella Alonso, Elaine Hendrix, Rafael de la Fuente
Votes: 114
39.
Lotta (2010–2019)
Episode:
Lotta & die alten Eisen
(2010)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
Lotta, a woman in her twenties, wants to be an actress but hasn't really matured yet. When her father threatens to stop his financial support for her, she starts an internship in a retirement home.
Director: Edzard Onneken | Stars: Josefine Preuß, Barbara Auer, Heidy Forster, Lissy Tempelhof
Votes: 126
40.
Lotta (2010–2019)
Episode:
Lotta & die frohe Zukunft
(2013)
89 min | Comedy, Romance
Lotta wants to study medicine which is not an easy task, being a single mother and having a baby daughter. She has to learn to cooperate with other people in order to fulfill her desire.
Director: Gero Weinreuter | Stars: Josefine Preuß, Hanno Koffler, Oliver Stokowski, Frank Röth
Votes: 106
41.
The People's Vet (2018– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2018)
46 min | Documentary, Reality-TV
Kirkdale head nurse Lisa makes it her mission to nurture poorly hedgehog Spike back to full health. Pebbles the Chihuahua undergoes an operation to remove a nasty growth from her lip.
Directors: Daniel Harrison, Tom Reeves, Blake McGrow | Star: John Thomson