Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "medical-doctor", "surgery"

1. House M.D. (2004–2012)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery

Using a crack team of doctors and his wits, an antisocial maverick doctor specializing in diagnostic medicine does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way.

Stars: Hugh Laurie, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jesse Spencer

Votes: 514,134

2. ER (1994–2009)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Romance

The doctors who work in the ER at the County General Hospital in Chicago grapple with ups and downs in their personal and professional lives while trying to give apt medical care to their patients.

Stars: Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Julianna Margulies, Eriq La Salle

Votes: 67,796

3. New Amsterdam (2018– )

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

A new medical director breaks the rules to heal the system at America's oldest public hospital.

Stars: Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Jocko Sims, Tyler Labine

Votes: 49,158

4. Doctor Strange (2016)

PG-13 | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

While on a journey of physical and spiritual healing, a brilliant neurosurgeon is drawn into the world of the mystic arts.

Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong

Votes: 805,488 | Gross: $232.64M

5. The Fugitive (1993)

PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal.

Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Julianne Moore

Votes: 318,856 | Gross: $183.88M

6. Malice (1993)

R | 107 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches art, Andy's a college dean. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.

Director: Harold Becker | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman, Bebe Neuwirth

Votes: 27,392 | Gross: $46.04M

7. Something the Lord Made (2004 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 110 min | Biography, Drama

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Cliff McMullen, Yasiin Bey, Luray Cooper, Alan Rickman

Votes: 15,379

8. Death Wish (2018)

R | 107 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dr. Paul Kersey is an experienced trauma surgeon, a man who has spent his life saving lives. After an attack on his family, Paul embarks on his own mission for justice.

Director: Eli Roth | Stars: Bruce Willis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone

Votes: 76,484 | Gross: $34.02M

9. Chicago Hope (1994–2000)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The lives and trials of the staff of a major hospital in Chicago.

Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Hector Elizondo, Peter Berg

Votes: 4,697

10. All Saints (1998–2009)

TV-MA | 60 min | Drama

A drama series centred on the lives of the nurses at All Saints Western General Hospital.

Stars: Judith McGrath, Georgie Parker, Tammy Macintosh, Martin Lynes

Votes: 1,637

11. The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

PG-13 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.

Director: Chris Carter | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet

Votes: 94,022 | Gross: $20.98M

12. Bad Surgeon: Love Under the Knife (2023)

TV-MA | 53 min | Documentary, Crime, History

Dr. Paolo Macchiarini is world famous for his revolutionary stem cell-infused windpipe transplants. There's just one problem: His patients keep dying.

Stars: Benita Alexander-Noel, Karl-Henrik Grinnemo, Oscar Simonson, Dorne Lyles

Votes: 4,536

13. The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Horror

Doctor, scientist, organist, and biblical scholar Anton Phibes seeks revenge on the nine doctors he considers responsible for the death of his wife.

Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas

Votes: 16,683 | Gross: $0.55M

14. 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: 21,115

15. Elegy (I) (2008)

R | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life, which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood," thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Penélope Cruz, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Hopper

Votes: 23,215 | Gross: $3.58M

16. Survive the Night (2020)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A disgraced doctor and his family are held hostage at their home by criminals on the run, when a robbery-gone-awry requires them to seek immediate medical attention.

Director: Matt Eskandari | Stars: Bruce Willis, Chad Michael Murray, Shea Buckner, Tyler Jon Olson

Votes: 11,995

17. Nightmare City (1980)

R | 88 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

An airplane exposed to radiation lands, and blood drinking zombies emerge armed with knives, guns and teeth! They go on a rampage slicing, dicing, and biting their way across the Italian countryside.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Hugo Stiglitz, Laura Trotter, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Francisco Rabal

Votes: 6,734

18. Madame Bovary (1991)

PG-13 | 143 min | Drama, Romance

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire marries a dull country doctor. To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner and a law student, and runs up ruinous debts.

Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-François Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, Jean Yanne

Votes: 4,484 | Gross: $1.94M

19. Frankenstein: The True Story (1973 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 185 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge.

Director: Jack Smight | Stars: James Mason, Leonard Whiting, David McCallum, Jane Seymour

Votes: 1,963

20. Visiting Hours (1982)

R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller

A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.

Director: Jean-Claude Lord | Stars: Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner

Votes: 4,838 | Gross: $13.26M

21. The Sleeping City (1950)

Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

In New York, the murder of a Bellevue Hospital intern prompts the police to send an undercover detective to investigate.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: Richard Conte, Coleen Gray, Richard Taber, John Alexander

Votes: 852

22. Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)

Approved | 76 min | Adventure, Horror

A doctor and an adventurer journey to the Amazon, where they encounter a man in a bizarre bird costume terrorizing the local indigenous population.

Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Tom Payne, Harvey Chalk

Votes: 439

23. Intruders (1992)

163 min | Biography, Horror, Mystery

All over the world, people report being visited by aliens, taken aboard spaceships and clinically examined. Authorities seem to know all about these visitations but will not admit it publicly.

Stars: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Susan Blakely, Daphne Ashbrook

Votes: 1,458

24. SS Experiment Love Camp (1976)

Not Rated | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Near the end of WW2, prisoners of war are used in experiments to perfect the "Aryan" race.

Director: Sergio Garrone | Stars: Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giorgio Cerioni, Giovanna Mainardi

Votes: 1,414

25. No Such Thing (2001)

R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature.

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Sarah Polley, Robert John Burke, Margrét Ákadóttir, Julie Anderson

Votes: 4,459 | Gross: $0.06M

26. Whiplash (1948)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport

A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden

Votes: 781

27. Let Me Die a Woman (1977)

X | 79 min | Documentary

Sex hygiene film about transsexuals in the late 60's/early 70's. As with all sex hygiene films it's one part serious documentary and one part sensationalism.

Director: Doris Wishman | Stars: Leslie, Deborah Harten, Lisa Carmelle, Frank Pizzo

Votes: 487

28. Three (2016)

Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

Shot and hospitalized, a cunning robber refuses surgery to avoid police custody. A detective sees through this but is resisted by a dedicated doctor. A tense battle of wills ensues, as the threat of a rescue by the robber's gang grows.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Wei Zhao, Louis Koo, Wallace Chung, Adrian Wong

Votes: 2,090 | Gross: $0.07M

29. Dokument inifrån: Experimenten (2016)

60 min | Documentary

Three-part series looking at the downfall of synthetic organ transplant surgeon Paolo Macchiarini.

Stars: Paolo Macchiarini, Bosse Lindquist, Johannes Wahlström, Matthias Corbascio

Votes: 39

30. Chain Reaction (2006 Video)

R | 101 min | Horror

A group of convicts and a doctor seek refuge from the authorities in a lodge deep in the wood, but the weird inhabitants are not friendly.

Director: Olaf Ittenbach | Stars: Christopher Kriesa, Martina Ittenbach, Simon Newby, Goran Maric

Votes: 1,589

31. The Pact of Silence (2003)

R | 95 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A priest who is also a doctor investigates the mysterious illness of a young nun who shares a dark secret with her twin sister who is a convicted child murderer.

Director: Graham Guit | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Élodie Bouchez, Carmen Maura, Isaac Sharry

Votes: 1,051

32. You Have to Run Fast (1961)

Not Rated | 73 min | Crime, Drama

A doctor is on the run from the mob because he identified two hoods involved in a murder.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Craig Hill, Elaine Edwards, Grant Richards, Willis Bouchey

Votes: 144

33. 7 morts sur ordonnance (1975)

105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.

Director: Jacques Rouffio | Stars: Michel Piccoli, Gérard Depardieu, Jane Birkin, Marina Vlady

Votes: 624

34. Sex Change Hospital (2007– )

60 min | Documentary

SEX CHANGE HOSPITAL is a six part series based in Trinidad, Colorado, the sex change capital of the world. Each one hour episode is a self-contained journey following 2 people as they take ... See full summary »

Stars: Stephanie Battaglino, Vicki Estrada, Lisa I. RoadBot, Marci Bowers

Votes: 57

35. Marie Curie, une femme sur le front (2014 TV Movie)

84 min | Biography, History

A chronicle of Nobel Prize winning physicist Marie Curie's little known yet invaluable contribution to wounded soldiers' treatment during World War I, and her professional partnership with radiotherapy pioneer Claudius Regaud.

Director: Alain Brunard | Stars: Denis Podalydès, Dominique Reymond, Laurent Bateau, Patrick Descamps

Votes: 47

36. Suurin voitto (1944)

90 min | Drama

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Director: Hannu Leminen | Stars: Helena Kara, Eino Kaipainen, Sylvi Palo, Hannes Häyrinen

Votes: 30

37. Facing the World (1990 TV Movie)

50 min | Documentary

Documentary about the cranio-facial unit at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia and the work done in cranio-facial surgery to perform facial reconstruction of ... See full summary »

Director: Mario Andreacchio

38. Belly on Fire (1982)

22 min | Documentary, Short

Short documentary about the mass deaths of mainly native children in Papua New Guinea due to a stomach disease or enteritis commonly known as Pigbel or Pikbel. Documents the discovery, ... See full summary »

Director: Roy Wooding | Stars: Jim Berinson, Tim Murrell

39. Lost (2004–2010)
Episode: Do No Harm (2005)

TV-14 | 43 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Claire goes into labor while a helpless Charlie goes into panic mode. Meanwhile Locke is missing, Jack tends to a wounded Boone and Sayid presents Shannon with a romantic surprise.

Director: Stephen Williams | Stars: Naveen Andrews, Emilie de Ravin, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia

Votes: 6,821

40. Person of Interest (2011–2016)
Episode: Critical (2012)

TV-14 | 44 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Leon is trapped for his own protection. A medical doctor faces a difficult decision. Detective Carter encounters agent Snow.

Director: Frederick E.O. Toye | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Taraji P. Henson, Kevin Chapman, Michael Emerson

Votes: 2,956

41. Person of Interest (2011–2016)
Episode: 6,741 (2016)

TV-14 | 43 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Shaw escapes her captors, but the team is unsure of her mental state when she begins to act paranoid and reckless.

Director: Chris Fisher | Stars: Jim Caviezel, Kevin Chapman, Amy Acker, Sarah Shahi

Votes: 5,265

42. Mars (2016–2018)
Episode: Grounded (2016)

TV-14 | 47 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Daedalus crew battles across the harsh Martian terrain to reach their base camp.

Director: Everardo Gout | Stars: Jihae, Alberto Ammann, Clémentine Poidatz, Anamaria Marinca

Votes: 761