Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "difficult-diagnosis"

1. Shouting Down Midnight (2022)

97 min | Documentary

This timely doc follows Texas State Senator Wendy Davis's filibuster in 2013, when she stood for 13 hours to fight an antiabortion law threatening women's access to lifesaving healthcare.

Director: Gretchen Stoeltje | Star: Wendy Davis

Votes: 30

2. Hors Jeu (2019)

Short, Comedy, Drama

Leo got fired from his football club. Saying for a knee injury. But his meeting with the daughter of his former coach will push him to reveal the truth.

Director: Julien Graber | Stars: Guillaume Arnault, Ludovic Berthillot, Adrien Bienvenu, Matthieu Kassimo

3. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Acceptance (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House treats a patient on death row while Dr. Cameron avoids telling a patient she has a terminal illness.

Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,497

4. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Autopsy (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A very brave and mature 9-year-old girl has terminal cancer, but that is not what the problem seems to be.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 5,127

5. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Babies & Bathwater (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

While House and his team scramble to discover what's causing brain and kidney dysfunction in a pregnant woman, Vogler is on the warpath to get House fired.

Director: Bill Johnson | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,827

6. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Control (2005)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery

Can House save a high powered female executive from the same problem that has left him in constant pain? A new head of the hospital board could cause problems. Clinic cases: A boy and his mute dad.

Director: Randy Zisk | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,734

7. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Cursed (2005)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery

A young boy's fever lasts nearly a week after a Ouija board predicts he will die. Clinic Cases: Chase's case of a man with numb fingers.

Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,486

8. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: DNR (2005)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

A famous jazz trumpeter, diagnosed with ALS, signs a DNR form, but because House believes the diagnosis wrong, he breaks the law by resuscitating him.

Director: Frederick King Keller | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 4,265

9. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Daddy's Boy (2005)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

The team takes care of a student with inexplicable electrical shocks, and House's parents visit.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,126

10. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Damned If You Do (2004)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A nun suffering from acute dermatitis and asthma treated by House with possibly the wrong medication comes dangerously close to death.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 4,065

11. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Deception (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A woman collapses at an off-track betting parlor in front of House, and he must battle his new boss to find her diagnosis.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,073

12. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Detox (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A girl crashes a Porsche after her boyfriend starts coughing up blood and continues to have unexplained bleeds. Clinic Cases: Cuddy gives House a month off clinic duties if he can spend a week off his pain meds.

Director: Nelson McCormick | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,964

13. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Failure to Communicate (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

When a famous writer is brought in with language difficulties, House must assist via phone while waiting for a delayed plane.

Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,133

14. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Fidelity (2004)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A woman comes down with symptoms of African sleeping sickness, but there seems to be no way she could have contracted it. House and his aides must ask a few tough questions and make some tough decisions in order to try to save her.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,891

15. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Distractions (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A patient with 40% body burns and inexplicable cardiac and neurological signs is treated by the team, while House pursues disproving an old enemy's medical study.

Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,108

16. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Heavy (2005)

TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery

A morbidly obese ten-year-old girl has a heart attack, and her mother insists that House and his team look past her weight to find the diagnosis. Meanwhile, Vogler pressures House to fire a... See full summary »

Director: Fred Gerber | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,388

17. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Histories (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A delusional homeless woman is found unconscious in an acid house exhibiting a variety of symptoms which Foreman thinks she's faking.

Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,900

18. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Humpty Dumpty (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

Cuddy joins the team after her handyman falls off of her roof and begins to develop bizarre symptoms. Clinic Cases: African American man who objects to "minority meds."

Director: Daniel Attias | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,176

19. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Hunting (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

After being accused of assaulting a sick man, House is forced to take on his case. However, despite the fact that he has AIDS, it's clearly not what's killing him.

Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,108

20. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Kids (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

During a meningitis outbreak which overwhelms the clinic, House is drawn to a single patient: a 12-year-old competitive diver whose symptoms don't quite match everyone else's.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,417

21. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Love Hurts (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House has to deal with his promised dinner date with Cameron, a mysterious stroke in a clinic patient and a libidinous senior citizen.

Director: Bryan Spicer | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,444

22. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Maternity (2004)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

A nightmare scenario hits Princeton Plainsboro when babies in the maternity ward are hit by a potentially fatal epidemic. Clinic Cases: Woman with a parasite!

Director: Newton Thomas Sigel | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 4,219

23. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Mob Rules (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A Mob informer collapses before trial. Is he faking or is he really in a coma? Clinic Cases: A pair of brothers come in when the youngster gets toys stuck up his nose.

Director: Tim Hunter | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,386

24. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Need to Know (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House and the team must determine what is causing an increasingly deceitful patient's muscle flailing. Stacy makes a decision, and Cameron avoids a test.

Director: David Semel | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 2,990

25. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Occam's Razor (2004)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A college boy whose low blood pressure does not respond with IV fluids piques House's curiosity. Clinic Cases: A woman who had a cold last week, man with a sore throat, woman whose leg hurts after running 6 miles, a boy and his MP3 Player.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 4,334

26. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Paternity (2004)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

The team helps a high school boy (16) who has double vision and night terrors. (Clinic Cases: Unvaccinated baby, man with boil on leg.)

Director: Peter O'Fallon | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 4,612

27. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Pilot (2004)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

Young kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler collapses in her classroom after losing intelligible speech while teaching students.

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 6,283

28. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Poison (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A high school boy has hallucinations and collapses during an exam. When he does not respond to treatments, and the normal tests are negative, Foreman presents the case to House. Clinic Cases: A happy old lady.

Director: Guy Ferland | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,692

29. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Role Model (2005)

TV-14 | 55 min | Drama, Mystery

An ambitious and charismatic Black senator campaigning for the presidency falls ill from a mysterious malady, possibly AIDS.

Director: Peter O'Fallon | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,505

30. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Sex Kills (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House and the team struggle to diagnose one patient in order to save another. Clinic Case: College student claims he has the hots for heifers.

Director: David Semel | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,062

31. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Skin Deep (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

The search for the cause of a supermodel's symptoms causes intense feelings among the team, as new facts are revealed. Meanwhile, House experiences increasing pain in his leg.

Director: James Hayman | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,485

32. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Spin (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

Star bicycle racer collapses, and the team must come up with a diagnosis after the patient admits to blood doping. House and Stacy continue sparring with each other. Clinic Case: Flight attendant poisons himself with gum.

Director: Fred Gerber | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,032

33. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Sports Medicine (2005)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

A detoxed sports star about to make his comeback breaks his arm due to brittle bones. Clinic Cases: Woman with leg pain, man trying to remove his contact lenses, a dentist with various issues, and a hung over teenager - all in 70 seconds.

Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,448

34. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: TB or Not TB (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A doctor campaigns against the epidemic of TB in Africa, possibly at the risk of his own life.

Director: Peter O'Fallon | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,197

35. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Honeymoon (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House doses his ex-girlfriend's husband in order to get him into hospital after she begs House to treat him. Is House treating Mark differently in order to get back at Stacy for his leg?

Director: Frederick King Keller | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,652

36. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: The Mistake (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

Chaos ensues after Chase's negligence leads to the death of a female patient. Now, after an inquiry from the hospital board, and a subpoena from the patient's brother, it's up to Stacey to protect Chase's career, as well as House's.

Director: David Semel | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,606

37. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: The Socratic Method (2004)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A 38-year-old mother, apparently suffering from thrombosis, alcoholism and schizophrenia, has only her young son as caregiver.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 4,004

38. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Three Stories (2005)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House's ex Stacy Warner asks him to treat her husband. House takes over a diagnostics class for a day and presents the class with three case studies of leg pain. As House tells his story and the class gradually fills up with listeners, the class learns a lot about how to be better doctors, and Chase, Foreman and Cameron learn some important details of House's past.

Director: Paris Barclay | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 8,975

39. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Clueless (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House must diagnose a man who became sick and experienced difficulty breathing during sex-play but all tests keep returning normal. Wilson experiences close-up what living with House is like. Clinic case: Herpes

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,061

40. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

Cameron gets mad at Foreman because Foreman steals his idea for an article. The case of the week: a lesbian woman has not slept for ten days despite taking a bottle of sleeping pills.

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 2,973

41. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: All In (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

On a class field trip, a teacher discovers that her six-year-old student, Ian, is bleeding profusely. Dr. House thinks Ian has the same unknown disease that killed an elderly patient of his years ago.

Director: Fred Gerber | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,834

42. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Euphoria: Part 1 (2006)

TV-PG | 42 min | Drama, Mystery

A police officer in critical condition has bizarre symptoms, and Dr. Foreman finds himself in an unpleasant situation.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 4,139

43. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: House vs. God (2006)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House takes on a teenage faith healer, Wilson desperately wants into a poker game, and tensions escalate between Cameron and Foreman.

Director: John F. Showalter | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,326

44. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Safe (2006)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

6 months after a teenage girl crushes her chest in a car accident and receives a heart transplant she goes into anaphylactic shock in her clean bedroom after her boyfriend almost kisses her and discovers something on her arm.

Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,363

45. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Forever (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

A dad kisses his wife and baby goodbye before leaving for work, pukes and returns to find his wife with seizure in the bathtub and the baby under water. Foreman is back but changed.

Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 2,888

46. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Who's Your Daddy? (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House cares for a young Katrina victim, the alleged daughter of an old friend of his. He supposes she has hallucinations because of the heart, but it turns out not to be the cause. House discovers a disease that her grandfather had.

Director: Martha Mitchell | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 2,910

47. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: No Reason (2006)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

An old patient of House comes back and seeks revenge upon him in the form of gunshot.

Director: David Shore | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 5,900

48. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Euphoria: Part 2 (2006)

TV-PG | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

House tries radical procedures to save Foreman's life; Foreman's father visits.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 4,561

49. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Meaning (2006)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

Richard, a husband and father living with brain cancer, drives his wheelchair into a pool at a family BBQ. Everyone but his son think that it was suicide from the pain but House will stop at nothing to figure out his true ailment.

Director: Deran Sarafian | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,716

50. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Cane and Able (2006)

TV-PG | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

House is affected by the fact that he thinks he didn't solve the last case while a young boy, who believes aliens tortured him, is brought in.

Director: Daniel Sackheim | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,052