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1. Cape Fear (1991)
R | 128 min | Crime, Thriller
A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis
Votes: 216,367 | Gross: $79.10M
2. The Verdict (1982)
R | 129 min | Drama
An outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Paul Newman, Charlotte Rampling, Jack Warden, James Mason
Votes: 45,927 | Gross: $54.00M
3. Dead Again (1991)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Andy Garcia, Lois Hall
Votes: 30,364 | Gross: $38.02M
4. The Dentist (1996)
R | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
An extremely successful dentist goes off the deep end after he catches his wife cheating on him.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Linda Hoffman, Michael Stadvec, Ken Foree
Votes: 10,493
5. Regarding Henry (1991)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance
After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Michael Haley, Stanley Swerdlow
Votes: 34,345 | Gross: $43.00M
6. Kingdom Hospital (2004)
608 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The quirky staff and patients of an ultramodern (albeit increasingly dilapidated) Maine hospital gradually become familiar with the supernatural occurrences that take place there, uncovering a dark secret in the process.
Stars: Jamie Harrold, Diane Ladd, Bruce Davison, Jack Coleman
Votes: 7,937
7. Happy Hour (2015)
Not Rated | 317 min | Drama
A slow-burning epic chronicling the emotional journey of four thirty something women in the misty seaside city of Kobe.
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | Stars: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura
Votes: 2,924
8. Cargo 200 (2007)
89 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer gone mad.
Director: Aleksey Balabanov | Stars: Agniya Kuznetsova, Aleksey Poluyan, Leonid Gromov, Aleksey Serebryakov
Votes: 11,354
9. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories (2006 Video Game)
M | Action, Crime, Drama
Follows a young man, named Victor 'Vic' Vance (Dorian Missick) who's kicked out of the army and precedes to rise through the ranks of multiple gangs in the glamourous and dangerous world of Vice City in 1984.
Stars: Dorian Missick, Philip Michael Thomas, Lynda Ashe, Felix Solis
Votes: 5,227
10. The Dentist 2 (1998)
R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
Dr. Caine, the murdering dentist from the original movie, has escaped from the mental hospital where he has been since being caught. Hoping to resume a normal life, he makes his way to a ... See full summary »
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Jillian McWhirter, Jeff Doucette, Susanne Wright
Votes: 4,329
11. Population 436 (2006 Video)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A census-taker (Sisto) is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.
Director: Michelle MacLaren | Stars: David Ames, Leigh Enns, Susan Kelso, Rick Skene
Votes: 13,516
12. Sublime (2007 Video)
R | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A man gets a colonoscopy. He wakes up in a hospital bed after a wrong operation. He's confused/scared and thinks back at talks at his 40th birthday party about hospital errors, scams etc.
Director: Tony Krantz | Stars: Tom Cavanagh, Kathleen York, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Kat Coiro
Votes: 7,077
13. Hot Coffee (2011)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
How the infamous McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit and similar cases were exploited as part of a right wing crusade to weaken civil justice.
Director: Susan Saladoff | Stars: Chuck Allen, Judy Allen, Jay Angoff, David Arredondo
Votes: 4,011
14. Painkiller (II) (2021)
85 min | Thriller
After a man loses his child, he begins a campaign to destroy the white collar criminals behind the opioid epidemic, and reluctantly embraces his anti-hero status.
Director: Mark Savage | Stars: Michael Paré, Bill Oberst Jr., Alexander Pennecke, Mark Savage
Votes: 216
15. The Windmill (2016)
85 min | Drama, Horror
Seven tourists with troubled pasts find themselves trapped at a satanic mill in rural Holland. As they're attacked for their sins one by one, the night becomes a fight for survival.
Director: Nick Jongerius | Stars: Patrick Baladi, Ben Batt, Charlotte Beaumont, Fiona Hampton
Votes: 4,902
16. Prescription for Danger (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Ivy and Skyler have started a popular web site. Ivy's health suffers from the stress. Her doctor has her scanned. She only has short time to live. She starts on expensive, illegal, experimental drugs. Is the doctor lying?
Director: Caroline Labrèche | Stars: Joanne Kelly, Shaun Benson, Genelle Williams, Alysa King
Votes: 696
17. The Operation (1990 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Duplicity reigns supreme as a doctor in a messy, emotional divorce from his wife who is also his partner in a medical clinic is suddenly slapped with a $7 million malpractice suit by a ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas J. Wright | Stars: Joe Penny, Lisa Hartman, Jason Beghe, Kathleen Quinlan
Votes: 185
18. Who's Your Monkey? (2007)
R | 87 min | Comedy
Over the course of a single night, four childhood friends murder a drug dealer, rescue animals, dispose of a dead body, and unravel the unbreakable power of true friendship.
Director: Todd Breau | Stars: Scott Grimes, Jason London, Scott Michael Campbell, David DeLuise
Votes: 431
19. Donovan's Brain (1953)
Approved | 84 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Three scientists unlawfully remove the still living brain of a dead tycoon and experiment with it but the evil brain begins to telepathically control the lead scientist.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lew Ayres, Gene Evans, Nancy Reagan, Steve Brodie
Votes: 1,718
20. Seemabaddha (1971)
110 min | Drama
Chatterji is an ambitious and self-made young man who becomes the director of the company he works for.
Director: Satyajit Ray | Stars: Sharmila Tagore, Barun Chanda, Paromita Chowdhury, Ajoy Banerjee
Votes: 1,404
21. Secrets of a Nurse (1973)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Portraits of a pushy surgeon and a nurse with many secrets, in a big city hospital.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Gabriele Ferzetti, Senta Berger, Luciano Salce
Votes: 211
22. Bleed Out (II) (2018)
TV-14 | 88 min | Documentary, Drama, Romance
After a routine partial hip replacement operation leaves his mother in a coma with permanent brain damage, what starts as a son's video diary becomes a citizen's investigation into the ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Burrows | Stars: Judith Burrows, Stephen Burrows
Votes: 506
23. A Dying King: The Shah of Iran (2017)
TV-PG | 85 min | Documentary
Uncover the mystery of the last Shah of Iran's exile from his country during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, his illness, misdiagnosis, maltreatment and eventual death, and its impact on the Middle East, United States and the world.
Director: Bobak Kalhor | Stars: Amir Aslan Afshar, Robert Armao, Jerry Berlin, Lyn Boyd-Judson
Votes: 81
24. La vita facile (2011)
102 min | Comedy
An Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover. (Italian with English subtitles).
Director: Lucio Pellegrini | Stars: Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Vittoria Puccini, Camilla Filippi
Votes: 829
25. One of Our Own (1975 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Dr Jake Goodwin is the chief neurosurgeon at a busy city hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin becomes involved in a vast array of medical cases. Problems arise when a top doctor is ... See full summary »
Director: Richard C. Sarafian | Stars: George Peppard, William Daniels, Louise Sorel, Strother Martin
Votes: 41
26. Alias the Doctor (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Drama
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Curtiz, Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Marian Marsh, Norman Foster, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 332
27. A Call to Arms (2009)
85 min | Documentary, History, War
The eyewitness story of the illegal U.S. and U.K. military anthrax vaccination programs, which is recommended by Montel Williams as the Must-See Documentary of the Year. Because of the ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Miller | Stars: Michael Douglas, Linda Hamilton, Scott Miller, Melissa Mosich Miller
Votes: 60
28. The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)
Passed | 78 min | Drama
Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can't walk, and she tries to sue Kildare for malpractice, and Kildare's ... See full summary »
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Bonita Granville
Votes: 412
29. Family Practice (2010– )
20 min | Comedy
Chronicles the workings and daily events of the office of General Practitioner Dr. Henry Family of Central Islip, Long Island, New York.
Stars: Robert Youngren, Loie Merritt, Jan Major, Matthew Martens
Votes: 22
30. My Only Love (1982)
Drama, Romance
This youth-oriented romantic film celebrates the idealism for young love.
Director: Eddie Garcia | Stars: Sharon Cuneta, Gabby Concepcion, Jackie Lou Blanco, Amalia Fuentes
Votes: 11
32. Life for Sale (2008)
PG | 84 min | Documentary
What if you died because your hospital considered you an expendable commodity? Today's health care costs are at an all-time high, and malpractice rates are climbing steadily. Yet some ... See full summary »
Director: Kimberli Zou | Stars: Alexander Cheung, Jana Grant, Larry Myer, Larry Myers
Votes: 16
33. Once a Doctor (1937)
Approved | 57 min | Drama
Young doctors Steven and Jerry are rivals professionally and for Paula Norland. Jerry lets Steven take the blame for a mistake he made and sends him to prison. After his release, Steven gets redemption during a storm at sea.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Gordon Oliver, Joe King
Votes: 147
34. Crime and Punishment (2007)
Not Rated | 122 min | Documentary
In a small town near China's North Korea border, a state police station exerts itself as a solicitous caretaker of the locals. As it goes out to catch criminals and punish them too, professionalism fades into the background.
Director: Liang Zhao | Stars: Wang Yu Fu, Ge Tao
Votes: 58
35. Counsel for Crime (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Law school graduate Paul Maddox, adopted son of Senator Robert Maddox, accepts an offer to join the law firm of William "Bill" Mellon, brilliant but unscrupulous criminal attorney. Mrs. ... See full summary »
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Otto Kruger, Douglass Montgomery, Julie Bishop, Thurston Hall
Votes: 32
36. Workers Con (2017)
Documentary, Crime, Drama
Workers Compensation, is the Worker's Con, a process flawed, buried in bureaucracy, adding insult to injury.
Director: Julia Davis | Stars: David Adelstein, William Anderson, James Armstrong, Chris Atamian
37. So You're Going to Have an Operation (1950)
Approved | 10 min | Comedy, Short
A satiric look at doctors and hospitals through the eyes of Joe McDoakes.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: George O'Hanlon, Fritz Feld, Frank Nelson, Ted Stanhope
Votes: 49
38. Der Stille Ozean (1983 TV Movie)
92 min | Drama
Director: Xaver Schwarzenberger | Stars: Hanno Pöschl, Marie-France Pisier, Johannes Thanheiser, Bruno Dallansky
Votes: 36
39. Pathways to Peril! (2000 Video)
40 min | Short, Adventure
Stars: Regina Bartkowski, Roxanne Chadwick, Julie King, Sarah Kozer
40.
Vee (2009– )
Episode:
Romanian Mass Emigration Crisis Appears in the Guardian
(2019)
19 min | News
Star: Vee
41. Kunstfehler (2006 TV Movie)
86 min | Drama
Director: Marcus O. Rosenmüller | Stars: Sophie von Kessel, Günther Maria Halmer, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Samuel Finzi
Votes: 35
42. RTÉ Investigates: Whistleblowers Fighting to be Heard (2021 TV Movie)
40 min | Documentary, News
Star: Barry O'Kelly
43.
The Defenders (1961–1965)
Episode:
Conspiracy of Silence
(1963)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama
When a patient bleeds to death during a routine hernia operation, his widow wants answers, yet she finds few forthcoming, so she asks the Prestons help. The lawyer and his son work on the ... See full summary »
Director: Alex March | Stars: E.G. Marshall, Robert Reed, Carroll O'Connor, Janet Ward
Votes: 13
44.
Diagnosis Murder (1993–2001)
Episode:
First Do No Harm
(1998)
TV-PG | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young patient dies in the ER due to red-tape delays involving an HMO, leading Sloan to question managed care.
Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Victoria Rowell, Charlie Schlatter, Barry Van Dyke
Votes: 90
45.
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: 3,937
46.
The Incredible Hulk (1977–1982)
Episode:
The Quiet Room
(1979)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
David 'Balin' is working as an orderly at Valley View Sanatorium. After discovering that a surgeon is using experimental mind control, he unwillingly becomes a patient himself.
Director: Reza Badiyi | Stars: Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, Lou Ferrigno, Joanna Miles
Votes: 185
47.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
Deadly Slumber
(1993)
TV-14 | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the head of a medical clinic is found asphyxiated in his garage, the father of a one of his brain-dead patients becomes the prime suspect.
Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Carol Starks, Jason Durr
Votes: 832
48.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
Blood Money
(1997)
TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The widow of an accident victim who unexpectedly dies from a heart attack during surgery suspects malpractice and asks Kavanagh to represent her.
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Nicholas Boulton, Tom Brodie, Malcolm Browning
Votes: 78
49.
L.A. Law (1986–1994)
Episode:
Simian Chanted Evening
(1986)
TV-PG | 48 min | Drama
Kuzak represents Harry Finneman, an elderly man who is fighting for his constitutional right to be freeze-dried after his death. Becker pursues Hilary Mishkin, a screenwriter client who is ... See full summary »
Director: Rick Wallace | Stars: Harry Hamlin, Susan Dey, Corbin Bernsen, Jill Eikenberry
Votes: 61
50.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Prescription for Death
(1990)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Greevey and Logan discover that a hospital is covering up an accomplished doctor's mistake which resulted in a patient's death. They later find out that the doctor might have been drunk at the time.
Director: John Whitesell | Stars: George Dzundza, Chris Noth, Dann Florek, Michael Moriarty
Votes: 729