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

1. Grey's Anatomy (2005– )

TV-14 | 41 min | Drama, Romance

A drama centered on the personal and professional lives of five surgical interns and their supervisors.

Stars: Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson, James Pickens Jr., Justin Chambers

Votes: 342,217

2. It Ends with Us (2024)

Drama, Romance | Post-production

Adapted from the Colleen Hoover novel, Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship.

Director: Justin Baldoni | Stars: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Jenny Slate, Hasan Minhaj

3. Get Out (I) (2017)

R | 104 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener

Votes: 698,131 | Gross: $176.04M

4. Monster (2004–2005)

TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Crime, Drama

Tenma, a brilliant neurosurgeon with a promising future, risks his career to save the life of a critically wounded young boy. The boy, now a charismatic young man, reappears 9 years later in the midst of a string of unusual serial murders.

Stars: Hidenobu Kiuchi, Liam O'Brien, Mamiko Noto, Karen Strassman

Votes: 44,760

5. 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: 805,671 | Gross: $232.64M

6. Criminal (2016)

R | 113 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative's memories, secrets, and skills are implanted into a death-row inmate in hopes that he will complete the operative's mission.

Director: Ariel Vromen | Stars: Kevin Costner, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, Gary Oldman

Votes: 70,713 | Gross: $14.27M

7. eXistenZ (1999)

R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Director: David Cronenberg | Stars: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe

Votes: 107,276 | Gross: $2.84M

8. Mirage (2018)

TV-MA | 128 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Two storms separated by 25 years. A woman murdered. A daughter missed. Only 72 hours to discover the truth.

Director: Oriol Paulo | Stars: Adriana Ugarte, Chino Darín, Javier Gutiérrez, Álvaro Morte

Votes: 64,313

9. Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Biography, Drama

Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins.

Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Kimberly Elise, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Alora Adams

Votes: 15,931

10. 50/50 (2011)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard

Votes: 343,016 | Gross: $35.01M

11. Re-Animator (1985)

Unrated | 84 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi

After an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.

Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, David Gale

Votes: 71,545 | Gross: $2.02M

12. Gothika (2003)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A psychiatrist awakens as a patient in a mental institution, with no memory of the murder she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory, a vengeful spirit manipulates her.

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz | Stars: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton

Votes: 119,242 | Gross: $59.69M

13. Hospital Playlist (2020–2021)

TV-14 | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Hospital Playlist tells the story of five doctors who have been friends since they entered medical school in 1999.

Stars: Jo Jung-Suk, Yoo Yeon-Seok, Jung Kyung-ho, Kim Dae-myung

Votes: 7,666

14. The Mountain Between Us (2017)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Thriller

Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.

Director: Hany Abu-Assad | Stars: Kate Winslet, Idris Elba, Beau Bridges, Dermot Mulroney

Votes: 80,891 | Gross: $30.35M

15. The Book of Henry (2017)

PG-13 | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

With instructions from her genius son's carefully crafted notebook, a single mother sets out to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather.

Director: Colin Trevorrow | Stars: Naomi Watts, Jaeden Martell, Jacob Tremblay, Sarah Silverman

Votes: 29,435 | Gross: $4.22M

16. Z (1969)

M/PG | 127 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

The public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

Director: Costa-Gavras | Stars: Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, François Périer

Votes: 31,366 | Gross: $0.08M

17. Zombie Holocaust (1980)

Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery

An expedition in the East Indies, encounters not only the cannibals they were looking for, but also an evil scientist and his zombie army.

Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Ian McCulloch, Alexandra Delli Colli, Sherry Buchanan, Peter O'Neal

Votes: 5,899

18. The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

R | 129 min | Drama, Thriller

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson

Votes: 9,892

19. The Terminal Man (1974)

PG | 104 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Hoping to cure his violent seizures, a man agrees to a series of experimental microcomputers inserted into his brain but inadvertently discovers that violence now triggers a pleasurable response to his brain.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: George Segal, Joan Hackett, Richard Dysart, Donald Moffat

Votes: 2,564 | Gross: $0.22M

20. Asylum (I) (1972)

PG | 88 min | Horror

In order to secure a job at a mental institution, a young psychiatrist must interview four patients inside the asylum.

Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Barbara Parkins, Richard Todd, Sylvia Syms, Peter Cushing

Votes: 8,184

21. Spiral (2000)

90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

The inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.

Director: Higuchinsky | Stars: Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki, Shin Eun-kyung

Votes: 9,003

22. Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama, Romance

A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Otto Kruger

Votes: 7,629

23. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005)

R | 153 min | Comedy, Drama

Mr. Lãzãrescu, a dying old man, is shuttled from hospital to hospital by a loyal paramedic as doctors refuse to operate and no one can agree on a diagnosis.

Director: Cristi Puiu | Stars: Doru Ana, Monica Barladeanu, Alina Berzunteanu, Dorian Boguta

Votes: 15,931 | Gross: $0.08M

24. The Evil Eye (1963)

Not Rated | 86 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

A mystery novel-loving American tourist witnesses a murder in Rome, and soon finds herself and her suitor caught up in a series of killings.

Director: Mario Bava | Stars: John Saxon, Letícia Román, Valentina Cortese, Titti Tomaino

Votes: 5,369

25. Do No Harm (2013)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Brilliant neurosurgeon Jason Cole must battle with his own alter-ego, Ian Price, in order to live a normal life in this modern take on Jekyll and Hyde.

Stars: Steven Pasquale, Alana De La Garza, Michael Esper, Ruta Gedmintas

Votes: 3,258

26. Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)

Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery

An American journalist temporarily stationed in Central Europe searches for his new girlfriend, who has suddenly disappeared.

Director: Aldo Lado | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Jean Sorel, Mario Adorf, Barbara Bach

Votes: 3,673

27. Hope (2019)

125 min | Drama, Romance

The relationship between artist-partners Tomas and Anja is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis.

Director: Maria Sødahl | Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Stellan Skarsgård, Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne, Alfred Vatne

Votes: 2,576

28. Someone Behind the Door (1971)

GP | 97 min | Crime, Drama

A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.

Director: Nicolas Gessner | Stars: Charles Bronson, Anthony Perkins, Jill Ireland, Henri Garcin

Votes: 1,724

29. Growing Up Smith (2015)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before.

Director: Frank Lotito | Stars: Jason Lee, Anjul Nigam, Brighton Sharbino, Hilarie Burton Morgan

Votes: 1,431 | Gross: $0.01M

30. Crisis (1950)

Passed | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

While on vacation in a Latin American country, an American neurosurgeon and his wife become tangled in a revolutionary uprising against a tyrannical dictator.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Cary Grant, José Ferrer, Paula Raymond, Signe Hasso

Votes: 1,927

31. My Favorite Season (1993)

Not Rated | 127 min | Drama, Romance

Old woman Berthe leaves her house to live in her daugter Emilie's one. Emilie and her brother Antoine have fallen out three years ago and have not seen each other since, but Emilie invites ... See full summary »

Director: André Téchiné | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Marthe Villalonga, Jean-Pierre Bouvier

Votes: 2,233 | Gross: $0.76M

32. Blood Relations (1988)

R | 90 min | Horror

Thomas takes his beautiful girlfriend to meet his crazy surgion father at a remote mansion and things get out of control a twist ending that will make you love this horror movie.

Director: Graeme Campbell | Stars: Jan Rubes, Kevin Hicks, Lydie Denier, Lynne Adams

Votes: 412

33. Painless (2012)

100 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery

In the 1930s, a group of children are born with a rare condition: they feel no pain. After being locked away for life for their own safety, the children are subjected to rehabilitation away from society.

Director: Juan Carlos Medina | Stars: Alex Brendemühl, Tómas Lemarquis, Ilias Stothart, Mot Harris Dunlop Stothart

Votes: 3,575

34. Abot-kamay na pangarap (2022– )

TV-PG | Action, Comedy, Drama

The life story of an illiterate mother named Lyneth and her intelligent daughter Analyn, the youngest neurosurgeon in the Philippines.

Stars: Carmina Villaroel, Richard Yap, Jillian Ward, Dominic Ochoa

Votes: 144

35. 3 lbs. (2006)

Drama

An arrogant neurosurgeon takes on a new partner.

Stars: Ken Wharton, Mark Feuerstein, Armando Riesco, Stanley Tucci

Votes: 446

36. Avant l'hiver (2013)

103 min | Drama

Lucie (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) presumes that her husband Paul (Daniel Auteuil) - an older neurosurgeon - has an affair. Indeed, Paul behaves strange lately, but the truth behind it is dark and complicated.

Director: Philippe Claudel | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Leïla Bekhti, Richard Berry

Votes: 2,177

37. Ang dalubhasa (2000)

115 min | Action, Drama

Military neurosurgeon Jaime de Guzman survives a massacre that killed his wife and daughter. He hunts down all perpetrators and is able to kill them--except the boss. From returning to a ... See full summary »

Director: Fernando Poe Jr. | Stars: Fernando Poe Jr., Nanette Medved, Maritoni Fernandez, Cris Villonco

Votes: 26

38. Knife in the Head (1978)

113 min | Drama

During a police raid on a youth center, the biogeneticist Hoffmann is shot in the head. When he awakes from a coma, he can't remember anyting. The police accuse him of being a terrorist.

Director: Reinhard Hauff | Stars: Bruno Ganz, Angela Winkler, Hans Christian Blech, Heinz Hoenig

Votes: 723

39. Dona Herlinda and Her Son (1985)

Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Rodolfo ( Marco Treviño ) is a young bachelor doctor who has a love affair with a younger music student, Ramon ( Arturo Meza ). When Rodolfo's mother begins to urge his son to get married, ... See full summary »

Director: Jaime Humberto Hermosillo | Stars: Arturo Meza, Marco Treviño, Guadalupe Del Toro, Letícia Lupercio

Votes: 583

40. Armaan (2003)

Not Rated | 158 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Dr Aakash Sinha has to marry a spoiled brat Sonia.By sacrificing his love for Dr Neha to full the dream of his late father Dr Siddarth Sinha.

Director: Honey Irani | Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Preity G Zinta, Gracy Singh

Votes: 1,210 | Gross: $0.30M

41. Real (2013)

127 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A man decides to use a new technology to go inside the mind of his comatose lover.

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Stars: Takeru Satoh, Haruka Ayase, Joe Odagiri, Shôta Sometani

Votes: 1,120

42. Shadowman (1974)

PG | 105 min | Crime, Mystery

A criminal organization led by "The Man Without a Face" scours Paris for a treasure hidden by the Knights Templar.

Director: Georges Franju | Stars: Gayle Hunnicutt, Jacques Champreux, Josephine Chaplin, Ugo Pagliai

Votes: 531

43. Intent to Kill (1958)

Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A British doctor working in a Canadian hospital, has to assist in a delicate brain operation on a South American President, who is in hiding from a gang of assassins.

Director: Jack Cardiff | Stars: Richard Todd, Betsy Drake, Herbert Lom, Warren Stevens

Votes: 346

44. The English Surgeon (2007)

TV-14 | 93 min | Documentary

This documentary offers a glimpse into the life of an English neurosurgeon (Henry Marsh) situated in Ukraine as we are exposed to the overwhelming dilemmas he has to face and the burden he has to carry throughout his profession.

Director: Geoffrey Smith | Star: Henry Marsh

Votes: 760

45. Facing the Truth (2002)

98 min | Drama

A portrait of a famous Danish brain surgeon, Richard Malmros. The son of the surgeon, Danish filmmaker Nils Malmros, tells the story of his father.

Director: Nils Malmros | Stars: Søren Sejersen, Heine Petersen, Jens Albinus, Anne Voigt Christiansen

Votes: 798

46. EM Embalming (1999)

96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

After the head of the corpse of a teenager she's restoring is stolen, an embalmer encounters the organ black market and a necrotomic religious cult.

Director: Shinji Aoyama | Stars: Kôjirô Hongô, Masatoshi Matsuo, Yutaka Matsushige, Hitomi Miwa

Votes: 261

47. Dead Lenny (2006 Video)

R | 89 min | Comedy, Crime

Mobster Tony Thick is expecting $5 million in cash to be delivered by Lenny Long from Los Angeles. Lenny is a mule for the mob and he's gone missing with the cash - is he dead? No one knows... See full summary »

Director: Serge Rodnunsky | Stars: Nicole Eggert, Steven Bauer, John Heard, Steve Baker

Votes: 219

48. Lousy Bastards (2014)

105 min | Comedy, Drama

Two brothers got separated after their first love for the same girl. Both of them have something which the other one doesn't. Inevitable decisions lead to their most important choice in their lives.

Director: Roman Kasparovský | Stars: Ondrej Vetchý, Jirí Langmajer, Iva Janzurová, Tereza Ramba

Votes: 98

49. Klondike Fury (1942)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A neurosurgeon is thrown out of the medical profession after he performs a daring but unsuccessful surgery. He flees to Alaska, where his plane crashes in the frozen wilderness.

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lucile Fairbanks, William Henry, Ralph Morgan

Votes: 112

50. A Matter of Conscience (1973)

91 min | Drama, Thriller

A neurosurgeon finds himself caught in the middle of a long-standing conspiracy when someone abducts the president of the Greek Petrol Company. Now, his life is at stake. But, can he ignore the clear voice of conscience?

Director: Petros Lykas | Stars: Nikos Kourkoulos, Betty Arvaniti, Zoras Tsapelis, Hristos Daktylidis

Votes: 121