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The Good Doctor
6.2

The Good Doctor

2011

Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.

Inseparable
6.0

Inseparable

2012

A troubled engineer faces pressure at work and problems at home with his moody wife. American expat Chuck, rescues him from the brink of despair and becomes an unlikely mentor.

Puncture
6.6

Puncture

2011

A lawyer who is a drug addict fights a medical-supplies corporation in court while battling his personal demons.

Asylum
5.9

Asylum

2005

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.

Remember
7.4

Remember

2015

With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

The Smile Man
7.4

The Smile Man

2013

A gentleman deals with the consequences of a car accident, which has left him with a spinal injury that means he has a permanent smile on his face.

Smile
6.7

Smile

2022

After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.

Starving in Suburbia
6.5

Starving in Suburbia

2014

When seventeen-year-old Hannah stumbles upon a website about Thinspiration--an online community devoted to anorexia as a life choice--she becomes an obsessive follower of the site founder, ButterflyAna. By the time Hannah's family realizes what is happening and get Hannah the help she needs, the disease has fully taken hold and Hannah is refusing to eat. Will this family be able to exorcise the demon of anorexia from their lives?

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Dragonfly
6.5

Dragonfly

2002

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patient's near death experiences.

The Hospital
6.6

The Hospital

1971

Dr. Bock, the chief of medicine at a Manhattan hospital, is suicidal after the collapse of his personal life. When an intern is found dead in a hospital bed, it appears to Bock to be a case of unforgivable malpractice. Hours later, another doctor, who happens to be responsible for another case of malpractice, is found dead. Despondent, Bock finds himself drawn to Barbara, the daughter of a comatose missionary.

Stonehearst Asylum
6.9

Stonehearst Asylum

2014

An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

Our Friend
7.1

Our Friend

2019

After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
8.0

Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor

2013

The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a dear cost to the life he's lived for hundreds of years.

Possessed
6.9

Possessed

1947

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
6.4

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.

When Nietzsche Wept
6.1

When Nietzsche Wept

2007

Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.

TalhotBlond
6.3

TalhotBlond

2012

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Prisoner's Daughter
6.1

Prisoner's Daughter

2023

Released from prison with terminal cancer, Max tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter and the grandson he’s never known. When his daughter’s abusive, drug-addicted ex-husband reappears, Max’s violent past comes back to haunt them all.

A Little Bit of Heaven
6.4

A Little Bit of Heaven

2011

A guarded woman finds out she's dying of cancer but, when she meets her match, the threat of falling in love is scarier than death.

Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder
6.7

Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder

2017

Jenn buys an old reel-to-reel recorder at a garage sale only to find that it includes the sound of a man pleading for his life. When the former owner of the recorder, a retired therapist, is found murdered in a patient’s apartment, Jenn’s investigation leads to other patients whose love lives are more entangled than she was first led to believe.

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