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

1. The Dropout (2022)

TV-MA | 50 min | Biography, Drama

TV series that chronicles Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes' attempt to revolutionize the healthcare industry after dropping out of college and starting a technology company.

Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Naveen Andrews, Michel Gill, William H. Macy

Votes: 36,536

2. The Insider (1999)

R | 157 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.

Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora

Votes: 180,845 | Gross: $28.97M

3. John Q (2002)

PG-13 | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant.

Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Gabriela Oltean, Kimberly Elise

Votes: 144,050 | Gross: $71.76M

4. Saw VI (2009)

R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Agent Strahm is dead, and FBI agent Erickson draws nearer to Hoffman. Meanwhile, a pair of insurance executives find themselves in another game set by Jigsaw.

Director: Kevin Greutert | Stars: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Mark Rolston, Betsy Russell

Votes: 125,682 | Gross: $27.69M

5. I, Daniel Blake (2016)

R | 100 min | Drama

After surviving a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy, Briana Shann

Votes: 65,034 | Gross: $0.26M

6. Accidental Love (2015)

PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, D.C., where sparks fly when she meets a clueless young senator who takes up her cause - but what happens when love interferes with what you stand for?

Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jessica Biel, Ray Brown, Jenny Gulley, Beverly D'Angelo

Votes: 9,145

7. 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: 21,194

8. Sicko (2007)

PG-13 | 123 min | Documentary, Drama

A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories including shotgun deaths.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Tucker Albrizzi, Tony Benn, George W. Bush

Votes: 76,892 | Gross: $24.54M

9. Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy, Drama

Where are we humans going? A film poem inspired by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo. We meet people in the city. People trying to communicate, searching compassion and get the connection of small and large things.

Director: Roy Andersson | Stars: Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström

Votes: 20,408 | Gross: $0.00M

10. Collective (2019)

Not Rated | 109 min | Documentary, Crime

Director Alexander Nanau follows a crack team of investigators at the Romanian newspaper Gazeta Sporturilor as they try to uncover a vast health-care fraud that enriched moguls and politicians and led to the deaths of innocent citizens.

Director: Alexander Nanau | Stars: Dan Alexandru Condrea, Liviu Iolu, Razvan Lutac, Mirela Neag

Votes: 13,487

11. Where to Invade Next (2015)

R | 120 min | Documentary, Comedy

To learn what the USA can learn from other nations, Michael Moore playfully "invades" them to see what they have to offer.

Director: Michael Moore | Stars: Michael Moore, Johnny Fancelli, Christina Fancelli, Lorena Lardini

Votes: 25,742 | Gross: $3.82M

12. Street of Shame (1956)

Not Rated | 86 min | Drama

The personal tales of various prostitutes who occupy a brothel.

Director: Kenji Mizoguchi | Stars: Machiko Kyô, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure

Votes: 4,897

13. Hawthorne (2009–2011)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

As a single mother and the Chief Nursing Officer at Richmond Trinity Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, Christina Hawthorne makes care-taking her life's work.

Stars: Jada Pinkett Smith, Suleka Mathew, Hannah Hodson, Michael Vartan

Votes: 3,145

14. Mad Women (2015)

Not Rated | 131 min | Drama

Young and beautiful, Nevada Smith craves to find a place for herself in a family of overachievers. Her mother is running for political office, her father is a successful dentist and her older sister is working overseas.

Director: Jeff Lipsky | Stars: Reed Birney, Eli Mazursky, Christina Starbuck, Kelsey Lynn Stokes

Votes: 86

15. North Star (2022)

30 min | Short, Drama, Romance

A rural rancher and his ailing husband, struggling against poverty and isolation, make a heartbreaking decision in order to preserve the dignity of their marriage.

Director: P.J. Palmer | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Colman Domingo, Laura Innes, Audrey Wasilewski

Votes: 116

16. Savior Complex (2023)

TV-MA | 173 min | Documentary, Crime

Renee Bach was a young American missionary who set up a charity for malnourished children in Jinja, Uganda. But shocking allegations arose that Renee was treating the sick children herself, without any medical qualifications.

Stars: Constance Alonyo, Renee Bach, Olivia Alaso, Jackie Kramlich

Votes: 725

17. Florence Nightingale (1985 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 140 min | Biography, Drama, Family

The fact-based story of the pioneer of nursing, known as "the Lady with the Lamp".

Director: Daryl Duke | Stars: Jaclyn Smith, Claire Bloom, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West

Votes: 372

18. Miss Evers' Boys (1997 TV Movie)

PG | 118 min | Drama, War

The true story of the U.S. Government's 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton

Votes: 1,413

19. Bread and Roses (2000)

R | 110 min | Drama

Two Latina sisters work as cleaners in a downtown office building, and fight for the right to unionize.

Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody, Elpidia Carrillo, Jack McGee

Votes: 6,090 | Gross: $0.53M

20. Starfish (2016)

95 min | Biography, Drama

"Starfish" tells the story of a couple whose love is tested to its limit after their perfect life falls apart in a single moment.

Director: Bill Clark | Stars: Joanne Froggatt, Tom Riley, Phoebe Nicholls, Michele Dotrice

Votes: 759

21. The Living and the Dead (2006)

Not Rated | 83 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. ... See full summary »

Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Leo Bill, Roger Lloyd Pack, Kate Fahy, Sarah Ball

Votes: 2,463

22. Explicit Ills (2008)

R | 87 min | Drama, Romance

A drama of four interconnecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia.

Director: Mark Webber | Stars: Paul Dano, Rosario Dawson, Naomie Harris, Lou Taylor Pucci

Votes: 865 | Gross: $0.03M

23. The First Wave (2021)

R | 93 min | Documentary, History

A documentary following nurses, doctors, and administrators in a New York City hospital as they respond to the victims from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Director: Matthew Heineman | Star: Nathalie Douge

Votes: 1,098

24. The Business of Being Born (2008)

Not Rated | 87 min | Documentary

Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her ... See full summary »

Director: Abby Epstein | Stars: Mary Helen Ayres, Julia Barnett, Sylvie Blaustein, Louann Brizendine

Votes: 1,444 | Gross: $0.07M

25. 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: 4,017

26. Side Effects (I) (2005)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman fumbles with love and ethics as she navigates a career with one of corporate America's darlings...the pharmaceutical industry.

Director: Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Stars: Sandy Adell, David M. Ames, John Apple, Ron Baumgartner

Votes: 1,153

27. Buying Time (2024)

84 min | Action, Drama, Mystery | Completed

In a future plagued by deadly diseases, a desperate father must confront the moral implications of an advanced chip technology that grants extra years of life at the cost of someone else's.

Director: Kris Smith | Stars: Andy Blithe, Mark Wells, Ryan Enever, Estelle Long

28. 2016: Obama's America (2012)

PG | 87 min | Documentary

A documentary that examines the question, "If Barack Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?"

Directors: Dinesh D'Souza, John Sullivan | Stars: Jay Bastian, Joe Biden, Cait Brasel, Gene Burris Jr.

Votes: 11,027 | Gross: $33.45M

29. How to Survive a Plague (2012)

Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History, News

The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: David France | Stars: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long, Bob Rafsky

Votes: 4,359 | Gross: $0.13M

30. Under Our Skin (2008)

Unrated | 104 min | Documentary

Exposes the hidden epidemic of Lyme disease and reveals how our corrupt health care system is failing to address one of the most serious illnesses of our time.

Director: Andrew Abrahams | Stars: Mandy Hughes, Sean Hughes, Dana Walsh, Jordan Fisher Smith

Votes: 1,045 | Gross: $0.10M

31. The Way I See It (2020)

PG-13 | 100 min | Documentary

Former Chief Official White House Photographer Pete Souza's journey as a person with top secret clearance and total access to the President.

Director: Dawn Porter | Stars: Pete Souza, Barack Obama, Ben Rhodes, Patti Lease

Votes: 1,916 | Gross: $0.05M

32. Crazywise (2016)

Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary

What can we learn from those who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience? During a quarter-century documenting indigenous cultures, human-rights ... See full summary »

Directors: Phil Borges, Kevin Tomlinson | Stars: Angeles Arrien, Phil Borges, Laura Delano, Carroll Dunham

Votes: 151

33. Test Pattern (2019)

82 min | Drama, Thriller

Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her White boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.

Director: Shatara Michelle Ford | Stars: Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean, Drew Fuller

Votes: 876

34. Damaged Care (2002 TV Movie)

PG | 114 min | Drama

The story of Dr. Linda Peeno (Laura Dern), a woman pushed to the edge, risking her career and family to punish the ruthless companies who valued profit over human life.

Director: Harry Winer | Stars: Laura Dern, James Le Gros, Regina King, Suki Kaiser

Votes: 297

35. Poppy Shakespeare (2008 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.

Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Anna Maxwell Martin, Tessa Peake-Jones, Claire Benedict, Kolade Agboke

Votes: 520

36. Happy (2012)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.

Director: Roko Belic | Stars: Marci Shimoff, Ed Diener, Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Votes: 3,384

37. Il medico della mutua (1968)

98 min | Comedy

The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.

Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Bice Valori, Sara Franchetti, Nanda Primavera

Votes: 1,705

38. Broken (XIV) (2016)

98 min | Drama, Thriller

A young female escapes her past and absconds to England in search of a new life. She takes a job caring for a tetraplegic but the burden of the job stirs up her past. It seems the limits of caring are not always as clear as they should be.

Director: Shaun Robert Smith | Stars: Morjana Alaoui, Mel Raido, Craig Conway, Patrick Toomey

Votes: 364

39. Big Charity: The Death of America's Oldest Hospital (2014)

60 min | Documentary, Drama, History

The death of America's oldest continuously operating hospital, New Orleans' Big Charity.

Director: Alexander Glustrom | Stars: Peter Deblieux, Larry Hollier, Goldie Huguenel

Votes: 90

40. The Waiting Room (III) (2012)

Not Rated | 81 min | Documentary

Go behind the doors of an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients.

Director: Peter Nicks | Star: Sean Bennett

Votes: 907 | Gross: $0.24M

41. 75 (2017)

97 min | Crime, Drama

A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith

Votes: 60

42. Our Brand Is Crisis (2005)

Unrated | 85 min | Documentary

A documentary on American political campaign marketing tactics and their consequences.

Director: Rachel Boynton | Stars: Mauricio Balcazar, James Carville, Tad Devine, Stanley Greenberg

Votes: 640 | Gross: $0.17M

43. Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes a Crime (1988)

TV-G | 83 min | Documentary, Crime

The saga of Harry Hoxsey is often called "the wildest story in medical history" and could have been written by Mark Twain. In 1924, Harry Hoxsey claimed a cure for cancer, herbal remedies ... See full summary »

Director: Ken Ausubel | Stars: Peter Barry Chowka, Max Gail

Votes: 47

44. Beutaló nélkül sehova (2020)

15 min | Short, Drama

A teenage girl's coming of age story through the maze of healthcare's bureaucracy: Lili wants birth control pills because she plans to lose her virginity.

Director: Annabella Schnabel | Stars: Lili Erdõs, Zsombor Ertl, Erika Kiss, Márta Martin

45. The House of Smiles (1991)

110 min | Drama, Romance

A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.

Director: Marco Ferreri | Stars: Ingrid Thulin, Dado Ruspoli, Enzo Cannavale, Nuccia Fumo

Votes: 309

46. No One Asked You (2023)

Documentary

Comedian, disrupter extraordinaire Lizz Winstead (co-creator of The Daily Show) and her team of activists crisscross the U.S. to support abortion clinic staff and bust stigma. Pop culture ... See full summary »

Director: Ruth Leitman | Stars: Lizz Winstead, Joyelle Johnson, Molly Gaebe, Sarah Silverman

Votes: 10

47. Cotton Wool (2017)

38 min | Short, Drama

A single mother (Leanne Best) suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter (Katherine Quinn) and 7-year-old son (Max Vento) to care for her.

Director: Nicholas Connor | Stars: Leanne Best, Crissy Rock, Kate Rutter, Max Vento

Votes: 35

48. A Walk to Beautiful (2007)

Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary

"A Walk to Beautiful" tells the story of five women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by their communities, these women ... See full summary »

Director: Mary Olive Smith | Star: Catherine Hamlin

Votes: 201

49. 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

50. Laboratory Greece (2019)

165 min | Documentary

A journey through Greece and Europe's past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories.

Director: Jacopo Brogi | Stars: Filippo Abbate, Konrad Adenauer, Salvador Allende, Rania Antonopoulos

Votes: 32