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Directed by Nick CassavetesOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
Historical,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Emile Hirsch,
Justin Timberlake,
Dominique Swain,
Bruce Willis,
Shawn Hatosy,
Olivia WildeRating68%
Johnny Truelove is a young marijuana dealer living in Southern California. His father, Sonny, supplies him with marijuana, which Johnny distributes to his gang of friends, including Jake Mazursky, who owes Johnny a $1,200 drug debt. Mazursky makes a failed attempt at asking his father, Butch, and stepmother Olivia for the money. Meanwhile, Butch and Olivia are dealing with their rebellious teenage son Zack- Jake's half-brother. A fight breaks out between Jake and Johnny when Jake tries to pay Johnny only part of his debt. After back and forth retaliation, Johnny and his two henchmen, Frankie Ballenbacher and Tiko Martinez, go to confront Jake in person, but when they go to his house he is nowhere to be found. As they leave, they find Zack walking and decide to kidnap him with the intent of holding onto him until Jake pays his debt., 1h32
Directed by Nick CassavetesOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about suicide,
Films about psychiatryActors Sean Penn,
John Travolta,
Robin Wright,
Harry Dean Stanton,
James Gandolfini,
Gena RowlandsRating59%
Eddie Quinn's unruly wife Maureen drinks and smokes to excess, even though she is pregnant. Eddie has troubles of his own, disappearing for days at a time. When she is physically and sexually assaulted by Kiefer, a neighbor, it is more than Eddie can handle. He shoots someone and lands in a psychiatric hospital., 1h49
Directed by Nick CassavetesOrigin USAGenres DramaThemes L'adolescence,
Films about children,
Medical-themed films,
Films about cancerActors Cameron Diaz,
Abigail Breslin,
Alec Baldwin,
Jason Patric,
Sofia Vassilieva,
Emily DeschanelRating73%
Conceived by means of in vitro fertilization, Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) was brought into the world as a savior sister at the informal suggestion of Kate's doctor, Dr. Chance (David Thornton) (a formal suggestion from the doctor would have been a violation of legal and medical ethics). As a genetic match for her older sister, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva), who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, to donate compatible organs, blood and tissue in order to keep her sister alive. Her family members are introduced one by one, and each tells about how Kate's illness has affected them personally. When Kate turns 15, she goes into renal failure. Eleven-year-old Anna knows that she will be forced by her parents to donate one of her kidneys. She also realizes that she may not be able to live the life she will want to lead - she may be unable to cheerlead, play soccer, or be a mother. Anna tells her parents that she does not want any of this and proceeds to sue them for medical emancipation and the rights to her own body. Her domineering mother, Sara (Cameron Diaz), who leads an obsessive campaign to keep Kate alive, is indignant at Anna's decision when she receives the notice of court proceedings. Attorney Campbell Alexander (Alec Baldwin) agrees to work for Anna as her guardian ad litem, suing for partial termination of parental rights. It is later learned he agreed to take the case not for the notoriety, but because he suffers from epilepsy, and is genuinely sympathetic to her predicament., 1h58
Directed by Phillip NoyceOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Serial killer films,
Films about disabilitiesActors Denzel Washington,
Angelina Jolie,
Queen Latifah,
Michael Rooker,
Luis Guzmán,
Mike McGloneRating67%
The film begins in late 1999. Tetraplegic forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) and a patrol cop, Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), team up to solve a string of murders all connected to a serial killer by his signature: a single shard of bone is removed from each of the victims. Rhyme was paralyzed from the neck down in an earlier accident and is bed-bound and completely reliant on machines and his nurse Thelma (Queen Latifah) to function. He communicates with Amelia via headset as she examines the various crime scenes and collects evidence and reports back to him., 2h37
Directed by Ridley ScottOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
Mob film,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about drugs,
Films about racism,
Hip hop films,
Political films,
Gangster filmsActors Denzel Washington,
Russell Crowe,
Ted Levine,
Cuba Gooding Jr.,
Josh Brolin,
RZARating77%
In 1968, Frank Lucas, the limo driver-turned-right-hand man of Harlem gangster Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, inherits Johnson's gang when Johnson dies of a heart attack. Disliking the new, flashy gangsters of the neighborhood, Lucas decides to take control of Harlem's crime scene., 1h42
Directed by Joe CarnahanOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Action,
CrimeThemes La corruption policière,
Medical-themed films,
Films about music and musicians,
Films about drugs,
Hip hop films,
Films about psychiatry,
Gangster filmsActors Jason Patric,
Ray Liotta,
Chi McBride,
Busta Rhymes,
Stacey Farber,
Alan Van SprangRating70%
Undercover narcotics officer Nick Tellis (Jason Patric) chases a drug dealer through the streets of Detroit after Tellis' identity has been discovered. During the pursuit, the dealer holds a child hostage. Tellis shoots and kills the dealer before he can hurt the child, however a stray bullet hits the child's pregnant mother, causing her to miscarry. , 1h55
Directed by Howard W. Koch,
Howard KochOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Robert Duvall,
Verna Bloom,
Henry Darrow,
Luis Ávalos,
Tracey Walter,
Orestes MatacenaRating57%
Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall), a tough, no-nonsense, abrasive and racist Irish NYPD cop, has to turn in his badge after scuffling with a Puerto Rican suspect who then falls to his death from a rooftop, but that doesn't stop him from heading out on a one-man crusade to find out who killed his partner of three years, Gigi Caputo (Louis Cosentino), all the while neglecting his new live-in girlfriend, Maureen (Verna Bloom). Ryan's search leads him to Puerto Rican drug kingpin Sweet Willie (Henry Darrow), and a shipment of guns for Puerto Rican independenistas., 1h52
Directed by Michael CuestaOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
CrimeThemes Films about writers,
Spy films,
Films about journalists,
Medical-themed films,
Films about drugsActors Jeremy Lee Renner,
Barry Pepper,
Mary Elizabeth Winstead,
Rosemarie DeWitt,
Ray Liotta,
Paz VegaRating68%
Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb, the film takes place in the mid-1990s. Webb uncovered the CIA's alleged role in importing crack cocaine into the U.S. to secretly fund the Nicaraguan contra rebels. Despite enormous pressure to stay away, Webb chose to pursue the story and went public with his evidence, publishing the series called "Dark Alliance". He then experienced a vicious smear campaign fueled by the CIA, during which he found himself defending his integrity, his family and his life., 1h41
Directed by Larry ClarkOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
CrimeThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about drugs,
Transport films,
Road moviesActors James Woods,
Melanie Griffith,
Vincent Kartheiser,
Natasha Gregson Wagner,
Peter Sarsgaard,
James OtisRating64%
A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up., 1h43
Directed by Ariel VromenOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Biography,
Mob film,
CrimeThemes Mafia films,
Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Gangster filmsActors Michael Shannon,
James Franco,
Winona Ryder,
Chris Evans,
Ray Liotta,
David SchwimmerRating67%
In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) marries Deborah (Winona Ryder) and the couple have two daughters. However, Kuklinski keeps secrets from his family. He works dubbing pornographic films which he then supplies to a mob operated syndicate, but he tells his family that he dubs Disney cartoons. Kuklinski is also deeply troubled. The subject of brutal beatings he received as a boy from his immigrant Polish father, Kuklinski is an emotionally disturbed and intensely violent man. In one instance a man insults him after a game of pool. Kuklinski follows the man to his car and murders him by quickly slashing his throat.