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Don't Breathe (2014)
, 1h28Directed by Fede Alvarez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Documentary, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto
Rocky, Alex et Money sont trois gangsters qui commettent des cambriolages et vendent ensuite les contenus volés. Un jour, ils apprennent qu'un ancien soldat aveugle est en possession de 300 000 dollars dans sa demeure. D'un commun accord, ils décident de s’emparer de la fortune. Ce qui aurait dû s'apparenter à une banale opération de routine prendra pourtant une tournure étonnamment angoissante...
Tour de Force (2014)
, 1h35Directed by Christian Zübert
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about euthanasia, Medical-themed films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Florian David Fitz, Julia Koschitz, Jürgen Vogel, Miriam Stein, Volker Bruch, Daniel Roesner
Chaque année, Hannes, Kiki, Michael, Mareike, Finn et Dominik font un voyage à vélo. Cette année, ce sont Hannes et sa femme Kiki qui décident de la destination. Partant de Francfort-sur-le-Main, le tour finira devant la mer à Ostende, en Belgique.
The Stand (TV miniseries) (1994)
, 6h6Directed by Mick Garris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror, Romance, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Demons in film, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Rob Lowe, Laura San Giacomo, Miguel Ferrer
At a government laboratory in rural California, a weaponized version of influenza (called Project Blue) is accidentally released, immediately wiping out everyone on staff except for military policeman Charles Campion and his family, who flee the base. However, Campion is already infected by the superflu, nicknamed "Captain Trips", and spreads it to the outside world. That evening, Campion crashes his car at a gas station in East Texas where Stu Redman (Gary Sinise) and some friends have gathered. When they investigate, they find Campion dying of the flu next to his wife and baby daughter, who are already dead. Campion tells Stu with his dying breath that he was followed from the base by a mysterious figure, and states "You can't outrun the Dark Man". The next day, the U.S. military arrive to quarantine the town. While the other townspeople quickly become ill and die, Stu remains healthy and is confined at a CDC facility in Vermont order to study a possible cure. This proves futile and the superflu rages unchecked, causing civilization to collapse and killing over 99% of the population of the entire world in less than two months.
A Place for Annie (1994)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, HIV/AIDS in film
Actors Sissy Spacek, Mary-Louise Parker, Sharon Epatha Merkerson, Joan Plowright, Jack Noseworthy, David Spielberg
Newborn baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent being deported to a home where she will wait to die, nurse Susan decides to take care of Annie at her own home. One year later she plans to adopt the child but suddenly Annie's mother reappears and demands her back. Under the law, Susan, as just the foster-mother, has no claim to the child.
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Documentary films about law, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
While Lowell is generally known for its central role in the Industrial Revolution as the first planned textile town in the United States, the city had fallen on hard times since the mills left the city in the early 1920s. Wang Laboratories, a major employer in Lowell in the more prosperous 1980s, declared bankruptcy and virtually went out of business in the early 1990s. The Lowell of 1995 had a large percentage of the population unemployed or underemployed, in poverty, and unaffected by positive things in the city like the Lowell National Historical Park and The Lowell Folk Festival (established in 1990). Much of the film takes place in a lower-class section of the city's (Lower) Highlands neighborhood.
Under The Piano (1996)
, 1h32Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Amanda Plummer, Megan Follows, Dan Lett, Ashley Taylor, Nicky Guadagni
Franny Basilio (Amanda Plummer) is determined to help her musically gifted autistic sister Rosetta (Megan Follows) have a life of her own. Their mother Regina (Teresa Stratas), who gave up a promising career as an opera singer to raise her children, refuses to acknowledge Rosetta’s talent and believes she will never be capable of looking after herself. Franny vehemently disagrees with her mother, which has caused friction between them since she was a child. Eventually, Regina’s bitterness, ignorance and desire for acknowledgement of her own talent cause a rift between her and her daughters. Franny ultimately moves out of the house causing Rosetta to hurt herself in a desperate cry for help. Rosetta is hospitalized and assessed by doctors who recommend to Regina that her daughter be lobotomized for her own good. Franny must summon all of her courage in order to prevent her mother from allowing Rosetta to have the operation and be committed to an institution for the rest of her life.
Gia (1998)
, 2h6Directed by Michael Cristofer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Angelina Jolie, Faye Dunaway, Mila Kunis, Eric Michael Cole, Mercedes Ruehl, Elizabeth Mitchell
Gia Carangi (Angelina Jolie) is a Philadelphia native who moves to New York City to become a fashion model and immediately catches the attention of powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper (Faye Dunaway). Gia's attitude and beauty help her rise quickly to the forefront of the modeling industry, but her persistent loneliness after the death of Wilhelmina drives her to experiment with mood-altering drugs like cocaine. She becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Linda (Elizabeth Mitchell), a make-up artist. Their love affair first starts when both pose nude and make love to each other after a photo shoot. However, after a while Linda begins to worry about Gia's drug use and gives her an ultimatum; Gia chooses the drugs. Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother, Kathleen (Mercedes Ruehl), drive Gia to begin abusing heroin. Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood.
Anukshanam (2014)
Directed by Ram Gopal Varma
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Revathi, Kota Srinivasa Rao, Manchu Vishnu, Brahmanandam, Navdeep, Tejaswi Madivada
Inspired by a real life incident, the film is based on a serial killer who sends a wave of panic across Hyderabad.
Born Bad (2011)
, 1h32Directed by Jared Michael Cohn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Bonnie Denison, Michael Welch, Meredith Monroe, David Chokachi, Bill Oberst Jr., Jared Michael Cohn
Brooke (Dennison) is devastated that she's pulled out of her high school so her family can move to a new town. Even worse, her stepmother, Katherine (Monroe) is pregnant with a new addition to her dysfunctional family. All seems lost until she becomes smitten with a charming guy named Denny (Welch). He's gorgeous, sweet, thrilling, everything her life isn't...until he reveals a menacing dark side.
Wit (2001)
, 1h39Directed by Mike Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about education, Medical-themed films, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Audra McDonald, Eileen Atkins, Benedict Wong, Jonathan M. Woodward
Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson) is a professor of English literature known for her intense knowledge of metaphysical poetry, especially the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Her life takes a turn when she is diagnosed with metastatic Stage IV ovarian cancer. Oncologist Harvey Kelekian prescribes various chemotherapy treatments to treat her disease, and as she suffers through the various side-effects (such as fever, chills, vomiting, and abdominal pain), she attempts to put everything in perspective. The story periodically flashes back to previous moments in her life, including her childhood, her graduate school studies, and her career prior to her diagnosis. During the course of the film, she continually breaks the fourth wall by looking into the camera and expressing her feelings.
, 1h44Directed by Peter Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Thora Birch, Michael Riley, Makyla Smith, Kelly Lynch, Ellen Page, Aron Tager
Thora Birch stars as Liz Murray, one of two daughters of an extremely dysfunctional Bronx family. As a young girl, Murray lives with her sister, their drug-addicted, schizophrenic mother and their father, also a drug addict who is intelligent, but has AIDS, lacks social skills, and is not conscientious. She is removed from the home and put into the care system as her father cannot take care of her. At 15 she moves in with her mother, sister and Grandfather who sexually abused her mother. After a run-in with her Grandfather she runs away with a girl from school who is being abused at home. After her mother Jean Murray (1954-1996) dies of AIDS, which she got from sharing needles during her drug abuse, she gets a 'slap in the face' by her mother's death and begins her work to finish high school, which she amazingly completed in two years, rather than the usual four. She becomes a star student and earns a scholarship to Harvard University through an essay contest sponsored by The New York Times.
Miracle Run (2003)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Mary-Louise Parker, Aidan Quinn, Zac Efron, Alicia Morton, Jeremy Shada, Jake Cherry
In a flashback, a single mother, Corrine Morgan-Thomas (Mary-Louise Parker) drives her seven-year-old twin boys Steven (Jake Cherry) and Philip (Jeremy Shada) to the doctor's office and learns that they have autism. Philip simply repeats what he hears others say, a condition known as echolalia, while Steven is completely nonverbal. After leaving the clinic in a very upset mood, she takes the boys shopping for groceries. Her visit to the supermarket is not a pleasant one, as her two boys begin screaming throughout the store and Steven wets himself, causing others to stare at them. Upon learning about their condition, her live-in boyfriend leaves because he knows raising twins with a mental disability will be difficult.
Something the Lord Made (2004)
Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Mos Def, Alan Rickman, Kyra Sedgwick, Gabrielle Union, Mary Stuart Masterson, Merritt Wever
Something the Lord Made tells the story of the 34-year partnership that begins in Depression Era Nashville in 1930 when Blalock (Alan Rickman) hires Thomas (Mos Def) as an assistant in his Vanderbilt University lab, expecting him to perform janitorial work. But Thomas' remarkable manual dexterity and intellectual acumen confound Blalock's expectations, and Thomas rapidly becomes indispensable as a research partner to Blalock in his forays into heart surgery.
Dry (2015)
, 2h2Directed by Stephanie Okereke Linus
Origin Nigeria
Genres Drama
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Children's films, Films about child abuse
Actors Stephanie Okereke Linus, William McNamara, Darwin Shaw, Liz Benson, Olu Jacobs
Cysgod Rhyfel (2014)
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films
After active service in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, Iraq and Afghanistan four veterans openly discuss their experiences of conflict and the psychological effects of war on their lives beyond the battlefield and how they live life after their wars and once they return home. The film uses a mixture of talking head testimony, archive and highly stylised dramatic sequences.