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1. Private Practice (2007–2013)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A spin-off of the medical drama "Grey's Anatomy" centering on the life of neonatal surgeon Addison Montgomery.
Stars: Kate Walsh, Paul Adelstein, KaDee Strickland, Taye Diggs
Votes: 29,007
2. Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
R | 117 min | Biography, Drama
In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn
Votes: 519,642 | Gross: $27.30M
3. Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Sherman, a young boy, misuses a time machine made by his scientist father Mr. Peabody and causes the world history to go haywire. It is now up to Mr. Peabody to rescue his son and the world.
Director: Rob Minkoff | Stars: Ty Burrell, Max Charles, Stephen Colbert, Leslie Mann
Votes: 77,900 | Gross: $111.51M
4. Man on the Moon (1999)
R | 118 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Gerry Becker, Greyson Erik Pendry
Votes: 137,553 | Gross: $34.58M
5. Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
PG-13 | 129 min | Biography, Drama
Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite
Votes: 24,050 | Gross: $7.29M
6. Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, RZA
Votes: 67,519 | Gross: $1.97M
7. Heal (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Documentary
A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by changing one's perceptions, the human body can heal itself from any dis-ease.
Director: Kelly Noonan | Stars: Gregg Braden, Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Joseph Dispenza
Votes: 2,923 | Gross: $0.08M
8. My Life (1993)
PG-13 | 117 min | Drama
A terminally ill man prepares for his death.
Director: Bruce Joel Rubin | Stars: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah
Votes: 12,189 | Gross: $27.48M
9. Hungry Hearts (2014)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life-or-death circumstance.
Director: Saverio Costanzo | Stars: Adam Driver, Alba Rohrwacher, Roberta Maxwell, Brandon Reiss
Votes: 5,945
10. Resurrection (1980)
PG | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy
A woman enters the afterlife briefly after a car crash that kills her husband. But she survives - and finds herself possessing strange powers.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom
Votes: 3,422 | Gross: $3.91M
11. Gray's Anatomy (1996)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama
After doctors inform him that an eye affliction will require risky surgery, monologist Spalding Gray recounts his various pursuits for alternative medicine to avoid the doctor's scalpel.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Spalding Gray, Mike McLaughlin, Melissa Robertson, Alvin Henry
Votes: 2,530
12. Alice (1990)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
A spoiled Manhattan housewife re-evaluates her life after visiting a Chinatown healer.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Mia Farrow, William Hurt, Joe Mantegna, June Squibb
Votes: 15,356 | Gross: $7.33M
13. Beatriz at Dinner (2017)
R | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A holistic medicine practitioner attends a wealthy client's dinner party after her car breaks down.
Director: Miguel Arteta | Stars: Salma Hayek, John Lithgow, Connie Britton, Jay Duplass
Votes: 10,857 | Gross: $7.12M
14. Charlatan (2020)
Unrated | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life of successful Czech healer Jan Mikolasek, who diagnosed and healed people using his intuition and strong familiarity with plants, set against the background of the events of the totalitarian fifties.
Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Ivan Trojan, Josef Trojan, Juraj Loj, Jaroslava Pokorná
Votes: 3,216
15. A Kid (2016)
98 min | Drama
Mathieu has never known his father. His mother has always told him he was the fruit of a one-night-stand. One morning, in his Parisian flat, he receives a call from Quebec telling him his ... See full summary »
Director: Philippe Lioret | Stars: Pierre Deladonchamps, Gabriel Arcand, Catherine De Léan, Marie-Thérèse Fortin
Votes: 1,914
16. The River (1997)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river; his dysfunctional parents are unable to provide any relief for him or themselves.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Miao Tien, Kang-sheng Lee, Yi-ching Lu, Ann Hui
Votes: 3,334
17. Mister Tachyon (2018– )
Documentary, Sci-Fi
Part real and part faux documentary about the mysterious Mister Tachyon who explores popular fringe science topics to find the cure for his invisibility.
Stars: Cadence Weapon, Pascal Atuma, Sean McNamara
Votes: 85
18. Ill Behaviour (2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Drama
When Charlie is diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, the prognosis is good. However, when Charlie spurns chemotherapy in favour of a more natural, alternative treatment. his friends take drastic action.
Stars: Chris Geere, Tom Riley, Jessica Regan, Lizzy Caplan
Votes: 549
19. Best Friends Genetically Modified (2016)
Drama
Jackson, who was fat-shammed the whole movie, is diagnosed with cancer and chooses certain death (alternative treatment) rather than certified treatments. He goes on a rampage to jeopardize his and the town's health in the name of Allah.
Director: Donald James Parker | Stars: Diana Schmitt, Royce Henry, Donald James Parker, Tiffany Burns
Votes: 39
20. Cancer: The Forbidden Cures (2010)
93 min | Documentary
Director: Massimo Mazzucco | Stars: René Caisse, Carolyn Dean, Charlotte Gerson, Max Gerson
Votes: 89
21. Nunal sa tubig (1976)
TV-14 | 118 min | Drama
Ishmael Bernal's opus recreates the quality and slow pace of life in a dying village surrounded by the sea as it is caught in the eternal cycle of love and hate, of fertility and pollution,... See full summary »
Director: Ishmael Bernal | Stars: Elizabeth Oropesa, Daria Ramirez, George Estregan, Ruben Rustia
Votes: 166
22. The Chinese Botanist's Daughters (2006)
105 min | Drama, Romance
At the house of a famous Chinese botanist teacher his daughter and a female intern fall in love with each other - a forbidden love that must be kept secret.
Director: Sijie Dai | Stars: Mylène Jampanoï, Xiaoran Li, Dong Fu Lin, Weiguang Wang
Votes: 2,499
23. Dying to Have Known (2006)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
Master filmmaker Steve Kroschel, intrigued by a stunning statement from his last documentary, sets out to find hard evidence of the effectiveness of the Gerson Therapy, a long-suppressed ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Kroschel | Stars: Stephen Barret, T. Colin Campbell, Carolyn Dean, Dean Edell
Votes: 223
24. 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: 1,041 | Gross: $0.10M
25. Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days. (2009)
88 min | Documentary
The movie follows several diabetes patients' quest to overcome the disease by going on a raw vegetable diet.
Director: Aiyana Elliott | Stars: Michael Beckwith, Fred Bisci, Gabriel Cousens, Joel Fuhrman
Votes: 205
26. Body & Soul (2002)
48 min | Drama
Dr. Rachel Griffen returns from the Far East, planning on incorporating alternative medicine with traditional practices. Her mentor Dr. Isaac Braun is skeptical and administrator Quinten ... See full summary »
Stars: Peter Strauss, Larissa Laskin, Currie Graham, Gil Birmingham
Votes: 62
27. Eskawata Kayawai (2023)
72 min | Documentary
This is the story of a native people from Brazil living in the deep western Amazon, returning to their ancestral and spiritual way of life by getting in touch with their own culture and identity.
Directors: Patrick Belem, Lara Jacoski | Star: Ninawá Pai da Mata
28. Sit Al Hosn (2022)
40 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
To keep her alternative business running, a middle-aged businesswoman resorts to an unusual solution that coincides with a series of mysterious disappearances in her hometown.
Stars: Hind Al-Bloushi, Soad Ali, Abdulmohsen Alnemr, Darin Al Bayed
Votes: 71
29. 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
30. The Magnetist's Fifth Winter (1999)
123 min | Drama, Romance
A mysterious stranger, Meisner, arrives in a northern Swedish town in 1820, calling himself a magnetist - an amalgam of hypnotist and healer - and claiming he can cure diseases un-treatable... See full summary »
Director: Morten Henriksen | Stars: Rolf Lassgård, Ole Lemmeke, Johanna Sällström, Gard B. Eidsvold
Votes: 423
31. Goedenavond, dames en heren (2015)
Comedy, Drama, Musical
Anton and Els van Dijk have a barber shop. Their daughters Ietje (20) and Eef (18) are asked by Anton's brother - broadcasting director Peter van Dijk - to audition to become a television ... See full summary »
Stars: Anna Raadsveld, Sophie Höppener, Huub Stapel, Loes Luca
Votes: 59
32. Home Care (2015)
92 min | Comedy, Drama
Dedicated home care nurse Vlasta lives for her husband Lada, her daughter, and her patients. But then one day things change and Vlasta comes to realize that she might need some care too.
Director: Slávek Horák | Stars: Alena Mihulová, Bolek Polívka, Tatiana Dyková, Zuzana Krónerová
Votes: 498
33. Fate of the Lhapa (2007)
63 min | Documentary, History
Fate of the Lhapa is a feature-length documentary about the last three Tibetan shamans living in a Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal. Each lhapa requested that their story be filmed. Their fear... See full summary »
Director: Sarah C. Sifers
Votes: 14
34. The Enemies of Reason (2007 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
Scientist Richard Dawkins turns a hostile eye on the world of alternative medicine.
Director: Russell Barnes | Stars: Derren Brown, Deepak Chopra, Richard Dawkins, Chris French
Votes: 1,855
35. Kill or Cure (1923)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Comedy
A hapless door-to-door salesman tries to sell his 'miracle cure' to an unappreciative public.
Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Stan Laurel, Katherine Grant, Noah Young, Eddie Baker
Votes: 127
36. Vecne tvá neverná (2018)
Comedy, Romance
Director: Milan Cieslar | Stars: Sasa Rasilov, Lenka Vlasáková, Vilma Cibulková, Natalia Germani
Votes: 63
37. PlantWise (2021)
48 min | Documentary, Drama, History
When six individuals struggling with debilitating health conditions embrace a whole-food, plant-based diet, their lives are transformed forever. National experts reveal the benefits of this powerful lifestyle.
Director: Paul David Kennamer Jr. | Stars: Eric Adams, Saadia Alvi, Maria Anderson, Neal Barnard
Votes: 6
38. Jesus of Macon, Georgia (2008)
50 min | Drama, Fantasy
Director: Todd J. Phelps | Stars: Sam P. Whitehead, Gene Whitehead, Beverly Rogerson, Todd J. Phelps
Votes: 14
39. Er du skidt, skat? (2003–2004)
28 min | Comedy
Stars: Mette Agnete Horn, Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis, Rasmus Botoft, Bodil Jørgensen
Votes: 13
40. Folkeopplysningen (2012– )
Documentary, Reality-TV
Andreas Wahl examines and debunks popular alternative, undocumented and supernatural claims with logical methodology and a scientific perspective.
Stars: Andreas Wahl, Jan-Ole Hesselberg, Anne Marie Ottersen, Hang Tran
Votes: 130
41. Yam (2004)
89 min | Comedy
Reaching the menopause and misunderstood by everyone around her, Pamela takes her health into her own hands - with highly unexpected results.
Director: Angel Garden | Stars: Rob Almond, Joanna Avery, Chris Bailey, Angus Brown
Votes: 13
42. Autism: Made in the U.S.A. (2009)
101 min | Documentary
Directors: Manette Loudon, Gary Null | Stars: James B. Adams, Julia Berle, Mark F. Blaxill, Timothy M. Buie
Votes: 43
43. Searching for the Cure
Documentary | Filming
"Searching for the Cure", is an in-depth feature documentary exploring the world of "Medical Cannabis", tracing its origins, scientific research, clinical trials, legalization, and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert C MacKay | Stars: Tommy Chong, Montel Williams, Sanjay Gupta, Rob Ruckus
44. San Lazaro (2011)
97 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Two estranged friends journey to the town of San Lazaro to ask a faith-healer for help in saving the life of one's brother, who is possessed by an evil spirit.
Director: Wincy Aquino Ong | Stars: Ramon Bautista, Wincy Aquino Ong, Nicco Manalo, Bianca King
Votes: 80
45. Healing: Miracles, Mysteries and John of God (2008)
Documentary
Witness the outstanding abilities of John of God, one of the most powerful and respected healers in the world today.
Directors: David Unterberg, Harald Wiesleitner | Star: João de Deus
Votes: 16
46. War on Health: The FDA's Cult of Tyranny (2012)
98 min | Documentary, News
The film War on Health, explores the position of the FDA and it's role in the current medical paradigm, the current health crisis, and looks at possibilities for a healthier, more holistic ... See full summary »
Director: Gary Null | Stars: Mike Adams, Nancy Banks, Neal Barnard, Ronnie Cummins
Votes: 42
47. Going Om (2021)
Documentary
In the beginning, there was sound. It has been used throughout history as a transformational tool in ceremonies, celebrations and even in times of war. It can soothe us in the form of a ... See full summary »
Director: Christina Grozik | Stars: John Adams, Zakee Ali, Amy Annico, Will Armentrout
Votes: 48
48. The Rageh Omaar Report: The Secret Life of Radovan Karadzic (2010 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
The story of the hunt for and final arrest of Radovan Karadzic, the former President of Serbia, who had been indicted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against ... See full summary »
Stars: Shahida Abdurahmanovic, Elma Dizdan, Dragan Graovac, Zijad Hadziomerovic
Votes: 7
49. Crisis (I) (2017)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A ghost writer, a piano player and a clerk, three characters united by frustration, who will have to fight to get out of their crises, facing their insecurities, repressions and bad memories in a world of fantasies and mysteries.
Director: Martin Pizarro Veglia | Stars: Paulina Moreno Vivanco, Juan Pablo Troncoso, Willy Semler, Gabriel Barraza
Votes: 21
50. Åndehullet (2003)
28 min | Comedy
Satirical half-hour comedy show with pushing-the-stereotype characters, solid writing and various guest appearances.
Stars: Mette Agnete Horn, Lasse Lunderskov, Farshad Kholghi, Jette Carla Pedersen