Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "open-heart-surgery"

1. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

R | 121 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Barry G. Bernson, Herb Caillouet, Bill Camp, Raffey Cassidy

Votes: 188,832 | Gross: $2.29M

2. All That Jazz (1979)

R | 123 min | Drama, Music, Musical

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer.

Director: Bob Fosse | Stars: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer

Votes: 35,539 | Gross: $37.82M

3. Awake (2007)

R | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A wealthy young man undergoing heart transplant surgery discovers that the surgical team intend to murder him.

Director: Joby Harold | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba, Terrence Howard, Lena Olin

Votes: 80,740 | Gross: $14.38M

4. Repo Men (2010)

R | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.

Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber

Votes: 110,817 | Gross: $13.79M

5. Persepolis (2007)

PG-13 | 96 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.

Directors: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi | Stars: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands, Danielle Darrieux

Votes: 100,368 | Gross: $4.45M

6. Vanishing on 7th Street (2010)

R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The population of Detroit has almost completely disappeared, but a few remain. As daylight disappears they realize that the Dark is coming for them.

Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Thandiwe Newton, John Leguizamo, Jacob Latimore

Votes: 27,358 | Gross: $0.02M

7. Diana (2013)

PG-13 | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana embarks on a final rite of passage: a secret love affair with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Naomi Watts, Naveen Andrews, Cas Anvar, Charles Edwards

Votes: 20,941 | Gross: $0.33M

8. Mockingbird Lane (2012 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 40 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

Grandpa Sam Dracula is essentially Dracula who assembled Herman because no man was good enough for his daughter Lily, a sexy vampiress. Lily's niece Marilyn the freak is actually normal and... See full summary »

Director: Bryan Singer | Stars: Jerry O'Connell, Portia de Rossi, Charity Wakefield, Mason Cook

Votes: 4,335

9. Humsafar (2011–2012)

35 min | Drama, Romance

Khirad and Ashar are a couple who are pressured into marriage due to the untimely death of Khirad's mother. However, Sara, Ashar's best friend, is heartbroken because she is in love with him.

Stars: Fawad Khan, Mahira Khan, Atiqa Odho, Navin Waqar

Votes: 4,573

10. Bogowie (2014)

120 min | Biography, Drama

The early career of cardiac surgeon Zbigniew Religa. Despite the harsh reality of 1980s Poland, he successfully leads a team of doctors to the country's first human heart transplantation.

Director: Lukasz Palkowski | Stars: Tomasz Kot, Piotr Glowacki, Szymon Piotr Warszawski, Magdalena Czerwinska

Votes: 7,714

11. The Good Heart (2009)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

A cantankerous but ailing bartender takes a kindly young homeless man in under his wing.

Director: Dagur Kári | Stars: Paul Dano, Brian Cox, Bill Buell, Boði

Votes: 5,183 | Gross: $0.02M

12. Heal the Living (2016)

Not Rated | 103 min | Drama

A single devastating event intertwines inextricably the lives of an unfortunate teenager, a weary woman with a critical degenerative heart condition and a team of compassionate doctors; all perfect strangers, perfectly interconnected.

Director: Katell Quillévéré | Stars: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners

Votes: 3,569 | Gross: $0.00M

13. Web of Desire (2009 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

An ambitious E.R. doctor puts her career and family at risk when she succumbs to the desires of an online confidant.

Director: Mark Cole | Stars: Dina Meyer, Adrian Hough, Claudette Mink, William B. Davis

Votes: 281

14. 150 Milligrams (2016)

128 min | Biography, Drama

Dr. Irène Frachon from Brest discovers, that Mediator pills cause heart valve problems/deaths. In 2009, she starts an uphill battle against the producer and the French health authorities.

Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel, Isabelle de Hertogh

Votes: 1,513

15. The Two Faces of Fear (1972)

88 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

A professor's wife falls in love with her husband's assistant. When she learns he's planning to move to another city, she does everything she can to avoid it, with no success. Soon afterwards, he's found dead, in obscure circumstances.

Director: Tulio Demicheli | Stars: George Hilton, Fernando Rey, Luciana Paluzzi, Anita Strindberg

Votes: 196

16. 791 km (2023)

103 min | Comedy, Drama

5 people of different personalities have to take the taxi from Munich to Hamburg, as the train service is canceled. The strangers discover that everybody has to carry his package, but overcome their trouble together as a group.

Director: Tobi Baumann | Stars: Iris Berben, Joachim Król, Nilam Farooq, Ben Münchow

Votes: 133

17. Under the Paris Sky (1951)

114 min | Crime, Drama

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Brigitte Auber, Jean Brochard, René Blancard, Paul Frankeur

Votes: 279

18. Anthem (1983)

12 min | Documentary, Short

"Anthem" originates in a single piercing scream emitted by an eleven-year-old girl standing in the hall of Union Railroad Station in Los Angeles. The original scream of a few seconds is ... See full summary »

Director: Bill Viola | Star: Amy Nomura

Votes: 58

19. Kardia (2006)

85 min | Drama

Kardia weaves fiction and science to tell the story of Hope, a pathologist who embarks on a journey of reconciliation. Hope discovers that the experimental heart operation she underwent as ... See full summary »

Director: Su Rynard | Stars: Mimi Kuzyk, Peter Stebbings, Erin Shpigel, Natalie Shpigel

Votes: 155

20. The Eighth Day of the Week (1973)

Drama

Leila is a young medical student who lives a normal life with her mother until one night that being raped changes Leila's life.

Director: Hosein Rajaiyan | Stars: Farzaneh Taidi, Mohsen Sohrabi, Jaleh Sam, Ali Shah Yalani

Votes: 15

21. Decodings (1988)

Unrated | 15 min | Short, Fantasy

Explores Confucius's observation that "The way out is via the door." Archival footage of people from the 1930s and 1940s mixes with odd stories told by a narrator's voice: the stories take ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Wallin | Stars: William Graves, Barry Livingston

Votes: 42

22. Deep in the Heart (2019)

93 min | Documentary

Follows four patients having major life-saving surgery. The skilled surgeons can fix bodies, but it is up to the patients to face the reality of their situation. Can they turn their lives around and quit the habits of a life time?

Director: Randall Wright

23. Innocents (2000 TV Movie)

Drama

The film, based upon the Bristol heart scandal of the 1980s and 90s, tells the story about James Wisheart and Janarda Dhasmana, who whilst working together to perform 33 arterial-switch ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Kosminsky | Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Emma Cunniffe, Aden Gillett, Madhav Sharma

Votes: 26

24. Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode: Blood Money (1997)

TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The widow of an accident victim who unexpectedly dies from a heart attack during surgery suspects malpractice and asks Kavanagh to represent her.

Director: Jack Gold | Stars: John Thaw, Nicholas Boulton, Tom Brodie, Malcolm Browning

Votes: 80

25. Star Trek (1966–1969)
Episode: Journey to Babel (1967)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Jane Wyatt

Votes: 4,055

26. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Family (2007)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama, Mystery

Wilson is preparing his 14-year-old patient, Nick, for a bone marrow transplant when the donor, Nick's younger brother Matty, suddenly starts sneezing. Since Nick's immune system has been ... See full summary »

Director: David Straiton | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 2,749

27. A Science Odyssey (1998– )
Episode: Matters of Life and Death (1998)

History

The passion and determination of medical science in the twentieth century. Dramatic experiments, the politics of science, and races against the clock form a backdrop to the discovery of new... See full summary »

Stars: Charles Osgood, Michael Bliss, Gert H. Brieger, Elizabeth W. Etheridge

28. New Amsterdam (2018–2023)
Episode: The Denominator (2019)

TV-14 | 42 min | Drama

When Iggy and Kapoor discover a patient might be suffering from lead poisoning, they are forced to take on the city. Max's unsolicited attempts to help a patient backfire,

Director: Michael Slovis | Stars: Ryan Eggold, Janet Montgomery, Freema Agyeman, Jocko Sims

Votes: 659

29. Iryû: Team Medical Dragon (2006– )
Episode: Episode #1.1 (2006)

54 min | Drama

To get ahead and perform the Batista operation an ambitious young assistant professor needs a unrepentant and expelled surgeon's expertise. The shameless former doctor is in debt and ... See full summary »

Director: Satoshi Kubota | Stars: Kenji Sakaguchi, Izumi Inamori, Sadao Abe, Cynthia Cheston

Votes: 12

30. Iryû: Team Medical Dragon (2006– )
Episode: Episode #1.11 (2006)

54 min | Drama

The last-minute surgery is proceeding and a few untried and untested procedures are being deployed. The rest of the hospital is watching. The surgical team has a surprise at hand because it... See full summary »

Director: Satoshi Kubota | Stars: Kenji Sakaguchi, Sadao Abe, Masako Chiba, Tetsuhiro Ikeda

31. Iryû: Team Medical Dragon (2006– )
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2006)

54 min | Drama

The Batista surgery is underway. This is the innovative and pioneering moment everyone has been waiting for and for which Asada was brought in. A cadre of nurses and doctors is working on ... See full summary »

Director: Satoshi Kubota | Stars: Kenji Sakaguchi, Sadao Abe, Masako Chiba, Kyôko Enami

Votes: 6

32. Hospital (2017– )
Episode: Episode #5.2 (2020)

59 min | Documentary

In Aintree Hospital's major trauma centre, a 15-strong team try to save the life of a young man who has been stabbed in the chest - one of three stabbings to arrive during the day. A homeless man is given an ultimatum by hospital staff.

Directors: Nicola Comber, Andrew Dedman, Peter Grant, Dan Howell, Chris Rowe | Star: Miranda Raison

33. The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)
Episode: Ovation (2020)

TV-MA | 42 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A struggling singer's music career takes off when she witnesses a tragic incident, but she soon realizes that her recognition comes at a steep cost.

Director: Ana Lily Amirpour | Stars: Jurnee Smollett, Tawny Newsome, Sky Ferreira, Dan Martin

Votes: 1,364

34. National Geographic Explorer (1985– )
Episode: Moment of Death (2008)

Documentary, History

National Geographic Explorer examines the physical and psychological changes experienced by the human in the moments before and after death.

Director: Mark Mannucci | Stars: Benjamin Abella, Tarun Arora, Lance Becker, Bill Bondar

Votes: 63

35. The Essex Serpent (2022)
Episode: Matters of the Heart (2022)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Cora moves to Aldwinter, but the grieving villagers don't welcome her. Naomi struggles with her guilt about what happened to Gracie.

Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston, Frank Dillane, Clémence Poésy

Votes: 469

36. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Black Hole (2010)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

Physics student and his father, Artie, bring in the kid's lover Abby Nash, who nearly suffocated in foam during a planetarium lecture. The team eliminates everything except an allergy to ... See full summary »

Director: Greg Yaitanes | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 2,393

37. PioneerPauly (2021– )
Episode: I Found a Secret Place FULL of Gemstones! (2021)

9 min | Reality-TV

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Stars: Dan Hurd, Paul Larouche

38. Iryû: Team Medical Dragon (2006– )
Episode: Karte: 01 (2007)

Drama

Team dragon has been apart for some time and the head surgeon has been in New York City in USA. Noguchi is back from Thailand in a new role managing risk and, naturally, not welcomed by the... See full summary »

Stars: Kenji Sakaguchi, Izumi Inamori, Sadao Abe, Nami Ichinohe

39. House M.D. (2004–2012)
Episode: Out of the Chute (2011)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Mystery

Cuddy dumped House. He moves into a luxury hotel and goes on a Vicodin, booze and cute hooker binge. The team gets a trampled rodeo bull rider but needs House to save him. Masters has a crush on their patient.

Director: Sanford Bookstaver | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard

Votes: 3,027

40. The Mob Doctor (2012–2013)
Episode: Legacy (2012)

TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

As she fights for a critically ill woman's heart transplant, Grace (Jordana Spiro) is asked to kill her patient's estranged and imprisoned father in order to get the organ she needs to save her life.

Director: Thomas Carter | Stars: Jordana Spiro, William Forsythe, James Carpinello, Zach Gilford

Votes: 68

41. Ukraine on Fire 2 (2022– )
Episode: Medic at War 31: Bulletproof Heart (2023)

Documentary, Drama, War

The bullet of the Russian occupier is in the heart of the Ukrainian defender. Will doctors be able to pull it out during an open heart surgery? Is it really that a bullet doesn't kill the brave?

Star: Borys Todurov

42. Iryû: Team Medical Dragon (2006– )
Episode: Episode #4.8 (2014)

54 min | Drama

Doctor Sakurai cannot find a suitable neurosurgeon in Japan and Kato is sourcing one from the USA. The young resident at Sakurai Hospital is not getting along with the patients whom he ... See full summary »

Director: Tomonobu Moriwaki | Stars: Kenji Sakaguchi, Izumi Inamori, Teppei Koike, Sadao Abe