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

1. The Fog (1980)

R | 89 min | Horror, Thriller

An unearthly fog rolls into a small coastal town exactly 100 years after a ship mysteriously sank in its waters.

Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh, John Houseman

Votes: 83,277 | Gross: $21.38M

2. The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

R | 129 min | Drama, Thriller

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?

Director: George P. Cosmatos | Stars: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson

Votes: 9,928

3. 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

4. The Quiet Duel (1949)

95 min | Drama

A surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. The doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjô, Kenjirô Uemura

Votes: 3,926

5. So Much for So Little (1949)

10 min | Documentary, Short, Animation

An illustration of the role public health agencies play in citizens' lives.

Director: Chuck Jones | Stars: Mel Blanc, Frank Graham

Votes: 476

6. In Your Hands: Hygiene in the Food Industry (1982)

12 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Rodney Long

7. PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000)
Episode: Frozen in Time (1997)

TV-14 | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

All members of a small remote aboriginal community as well as the nuns who were helping them there suddenly, inexplicably and simultaneously become victims of death-like state that resembles an extreme form of rigor mortis.

Director: Giles Walker | Stars: Matt Frewer, Nancy Anne Sakovich, Barclay Hope, Colin Fox

Votes: 19

8. Real Science! (1994– )
Episode: Why Horseshoe Crab Blood Is So Valuable (2020)

16 min | Family

When bacteria die within the human body they may release endotoxins that are as dangerous as the exotoxins they release while alive. So it is critical that drugs and medical implants are ... See full summary »

Star: Stephanie Sammann

9. Invisible Wars (2021)
Episode: The Superbug Era (2021)

Documentary

Dr Norman Swan speaks with leading doctors and scientists from around the world sounding the alarm about superbugs, a microbial threat that many predict will be worse than the COVID-19 pandemic.

Director: Emma Watts | Stars: Mark Blaskovich, Thomas Borody, Matt Cooper, Christopher Coulter

10. The Yorkshire Vet (2015– )
Episode: Episode #4.5 (2017)

TV-PG | 44 min | Documentary

Julian is called out to a 3-day-old calf which has collapsed, the vet suspects it may be due to an infectious bacterial infection. Julian has to give a rare-breed pig a pedicure and Peter examines a lamb.

Directors: Laura Blair, David Terry | Stars: Christopher Timothy, Julian Norton, Peter Wright

Votes: 8

11. The Truth About... (2015– )
Episode: Antibiotics (2019)

58 min | Documentary

Angela Rippon looks at new ways that scientists are fighting bacterial infections, as they combat antibiotic resistance. She hears of the latest scientific breakthroughs, meets a GP on the front line and finds out how we can all help.

Director: Ben Southwell | Star: Angela Rippon

Votes: 18