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1. Interstellar (2014)

PG-13 | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.

Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy

Votes: 2,105,178 | Gross: $188.02M

2. Cabrini (2024)

PG-13 | 142 min | Biography, Drama

After witnessing disease and poverty in the slums of New York, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini embarks on a daring journey to persuade the hostile mayor to provide housing and healthcare for hundreds of orphaned children.

Director: Alejandro Monteverde | Stars: Cristiana Dell'Anna, John Lithgow, David Morse, Giancarlo Giannini

Votes: 4,366

3. North & South (2004)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance

North and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.

Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sinéad Cusack

Votes: 35,010

4. Excision (2012)

Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

A disturbed, delusional high-school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.

Director: Richard Bates Jr. | Stars: AnnaLynne McCord, Roger Bart, Ariel Winter, Traci Lords

Votes: 24,638

5. Women in Love (1969)

R | 131 min | Drama, Romance

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden

Votes: 8,571 | Gross: $1.03M

6. The Immigrant (2013)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance

In 1921, an innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.

Director: James Gray | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk

Votes: 33,814 | Gross: $2.01M

7. Ballet Shoes (2007 TV Movie)

PG | 85 min | Drama, Family, Musical

In 1930s London, three orphan girls are adopted by their great uncle, who is an eccentric paleontologist, and his niece.

Director: Sandra Goldbacher | Stars: Emma Watson, Yasmin Paige, Lucy Boynton, Emilia Fox

Votes: 9,180

8. Eismayer (2022)

Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, History, Romance

Vice Lieutenant Eismayer is the most feared trainer and model macho in the Austrian Military and lives as a gay man in secret. When he falls in love with a young, openly gay soldier, his world gets turned upside down. Based on real events.

Director: David Wagner | Stars: Gerhard Liebmann, Luka Dimic, Julia Koschitz, Anton Noori

Votes: 1,740

9. As Tears Go By (1988)

Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.

Director: Kar-Wai Wong | Stars: Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung, Alex Man

Votes: 12,517 | Gross: $0.01M

10. More Than Ever (2022)

123 min | Drama, Romance

Hélène and Mathieu have been happy together for many years. The bond between them is deep. Faced with an existential decision, Hélène travels alone to Norway to seek peace and meet a blogger she found on the internet.

Director: Emily Atef | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Gaspard Ulliel, Bjørn Floberg, Sophie Langevin

Votes: 1,437

11. Character (1997)

R | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Jacob Katadreuffe lives mute with his mother, has no contact with his father who only works against him and wants to become a lawyer, at all costs.

Director: Mike van Diem | Stars: Pavlik Jansen op de Haar, Jan Decleir, Fedja van Huêt, Betty Schuurman

Votes: 11,313 | Gross: $0.71M

12. Krakatoa: East of Java (1968)

G | 131 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle

Votes: 1,876 | Gross: $2.40M

13. Out of My League (2020)

TV-MA | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for her. Not any boy - the most handsome of them all. One day, she may have found her match.

Director: Alice Filippi | Stars: Giuseppe Maggio, Ludovica Francesconi, Jozef Gjura, Gaja Masciale

Votes: 3,217

14. Pandemic (2007)

169 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

The bird flu virus spreads through Los Angeles as a doctor from the CDC races to find a vaccine.

Stars: Tiffani Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Eric Roberts

Votes: 1,634

15. Edvard Munch (1974 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 210 min | Biography, Drama, History

This biopic of Norwegian Expressionist painter Edvard Munch focuses on the influences that shaped his art, his devastating affair with a married woman that will haunt him for the rest of his life

Director: Peter Watkins | Stars: Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Kerstii Allum, Eric Allum

Votes: 3,382 | Gross: $0.04M

16. Inhale (2010)

R | 83 min | Drama, Thriller

A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.

Director: Baltasar Kormákur | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Sam Shepard, Rosanna Arquette

Votes: 6,719 | Gross: $0.00M

17. Mountains May Depart (2015)

Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance

The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.

Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Liang Jingdong, Zijian Dong

Votes: 6,401 | Gross: $0.08M

18. A Brief Vacation (1973)

PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, José María Prada

Votes: 982 | Gross: $0.66M

19. The Miracle of the Bells (1948)

Approved | 120 min | Drama

A press agent brings a dead actress home for burial. To promote her one film, he asks churches to ring bells for 3 days, hoping to get the studio head to release it.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 1,127

20. Totally Under Control (2020)

TV-14 | 123 min | Documentary

An in-depth look at how the United States government handled the response to the COVID-19 outbreak during the early months of the pandemic.

Directors: Alex Gibney, Ophelia Harutyunyan, Suzanne Hillinger | Stars: Alex Azar, Charlie Baker, Scott Becker, Taison Bell

Votes: 3,370

21. The Citadel (1983)

500 min | Drama

A young idealistic doctor, Andrew Mason, tries to improve the abysmal health conditions in a small Welsh mining town in the 1930s, but his ambitions sidetrack him.

Stars: Ben Cross, Clare Higgins, Gareth Thomas, John Welsh

Votes: 238

22. Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin (1957)

109 min | Drama, History, Romance

The final film in a highly romanticized trilogy about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria finds the young empress traveling throughout Europe.

Director: Ernst Marischka | Stars: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Gustav Knuth

Votes: 5,999

23. Moral Order (2020)

101 min | Drama

In 1918, Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha, heiress and owner of the Diário de Notícias, leaves the social, cultural, and family luxury in which she lives to escape with a chauffeur 26 years her junior.

Director: Mário Barroso | Stars: Maria de Medeiros, Marcello Urgeghe, João Pedro Mamede, João Arrais

Votes: 287

24. The Book of Stars (1999)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama

An emotionally crippled woman prostitutes herself to help take care of her kid sister who has cystic fibrosis.

Director: Michael Miner | Stars: Mary Stuart Masterson, Jena Malone, Karl Geary, Delroy Lindo

Votes: 636

25. Not So Pretty (2022)

TV-14 | 27 min | Documentary

An investigative look into beauty and personal care products, and their absence of FDA regulations which result in hidden health risks to both the body and planet.

Stars: Keke Palmer, Dreah Marie

Votes: 455

26. Devil's Dust (2012)

Biography, Drama

Follow the corporate scandal surrounding multi-national asbestos company, James Hardie, the life or death fight against their strategy of ignoring the dangers of asbestos for decades, and the desperate fight to expose their crimes.

Stars: Anthony Hayes, Don Hany, Ewen Leslie, Alexandra Schepisi

Votes: 149

27. Mars and April (2012)

Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Based on an acclaimed graphic novel, Mars & Avril is set in Montreal of the future, at the dawn of the first human landing on Mars, and tells the story of a musician who becomes obsessed with his muse.

Director: Martin Villeneuve | Stars: Jacques Languirand, Caroline Dhavernas, Paul Ahmarani, Robert Lepage

Votes: 872

28. Atakku no. 1 (1969–1971)

24 min | Animation, Drama, Sport

The series follows 12-year-old Ayuhara Kozue's hardships with a lung disease and her struggle in becoming a pro volleyball player.

Stars: Kurumi Kobato, Katsuji Mori, Reiko Mutô, Kazuko Sawada

Votes: 518

29. The Boys (1991 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 95 min | Drama

When Walter's diagnosed with lung cancer, despite his squeaky clean lifestyle, he has to tell his screenwriter partner, because that partner is a chain-smoker. As Walter fights cancer he ... See full summary »

Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: James Woods, John Lithgow, Joanna Gleason, Eve Gordon

Votes: 148

30. The Plutonium Incident (1980 TV Movie)

90 min | Drama

A worker at a nuclear power plant finds life in danger after she points out unsafe conditions.

Director: Richard Michaels | Stars: Janet Margolin, Bo Hopkins, Joseph Campanella, Powers Boothe

Votes: 61

31. The Man with the Wooden Face (2017)

16 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

Hien Le makes a living as a lottery ticket salesman in Vinh Long despite his deformed face, impaired hearing and emerging lung condition.

Director: James Nguyen | Stars: Dui Le, Hien Le, James Nguyen

Votes: 48

32. The Last Cigarette (I) (1999)

82 min | Documentary

In 1994, the Health and Environment Subcommittee of the US Congress, chaired by Henry Waxman (D-California), held a hearing on tobacco products and health. Excerpts from the hearing, where ... See full summary »

Directors: Frank Keraudren, Kevin Rafferty

Votes: 128 | Gross: $0.00M

33. Kuroe (2001)

128 min | Drama

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Director: Gô Rijû | Stars: Masatoshi Nagase, Rie Tomosaka, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Miyuki Matsuda

Votes: 122

34. Ucitel tance (1995)

100 min | Drama, Comedy

A story about love, dancing and survival, set in the late 40s. Jan Mayer, a young dance-master, arrives in a sanatorium for lung diseases with a serious diagnosis - tuberculosis. But he ... See full summary »

Director: Jaromil Jires | Stars: Martin Dejdar, Jana Hlavácová, Milos Kopecký, Barbora Kodetová

Votes: 173

35. Modori River (1983)

137 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

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Director: Tatsumi Kumashiro | Stars: Mariko Fuji, Ken'ichi Hagiwara, Mieko Harada, Kanako Higuchi

Votes: 22

36. X-Ray (1974)

13 min | Documentary, Short

Patients with serious lung diseases, who are now in a sanatorium, tell us about their thoughts and feelings.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Votes: 231

37. The Sins of the Children (1930)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance

A German immigrant to a small American town is a barber with four children. He has saved enough money to invest in a savings-and-loan company with a friend. Unfortunately, one of his sons ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Louis Mann, Robert Montgomery, Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams

Votes: 278

38. Something in the Air (2019 TV Movie)

44 min | Documentary

Documentary that looks at the most essential element for survival - air.

Director: Leif Kaldor | Star: David Suzuki

Votes: 18

39. Above Us the Earth (1977)

85 min | Documentary, Drama

A mixture of actors and real people in a human story about the affects of pit closure on a close-knit Welsh village mining community.

Director: Karl Francis | Stars: Windsor Rees, Gwenllian Francis, Dai Morgan, Evan Jones

Votes: 13

40. The Sandman (I) (2010)

9 min | Short, Drama

A mother tries to ease her terminally ill son through his final days of treatment, using a classic bedtime tale.

Director: David Scala | Stars: Brian D'Addario, Shellee Nicols, Sal Rendino

Votes: 16

41. Les poussières (1953)

22 min | Documentary, Short

The planet is filled with dust and particles of all kinds, natural or originated by man. Such a state of things has of course a great many consequences for public health, with diseases like... See full summary »

Director: Georges Franju | Star: Georges Hubert

Votes: 39

42. Den siste reisen (2015 TV Movie)

58 min | Documentary

Siv Tove Pedersen has been suffering from an incurable lung disease for seven years. To escape a slow and painful death, she chooses to travel to Switzerland to end her life. This is her honest story.

Director: Atta Ansari | Stars: Siv Tove Pedersen, Erika Preisig, Øystein Ødeverp, Knut Rytterager Nerby

43. Tezká hodina (1986 TV Movie)

74 min | Drama

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Director: Pavel Hása | Stars: Zuzana Frenglová, Iva Hüttnerová, Stefan Kozka, Ivan Krúpa

44. Zhizn' moego druga (2017)

22 min | Short

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Director: Alexander Zolotukhin | Stars: Veronika Gromova, Islam Kangulov, Regina Koshokova, Sergey Vdovenko

Votes: 11

45. Coronavirus Explained (2020 TV Movie)

Documentary

In 2020, the world changed. This topical series examines the coronavirus pandemic, the efforts to combat it and ways to manage its mental health toll.

Director: Grace Wan | Stars: Jair Bolsonaro, Bill Gates, Narendra Modi, Justin Trudeau

Votes: 798

46. Annie Oakley (1954–1957)
Episode: Treasure Map (1956)

Not Rated | 30 min | Western

Annie, Tagg and Lofty try to help a history buff who believes he has found a map that could lead to gold hidden by the Spanish explorer Coronado over in the early 1500s. The man's search ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Gail Davis, Jimmy Hawkins, Brad Johnson, Leonard Penn

Votes: 13

47. Goodyear Theatre (1957–1960)
Episode: Wait Till Spring (1959)

30 min | Drama

Doctor falls in love with his terminally ill patient.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Jeanne Crain, John Lupton, Alice Frost, Harvey Stephens

Votes: 9

48. Poldark (1975–1977)
Episode: Episode #1.3 (1975)

TV-MA | 51 min | Drama, History, Romance

Demelza has taken over the running of Nampara, Elizabeth and Francis now married have had a child. Ross has to defend Jim Carter in court but to no avail as he is sent to prison.

Director: Christopher Barry | Stars: Robin Ellis, Angharad Rees, Jill Townsend, Clive Francis

Votes: 41

49. Eat Well for Less? (2015– )
Episode: Episode #6.6 (2020)

Documentary

Whilst spending two years in hospital with their young daughter, the Drews lived off takeaways and freezer food. Can Gregg and Chris help them break these unhealthy habits?

Director: Charley Adams | Stars: Gregg Wallace, Chris Bavin, Kerry Bennett, Priya Tew

50. Message Stick (1997–2012)
Episode: Talking Stick - Health (2010)

27 min | Documentary

Miriam talks to three dedicated people determined to close the gap in health between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. Whether it's in our cities, regional centres, or in the ... See full summary »

Director: Julie Adams | Stars: Miriam Corowa, Mick Adams, Ngiare Brown