🏷 Discover The Best Surgery Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Uncover the Hidden Gems of Surgery in Film and Television

From the intricacies of brain surgery to the delicate art of reconstructive surgery, the world of surgery has captivated audiences in film and television for decades. Explore the most thought-provoking and visually stunning movies and TV shows that delve into the world of surgery, where medical professionals navigate complex procedures, personal struggles, and high-stakes drama.

Cast

Adam Scott

Britt Lower

Tramell Tillman

Zach Cherry

Severance (2022) TV Show

8.4 2.8K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 19

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague appears outside of work, it begins a journey to discover the truth about their jobs.

Plot: office, workplace, memory, office politics, brain surgery, thriller

Cast

Han Suk-kyu

Lee Sung-kyung

Ahn Hyo-seop

Jin Kyung

Dr. Romantic (2016) TV Show

8.2 125 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 52

Audience: TV-14

Story: An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.

Plot: nurse, trauma, surgeon, romance, rural area, hospital, doctor, surgery, ...

Cast

Alan Rickman

Yasiin Bey

Kyra Sedgwick

Gabrielle Union

Something the Lord Made (2004)

7.9 315 votes

Genre: Drama, TV Movie

Country: United States of America

Duration: 110 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

Plot: friendship, mentor, biography, man of one's dreams, based on true story, hospital, cardiologist, inspiring story, ...

Time: 1930s

Cast

Maura Tierney

Parminder Nagra

Linda Cardellini

Scott Grimes

ER (1994) TV Show

7.8 939 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 15

Episodes: 331

Audience: TV-14

Story: ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Plot: chicago, illinois, hospital, doctor, surgical operation, emergency room, medical drama

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya

Allison Williams

Catherine Keener

Bradley Whitford

Get Out (2017)

7.6 19.0K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

Style: satirical

Plot: kidnapping, externally controlled action, manipulation, dark comedy, hypnosis, parents-in-law, satire, racist, ...

Cast

Eddie Redmayne

Alicia Vikander

Matthias Schoenaerts

Ben Whishaw

The Danish Girl (2015)

7.5 6.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Belgium, United Kingdom

Duration: 119 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Plot: paris, france, based on novel or book, copenhagen, denmark, artist, painter, historical fiction, ...

Time: 1920s

Place: denmark

Cast

Logan Marshall-Green

Betty Gabriel

Harrison Gilbertson

Melanie Vallejo

Upgrade (2018)

7.5 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), hacker, police, technology, cyborg, dystopia, revenge, murder, ...

Time: future, near future

DAVE (2020) TV Show

7.3 191 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 30

Audience: TV-MA

Story: A suburban neurotic man in his late 20s has convinced himself that he’s destined to be one of the best rappers of all time. Now he must convince his closest friends, because with their help, he might actually convince the world.

Plot: rap music, rapper, simulated sex, penis mutilation, penis surgery

Dr. Death (2021) TV Show

7.3 214 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 16

Audience: TV-MA

Story: An anthology series, with each season following a new medical true crime story.

Plot: surgeon, based on true story, anthology, surgery, medical drama, medical malpractice, based on podcast

Cast

Lee Sun-kyun

Park Hee-soon

Seo Ji-hye

Lee You-young

Dr. Brain (2021) TV Show

7.2 165 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 6

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Brilliant brain scientist Sewon suffers a horrific personal tragedy. Desperate to uncover what happened to his family, he conducts "brain syncs" with the dead to access their memories for clues.

Plot: based on comic, scientist, brain surgery, based on webcomic or webtoon

Cast

John Travolta

Nicolas Cage

Joan Allen

Alessandro Nivola

Face/Off (1997)

7.1 6.0K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 139 min.

Audience: R

Story: In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

Plot: prison, biological weapon, prisoner, bomb, undercover, psychopath, fbi, mexican standoff, ...

Cast

Jeffrey Combs

Bruce Abbott

Barbara Crampton

David Gale

Re-Animator (1985)

7.1 1.7K votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

Plot: experiment, insanity, overdose, black humor, mad scientist, decapitation, reanimation, laboratory, ...

Cast

Colin Farrell

Nicole Kidman

Barry Keoghan

Raffey Cassidy

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

7.0 4.5K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 121 min.

Audience: R

Story: Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.

Plot: husband wife relationship, hostage, psychopath, insanity, blackmail, surgeon, paralysis, dysfunctional family, ...

Cast

Donald Sutherland

Elliott Gould

Tom Skerritt

Sally Kellerman

M*A*S*H (1970)

6.9 1.2K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly Corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.

Plot: american football, dark comedy, surgeon, american way of life, korean war (1950-53), military spoof, doctor, surgery, ...

Time: 1950s

Cast

Stephen Boyd

Raquel Welch

Edmond O'Brien

Donald Pleasence

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

6.7 492 votes

Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: PG

Story: In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.

Style: absurd

Plot: coma, submarine, claustrophobia, wound, laser, human body, shrinking, double agent, ...

Cast

Scarlett Johansson

Morgan Freeman

Choi Min-sik

Amr Waked

Lucy (2014)

6.5 17.2K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction

Country: France

Duration: 89 min.

Audience: R

Story: A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.

Style: absurd, suspenseful

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), telepathy, intelligence, drug mule, time travel, telekinesis, futuristic, drugs, ...

Cast

Tobin Bell

Shawnee Smith

Angus Macfadyen

Bahar Soomekh

Saw III (2006)

6.4 5.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

Plot: sadism, brain tumor, suffocation, sequel, torture, survival horror, death match, mutilation, ...

Cast

Jason Statham

Amy Smart

Dwight Yoakam

Efren Ramirez

Crank: High Voltage (2009)

6.1 3.2K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

Plot: prostitute, heart, horse race, cigarette, electric shock, strip club, sequel, flashback, ...

Cast

Eiza Gonzu00e1lez

Aaron Paul

Iko Uwais

Kate Elliott

Ash (2025)

5.2 459 votes

Genre: Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Finland, New Zealand

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: On the mysterious planet of Ash, Riya awakens to find her crew slaughtered. When a man named Brion arrives to rescue her, an ordeal of psychological and physical terror ensues while Riya and Brion must decide if they can trust one another to survive.

Style: cynical, absurd

Plot: terraforming, space, violent death, parasite, duringcreditsstinger, brain surgery, infected, distant planet, ...

Cast

Michael Carr

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Mary Ellen Brighton

Thomas Noguchi

Faces of Death (1978)

4.6 220 votes

Genre: Documentary, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: What question has plagued mankind more than the mystery—and terror—of death? This forbidden pursuit has driven Dr. Frances B. Gröss to the brink of madness, but in his obsession, he has amassed a uniquely comprehensive collection of films that depict life in its final, grueling moments. From the savagery of cold-blooded murder to the perverse realities of war, tragic accidents, and the everyday lives of those who collect, dissect, and bury the dead, this descent into morbidity lays bare a truth that all of us will one day face.

Style: shocking, provocative

Plot: dying and death, suicide, doomed man, gore, autopsy, cannibal, death, fake documentary, ...

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