20 movies like Men in White, ordered by similarity : Scarred Hearts(2016), King of the Underworld(1939), Calling Dr. Kildare(1939), The Lennon Report(2016), Smouldering Fires(1925), Whose Life Is It Anyway?(1981), Ladies of Leisure(1930), Cactus(1986), The Secret of Dr. Kildare(1939), Women Are Like That(1938), The Sins of Rachel Cade(1961), Magnificent Obsession(1935) ...
Drama
USA
1934
80 Minutes
Clark Gable Myrna Loy Jean Hersholt Elizabeth Allan Otto Kruger Wallace Ford Henry B. Walthall Samuel S. Hinds
intern fiancée physician nurse doctor best friend melodramatic tense hospital dormitory apartment operating room duty romance medicine surgery ambition cheating quest sacrifice
An idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life.
Drama, History
2016
141 Minutes
Lucian Teodor Rus Gabriel Spahiu Ivana Mladenovic Ilinca Harnut Bogdan Cotlet Marius Damian Alexandru Dabija Dana Voicu Andrei Rus Liliana Ghita
sick person doctor nurse patient friend amusing profound powerful inspiring touching sanatorium hospital carriage office doctor's office hospital room life illness friendship relationships
Emanuel is committed to a sanatorium for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the limitations of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
Crime, Drama
USA
1939
69 Minutes
Humphrey Bogart Kay Francis James Stephenson John Eldredge Jessie Busley Arthur Aylesworth Raymond Brown Harland Tucker Ralph Remley Murray Alper Charles Foy
doctor gangster writer widow police officer gambler suspenseful melodramatic tense small town doctor's office prison police station apartment casino grief murder reputation marriage medicine
After the killing of her husband by friendly fire during a police raid, Dr. Carole Nelson tries to find gangster Joe Gurney to clear her name with the medical board.
Drama
USA
1939
86 Minutes
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Laraine Day Lana Turner Nat Pendleton Samuel S. Hinds Lynne Carver Emma Dunn Walter Kingsford Alma Kruger Harlan Briggs
intern physician nurse patient sister criminal melodramatic engaging new york city hospital basement apartment false accusations medical profession injury investigation framed for murder confidence discovery quest
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him ... See full summary »
Drama, History
USA
2016
87 Minutes
Adrienne C. Moore Evan Jonigkeit Richard Kind David Zayas Devin Ratray Stef Dawson Stephen Spinella Ashlie Atkinson Micah Hauptman Olli Haaskivi
john lennon producer reporter nurse doctor yoko ono brooding emotional intense new york city hospital apartment newsroom street operating room john lennon murder ambition news loss
On December 8th, 1980, John Lennon was shot outside of the Dakota apartment building in New York. This film follows the untold, actual story of those who were part of his attempted rescue and witnesses to the human cost of tragedy.
Drama
USA
1925
80 Minutes
Pauline Frederick Laura La Plante Malcolm McGregor Tully Marshall Wanda Hawley Helen Lynch George Cooper
manager secretary sister friend committee member newlywed engaging moving office factory apartment park ambition marriage of convenience rumors sister relationship self-sacrifice may-december romance quest sacrifice
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
Drama
1981
118 Minutes
artist nurse mother father doctor lawyer brooding intense striking hospital house small town right-to-die paralysis art self-expression legal problems romance discovery metamorphosis
Paralyzed from the neck down by a car accident, a sculptor (Richard Dreyfuss) argues for his right to die.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1930
98 Minutes
Barbara Stanwyck Ralph Graves Marie Prevost Lowell Sherman Nance O'Neil George Fawcett
artist prostitute friend father mother roommate melodramatic cheeky mushy new york city apartment studio staircase ship class conflict romance family art attempted suicide wealth
An upper-crust artist hires a 'party girl' as a model; romance follows.
Drama
1986
93 Minutes
Isabelle Huppert Robert Menzies Norman Kaye Monica Maughan Banduk Marika
frenchwoman husband blind man friend doctor emotional moving melodramatic tender car woods hospital family home victoria, australia blindness affair accident failed marriage unusual romance starting over
A Frenchwoman (Isabelle Huppert) loses an eye in Australia and becomes the lover of a blind man (Robert Menzies) who grows cactuses as a hobby.
Drama
USA
1939
84 Minutes
Lew Ayres Lionel Barrymore Lionel Atwill Laraine Day Helen Gilbert Nat Pendleton Sara Haden Samuel S. Hinds Emma Dunn Grant Mitchell Walter Kingsford
doctor mentor nurse tycoon daughter housekeeper engaging positive hospital new york city household office cottage medicine friendship research psychosomatic illness quacks experimental medicine quest
Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1938
78 Minutes
Kay Francis Pat O'Brien Ralph Forbes Melville Cooper Thurston Hall Grant Mitchell Gordon Oliver John Eldredge Herbert Rawlinson Hugh Compton Sarah Edwards
advertiser father daughter company president fiancé husband cheeky tense engaging melodramatic new york city church office judge's chambers advertising business embezzlement drinking romance competition
Domestic strife results when a man refuses to involve his wife in his struggling business.
Drama
USA
1961
124 Minutes
Angie Dickinson Peter Finch Roger Moore Errol John Woody Strode Juano Hernandez Frederick O'Neal Mary Wickes Scatman Crothers Rafer Johnson Chuck Wood
nurse pilot hospital administrator native witch doctor chief brooding tense melodramatic congo hospital jungle pregnancy military medicine native people relationships world war ii discovery love
While the Nazi regime subjugates European Nations, in the Belgian Congo, Doctor Rachel Cade tries to cure those troubled people. Colonel Derode falls in love with her, but a young American injured pilot upsets his plans.
Drama
USA
1935
112 Minutes
Irene Dunne Robert Taylor Charles Butterworth Betty Furness Sara Haden Ralph Morgan Henry Armetta Gilbert Emery Arthur Hoyt
millionaire widow mentor best friend doctor melodramatic heartwarming brightwood hospital house repentance accidental death new love forgiveness sacrifice wretched excess transformation 1930s
The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital's only resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
72 Minutes
nurse best friend criminal chauffeur doctor child suspenseful uneasy mansion hospital murder plot scam training investigation prohibition alcoholism discovery underdog quest mystery
A nurse enlists the help of a petty criminal to foil a sinister plot to murder two children.
Drama
Italy|France
1959
99 Minutes
Eleonora Rossi Drago Jean-Louis Trintignant Jacqueline Sassard Lilla Brignone Cathia Caro Raf Mattioli Federica Ranchi Enrico Maria Salerno
young man father widow son friend love interest engaging intense playful italy beach nightclub apartment romance world war ii father/son relationship mother/son relationship self-sacrifice ignorance discovery
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. ... See full summary »
Drama
Germany
2003
90 Minutes
Benno Fürmann Nina Hoss Antje Westermann Astrid Meyerfeldt Matthias Matschke Soraya Gomaa Stephan Kampwirth Anna Priese Florian Panzner André Szymanski Peter Kurth
car salesman fiancée young boy mother fiancé bleak emotional intense car hospital bridge germany road car accident death unlikely romance vengeance grief hit and run discovery
Philipp Gerber is a smart, but self-satisfied car salesman. In an inattentive moment at the wheel of his car, he runs over a young boy riding a bike and drives away. As he has feelings of ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure, Drama
UK|USA|Iceland
2015
121 Minutes
Jason Clarke Josh Brolin John Hawkes Robin Wright Emily Watson Michael Kelly Keira Knightley Sam Worthington Martin Henderson Elizabeth Debicki Ingvar Sigurdsson
mountain climber sherpa team leader survivor friend family member bleak emotional gripping tense intense mount everest base camp house trail helicopter hospital mountain climbing storm danger
The story of New Zealand's Robert "Rob" Edwin Hall, who on May 10, 1996, together with Scott Fischer, teamed up on a joint expedition to ascend Mount Everest.
Drama
USA
1932
81 Minutes
George Arliss Bette Davis Violet Heming
pianist fiancée friend love interest sister confident emotional heartwarming new york city apartment accident deafness change of heart philanthropy music self-sacrifice transformation quest love 1930s
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
Crime, Drama
USA
1933
71 Minutes
Loretta Young Ricardo Cortez Franchot Tone Andy Devine Una Merkel Warren Hymer Ivan F. Simpson Harold Huber
young woman criminal lawyer socialite friend clerk melodramatic gutsy gripping tense courtroom reform school jail gambling house law office apartment murder case poverty bad luck crime
An abused orphan sinks into a life of crime.
Drama
USA
1938
98 Minutes
Errol Flynn Bette Davis Anita Louise Jane Bryan Ian Hunter Henry Travers Beulah Bondi Donald Crisp Dick Foran Patric Knowles Alan Hale
secretary sportswriter father sister fiancé millionaire melodramatic intense gripping montana san francisco apartment office ship sister relationship marriage ambition drinking earthquakes reconciliation
Three daughters of a small town pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Drama
USA
2013
97 Minutes
James Franco Emma Roberts Nat Wolff Zoe Levin Claudia Levy Olivia Crocicchia Jack Kilmer Chris Messina Micah Nelson Andrew Lutheran Bo Mitchell
teenager classmate friend football coach heartwarming emotional intense melodramatic high school party room coming-of-age identity teen romance high school depression sex growing up metamorphosis love
An unflinching portrait of adolescent lust, boredom, and self-destruction that centers around a shy young girl on the cusp of an illicit relationship with her soccer coach.