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Bivši vojni pilot Ted Striker (Robert Hays) nije letio od rata, kada je njegova pogrešna presuda dovela do desetkovanja njegove eskadrile. Sada ima problema s pićem (stalno promašuje usta), a njegova djevojka – stjuardesa Elaine Dickinson (Julie Hagerty) – ostavila ga je. U očajničkoj želji da mu se vrati, Ted je slijedi na njezin idući let… koji strahovito pođe po zlu kada se cijela kabinska posada otruje hranom usred leta! Uz pomoć Elaine, flegmatičnog doktora Rumacka (Leslie Nielsen) i njegova bivšeg neprijatelja Rexa Kramera (Robert Stack) u zračnoj kontroli, Ted će hrabro pokušati sretno prizemljiti avion. No ima li još ono potrebno?
Embriolog dr. Alexander Hesse zvan Alex (A. Schwarzenegger) iz San Francisca intenzivno radi na novom revolucionarnom lijeku koji bi trebao spriječiti spontane pobačaje. Kad zajedno sa svojim suradnikom dr. Larryjem Arbogastom (D. DeVito) od vlade zatraži početak eksperimentalnog liječenja, gorko se razočara doznavši za ukidanje projekta i prepuštanje laboratorija britanskoj znanstvenici dr. Reddin (E. Thompson). Odlučivši napustiti SAD, dr. Hesse ipak popusti nagovaranjima dr. Arbogasta da u tajnosti nastave s pokusima pri čemu bi oplođenu jajnu stanicu ponio sam Alex. Ne znajući ni sam što ga sve čeka, Alex počne dobivati uobičajene znakove trudnoće budno pazeći da nitko ni ne posumnja što su on i Larry učinili, osobito ne njegov bivši šef Noah Banes (F. Langella)...
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 1980.
Awkward teenager Charlie Bartlett has trouble fitting in at a new high school. Charlie needs some friends fast, and decides that the best way to find them is to appoint himself the resident psychiatrist. He becomes one of the most popular guys in school by doling out advice and, occasionally, medication, to the student body.
When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head." Determined to live, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story—and four other families' stories—fighting a disease medicine forgot.
Cunningham Hall, nekoć cijenjena psihijatrijska klinika, sada je propadajuća religija s previše pacijenata i premalo proračuna. Ali kad motivirani mladi student medicine po imenu Clark Stevens pristane da uđe u centar za mentalno zdravlje kao pripravnik kako bi stekao diplomu, ubrzo će shvatiti da je postao dio osoblja ludog azila. Clark se ubrzo počinje brinuti o uvjetima u kojima oboljeli žive, s užasnim halucinacijama i suicidnim sklonostima. No Clark također počinje ispitivati vlastitu razboritost kad počne vidjeti uznemirujuću figuru mladića, koji kao da ga želi upozoriti na nešto.
An eccentric scientist working for a large drug company is working on a research project in the Amazon jungle. He sends for a research assistant and a gas chromatograph because he's close to a cure for cancer. When the assistant turns out to be a "mere woman," he rejects her help. Meanwhile the bulldozers get closer to the area in which they are conducting research, and they eventually learn to work together, and begin falling in love.
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
Acclaimed author and recluse Norma Boswell is reaching the end of her days. She has kept her terminal diagnosis secret from everyone around her, her housekeeper and gardener, as well as her estranged son, Justin. As her health continues to decline, her doctor insists it is time to bring in a live-in nurse at home. Stubbornly proud, Norma rejects every candidate for the job straight away. That is until she comes across Emma Keating, who refuses to take no for an answer and whole-heartedly agrees to keep Norma’s secret.
Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doctor in the hospital ward where his father works doesn’t turn out the way he hoped it would. Responsibility is overwhelming, his father is all but present, and his co-junior partner, a foreign doctor, is far more experimented than he is. This internship will force Benjamin to confront his limits… and start his way to adulthood.
Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.
French drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of Trappist monks reside in the monastery of Tibhirine in Algeria, where they live in harmony with the largely muslim population. When a bloody conflict between Algeria's army and Muslim Jihadi insurgents disrupts the peace, they are forced to consider fleeing the monastery and deserting the villagers they have ministered to. In the face of deadly violence the monks wrestle with their faith and their convictions, eventually deciding to stay and help their neighbours keep the army and the insurgents at bay.
Lee Ray Oliver, a death row inmate, is given a second chance at life if he agrees to undergo a new chemical treatment used to modify behavior.
Attilio di Giovanni (R. Benigni) je pjesnik i profesor književnosti u Rimu, poetična duša koja pomalo živi u svom svijetu. Iako ga mnogo žena simpatizira, on je jako zaljubljen u Vittoriju (N. Braschi) koja ne obraća previše pažnje na njega. Svake noći on sanja da je ženi, makar bio odjeven samo u bokserice i potkošulju, uz klavirsku pratnju pjevača Toma Waitsa. Jednoga dana Vittoria otputuje u Irak sa svojim prijateljem, pjesnikom Fuadom (J. Reno), u zemlju u kojoj se upravo rasplamsao rat. Prilikom bombaškog napada Vittoria je ranjena i leži u komi. Saznavši to, Attilio odluči poći k njoj, iako nesvjestan opasnosti u koju se upušta...