10 movies you can decide and debate on if they are Christmas movies or not

If you're tired of debating wither or not Die Hard (1988) is a Christmas Movie or not and want something different maybe, you can debate like if Die Hard 2 is a Christmas or not. 

Here are 10 other movies you can decide and debate on if they are Christmas movies. 

Die Hard 2 (1990)
Based on 58 Minutes by Walter Wagner [First Published in 1987] Lt. John Mclane NYPD is at the airport on to meet his wife to celebrate Christmas together when terrorists take over the airport holding the planes and passenger's hostage as a snowstorm is about to hit. The John Mclane has to stop the terrorists find a way to help land the plane that his wife in on runs out of fuel. 

Batman Returns (1992)
Squeal to Batman (1989) Its Christmas time in Gotham and The Red Triangle Gang (a criminal circus) under the leadership of the Penguin is terrorizing the city. Batman stops the crime spree and thwarts The Pinguins plans for revenge while dealing with Catwoman and a businessman plotting to harm the people of Gotham. 

Black Christmas (1974/2006)
Set during The College Christmas Break the sorority members of (Pi Kappa Sigma in the 1974 version) (Delta Alpha Kappa in the 2006 version) are preparing for Christmas when a masked killer breaks into the house and makes threatening phone calls and killing people in or near the house. When the bodies are found those still alive fight for survival. 

Enemy Of The State (1998)
Lawyer Robert Clayton Dean is out Christmas shopping when a formed college classmate slips video evidence of a political assignation of a US Congressman by the assistant director of the NSA. Having the evidence Robert Dean is isolated and cut off from resources gets help of a former government operative to clear his name and stop a conspiracy and bring the killers to justice. 

Gremlins (1984)
While on a business trip Randall Peltzer buys his son Billy an exotic pet a mogwai as a Christmas present. The new pet comes with three rules No Sunlight, Do not expose to water and Do not feed at Midnight. Of course, all three rules are broken resulting in gremlins being created. The gremlins attack the town of Kingston Falls, Billy with the help of friends and family stop the monsters. 

Iron Man 3 (2013)
Battling a terrorist called The Mandarin Tony Stark Iron Man deals with the mistakes of the past his present and the legacy he is leaving over Christmas. 

Lethal Weapon (1987)
A homicide and narcotics cop are partnered together to investigate overlapping mystery that leads them to taking on a criminal organization that commits various crimes including smuggling, drugs, guns, murder and corruption.   

Reindeer Games (2000)
Rudy Duncan has just been released from prison. Rudy is feeling guilty about his cellmate's death, so he takes his identity and meets with the man's girlfriend. This results in Rudy getting involved in a casino robbery planned for Christmas Eve. 

Shazam! (2019)
Billy Batson is looking for his birth mother as he is moved around foster care. While this is happening, a powerful wizard nearing the end of his life is looking for a worthy person to take over his power and responsibilities. While someone not selected seeks power and revenge on the wizard. Billy and his family.  

The Sure Thing (1985) 
College freshman in the northeast Walter Gibson is struggling with love and romance when his best friend from high school sets up a sure thing for him in California over Christmas break. Not having a lot of money, he makes arrangements to carpool. Clashing with a fellow student Alison Bradbury they lose their ride and face various challenges as they hitchhike to California.    

50 films that include the medical field/subjects, clinical locations and the horror genre

 

50 films that include the medical field/subjects, clinical locations and the horror genre. 

Happy Halloween - 2024. 

In The Fire (2023)
Set in 1890 Dr. Grace Burnham travels from New York to a rural plantation in Prue to treat Martin Marquez a child that has autism.  As she goes about her work, Dr. Burnham and the boy are being blamed for several natural disasters hitting the area by the local villagers. 

The Power (2021)
Set in 1974 a young Nurse is working a night shift in an old hospital. On this night the power goes out due to a miners’ strike. In the powerless hospital she deals with the dark and the supernatural.

12 Hour Shift (2020)
Set in Arkansas 1999 Nurse Mandy hands over a pair of kidneys to her cousin Regina to deliver to some organ harvesters. The Regina loses them. Mandy has to procure more. While Mandy is going about that Regina decides to take matters into her own hands. While all of this is happening, an escaped prisoner is also running around the hospital. 

The Influence (2019)
Nurse Alicia returns home with her family to help her sister with their dying mother. While there she deals with traumas from the past and an angry witch.  

Countdown (2019)
A Nurse uses an app that accurately predicts when a person will die. When it reveals she has 3 days to live. She seeks to escape her death before the countdown ends.

The Chosen One A.K.A. O Escolhido (2019-2020) 
Three Doctors go to a remote village in Pantanal, Brazil to vaccinate against the Zika virus. Once there the Doctors clash with a local faith healer. 

Herbert West: Re-Animator (2017)
Inspired by the short story Herbert West Re-Animator by H.P Lovecraft [First Published in 1922] but not related to the original series. Dr. West loses his daughter in a tragic accident and creates a serum to bring her back to life. 

Shut In (2016) 
A horror thriller about a recently widowed child psychologist in rural Maine; Believes that her and her injured child is in danger from a supernatural presence. 

Eloise (2016) 
Jacob Martin is set to receive a large inheritance if he can produce a death certificate for an aunt that was a patient of the closed Eloise Asylum. Jacob along with some friends break into the building where they find ghosts and evil.  

Cabin Fever (2016) 
Five college students go to a secluded cabin. While at the cabin a patient zero that has contracted a flesh-eating sickness dies and falls in a water reservoir that supplies the cabin. One by one the students get sick. 

Bodies (2016)
A Pair of brothers pose as paramedics so they can steal people’s organs.

Scream Queens: Season 2 (2015-2016)
Several survivors from season 1 go to work at the C.U.R.E. Institute a hospital for incurable diseases, where a new costumed serial killer (or killers) known as the Green Meany stalks the halls.

Patrick: Evil Awakens (2013)
Remake of the 1978 film Patrick; A person in a coma develops psych powers and proceeds to terrorize the hospital staff. 

Burke and Hare (2010)
Based on the true story of William Burke and William Hare as they supply cadavers to the medical schools of Edinburgh, Scotland at the end of the 19th century.  

Room 33 (2009)
A group of friend's car breaks down while on a trip and seek shelter in an old empty Asylum. As they seek help the find a mystery and are tracked by a killer. 

Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007)
Early life of Richard Speck and the night he tortured and killer nursing students in 1966. 

Bloody Mary (2006)
A group of Nurses decide to play a game of Bloody Mary at an asylum that they work at. They are successful in summoning the ghost who proceeds in killing the residents and staff. 

Fragile (2005)  
An American nurse takes a night position at Mercy Falls Children’s Hospital on the Isle of Wright. While working there she learns of a supernatural presence and must protect herself and the children.

Skelton Key (2005)
Caroline Ellis a Hospice Nurse aide quits her job and goes to work for a New Orleans Plantation helping a take care of her husband that suffered from a stroke. At the plantation she investigates a ghost story and other mysterious happenings around the house. 

Death Tunnel (2005)
Five college girls have to spend the night in hospital built in 1910. As the night passes the ghosts that died there and were removed through the death tunnel which was used for removal of bodies from the grounds haunt the girls. 

Dawn of the Dead (2004)
During a Zombie Apocalypse a nurse a cop, and other survivors band together. After learning that most refuges have fallen, they create safe haven in an empty mall.

The Grudge (2004)
Student Nurse Karen Davis living in Tokyo is sent to a haunted house where she is cursed/haunted by ghosts. 

Kingdom Hospital (2004)
Kingdom Hospital in Lewiston Maine is haunted due to being built upon a Civil War Era mill fire and the former hospital that also burned down. The staff deals with the hauntings (and other really strange supernatural events) as best they can while another disaster looms.

Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
Set 13 years after Bride of Re-Animator Herbert is in prison when young Dr. Phillips comes to work at the prison. Dr Phillips having witnessed/been affected by events from the second film; seeks Dr. West and helps him to continue his experiments.  

Speck (2002)
Based on the true story of Richard Speck who killer 8 nursing students one night in 1966 Chicago. With portrayals of his life after that night. 

Cabin Fever (2002) 
Five college students go to a secluded cabin. While at the cabin a patient zero that has contracted a flesh-eating sickness dies and falls in a water reservoir that supplies the cabin. One by one the students get sick. 

House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Remake of House on Haunted Hill (1959). Several strangers are invited to a party by a wealthy amusement park owner to stay overnight in a mansion that was once Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute for the Criminally Insane. If they make it through the night, then they will receive a large cash prize.  

Robin Cook's Invasion (1997)
Based on the novel Invasion by Robin Cook [First Published in 1997] Small black rocks from space infect people with something that mutates them. Scientist’s network and share information to save the world. 

The Dentist (1996)
Dr. Alan Feinstone DDS has a mental break when he discovers his wife is having an affair. So, he goes on a murder spree. Followed by a sequel The Dentist 2 (1998). 

Dr. Giggles (1992)
A lunatic that believes he is a MD escapes from the insane asylum he is in. He goes back to the town his father was killed in years earlier and treats/kills the people of the town.

Arachnophobia (1990)
A Doctor tired of city life moves to the country town of Canaima, California with his family to start a practice. While this is happening an invasive hybrid spider is spreading throughout the area. The Doctor, a spider expert, a local exterminator, and the sheriff must work together to save the town.

Bride of Re-Animator (1990) 
Dr. Herbert West and Dr. Dan Cain have finished medical school and have been continuing their research internationally. Deciding that enough time has passed they return home to conduct the next phase of their experiments to create a perfect woman.  

Deep Sleep (1990)
Nurse Maggie Healey immigrates to Australia and begins working in a psychiatric ward. She observes strange deaths and puts herself in danger as she investigates what is going on. 

A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
The last of the Elm Street children have been attacked and have been placed in a psychiatric hospital. The survivors along with a Doctor devise ways to battle Freddy Kruger. 

Re-Animator (1985) 
Inspired by the short story Herbert West Re-Animator by H.P Lovecraft [First Published in 1922] A medical student and his friend experiment with a serum that reanimates the dead to less than the desired results. Followed by two sequels Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and Beyond Re-Animator (2003) 

The Doctor and the Devils (1985)

Based on a true story. In 1828 Dr. Thomas Rock has his assistant Dr. Murry pay large amounts of money to obtain fresh cadavers from less than legal sources. When a pair of miscreants learn how much can be made with body snatching, they decide that the way to get the freshest product is to create it. After a suspicious Dr. Murry learns what is going on he helps to stop the pair.   

Visiting Hours (1982) 
A Mad Man attacks an activist TV journalist sending her to the hospital. The madman unhappy with only injuring his victim tries to attack her in the hospital. In doing this a Nurse catches his eye and he proceeds to stalk and attack both of them.

Halloween 2 (1981)
Laurie Strode having survived the events of the first movie is admitted to the hospital. Michael Myers tracks her down and starts to kill everybody on the grounds.

X-Ray (1981)
During a routine checkup in an LA hospital under renovation Susan Jeremy gets trapped in the hospital with half explanations and staff that is just following orders. While a killer dressed in surgical attire stalks and torments her while killing employees, and visitors of the hospital. 

The Night Nurse (1978)
Prudence Simpson is hired as a private nurse for a former opera singer. Strange and supernatural things happen within the house and to as soon as she is hired.

Nurse Sherri (1978)
A Nurse is possessed by an evil spirit and kills the people around her. A blind ex NFL player with knowledge of Voodoo and some of Nurse Sherri’s coworkers seek to exorcise the evil spirit.  

Patrick (1978) 
A man in a coma has psychic powers and tries to win over a nurse and do away with anybody that gets in his way. 

Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Set in Camp Verde, Arizona, Tarantulas that have mutated because of the overuse of pesticides have started attacking livestock. The town’s veterinarian Dr. Robert Hansen is called to investigate. A spider's nest is discovered and destroyed. This sets the spiders on a migration towards the town cutting Camp Verde off from the rest of the world. 

Born For Hell (1976)
Inspired by the Richard Speck killings. A Vietnam Vet goes to Belfast, Ireland and attacks, tortures and kills 8 nursing students one night. 

Horror Hospital (1973)
Musician Jason Jones needing a vacation, heads out to the country. While on his trip he meets another traveler, Judy Peters. The pair soon targeted by a Mad Doctor that is using people for his experiments. 

Burke and Hare (1972) 
Based on the true story. Burke and Hare start to supply medical colleges with cadavers. They get their supply through a variety of ways. 

I Am Legend (1964/2007) The Omega Man (1971) Based on the short story I am Legend by Richard Matheson [First Published in 1954]. Most of humanity has been killed or mutated by a virus the last man that is immune or vaccinated depending on version seeks to find the cure.

The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) 
William Burke and William Hare supply Doctors and medical colleges with cadavers. While various Doctors do not ask questions or look the other way on how they are able to supply fresh cadavers often. 

Circus of Horror (1960)
Set in 1947 Dr. Rossiter a plastic surgeon flees to France after a botched surgery. In France he comes to own a circus and employes women that he has operated on. When his employees try to leave, they die in freak accidents attracting the attention of law enforcement. 

White Witch Doctor (1953)
Widowed Nurse Ellen Burton goes to Belgium, Congo to work for a Missionary Doctor.  To get to the mission she hires an animal hunter, guide, and treasure hunter. Together they have adventures, face dangers from the wildlife, a local Witch Doctor and a native tribe. 

Horror Maniacs (1948)
The first film adaption of the Burke and Hare of Edinburgh, Scotland body snatcher and murder story. 

I Walked With a Zombie (1943)
Nurse Betsy Connell is hired to care for the Jessica the wife of a plantation owner on a Caribbean Island. As she tries to help Jessica as various family secrets are revealed. 

Movie Theater as the Setting and or Plot/Theme + Video Rental Stores

Due to the shortness of the cinema background, I combined the video rental store post. 

I really miss Movie theaters so I thought it might be interesting and fun to see a movie theater or drive in on film. 

Big Time Operators Aka The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Bill Travers inherits a barley operating business a cinema called The Bijou from a distant Uncle. Bill and his wife Jean decide to sell the business only to find it in bad shape. Bill and Jean start the work to make a profit from the inheritance. 

Bikini Drive-In (1995) 
Kim Taylor inherits her grandfather's old drive-in movie theater. Having fond memories of the place she wants to get it up and running again. However, there is $25,000 in taxes due in about a week. So, Kim her friends and the employees of the drive in create and implement a plan that involves wearing little to nothing. 

Cinema Paradiso (1988)                                                                                                                            A successful Film Maker reflects on his childhood, his family and mentor the projectionist at the town's only movie theater in a small Sicilian town.    

Christmas at the Drive-In (2022)
When the local Drive-In is going to be closed and torn down. A property lawyer/professor that wants to save it has to prove the worth and value to the community by Christmas which is in three weeks. As she works to revamp the business, she reconnects with her first love a property developer that wants to tear it down and owns the McCarthy Drive-In. 

Christmas Movie Magic (2021)
Reporter Allie Blackman sent to write about the 65^th anniversary of a Christmas movie and song “Christmas With You” at the filming location, White Falls, New York. While there she finds message to a mysterious woman from the movie star/song writer. She joins with a movie theater owner and film expert Brad Westfield to find the woman and the origin of the song.

Dead In Drive-In (1986)
Set in the future where sickness, economic collapse, food shortages, and 5 Rambo movies have been made. A recently unemployed teen and his girlfriend go to a drive in only to discover it is a trap/concentration camp for the unemployed and other unwanted members of society. Can he escape? 

Demons (1985)                                                                                                                                  Several people are given free tickets to a screening to a new horror film. After the film starts demons start attacking the people trapped in the theater. 

Drive In (1976)
A group of people (mostly teens) in 1976 Texas have adventures at the local drive-in theater one weekend night. 

Drive In Massacre (1977)
The police in a rural California town search for a serial killer that uses a sword to kill at a Drive -In theater. 

Electric Shadows (2004)
Two childhood friends come back together after an accident with one of them reading the others memoir of their childhood and an outdoor theater and the movies that was a big part of their lives.  

Empire of Light (2022)
Set in England in the early 1980's a cinema manager and a new employee bond and heal while dealing with challenges of mental health, everyday life, and wanting to escape. 

It's A Wonderful Knife (2023)
this is a reimagining of It's A Wonderful Life (1947) and It Happened One Christmas (1977) as a teen horror movie. A year after Winnie Carruthers stops a masked killer on Christmas Eve. Winnie is having a bad Christmas with grieving her friends who died, not getting into college, and finding her boyfriend cheating among other things. She wishes things had turned out different, so she finds herself in a world where she had never been born. In this world the killer was never caught and is still murdering the people of the town, and nobody knows who she is. Winnie tries to find people who believe her story as well as a way to get home. 

The Last Horror Film (1982)
A New York City taxi driver dreams of being a famous director and decided to follow/stalk actress Jana Bates to the Cannes Film Festival if France to get her to be in his film. While in France the people close to the actress start getting killed one by one. 

The Last Matinee (2020)
Set in the 1993 people go to the Montevideo Opera Cinema to see a Frankenstein Film. As the show starts a killer starts to take out audience and staff one by one. 

The Last Matinee (2021)
In a small town in an old-fashioned movie theater a killer goes after the patrons and the employees in the theater one by one during the last show of the day. 

The Majestic (2001)                                                                                                                                  Set in 1951 a Hollywood screen writer Peter Appleton has a car accident after a night of drinking and bad news he loses his memory and washes up in a small town where he is mistaken for the lost MIA son of the local movie theater owner Harry Trimble. Peter revives the local treater and brings life back to the town before he regains his memory.  Having regained his memories, he has to face congress and the House on Un-American Activates after being accused of being a communist. 

Matinee (1993)                                                                                                                                        
Set during the Cuban Missile Crisis a showman promotes a science fiction movie in a South Florida. While a boy has a coming-of-age adventure at the theater that the film promotion is taking place. 

Midnight Matinee (1989)                                                                                                                            A small town is restarting a horror movie marathon after a murder at a previous movie marathon. Will tragedy strike again? 

Midnight Movie (2008) 
A special screening of a lost horror film the audience and employees are trapped in the theater as the killer comes off the screen and attacks everybody trapped inside. 

Phantom of the Megaplex (2000)                                                                                                            At a 26 screen megaplex an assistant manager must keep the theater running after the manager disappears, look after his younger siblings and set up for a special premier: while a Phantom sabotaging and haunting the place. 

Popcorn (1991)
 A group of film students put on an all-night horror movie marathon. As marathon progresses a killer kills the students usually with the theme of the movie that is playing. 

Popcorn (2007)                                                                                                                                          Dany falls for a hot girl bus is unable to get her attention. So, he gets a job at her place of work a movie theater.   

Porno (2019)
Set in 1992 a 2-screen movie theater staffed by Christians discover a basement level with a third screen which showed adult content in the past. While exploring they find an old film reel. Curious about it they vote, and a majority of the staff decide to screen the old reel. Doing this releases a succubus trapped within the film. The succubus traps, temps and attacks the people in the theater until they are able to trap or destroy the demon. 

Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)                                                                                                                    Set during the Great Depression a waitress goes to the movies regularly. During her latest visit a charter comes off the screen from the film she is watching.   

Ruby (1977)                                                                                                                                              
16 years after Ruby's boyfriend and father of her child is killed/vows revenge; Ruby runs a Drive In employing the gang members that killed her boyfriend. The gang members/employees are killed in creative in a supernatural drive-in theme.  

Save The Cinema (2022)
Based on the true story of Liz Evans who worked to save The Lyric Cinema a local cinema and theatre in Carmarthen, Wales.  

Splendor (1989)
Splendor is the name of an old movie theater in an Italian town that is on the verge of closing due to debts and low attendance. The current owner and manager Jordan who inherited the business from his father reminisces about his past and the glory days of the theater. 

Special Mention 

Dimension 404: Episode 2: Cinethrax (2017) A film buff and his niece attend a new 3D movie that opens a gate to another dimension. They try and stop what is trying to get thru. 

Video Rental Stores in film 

I miss video rental stores where I live all of them have closed is this is the closest thing to seeing them again. These films take place or have important scenes in video rental stores.

An interesting fact is that the video rental setting is used 6 times during the 80's and 90's While 2000 to 2019 The time of Netflix, Redbox and Streaming the video rental setting is used 9 times not including the South Park special mention.  

Another interesting fact is that Blockbuster is used only twice South Park and Yes Man. The rest are independents or are portrayed as independents. 

Remote Control (1988)
A video store clerks stumbles onto an alien plot to take over earth by brainwashing people with a B grade1950s science fiction movie.

The Fisher King (1991)
After inspiring a listener's mass shooting a shock jock Jack Lucas falls apart until he starts helping Parry a man whose wife was killed in the shooting.

Clerks (1994)
A day in the lives of two clerks Dante (convince store) and Randal (video rental store) as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the roof of the store.

Scream (1996)
After the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a killer, who targets the girl and her friends by using horror films as part of a deadly game.

Superstar (1999)
A girl working for a video rental store works for attaining her dreams of fame and kissing the Big Man on Campus.

Loser (2000)
University freshman, Paul Tannek is branded a loser by his hard partying roommates and set up to be kicked out of his dorm, he gets a place off campus. After saving Dora Diamond from being overdosed at a party; he falls in love with her however she is involved with elitist Professor Edward Alcott.

Sugar and Spice (2001)
When high school cheerleader Diane gets knocked up by her boyfriend. They get married and get low paying jobs at a grocery store bank and a video rental store. Wanting to give the best life for her twins Diane and her squad mates plan to steal needed money. Researching bank robbery from movies and using their cheerleading skills, the girls devise a plan to rob a bank.

Jersey Girl (2004)
After his career is destroyed by an unexpected tragedy and a personal melt down, a single father Ollie Trinke grieves and just getting by. Until meeting a beautiful love interest Maya at a video rental store she works at; he starts to turn his life around.

I Am Legend (2007)
When an unstoppable virus that turns human race into bloodthirsty mutants, civilization's last hope for a cure lies with scientist Robert Neville, the sole survivor in New York City. Based on I Am Legend and Other Stories by Richard Mathenson[First Published in 1954].

Be Kind Rewind (2008)
A video-store employee accidentally erases every tape on the shelves, in order to stay in business, the employees try and re-create all the films, with their own camera, with a budget of zero.

Good Dick (2008)
An extreme introverted girl that rents soft-core porn from a local video rental store.  While there she meets a video store clerk who vows to win her heart.

Yes Man (2008)
Based on the memoir Yes Man by Danny Wallace [First Published in 2005]. Banker Carl Allen has gotten through a bitter divorce, lives his life going to work and watching rented videos after work. Until he goes to a self-improvement seminar; at the seminar the guru makes Carl say yes to everything that comes his way.

This Means War (2012)
A pair of best friends and CIA agents wage an epic battle against one another when they discover they are dating the same woman.

A Nightmare on Facetime (10/24/2012) Season 16; Episode 12*
The 235th episode of the series overall. Randy Marsh purchases a Blockbuster video store and demands that his reluctant family work in it on Halloween with him. Aspects of which parody the 1980 film The Shining, and an episode of The Simpson's Treehouse of Horror V: Season 6: Episode 109 (1994) Act 1: The Shinning

Beyond the Gates (2016)
After their father's disappearance, two brothers Gordon and John reunite to close down his video store. While doing this they find an old VHS board game and decide to play. On the tape, a ghostly woman offers them a way to rescue their father.

Blockbuster (2022)
A Netflix sitcom about the last Blockbuster store the manager trying to keep it open and the employees that still work there. (Netflix making this seems ironic).  (Update Netflix killed Blockbuster again). 

The Last Video Store (2023)
A woman comes to Blaster Video Store (the last video rental store in Canada) with a cursed VHS tape which results in the people at the store experiencing a strange supernatural experience. 

The Last Video Store (2023)
In a video rental store in Australia two young employees start a romantic relationship until the girls criminal ex shows up to cause trouble. 

* While several TV shows have episodes use a video rental store as a location This is a special inclusion because it covers what things were like with video rental in 2012. 
Blockbuster ceased operation in 2013 with only a few stores left only one left as of today. 

Attending Medical School | Nursing School Films

Medical School | Nursing School

Films about attending Medical School or Nursing College.

There is a combined total 35 with taking 24 including Medical College/Education with 9 under the category of Nurse College/Education. 8 are from and take place in the 21^st Century; the remaining 27 are from or take place in the 20^th century or earlier.

Medical School/Education 

Arrowsmith (1931)
Based on the book Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis [First Published in 1925] The life of Martin Arrowsmith MD. In the book Arrowsmith explores medical education as well as the various avenues of the medicine at the time; the movie cuts it down to just a few plot points.

Bad Medicine (1985)  
Based on the book Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD, and Neil Offen [First Published in 1978] Young Americans that cannot get into a medical college anywhere else go to a rundown Medical College in a fictional third world country. 

Doctor G (2022)
Medical Student Uday Gupta is unable to obtain a place in his chosen specialty in Orthopedics and to be like his personal hero and cousin Dr, Ashok Gupta. Uday is unwilling/unable to leave the city because of family enters the OBGYN program with the plan to later transfer. So, with this plan develops an attitude/last approach that offends his professor and classmates. As he is forced to confront his bias, pride he also learns about his family members and out grows his childish perceptions and works to make up for his past actions as a man and as a physician. 

Doctor In The House (1954) (1969-1975)
Based on Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon [First Published in 1952] Simon Sparrow a freshman medical student falls into a group of Playboys that are having a good time partying, playing sports, and enjoying college life.

Flatliners (1990) 
Five medical students perform dangerous near-death experiments. As they push the limits of the experiments, they begin to experience waking nightmares involving their past sins.  

Flatliners (2017) 
Inspired by the film Flatliners (1990) Five medical students experiment with near death. The first members seem to gain benefits from the process however as the experiments continue guilt and past sins start to haunt members of the group. 

Getting In (1994)
Gabriel Higgs is waitlisted for getting into John Hopkins University with six people ahead of him. So, he decided to bribe the other on the list. However, somebody is killing the wait list is with him being number 6 what kind of danger is Gabriel in? 

Going To Extremes (1992-1993)
Short lived series about American medical students going to the Caribbean for medical training and dealing with different cultural environment. 

Gross Anatomy (1989)
A first-year med student wants to become a doctor. Yet he appears not to care about anything, To the annoyance of his classmates and professors. Will he make it through gross anatomy and his first year or dropout? 

Hard Rock Medical (2013-2018)
Eight students that are Medical Students attending the Boreal Medical School in Canada. These students are participating in the school's rural medicine program.

House of God (1984)
Based on the book House of God by Samuel Shem MD [First Published in 1978] A Semi-autobiographical memoir; about a group of interns entering into the medical field. As they face tragedies and grow as professionals, they become disillusioned with the profession. 

The Interns (1962) 
Based on the novel The Interns by Richard Frede [First Published in 1960] Several Medical students began their internships and face personal and professional challenges. 

The Legendary Doctor Hur Jun (1999) Gu-am Heo Jun (2013)
Based on the life of Heo Jun a man a concubine son of a general that becomes a respected Physician and author of the most important medical text in Joseon Era Korea.  

Not As A Stranger (1955)
Based on the book Not As A Stranger by Morton Thompson [First Published in 1954] A young man that lives for medicine sacrifices almost everything to attend medical college and to have a successful medical career. After becoming a MD must deal with the limitations of medicine as well as frustrations and disillusionment of the medical system along with men and women that work in the medical field. 

Off The Map (2011) 
Three US Doctors completing their residencies go to work at a free medical clinic (200 miles away from any other medical facility) in rural South America to gain experience and learn from the established Doctors that run the clinic. 

Patch Adams (1998) 
Based on the book Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System and Society Through Physician Service Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy by Patch Adams and Maureen Mylander [First Published in 1992]. Patch decides to become a doctor to help people. Not liking the way things have been done he sets out to change the system with using humor and laughter to help the sick. 

The Physician (2013) 
Based on the novel The Physician by Noah Gordon [First Published in 1986] During the 11 Century Rob Cole apprentices to a barber surgeon; When he meets a Jewish physician trained by a Persian Academy. Rob Cole becomes determined to attend the academy. Unable to attend due to being Christian he disguises himself as a Jew and attends the academy.

Re-Animator (1985)
Inspired by the short story Herbert West Re-Animator by H.P Lovecraft [First Published in 1922] A medical student and his friend experiment with a serum that reanimates the dead to less than the desired results. Followed by two sequels Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and Beyond Re-Animator (2003). 

Scream Queens: Season 2 (2015-2016)
Several survivors from season 1 go to work at the C.U.R.E. Institute a hospital and medical college for incurable diseases, where a new costumed serial killer (or killers) known as the Green Meany stalks the halls. Attacking; Murdering the patients, staff, volunteers, visitors, and survivors of the first series. 

Scrubs: Med School (2009-2010)
In the last and final season of Scrubs (2001-2010) Sacred Heart Hospital was torn down and a med school was put in its place. With the series following a group of med students and some of the original cast teaching at the med school. 

Service to Man (2016)
Set in 1967 at Meharry Medical College a Historically Black College University located outside of Nashville, Tennessee. The college has accepted it first white student Eli where he deals with anti-white racism and distrust, along with the challenges of medical school.  As this is happening Eli develops a rivalry and a friendship with legacy student Michael Dubois.

Stitches (1985) 
Three med students pull pranks, throw wild parties, woo the girls and take on the mean Dean in the college movie. When they throw one too many pranks and their leader get kicked out will the guys be able to come up with a plan to save him?  

Summer 2007 (2007) 
After getting in over his head in politics a Medical Student decides to get out of town for a while. He convinces several of his friends/classmates to do their required community service internship at what they believe will be a modern clinic in an upper-class vacation area of India. Instead, they are sent to a poor rural area.

White Coats aka Intern Academy (2004)  
Seven student interns go to learn and work at St Albert’s Teaching Hospital the worst hospital in the Canadian Health System.  

Vital Signs (1990)
Medical students enter their third year and choose and compete for the specialties they are to enter. While dealing with personal and professional challenges. 

Nurse College/Education

4 Girls in White (1939)
Four girls enter a nurse training program for different reasons. The girls learn and grow on the journey to becoming nurses. 

Angles in White AKA Itsumademo Shiroi Hane (2018)
Rumi Kizaki is a young woman that failed to get into Japan's National University. So, she enrolls into a Nursing school as a last choice back up. As Rumi learns, interacts with classmates, and patients she realizes being a Nurse maybe more than a backup plan for her. 

The Lamp Still Burns (1943) 
Based on the book One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens [First Published in 1942] While WWII is Hilary Clarke decides to become nurse and is put through a demanding training process. As this is happening, she falls in love and must choose between staying a nurse or getting married to the man she loves.

The New Nurses AKA Sygeplejeskolen (2018-2019)
Danish TV series about the first men and their female classmates that are to train and become Nurses at a training hospital in 1950’s Denmark.

Nobody’s Baby (1937)
Failing to get into show business two friends attend Nurse School and get mixed up with a secret pregnancy/baby within a secret marriage. 

The Shift (2013) 
During a 12-night shift in the ED an experienced nurse has to train a new nurse. As the shift passes the two of them disagree about quality of life and quantity of life in regard to the people they are treating.

The Student Nurses (1970)
Four friends and student nurses become sexually liberated, learn about their chosen specialties, and are a part of issues that were relevant/going on at the time.

Tammy and the Doctor (1963) 
This is the third movie in the Tammy Tyree film series. Tammy accompanies a friend to LA where the friend is getting an operation. Not having money or a place to stay Tammy gets a job as a nursing assistant/Nurse training and starts dating a young Doctor, while her friend gets better. 

White Parade (1934) 
Students get through nursing school from first day of college to graduation.

Due to few films and TV shows I have added Nursing assistants as protagonists to add a few more titles. 

Nursing Assistants 

Disorderlies (1987) A Gambler Winslow needs money to pay off gambling debts or pay the price. The easiest way for him to get the money he needs is to inherit it from his dying uncle. To speed up the process he hires the worst orderlies in the US. However, his uncle health and vitality greatly improve under their care. This causes Winslow to go to more drastic plans. 

The Disorderly Orderly (1964) Jerome Littlefield a med student becomes an orderly. As an orderly he causes chaos due to clumsiness and a psychosomatic problem causes him to take on the symptoms that people tell him they suffer from. 

Paper Mask (1990) Based on the book Paper Mask by John Collee [First Published in 1988] Hospital orderly Matthew Harris discovers a young doctor has died so he assumes his identity and gains employment in a Casualty Dept. in another part of the country. He struggles with his new role until an experienced nurse helps him. It unravels when he makes a mistake and kills someone. 

Skelton Key (2005) Caroline Ellis a Hospice Nurse quits her job and goes to work for a New Orleans Plantation helping a take care of her husband that suffered from a stroke. At the plantation she investigates a ghost story and other mysterious happenings around the house. 

The books 

1. Gesundheit!: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System and Society Through Physician Service Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy by Patch Adams and Maureen Mylander [First Published in 1992]
2. Flatliners by Leonore Fleischer [First Published in 1990]
3. Paper Mask by John Collee [First Published in 1988]
4. The Physician by Noah Gordon [First Published in 1986]
5. Calling Dr. Horowitz by Steven Horowitz, MD, and Neil Offen [First Published in 1978]
6. House of God by Samuel Shem MD [First Published in 1978]
7. The Interns by Richard Frede [First Published in 1960]
8. Not As A Stranger by Morton Thompson [First Published in 1954]
9. Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon [First Published in 1952]
10. One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens [First Published in 1942]
11. Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis [First Published in 1925]
12. Herbert West Re-Animator by H.P Lovecraft [First Published in 1922]

Titanic Films Before During and After the Voyage

Brief history of the Titanic 

In 1908 the construction on the Titanic begins.

April 10, 1912 The Titanic sets sail on its maiden voyage

April 15, 1912 The Titanic Sinks        

May 14, 1912 The first Titanic film is premieres. 

September 1, 1985 The Titanic is found

Before the Titanic set sail 

Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012)

This is a mini-series starting with the construction of the RMS Titanic at the shipyard in Belfast, Ireland; The people who build her, and the events happening at that place and time.

Chambermaid on the Titanic (1997)

A blue-collar worker wins a contest to see the departure of the Titanic. While on the trip he shares his room with a chambermaid on the Titanic. Upon his return he learns his wife cheated on him, so he tells lies about his night with the chambermaid.

Titanic’s First and Only Voyage

Titanic (2012)

Miniseries about the maiden voyage of the Titanic told from various points of view.

Saving the Titanic (2012)

TV movie tells the story about the heroic electricians, engineers, engine room crew that keep the electric power running as the Titanic sank.

Titanic: The Legend Goes On… (2000)

Animated version of the disaster. This has a fictional Cinderella type meeting her prince aboard the ship.

The Legend of the Titanic (1999)

A mouse tells his grandchildren the true story of what happened on the Titanic. 

Titanic (1997)

James Cameron tells a story of an ill-fated love between Aristocrat Rose Bukater and starving artist Jack Dawson with the Titanic Disaster as the background.

Titanic (1996)

The miniseries tells has stories of people in different rich and poor passengers. Including a romance between a poor thief and an Irish Immigrant. 

Titanic (1984)

A made for TV movie about the Titanic hitting an iceberg and sinking. 

SOS Titanic (1979)

A made for TV movie that features stories from all three passenger classes and the crew.  

A Night To Remember (1958)

Based on A Night To Remember by, Walter Lord [First Published in 1955] The film is about the final hours of the Titanic Told from the viewpoint of the ships second officer. 

Titanic (1953)

A married couple on the verge of divorce and fighting for custody of the children board the Titanic. As this is happening their oldest daughter falls for a boy from the underclass passengers.

Titanic (1943)

A German propaganda piece that portrays Germans as being remarkably heroic during the Titanic disaster. 

Atlantic A.K.A. Titanic: Disaster in the Atlantic (1929)

This movie centers on several of the richest passengers during the voyage and disaster. 

Titanic (1912)

The first Titanic film made.

After the Disaster 

Titanic 666 (2022)

A large cruise ship following the planned route the Titanic was to take the ship begins to be haunted by the ghosts of the Titanic. 

SOS Titanic Inquiry (2012)

After the sinking of the Titanic a formal British Board of Trade inquiry was conducted. A major point was to determine if another ship, the Californian, saw the sinking ship and received its distress signals.

Titanic 2 (2010)

On an anniversary of the original departure of the Titanic a modern luxury liner named Titanic 2 follows the same path. While on the voyage a tidal wave sends an iceberg on a collision course with the ship. 

Doctor Who: Voyage of the Dammed (2007)

The Doctor finds a space cruise ship based on the RMS Titanic. The space Titanic has been sabotaged and set on a collision course with Earth. Will the Doctor save the day?

In Search on the Titanic (2004)

An animated adventure about a group of friends that help the King of Atlantis recover the Titanic.  

Britannic (2000)

Britannic was a sister ship of the Titanic. During WWI; the Britannic was pressed into service as a hospital ship and was sank in 1916. The story is a fictional story of what may have happened on the ship on its final voyage before it sank. 

TITanic 2000 (1999)

This is sex comedy about a lesbian vampire looking for her queen upon the doomed Titanic 2000. 

Raise the Titanic (1980) 

The US government need a rare mineral for a weapon to keep the USSR at bay discover that a large supply sank with the Titanic. To get the mineral The US Navy finds and raises the Titanic. Based on the novel Raise the Titanic! By, Clive Cussler [First Published in 1976].