Though movies often take viewers on journeys to the unfamiliar, some are modeled around real places and events. Films about medical school have engrossed viewers with sensationalized takes on the lives of medical interns and students. Here are top five movies revolving around the sleep-deprived and adrenaline-charged arenas of medical study:
Of Human Bondage (1934)
Leslie Howards stars as struggling artist-turned- medical student Philip Carey in this movie of unreciprocated love. Bette Davis stars as the object of Carey’s affection, Mildred, a manipulative illiterate tearoom waitress, who haunts Carey’s daydreams in med school. This movie showcased Davis’ acting prowess as the overbearing Mildred whom Howards’ character is obsessively shackled to while completing med school.
Bad Medicine (1985)
After being rejected by every American medical school, Jeffrey Marx is sent off by his father to a medical school of questionable rank somewhere in Central America. Marx falls head over heels with a classmate but answers a noble calling by providing illegal medical assistance to the poor villagers.
Gross Anatomy (1989)
Joe Slovak starts his first year in med school with a bang, his wayward manners earning him laughs from classmates and rebuke from his strict professor. See how Slovak deals with the rigors of med school, prove his worth to an overbearing teacher and win over a career-driven classmate’s heart while staying true to himself.
Vital Signs (1990)
While vying for internship in a hospital, a group of medical students realize that getting into hospitals isn’t as peachy as it seems. Two third year medical students from opposite sides of the spectrum try to garner the illustrious position, while nursing their own grievances. LA Central Medical school not only teaches them about easing other’s sufferings, but also their own.
Anatomy (2000)
Franka Potente stars in this German film about stellar student Paula Henning’s internship at the University of Heidelberg Medical School. When a second meeting with a man she rode on the train with happens on her dissecting table, Paula questions where and how the school procures its specimens. As a number of her classmates mysteriously drop dead along the length of the course, she discovers a secret group of students performing autopsies on live people.
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