Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "bone-marrow-transplant"

1. Ripley's Game (2002)

R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.

Director: Liliana Cavani | Stars: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Lena Headey, Ray Winstone

Votes: 19,449

2. Seven Pounds (2008)

PG-13 | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

Director: Gabriele Muccino | Stars: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy

Votes: 315,182 | Gross: $69.95M

3. The Rainmaker (1997)

PG-13 | 135 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

An underdog lawyer takes on a fraudulent insurance company.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Matt Damon, Danny DeVito, Claire Danes, Jon Voight

Votes: 82,863 | Gross: $45.86M

4. Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

R | 86 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.

Director: Michael Davis | Stars: Clive Owen, Monica Bellucci, Paul Giamatti, Stephen McHattie

Votes: 155,009 | Gross: $12.81M

5. Desperate Measures (1998)

R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Frank Conner is an honest police officer who desperately needs to save his son's life. However, after losing all hope, he finds out that a criminal Peter McCabe in jail is his only savior.

Director: Barbet Schroeder | Stars: Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia, Brian Cox, Marcia Gay Harden

Votes: 17,858 | Gross: $13.81M

6. Guardians of the Formula (2023)

120 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In 1958, during the Cold War, two scientists, two worlds, and two ideologies faced a race for survival at the Vinca Scientific Institute near Belgrade.

Director: Dragan Bjelogrlic | Stars: Alexis Manenti, Radivoje Bukvic, Lionel Abelanski, Jérémie Laheurte

Votes: 3,055

7. Marvin's Room (1996)

PG-13 | 98 min | Drama

After seventeen years, a fiercely independent woman and her rebellious son return home and together they turn the family she left behind upside down.

Director: Jerry Zaks | Stars: Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro

Votes: 30,015 | Gross: $12.78M

8. Kill Zone 2 (2015)

Not Rated | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

While undercover officer Kit is taken prisoner by the syndicate, he befriends his keeper and discovers an organ trafficking ring.

Director: Soi Cheang | Stars: Tony Jaa, Jing Wu, Simon Yam, Jin Zhang

Votes: 7,257

9. My Little Sister (2020)

99 min | Drama

Lisa has bid goodbye to her ambitions as a playwright and the Berlin arts scene and now lives in Switzerland with her husband, who runs an international school. When her twin brother falls ill, she returns to Berlin.

Directors: Stéphanie Chuat, Véronique Reymond | Stars: Nina Hoss, Lars Eidinger, Marthe Keller, Jens Albinus

Votes: 1,341

10. Jung (2000)

147 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A police officer is in a frantic search for a compatible bone-marrow donor for his gravely-ill son. The only match is a convicted vicious killer who is now on the run. All he has to do is catch him.

Director: Sanjay Gupta | Stars: Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Aditya Pancholi, Raveena Tandon

Votes: 442

11. Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)

105 min | Drama

Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to ... See full summary »

Director: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Stars: Michèle Laroque, Amir Ben Abdelmoumen, Max von Sydow, Amira Casar

Votes: 1,619

12. A Christmas Tale (2008)

Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Drama

The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny

Votes: 7,563 | Gross: $1.06M

13. Strange Relations (2001 TV Movie)

R | 106 min | Drama, Comedy

A 39 y.o. NYC Jewish shrink has leukemia. His mom tells him that he was adopted from a teen Catholic girl in Liverpool, UK. He visits his bio mom and finds that he has two brothers (bone marrow donor?).

Director: Paul Seed | Stars: Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl, George Wendt

Votes: 813

14. Chernobyl: The Final Warning (1991 TV Movie)

Unrated | 95 min | Drama, History

True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl and how one American specialist, Dr. Robert Gale, helped the soviet doctors treat the survivors.

Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Jon Voight, Jason Robards, Sammi Davis, Annette Crosbie

Votes: 343

15. My Brother's Keeper (1995 TV Movie)

Unrated | 94 min | Biography, Drama

A man and his HIV-positive twin take an insurance company to court over a possibly life-saving bone marrow transplant.

Director: Glenn Jordan | Stars: John Lithgow, Annette O'Toole, Veronica Cartwright, Zeljko Ivanek

Votes: 142

16. The Heart of Christmas (2011 TV Movie)

TV-G | 86 min | Drama, Family

The Locke family is devastated when they learn that their 2-year-old son Dax has leukemia.

Director: Gary Wheeler | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Jeanne Neilson, Christopher Shone, Nicholas Shone

Votes: 1,237

17. Yesterday Once More (2004)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Romance blossoms again for a divorced jewel-thief couple as they try to rekindle the love they once had for each.

Director: Johnnie To | Stars: Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Jenny Hu, Carl Ng

Votes: 994

18. A Bizarre Love Triangle (2002)

93 min | Comedy

Eun-hee is an extravagant and selfish woman who lives a life of luxury. She constantly swears, acts extremely careless, and is unashamedly tactless. Yet she somehow manages to be loved by ... See full summary »

Director: Mu-yeong Lee | Stars: Kong Hyo-jin, Jo Eun-ji, Choi Kwang-il, Baek Hyeon-jin

Votes: 174

19. A Call to Arms (2009)

85 min | Documentary, History, War

The eyewitness story of the illegal U.S. and U.K. military anthrax vaccination programs, which is recommended by Montel Williams as the Must-See Documentary of the Year. Because of the ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Miller | Stars: Michael Douglas, Linda Hamilton, Scott Miller, Melissa Mosich Miller

Votes: 60

20. Favorite Son (2001)

Not Rated | 91 min | Drama

Claudia Maccari, an Italian doctor who has a Brazilian adopted son suffering from leukemia, goes to Rio de Janeiro to find the child's biological mother for a transplant. She is reluctantly helped by a Detective.

Director: Walter Lima Jr. | Stars: Ornella Muti, Reginaldo Faria, Claudio Marzo, Alessandra Negrini

Votes: 53

21. Kalippattam (1993)

130 min | Drama

A poor man gets a chance to turn his life when his wealthy employer's terminally ill daughter decides to marry him.

Director: Venu Nagavalli | Stars: Mohanlal, Urvashi, Kalpana, Prem Kumar

Votes: 260

22. The Setting Son (1997)

95 min | Drama

Cal is torn between his aspirations of becoming an Olympic athlete and helping his brother Max battle leukemia. Can he find the courage to reach out to his dying sibling?

Director: Lisa C. Satriano | Stars: Dave Oliver, Tania-Lee Bayliss, Blake Beltram, Franca Benvenuto

Votes: 33

23. Histoire de famille (2006)

165 min | Comedy, Drama

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Director: Michel Poulette | Stars: Maxim Roy, Juliette Gosselin, Serge Thériault, Evelyne Rompré

Votes: 122

24. Second Chance (2006 TV Movie)

28 min | Documentary

Second Chance is a documentary that tells the compelling stories of people who now have a Second Chance at life by receiving organ and tissue transplants. This program tells the ... See full summary »

Director: Todd J. Robertson | Stars: Jim Nabors, Chris Klug, Paul Walker

25. Transplant + Life (2019)

80 min | Documentary

An ordinary families life is disrupted after they discover their new born son as has a deadly genetic disease. Armed with only love and faith they spend the next 6 months in the transplant hospital to try and save their young boy's life.

Director: Victor Nieto | Stars: Lupe Buzo, Rick Buzo

Votes: 10

26. Death & Life (2009)

28 min | Short, Drama

Just as he is about to be executed, a killer learns that he is the only bone marrow match for a young girl dying of leukemia. He'll donate his marrow - if - the governor commutes his death sentence.

Director: Michael Chasin | Stars: Mia Terez Deuschle, Michael Jacques, Jayne Irelan, Lisa Eva Gold

27. Nurse Love Obsession (2020 Video Game)

M | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A collection featuring Nurse Love Syndrome (2011) and Nurse Love Addiction (2015) for Nintendo Switch.

Stars: Kana Asumi, Eri Kitamura, Asami Imai, Yumi Hara

Votes: 8

28. Nurse Love Syndrome (2011 Video Game)

T | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Kaori Sawai is the newest member of the Yurigahama Hospital staff. As a survivor of a near fatal accident from her childhood, Kaori is determined to become a nurse and help others like she herself was helped.

Stars: Kana Asumi, Eri Kitamura, Asami Imai, Yumi Hara

29. The Bold Ones: The New Doctors (1969–1973)
Episode: The Rebellion of the Body (1969)

60 min | Drama

An explosion in a chemotherapy lab leaves Dr. Paul Hunter with extensive exposure to radiation, and a severely weakened immune system.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: E.G. Marshall, David Hartman, John Saxon, William Smithers

Votes: 11

30. Knight Rider (1982–1986)
Episode: Race for Life (1984)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Crime, Drama

April's adopted niece Becky needs a bone marrow transplant within 72 hours to stay alive. Michael tracks down the only available donor, Julio Rodriguez, a gang-member who is wanted for the murder of a gang leader.

Director: Georg Fenady | Stars: David Hasselhoff, Edward Mulhare, Rebecca Holden, Lynne Marta

Votes: 279

31. Lifestories (1990–1991)
Episode: The Hawkins Family (1990)

Drama

A boy's life threatening bone-marrow disorder forces his parents to search for a child they gave up for adoption 15 years earlier

Director: Charles Siebert | Stars: Robert Prosky, Chris Cooper, Joe Howard, Nicky Katt

Votes: 5

32. Medical Investigation (2004–2005)
Episode: Little Girl (2004)

Drama, Mystery

A car with deadly ill people crashes into another car.

Director: Paul Holahan | Stars: Neal McDonough, Kelli Williams, Christopher Gorham, Anna Belknap

Votes: 16

33. Popular (1999–2001)
Episode: The Consequences of Falling (2000)

TV-14 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Harrison's roommate Clarence passes away sending Harrison into a depression that leads to a suicide attempt and a glimpse of what life would have been like if he had never been born, by his guardian angel.

Director: Michael M. Robin | Stars: Leslie Bibb, Carly Pope, Tamara Mello, Christopher Gorham

Votes: 77

34. The Rookies (1972–1976)
Episode: The Wheel of Death (1973)

TV-PG | 51 min | Crime, Drama

Widower father Frank Essex (Mike Farrell) targets a local criminal organization to pay for his son's hospital stay. On the run from both sides of the law, he doesn't know that he's the only donor who can save the boy's life.

Director: Michael Caffey | Stars: Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson

Votes: 20

35. Balthazar (2018–2023)
Episode: La dette (2019)

TV-14 | 49 min | Crime, Thriller

After hearing an emergency call from a distressed teenager, Bach arrives at a peculiar crime scene: an empty car with smashed windows and a trunk full of snakes.

Director: Jérémy Minui | Stars: Tomer Sisley, Hélène de Fougerolles, Yannig Samot, Philypa Phoenix

Votes: 70

36. ReGenesis (2004–2008)
Episode: What It Feels Like (2008)

TV-14 | 47 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Parents of a sick child reach out to Mayko.

Director: Farhad Mann | Stars: Peter Outerbridge, Wendy Crewson, Conrad Pla, Dmitry Chepovetsky

Votes: 33

37. Frühling (2011– )
Episode: Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst (2021)

89 min | Drama

The old farmer Franz Gruckler is in the hospital and the young Lilly is taking care for the mountain farm of Franz Gruckler.This morning Lilly opens the shutters of the house and some ... See full summary »

Director: Dirk Pientka | Stars: Simone Thomalla, Christoph M. Ohrt, Kristo Ferkic, Johannes Herrschmann

Votes: 22

38. True Life (1998–2020)
Episode: I Need a Transplant (2010)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Romance

Filmed from July to October on two young adults that needed a transplant of some sort. The first Craig Brandmeier needed and received a Bone Marrow Transplant from his half-matched brother ... See full summary »

Votes: 6

39. Invisible Wars (2021)
Episode: Creatures of Contagion (2021)

Documentary

Dr Norman Swan presents the compelling stories of scientists, doctors and public health experts who fight the deadly viruses that cross-over from animals to humans.

Director: Emma Watts | Stars: Timothy Ray Brown, Matt Cooper, Mark Honigsbaum, Sharon Lewin

40. The Infographics Show (2011– )
Episode: Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion Disaster Explained (Hour by Hour) (2022)

29 min | Documentary, Animation

In 1986 the unbriefed night shift operators of a Chernobyl nuclear reactor are directed to conduct a third simulated power outage as a safety test. The previous two tests were unsuccessful ... See full summary »

41. SciShow (2012– )
Episode: The First CRISPR Gene Therapy Is Here (2024)

13 min | Documentary, Talk-Show

Medical treatments that cure Sickel Cell Disease are finally available with new gene therapy technology. They are unpleasant, expensive and highly effective but often well worth it ... See full summary »

Star: Reid Reimers

42. Orphan Black (2013–2017)
Episode: Things Which Have Never Yet Been Done (2014)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Cosima takes a turn for the worse, forcing Sarah to take desperate action - with tragic consequences for those she loves. The Proletheans set their ultimate plan in motion. Alison and Donnie tangle with the law.

Director: T.J. Scott | Stars: Tatiana Maslany, Dylan Bruce, Jordan Gavaris, Kevin Hanchard

Votes: 1,446

43. The Resident (2018–2023)
Episode: No Matter the Cost (2018)

TV-14 | 44 min | Drama

As Conrad battles a group of overly aggressive attending physicians on behalf of a patient with a mysterious chronic ailment, he also must face off against his father who has shown up at ... See full summary »

Director: David Rodriguez | Stars: Matt Czuchry, Emily VanCamp, Manish Dayal, Moran Atias

Votes: 682

44. Magnum P.I. (2018–2024)
Episode: Die He Said (2018)

TV-14 | 40 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A man dying of lymphoma hires Magnum to find his estranged, bone-marrow-compatible brother, who also needs his help.

Director: Peter Weller | Stars: Jay Hernandez, Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill

Votes: 624

45. S.W.A.T. (2017– )
Episode: Day Off (2018)

TV-14 | 42 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Hondo's sister calls him after she gets drugged in a club and Honda goes on the guy's trail while the rest of the team inadvertently lets a hostage out of their sight who turns out to be a suspect in a state-wide manhunt.

Director: Lexi Alexander | Stars: Shemar Moore, Stephanie Sigman, Alex Russell, Lina Esco

Votes: 425

46. The Good Doctor (2017–2024)
Episode: Quarantine Part Two (2019)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

Dr. Murphy feels overwhelmed by the chaos and noise. Dr. Reznick tries to keep her patients alive and Dr. Lim fights for her life.

Director: Mike Listo | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Nicholas Gonzalez, Antonia Thomas, Tamlyn Tomita

Votes: 1,598