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1) The promise
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Empires fall, love survives. When Michael, a brilliant medical student, meets Ana, their shared Armenian heritage sparks an attraction that explodes into a romantic rivalry between Michael and Ana's boyfriend Chris, a famous American photojournalist dedicated to exposing political truth. As the Ottoman Empire crumbles into war torn chaos, their conflicting passions must be deferred while they join forces to get their people to safety and survive themselves....
2) Vital
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日本語
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Hiroshi Takagi (played by the fantastic Tadanobu Asano - Zatoichi, Ichi the Killer), a young man in his 20s, awakens in a hospital bed to find an auto accident has completely wiped his memory away. Back home with his parents and attempting to rebuild his life, he comes across a medical textbook full of detailed drawings of dissection. Utterly fascinated by the subject, Hiroshi is drawn to the medical school to which he was once accepted, but refused...
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Bette Davis rose from the ranks of Warner Bros. contract players to become a screen superstar when she was loaned out to RKO to appear in John Cromwell's adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage. Leslie Howard (Gone with the wind) stars as Philip, a British medical student who becomes infatuated with a most unlikely woman: a vulgar waitress named Mildred (Davis). Undeterred by Mildred's obvious contempt of him (and her disgust for his...
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The film follows a group of medical students who discover a way to bring dead patients back to life. After a successful, yet unsanctioned, trial on a newly deceased animal, the team is ready to unveil their breakthrough to the world. When the dean of their university learns of their underground experiments, their project is unexpectedly shut down and their materials confiscated.
5) The Cuban
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When a naïve pre-med student gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis, an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
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Raised in smoky card rooms by her poker-playing father, Alicia "Ace" Anderson leaves the world of back-street gambling behind her to enroll at medical school. With mounting debts, Alicia has few options but to return to the casino. But this time she recruits a crack team of fellow students, all highly trained in the art of betting and bluffing. Together they have only one thing in mind-- to take on the world's greatest players and bring down the house....
8) Virus X
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English
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A group of medical scientists are quarantined inside their lab after being infected with a deadly hyper-mutant form of the H1N1 virus. With only three days left to live, they have no way to escape and no way out. While the deceitful head doctor monitors them from a hidden surveillance room, the scientists must uncover the harrowing truth behind their detainment and force their own way to freedom.
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Mary is a medical student growing increasingly broke and disenchanted with medical school and the established doctors she once idolized. The allure of easy money sends a desperate Mary through the messy world of underground surgeries which leaves more marks on her than the so-called freakish clientele.
11) Re-animator
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English
Description
A dedicated medical student and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue, when an odd new student arrives on campus.
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"Alison Blanchard begins her journey to become a physician in her Gross Anatomy class, where she must confront rows of cadavers and her own fear of mortality. When the sheets are drawn back revealing her cadaver, Alison senses a presence in the lab. Her jaded professor chalks it up to first year "jitters, " but her worries increase when a friend is found dead in the basement. Alison must find out the truth behind her cadaver before its angered spirit...
13) Her stolen past
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English
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Faith is all a Johns Hopkins medical student has left when she returns home and discovers a birth certificate of a kidnapped baby in her late mother's closet.
15) The last descent
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English
Description
"When John returned home from medical school to visit with his wife and daughter, he could not have anticipated that his mortal journey would end 28 hours later, at the dead end of a popular cave. Despite the efforts of rescue crews, they were not able to free John's body from the narrow tunnel where he became stuck while exploring with friends. But that doesn't mean that John and others weren't saved in a real sense that day. The power of love and...
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"Deep within the morgue at Miskatonic University, madman Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) introduces fellow graduate student Dan Cain (Bruce Abbott) to his formula for the re-animation of fresh corpses. Get ready to experience one of the most outrageously inventive, over-the-top classic horror films of all time"--Container.
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In an attempt to revive his dearly departed friend, young medical student John Watson becomes obsessed with replicating the work of Dr. Victor Frankenstein; the legendary corpse engineer whose research produced the only re-animated corpse to possess a soul. But when his illegal experiments put him at odds with the British government, Watson is drafted into a worldwide race to find the lost research notes of Victor Frankenstein before the secrets of...
18) Of human bondage
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English
Description
The story of the ill-fated romance between a well-to-do club-footed medical student and a vulgar waitress.
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English
Description
Home town story: "As a journalist at the Herald, Blake Washburn (Lynn), takes on big business as an enemy of the people, blaming corporations for his political defeat. When tragedy strikes, Washburn must re-examine his views" ... Of human bondage: "An illiterate waitress begins a whirlwind love affair with an artistic and sensitive medical student. But when the waitress can't seem to stay faithful, the student must decide whether to continue investing...
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