A black doctor ex-convict returns to the all-white town he knows as home and discovers a deadly disease threatening the citizens. He must fight prejudice and time if he is to save the town.
Casts Philip Michael Thomas, Harlan Cary Poe, Josie Johnson, Peter H. Clune, William Magerman, Connie Van Ess, "Cousin Brucie" Morrow, Raina Barrett, Kevin Andre, Rhonda Fultz
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Chrome Soldiers
Rosemary's Baby
The Manchurian Candidate
The China Syndrome
Chinatown
Dead Man
Wild Things
JFK
All the President's Men
Only
Brief Encounter
Doc's Kingdom
The Lotus Eaters
The Naked Island
Red Beard
Subway in the Sky
Calling Dr. Gillespie
Evil Under the Sun
Kaalapani
80,000 Suspects
SIMILAR MOVIES
Chrome Soldiers
IMDB 3.8 | May , 1992
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.Rosemary's Baby
IMDB 7.8 | Jun , 1968
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.The Manchurian Candidate
IMDB 7.5 | Oct , 1962
Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.The China Syndrome
IMDB 7.1 | Mar , 1979
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.Chinatown
IMDB 7.9 | Jun , 1974
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.Dead Man
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1995
On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.Wild Things
IMDB 6.4 | Mar , 1998
When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...JFK
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1991
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.All the President's Men
IMDB 7.7 | Apr , 1976
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.Only
IMDB 5.2 | Mar , 2020
After a comet releases a mysterious virus that begins to kill all of the women in the world, a young couple's relationship is severely tested. They hide out (from both the illness and the savages who hunt the remaining women) in their over-sterilized apartment. Ultimately the duo escapes their self-imposed quarantine to head to the wilderness.Brief Encounter
IMDB 7.7 | Nov , 1945
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.Doc's Kingdom
IMDB 5.4 | Sep , 1988
An angry young man goes to Europe to find his father, a '60s radical turned doctor in exile.The Lotus Eaters
IMDB 7 | Sep , 1993
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.The Naked Island
IMDB 8 | Nov , 1960
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.Red Beard
IMDB 8.1 | Mar , 1965
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.Subway in the Sky
IMDB 5.7 | Nov , 1959
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.Calling Dr. Gillespie
IMDB 6.5 | Aug , 1942
Dr. Kildare's friend Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.Evil Under the Sun
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 1982
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.Kaalapani
IMDB 7.8 | Apr , 1996
Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani in Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses sufferings of hundreds of Indian prisoners there.80,000 Suspects
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 1963
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.