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One of the great horror anthology films, and Bava's personal favorite of his works, Black sabbath solidified the director's reputation as Europe's maestro of the macabre. In "The telephone," a woman is haunted by menacing phone calls from a former lover. "The Wurdulak" stars Boris Karloff as a vampire hunter whose family is stalked by the wandering spirit of an undead ghoul. "A drop of water" involves a nurse who steals a ring from a corpse-not realizing...
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A powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman₂s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
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Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns that the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other.
7) Anzac girls
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Based on true events, this uplifting drama tells the story of five Australian and New Zealand nurses during World War I. Drawing on the real participants' diaries and letters, this six-part drama celebrates the contributions of women to the war effort.
8) Homecoming
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A self-centered society doctor goes to war and finds himself changed by it, and falls deeply in love with a nurse, despite having a wife waiting for him at home.
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"In this program, Ken Kesey, Kesey scholar John Clark Pratt, psychiatrist and critic Frank Pittman, 'Rolling Stone's' Jann Wenner, 1960's icon Wavy Gravy, and others set 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'--an indictment of Eisinhower Era conformity--within the context of its times. Together they talk about the novel, the Academy Award-winning movie, and Kesey's role as leader of the Merry Pranksters and the star of the West Coast psychedelic scene....
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A haunting thriller set in an isolated castle in 1950s Tuscany, it tells the story of Verena, a determined young nurse who is hired to help the mute young heir within. But the more she observes him, the more Verena becomes convinced he has fallen under the spell of a powerful and otherworldly persona trapped in the villa's stone walls, one that seems to be rapidly entwining with her own.
12) Awake
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A man wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. His nurse Diana is unable to find any identification and refers to him as John Doe. The police barge into the hospital, accusing John of being a serial killer responsible for the murder of several young women in the area. As the mystery man is ushered into a private room for questioning, he manages to escape with the help of Diana, who is convinced of his innocence...
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Meet the opinionated, manipulative Nan; the Aga Saga Woman who simply can't cope with major disasters like a dropped egg cleaver; Paul and Sam, the impossibly excited couple; Bunty, the Doncaster spinners oldest majorette; Margaret, who is frightened of her own shadow; Bernie, the Irish nurse; Ben and Karen, the sleep starved new parents; Elaine Figgis, the eternal romantic engaged to a convicted murderer on death row; and Lauren, the teenager who...
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Set in a women's extended-care unit of a California hospital, the story follows the daily lives of a ragtag staff assigned to care for elderly patients who are, well, getting on. Nurse DiDi is the no-nonsense newbie, Unit veteran Nurse Dawn is tasked with training DiDi, but winds up obsessing over male Supervising Nurse Patsy. Disgruntled Dr. Jenna James continues her above-it-all temper tantrums despite being given a fresh start.
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The series takes place in the geriatric wing of a struggling hospital and follows a staff of overworked doctors and nurses and their elderly patients. Though the tone is darkly comic, this critically-acclaimed series addresses very real issues such as death, hopelessness, abusive patients and how to survive a high-stress work environment. The hospital's care workers do whatever it takes to stay sane while dealing with unruly patients, their children...
16) Greta
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Pedro, a 70-year-old gay nurse and a big fan of Greta Garbo, needs to find an empty bed in the hospital where he works to save his best friend, Daniela. To do so he decides to help Jean, a criminal in police custody, escape from the premises. But then, worried about Jean₂s health, Pedro sets the criminal up in his apartment to treat his wounds. The two wind up having a highly-charged affair that brings to the surface Pedro's won solitude, now augmented...
17) Puncture
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Mike Weiss is a talented young Houston lawyer and a functioning drug addict. Paul Danziger, his longtime friend and partner, is the straight-laced and responsible yin to Mike's yang. Their mom-and-pop personal injury law firm is getting by, but things really get interesting when they decide to take on a case involving Vicky, a local ER nurse, who is pricked by a contaminated needle on the job. As Weiss and Danziger dig deeper into the case, heavyweight...
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Follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie Fraser, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
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Jude is a single mother who descends from a long line of Jamaican caregivers. Silence is a "past his prime" boxer who fights illegally to survive. Ciel is a boy who delves into music, conjuring dreams for his mother. During the last week of summer, a late-night brawl finds the fighter in the nurse's care, causing their three fates to be forever entwined.
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