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Plot Summary:
Kitajima Daichi has wanted to join the rescue squad and wear the same orange uniform ever since he was saved by them as a child. When the squad calls for young firefighters to join, he and some other men take the challenge to go through the tough training. Together, they live through hard times and joy as they save lives while living on the edge themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
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Pure Japanese (2022)
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Action actor Tateishi Daisuke who struggles with loneliness after suffering a traumatic experience due to an accident during filming. One day, he comes across a senior high school girl Ayumi who is being harassed consistently by Chinese brokers and the local yakuza. He decides to protect her from them. However, after this incident, he comes to develop a mindset of seeing violence as a way to gain the affirmation and approval of others thus gradually loses himself and behaves in an extreme manner.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min
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Rush Into Danger (2019)
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Three medical personnel from different backgrounds end up in the same aviation rescue team, thus starting a hot-blooded story about overcoming obstacles and saving lives.
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Genere: Action, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 40 min
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Ireland (2004)
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Ireland is a 2004 South Korean television series starring Lee Na-young, Kim Min-joon, Kim Min-jung and Hyun Bin. It aired on MBC from September 1 to October 21, 2004 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, tearjerker
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Rescue Special Ops (2009)
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Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Group with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government. This drama series focuses on a team of experienced professional paramedics who specialise in rescue operations. It premiered on Sunday 2 August 2009, and the season finale of the first season aired on Sunday 25 October. A second season screened from 28 June 2010. The third and final season consisting of 22 episodes screened from 30 May 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed it will not be renewing Rescue Special Ops for a fourth season.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama
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Eric LaRue (2023)
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Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor’s pleas to heal her wounds by meeting with the mothers of her son’s victims.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
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Penitent (2017)
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After being imprisoned for dangerous driving, causing the death of a child and possession of illegal substances, Jason Buckley is finding it difficult to adjust to life outside prison.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min
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When Duty Calls (2017)
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Xu Long Bin is a reservist officer who saved Chen Jin Bao's life during a military exercise. Instead of being grateful, Jin Bao blames Long Bin for his damaged car. From then, the duo never see eye to eye. Lu Jun Guang becomes their mediator and the three men eventually became friends. Jun Guang is in love with Shen Yi Xuan, who cannot get over the memory of her dead boyfriend. While Bai Jing Yu, Jun Guang's childhood friend, is always at his side through thick and thin. New recruit Yao Wei Guo dislikes Yang Xian Feng and constantly picks on him. But Xian Feng proves himself to be a kind and compassionate buddy, and they eventually become good friends. Their friendship is tested when they fall in love with the same girl. Long Bin, Jun Guang and Jin Bao are patrolling a restricted military area when they encounter a terrorist attack. Will they be able to put their military skills to good use and stop the terrorist attack?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6
Genere: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, serious, captivating, realistic
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Genya (2010)
Plot Summary:
A man inadvertently kills his uncle. A woman witnesses this act. These two people fall in love and flee to Tokyo. A detective investigates their past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Anti-Terrorism Investigators (2009)
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Gaiji Keisatsu is a Japanese television drama mini-series that aired on NHK from 14 November 2009 to 19 December 2009. It is based on the novel of the same name written and released in Japan by Aso Iku. The TV show follow a female police officer who was recruited into the Tokyo Metropolitan Police's anti-terrorist black ops unit known "publicly" as the Fourth Foreign Affairs Section, created after the 9/11 events in the United States. Its purpose is to tackle espionage and terrorism cases happening in Japan. The franchise consists of the novel, the TV series and an upcoming 2012 movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 53 min
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Stromboli (2022)
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Haunted by memories of her broken marriage and a fight with her daughter, a woman joins an intense self-help retreat when her vacation goes awry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
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Steel River Blues (2004)
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Steel River Blues is a British television drama serial first broadcast in September 2004 on ITV. based on the working and private lives of a group of firefighters in Middlesbrough. Critics were quick to dub the new drama "Middlesbrough's Burning" or "Teesside's Burning", after the popular fire-fighting drama that preceded it, London's Burning, yet there were very few similarities between the two, apart from them being about the business of firefighting. Like its predecessor, Steel River Blues was an ensemble drama without any single starring part, though perhaps the best-known actor was Daniel Casey, who was previously a co-star in ITV's ratings banker, Midsomer Murders. The show's title song was performed by Middlesbrough-born Chris Rea. It was announced in January 2005 that the series would not be recommissioned.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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On Wings Of Eagles (1986)
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When executives from an important Texas Corporation are taken hostage during the Iranian Revolution, magnate Ross Perot launches a special unit for their rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: political, political thriller
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Notre-Dame (2022)
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As the Paris firefighters try to stop the flames from spreading in the Cathedral, the show also follows characters being put through the wringer - they will have to fight each other, love each other, come across each other, hate each other, smile at or help each other - so that, in the end, they may have a chance to start all over again.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 297 min
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Mother (2010)
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Mother is a Japanese television drama that aired on Nippon TV between 14 April and 23 June 2010, starring Matsuyuki Yasuko.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, suspense, realistic, captivating, tear jerker, tearjerker
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TOKYO MER: Mobile Emergency Room (2021)
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TOKYO MER is formed by order from the Governor of Tokyo. The name of the group stands for TOKYO Mobile Emergency Room. The members are emergency care professionals and they are to go to sites of dangerous accidents and disasters by ER car. Their ER car is a large vehicle equipped with the latest medical devices and an operating area. There, TOKYO MER saves lives of the injured. Kōta Kitami is a doctor for TOKYO MER and its leader. He holds a strong conviction that, regardless of the dangers, he will go to accident sites to save lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Guard (2008)
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The Guard is a Canadian drama television series portraying the life of the Canadian Coast Guard along the British Columbia Coast. Filming takes place in Squamish, British Columbia with Howe Sound standing in for the fictional Port Hallet and a real 47-foot Coast Guard lifeboat Cape St. James has been renamed Cape Pacific for the series. The show primarily revolves around the four main characters: Miro Da Silva, Laura Nelson, Andrew Vanderlee, and Carly Greig. There is also a strong supporting cast, including Gordon Michael Woolvett, who worked with Bacic previously on Andromeda, and Eve Harlow, who won a 2009 Leo Award for her role on the show. The show focuses on both the professional and personal lives of the lead characters, confronting issues such as addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, and family problems. It was picked up by Ion premiering March 13, 2010. By late April, it was put on hiatus on the basis that it "did not find a broad enough audience on the network", explained a spokesperson. It subsequently aired for a period on the ION Life digital channel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 283
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, exciting, touching, serious
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Mountain Medic (2008)
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A medic lives with his small and strange family between the mountains and every episode he comes across a situation with not only his patients but also his family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, disturbing, bleak, suspense
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Under Fire (2021)
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A tight-knit and headstrong group of firefighters gets shook up by an abrupt change of leadership. After a fatal error during an intervention they come under scrutiny and have to fight for the survival of their beloved fire station "Post Oosteroever".
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Valor (2017)
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The boundaries between military discipline and human desire are tested on a U.S. Army base that houses an elite unit of helicopter pilots trained to perform clandestine international and domestic missions. The drama unfolds in the present as well as in flashbacks to a failed mission involving one of the first female pilots in the unit, ultimately uncovering layers of personal and government/military secrets and leading to a season-long plan to rescue a group of MIA soldiers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful
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Stolen Life (2016)
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Love, treachery, sin, redemption, difficult decisions and surprising twists are the basis of dramatic story in the series "Stolen Life", which being played out against the backdrop of extreme life of the medical profession.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: medical drama, suspenseful, touching, captivating, tense, exciting
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Saved (2006)
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“Saved” chronicles medical school dropout turned paramedic Wyatt Cole, who finds the breakneck pace of his 24-hour shift a welcome escape from his inner demons.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, psychological, serious, medical drama, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Ten Commandments (2005)
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When an oracle prophesizes that a child will become Prince of Egypt, a time of danger approaches the kingdom. The Egyptian Pharaoh orders the massacre of all newborn males. But one child, Moses-the son of a Hebrew slave-escapes certain death when he is set adrift on the Nile. As years pass, he is raised in a royal Egyptian household and, with no memory of his family, rises to the stature of prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, and inspired by a fiery message from God, Moses embarks upon a noble and desperate fight to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: biblical, exciting, epic, serious
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Trauma (2009)
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When emergencies occur, the trauma team from San Francisco City Hospital is first on the scene, traveling by land, by sea or by air to reach their victims in time. From the heights of the city's Transamerica Pyramid to the depths of the San Francisco Bay, these heroes must face the most extreme conditions to save lives, and give meaning to their own existence in the process.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, exciting
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SkyMed (2022)
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Life, death and drama at 20,000 feet. The series weaves together intense character journeys and high-stakes medical rescues, as we follow the triumphs, heartbreaks and tribulations of budding nurses and pilots flying air ambulances in remote Northern Canada. They’re all in over their heads, and on their own, with no one to rely on but each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, medical drama, queer cinema
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High Water (2022)
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In 1997, scientists and local government officials in Wrocław face life-and-death decisions when a destructive flood wave threatens the city.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: historical drama, political
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The Cleaner (2008)
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After hitting rock-bottom from his own addictions during the birth of his twins, William Banks strikes a tentative deal with God. In exchange for a second chance, he vows to kick his addictions and dedicate his life to helping others. Now, along with his unconventional team, he helps people get clean from their own addictions of sex, drugs, alcohol and gambling by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, rough, touching, suspense, contemplative
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The Smoke (2014)
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An experienced fire fighter is badly injured and spends almost a year recovering at home. Now he returns to work, but is he as emotionally and physically sound as he thinks he is?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, exciting, serious, suspenseful
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The Swell (2016)
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When a big storm in the Netherlands and Begium comes down should prime minister Hans Kreuger the order taking: Can we evacuate four million people? But the storm can login deflect and the evacuation of civilians, hospitals and prisons takes sure 4 days.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, suspenseful, intense, disaster movie
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Arctic Air (2012)
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Arctic Air is about a Yellowknife-based maverick airline and the unconventional family who runs it. The owners are Mel Ivarson, an old school bush pilot; Krista Ivarson, Mel's daughter; and Bobby Martin, the son of Ivarson's deceased partner. Episodes focus on interpersonal conflicts between the characters as well as dramatic flying missions with their aging fleet of Douglas DC-3s, de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otters and other aircraft. Each episode has one or more flying missions. The series was canceled on March 17, 2014, due to government budgetary cuts.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, captivating, realistic
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Trauma Center (1983)
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When a person is seriously injured in an accident, they often have only one hour to live. Dr. Michael "Cutter" Royce (James Naughton) leads a hospital's specialized emergency department that is designed to make maximum use of that one golden hour to save lives, a trauma center. However, even before that crack medical team can begin, it is the task of paramedics like John Six (Lou Ferrigno) and "Hatter" Pacelli (Alfie Wise) to rescue such victims and get them to the center within that hour. With all the emergencies that occur in their city, this medical team both in the field and in the hospital are challenged to the utmost.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: medical drama, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful