
10 Best Movies Like Patch Adams
If you loved Patch Adams, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Critical Care
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Patch Adams for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Werner Ernst is a young hospital resident who becomes embroiled in a legal battle between two half-sisters who are fighting over the care of their comatose father. But are they rea...

Awakenings
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Patch Adams for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversia...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Patch Adams for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s....

No Way Out
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Patch Adams for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder....

Joy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Patch Adams for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A young nurse, a visionary scientist and an innovative surgeon face opposition from the church, state, media and medical establishment, in their pursuit of the world’s first ‘test ...

Housekeeping
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Patch Adams for fans of Comedy & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don...