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10 Best Movies Like Scalpel, Please

If you loved Scalpel, Please, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Awakenings

Awakenings

1990★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Scalpel, Please 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...

#2
The Music Never Stopped

The Music Never Stopped

2011★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Scalpel, Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Henry struggles to bond with his estranged son, Gabriel, who suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and int...

#3
Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

1999★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Scalpel, Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wond...

#4
The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Scalpel, Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existen...

#5
The Doctor

The Doctor

1991★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Scalpel, Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and d...

#6
Blackbird

Blackbird

2019★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Scalpel, Please for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters....

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