Movies Like The Quiet Duel (1949)

The Quiet Duel is a 1949 drama film from Akira Kurosawa with a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with M*A*S*H and Green for Danger.

Drama

MAS*H

1970

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

7.0

MagicScore

Green for Danger

1946

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

6.7

MagicScore

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet

1940

True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

6.4

MagicScore

Who Killed Bambi?

2003

Isabelle, a beautiful nursing student, is starting her internship at a prestigious hospital. She meets Dr. Philip there, feels atracted to him from the beggining and starts suffering from strange fainting; so he calls her Bambi: her legs don't support her. Patients mysteriously start to dissappear from their rooms; so Bambi and Dr. Philip start a cat vs. mouse paranoid game, in order to catch the probable killer.

6.0

MagicScore

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

2009

Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story is a movie based on the life story of world-renowned neurosurgeon Ben Carson from 1961 to 1987.

7.8

MagicScore

The Fugitive

1993

Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.

7.5

MagicScore

Black Jack: The Movie

1996

Black Jack is a master surgeon who possesses impeccable skills, enabling him to perform operations that are impossible for even the finest surgeons. He now is faced with his most difficult task to date and must challenge the limits of medical science...before it's too late!

6.4

MagicScore

Article 99

1992

Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.

6.2

MagicScore

Extreme Measures

1996

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

6.0

MagicScore

#10

Finding Normal

2013

Dr. Lisa Leland is a brilliant surgeon with absolutely no bedside manner. She is leaving her practice at UCLA Hospital to move to the Hamptons where she will join her boyfriend as a concierge doctor, treating the rich and famous. As she drives cross-country to her new life she hits a tractor in Normal, North Carolina and her BMW is wrecked. Dr. Leland is found guilty of speeding and ordered to do community service as a doctor in Normal, population 332. In a town with no wi-fi, no lattes and no credit cards, Lisa Leland begins to find herself and discovers what a meaningful life is all about.

6.5

MagicScore

#11

The Price We Pay

2023

After a pawn shop robbery goes askew, two criminals take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down, but find something much more menacing.

5.8

MagicScore

#12

Corruption

1968

A surgeon discovers that he can restore the beauty to his girlfriend's scarred face by murdering other women and extracting fluids from their pituitary gland. However, the effects only last for a short time, so he has to kill more and more women. It is ultimately a killing spree which ends with considerable death and disaster.

5.8

MagicScore

#13

Trainwreck

2015

Having thought that monogamy was never possible, a commitment-phobic career woman may have to face her fears when she meets a good guy.

5.8

MagicScore

#14

Wit

2001

A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

7.3

MagicScore

#15

Patch Adams

1998

The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.

7.3

MagicScore

#16

Diamond Necklace

2012

Arun is an oncologist based in Dubai who lives life king size without worrying about the future. But he is in trouble when creditors start pestering him and he is restricted within the country.

7.0

MagicScore

#17

Anand

1971

Dr. Bhaskar Bannerjee struggles with his patients' suffering and the darkness and poverty he confronts daily. He treats cancer patient Anand who upon learning of his impending death determines to use the time he has left to the absolute fullest.

7.0

MagicScore

#18

I Walked with a Zombie

1943

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

6.8

MagicScore

#19

Westfront 1918

1930

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

6.6

MagicScore

#20

Take Care

2014

When a car crash leaves Frannie immobilized, she is brushed off by everyone she can count on. With nowhere else to turn and desperate for help, she turns to an unlikely source, her ex Devon.

6.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Quiet Duel?

The top films similar to The Quiet Duel by MovieMagicScore are M*A*S*H (7.0), Green for Danger (6.7), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (6.4). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Quiet Duel worth watching?

The Quiet Duel holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10 from 87 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is The Quiet Duel?

The Quiet Duel (1949) is a drama film directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjō, Takashi Shimura.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Quiet Duel?

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About movies like The Quiet Duel

This ranked list pairs The Quiet Duel (1949), a drama film from Akira Kurosawa, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Toshirō Mifune take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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