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Movies Like Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story

If you liked Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009), a drama movie directed by Thomas Carter, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1No Way Out

    No Way Out (1950)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.

  2. 2Brain on Fire

    Brain on Fire (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity.

  3. 3Big George Foreman

    Big George Foreman (2023)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Fueled by an impoverished childhood, George Foreman channeled his anger into becoming an Olympic Gold medalist and World Heavyweight Champion, followed by a near-death experience that took him from the boxing ring to…

  4. 4Richard Jewell

    Richard Jewell (2019)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime…

  5. 5Othello

    Othello (1951)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.

  6. 6Priscilla

    Priscilla (2023)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in…

  7. 7Creed III

    Creed III (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    After dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed has thrived in his career and family life. When a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy, Damian Anderson, resurfaces after serving a long sentence in prison, he is…

  8. 8You're Not You

    You're Not You (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama

    When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a…

  9. 9JOY

    JOY (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    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 tube baby’, Louise Joy Brown.

  10. 10John Q

    John Q (2002)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a…

  11. 11The Man Without a Face

    The Man Without a Face (1993)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of…

  12. 12The Sunchaser

    The Sunchaser (1996)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    A young half-Navajo convict dying of cancer forces a yuppie doctor to drive him to a magic healing lake.

  13. 13The Life of Chuck

    The Life of Chuck (2025)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.

  14. 14Dad

    Dad (1989)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A busy executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. Estranged from his own son, the…

  15. 15Concussion

    Concussion (2015)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain…

  16. 16Cassandra's Dream

    Cassandra's Dream (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

  17. 17The Ron Clark Story

    The Ron Clark Story (2006)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Passionate and innovative teacher Ron Clark leaves his small hometown to teach in one of Harlem's toughest schools. But to break through to the students, he must use unconventional methods, including his…

  18. 18The Namesake

    The Namesake (2007)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama

    The American-born son of Indian immigrants strives to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.

  19. 19Train Dreams

    Train Dreams (2025)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

  20. 20Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

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