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The Best Movies About Dentists
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Vote up your favorite movies featuring a dentist.
There are several great films that either have a dentist in the lead role or feature a dentist as a memorable character in the movie. Here is a list of the best dentist movies ever.
Anyone with a fear of sitting in the dentist chair may want to skip 1976’s Marathon Man, one of the scariest dentist horror movies ever made. Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier) is a Nazi war criminal dentist with a penchant for torturing patients and utters the memorable line “Is it safe?” Of course, Steve Martin’s dentist in Little Shop of Horrors rivals Dr. Szell in terms of sheer sadism.
But not all dentists in pop culture and movies are sadists. In fact, some are very kind. Remember Irish dentist Fergus O’Connell (Daniel Day Lewis) in the movie Eversmile, New Jersey? Dr. O’Connell even offers up his services for free to locals.
Which dentist comedies are the funniest? Which are the scariest? It's time to determine the best dentist movies with the help of your votes. Vote up your favorite dental-based movies.
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- 1Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
- Released: 1976
- Directed by: John Schlesinger
Thomas "Babe" Levy (Dustin Hoffman) is a Columbia graduate student and long-distance runner who is oblivious to the fact that his older brother, Doc (Roy Scheider), is a government agent chasing down ...more - 2Corbin Bernsen, Jillian McWhirter, Linda Hoffman
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Brian Yuzna
After spending some time in a mental institution, Dr. Feinstone (Corbin Bernsen) escapes his incarceration and heads to the small town of Paradise. He assumes the persona of retired dentist Dr. ...more - 3Andrey Petrov, Alisa Freindlich, Andrey Myagkov
- Released: 1965
- Directed by: Elem Klimov
Adventures of a Dentist is a 1965 Soviet dark comedy/drama feature film directed by Elem Klimov on Mosfilm. It is currently unavailable on video or DVD for any audience, but is occasionally screened ...more - 4Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis
- Released: 2011
- Directed by: Seth Gordon
Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) are workers who would like nothing better than to grind their oppressive employers into the dirt. Quitting their jobs is not an ...more - 5Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern
- Released: 2001
- Directed by: David Atkins
Steve Martin is a prosperous dentist, secure in his neatly ordered existence and happily engaged to his ambitious dental hygienist (Laura Dern). But when an alluring new patient (Helena Bonham ...more - 6Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette
- Released: 2000
- Directed by: Jonathan Lynn
Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis), a mob hitman-turned-informant, ratted on the mob and put his life in jeopardy. Now he has moved to suburban Montreal, ostensibly to make a new start. His ...more - 7Clint Howard, Corbin Bernsen, Jeff Doucette
- Released: 1998
- Directed by: Brian Yuzna
The Dentist 2 is a 1998 American horror film, and sequel to the 1996 film The Dentist. It was directed by Brian Yuzna. The film stars Corbin Bernsen, Jillian McWhirter, Jeff Doucette, and Susanne ...more - 8Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Alan Rudolph
David Hurst (Campbell Scott) is a mild-mannered dentist who shares a practice with his wife, Dana (Hope Davis). Concerned about Dana's recent sullen moods, David begins to suspect that she is ...more - 9Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Owen Wilson
- Released: 2014
- Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
In a California beach community, private detective Larry "Doc" Sportello (Joaquin Phoenix) tends to work his cases through a smoky haze of marijuana. One day, Shasta, a former lover, arrives out of ...more - 10Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Steve Martin
- Released: 1986
- Directed by: Frank Oz
Meek flower shop assistant Seymour (Rick Moranis) pines for co-worker Audrey (Ellen Greene). During a total eclipse, he discovers an unusual plant he names Audrey II, which feeds only on human flesh ...more - 11Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni, Greg Kinnear
- Released: 2008
- Directed by: David Koepp
After a near-death experience during a routine colonoscopy, people-hating dentist Bertrum Pincus is shocked to discover that he is suddenly able to talk to the dead. Constantly cornered by unhappy ...more - 12Mark Strong, Tim Roth, Julia Ormond
- Released: 1994
- Directed by: Angela Pope
Captives is a 1994 British romantic crime drama film directed by Angela Pope and written by Dublin screenwriter Frank Deasy. It stars Julia Ormond, Tim Roth and Keith Allen. The picture was selected ...more - 13Daniel Day-Lewis, Mirjana Joković
- Released: 1989
- Directed by: Carlos Sorín
Yakuza brothers are forced to alter their bodies and break into the underground J-pop idol scene. - 14Jacqueline McKenzie, Greig Pickhaver
- Released: 1993
- Directed by: Chris Kennedy
This Won't Hurt a Bit is a film directed by Chris Kennedy released on Nov 12, 1993. - 15W. C. Fields, Bobby Dunn, Dorothy Granger
- Released: 1932
- Directed by: Leslie Pearce
The Dentist is a 1932 American comedy short starring W. C. Fields. The film is one of four short films Fields made with the "king of comedy," Mack Sennett, at Paramount. Although Sennett was near the ...more - 16Dane Cook, Jessica Alba, Dan Fogler
- Released: 2007
- Directed by: Mark Helfrich
Cursed since childhood, dentist Charlie Kagan (Dane Cook) cannot find the right woman. Even worse, he learns that each of his ex-girlfriends finds true love with the man she meets after her ...more - 17Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden, Jacqueline Obradors
- Released: 1995
- Directed by: Greg Beeman, Larry Karaszewski
Problem Child 3: Junior in Love is a 1995 American made-for-TV sequel to Problem Child, and is the third and final entry in the trilogy. However, it sets off completely different from the last one. ...more - 18James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
- Released: 1956
- Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Dr. Ben McKenna (James Stewart) is on vacation with his wife (Doris Day) and son in Morocco when a chance encounter with a stranger sets their trip, and their lives, on a drastically different ...more - 19Cuba Gooding, James Coburn, Sisqó
- Released: 2002
- Directed by: Brian Levant
When Miami dentist Ted Brooks (Cuba Gooding Jr.) finds out that he's been named in a will, he travels to Alaska to claim his inheritance. Once he gets there, however, his dreams turn to mush: he ...more - The Merry Old Soul is a short animated film by Walter Lantz Productions, and part of the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series. The cartoon also became a nominee for an Academy Award.
- 21Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet
- Released: 2004
- Directed by: Howard Deutch
After faking his death, former killer-for-hire Jimmy "The Tulip" Tudeski (Bruce Willis) retires to Mexico with his new wife, Jill (Amanda Peet), while his ex-wife, Cynthia (Natasha Henstridge), ...more - 22Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan
- Released: 1968
- Directed by: Alan Rafkin
in 1870, bumbling Philadelphia-based dentist Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) travels west to set up a practice in the frontier. There, he meets Penelope Cushings (Barbara Rhoades), a pretty bandit who ...more - 23Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Jason Sudeikis
- Released: 2014
- Directed by: Sean Anders
Tired of always answering to others, Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) go into business for themselves. After demonstrating the prototype for an invention called the ...more - 24Joel McCrea, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
- Released: 1944
- Directed by: Preston Sturges
The Great Moment is a 1944 biographical film written and directed by Preston Sturges. Based on the book Triumph Over Pain by René Fülöp-Miller, it tells the story of Dr. William Thomas Green Morton, ...more - 25Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt
- Released: 1924
- Directed by: Erich von Stroheim
When housewife Trina McTeague (ZaSu Pitts) wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband, John (Gibson Gowland), is slowly destroyed, in part by her own increasing paranoia and in ...more
