heart transplant theme

A procedure to transplant a living, beating heart from one person to another is featured.

Examples

Zachary Wheeler was transplanted with a heart that was harvested from a clone produced from his own DNA in "The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler" (1971).

5 total · 3 major · 2 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
movie: Doctor Bloods Coffin (1961) major Dr. Peter Blood was transplanting hearts from living people into dead ones in order to revive them to life.
movie: Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) major Dr. Krellman attempted to cure his son's leukemia by doing a heart transplant, replacing his son's heart with that of a gorilla's.
tz1985e3x15 major Tom's personality changed dramatically after he got a such a transplant.
movie: Strange New World (1975) minor The Eterna people had the technology to transplant hearts without the need for the subject to be rendered unconscious.
movie: The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler (1971) minor Zachary Wheeler was transplanted with a new heart.