Xenotransplantation - Dramas

Chimera (USA: Monkey Boy)
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Country of origin and year: USA, 1991
Starring: John Lynch, Emer Gillespie and Sarah Winman
Chimera is a film about a creature who is a half man, half ape the product of a secret government project. Journalist John Lynch gets wind of the experiment when his girlfriend dies in a fertility clinic explosion. At the center of the plot is a completely mad scientist, whom the government continues to protect until it's almost too late.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101577/

The Island of Dr. Moreau
Director: Don Taylor
Country of origin and year: USA, 1977
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Michael York and Nigel Davenport
Braddock is a decent young Englishman sailing in a remote area of the Pacific when he is unaccountably saved from being thrown overboard by the mysterious Dr. Montgomery, who is accompanying a cargo of animals destined for a tropical island. At first an "honored guest" on that island, he finds his contacts with the natives increasingly disturbing: they are not like any men he has ever seen. Eventually it becomes clear that these "men" are experimental reconstructions from wild animals made by a particularly sinister scientist, Dr. Moreau. Braddock feels that he is in danger from the animals/men and from Dr. Moreau himself and does not know where to turn.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076210/

Pig Heart Boy
Director: Kate Cheeseman
Country of origin and year: UK, 1999
Starring: Rachel Bisdee, Jonathan De Herit and Jermaine Desmarais
Cameron is thirteen and in need of a heart transplant when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give Cameron a new heart - but from a pig. Cameron must now face his new identity and address how he sees himself.
Internet Film Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224519/

O Lucky Man!
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Country of origin and year: UK, 1973
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Ralph Richardson and Rachel Roberts
A tenacious young British man, Mick Travis is determined to be successful. Starting off as a coffee salesman, Mick is soon promoted within his company. Then things take a series of bizarre turns, and Mick is abducted by a military agency. Later, he becomes smitten with the gorgeous Patricia and winds up working for her father, sinister executive Sir James Burgess . As Mick's tale continues, his experiences get progressively stranger.
Internet Film Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070464/

The Perry Pigger Show
Director: Sarah Wolowski, Jon Turner
Country of origin and year: UK, 2005
Starring: Guy Hepworth
“What a swine of a show we’ve got for you today,” beams the host of The Perry Pigger Show as he calms his audience’s chants of “Perry…Perry….Perry.” The audience is made up of a mix of pigs and humans and, as the lights go down, the spotlight falls on Susie. Susie needs a heart transplant to save her life but is having to wait for a suitable donor. Perry then introduces someone who could help called Roger … who’s a pig. Later we hear from Doctor Porkins who outlines some of the science. The comic elements of the plot and the jokes about people being “pig-headed” are mixed in with serious points about the ethics of cross-species transplantation and practical issues such as organ rejection.