Tag: cancer

  • Pilgrim, Farewell

    A woman suffering from terminal cancer struggles to resolve several relationships in her life: a devoted but stressed lover, an estranged sister, and a daughter on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

  • The Reflecting Skin

    In 1950s rural Idaho, a young boy watches helplessly as his friends and brother fall under the spell of a mysterious widow living up the road and becomes convinced that she is a vampire.

  • Light of Day

    Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.

  • My Oxford Year

    An ambitious American fulfilling her dream of studying at Oxford falls for a charming Brit hiding a secret that may upend her perfectly planned life.

  • Dying Young

    After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O’Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to…

  • Medicine Man

    An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.

  • My Life

    It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob’s life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live — not even enough time to see his first child’s birth. To cleanse himself of demons…

  • Dear Diary

    Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.

  • India

    Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn’t stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.

  • Developing

    About the relationship between a girl and her single mother, who has breast cancer.

  • Marvin’s Room

    A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

  • Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease

    Tomasz, a doctor, and atheist, is diagnosed with cancer. His ex-wife offers him the money for treatment in Paris, but his lung cancer is past the operating stage. Facing imminent death, he questions the beliefs he has held all his life and starts experimenting with both his own life and those of others.

  • Here on Earth

    Three lives of three young people intersect over the course of one summer. A rich student and a young working-class man accidentally destroy a diner when their impromptu road race takes a disastrous turn. Ordered by a judge to spend the summer repairing the building, they find themselves becoming rivals for the affections of the…

  • I’m Losing You

    Based on Bruce Wagner’s best selling novel, “I’m Losing You” is the gripping tale of a wealthy Los Angeles family and their journey from profound loss to love, hope and redemption. On the verge of his 60th birthday, patriarch and TV producer Perry Krohn is diagnosed with inoperable cancer and is told he has only…

  • Always Outnumbered

    An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife,…

  • Montana

    A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss’s runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.

  • One True Thing

    A career woman reassesses her parents’ lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.

  • Guardami

    An independent porn actress, diagnosed with cancer, reconnects with her father and finds love with a fellow patient. Despite her illness, she continues her career, but her path takes a tragic turn.

  • Wit

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

  • Blow Dry

    The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil’s ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.

  • Life as a House

    When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.