Southern Comfort (2001), I've Loved You So Long (2008), The Midwife (2017), A Lion in the House (2006), A Billion Lives (2016), Other People (2016), How to Die in Oregon (2011), Wit (2001) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cancer movies.
Storyline: Kate Davis's award-winning documentary chronicles the final four seasons in the life of Robert Eads, a female-to-male transsexual dying of ovarian cancer in rural Georgia. Striking a balance between Robert's biological family -- mother, father, sons and grandson -- and his "chosen" family of transgender friends including Maxwell, Cas and Lola Cola, his male-to-female transsexual partner, Davis documents Eads's final days at the Southern Comfort Conference, a national transgender gathering.
Plot Keywords: transsexual, girlfriend, son, friend, parent, inspiring, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After serving a lengthy prison sentence, a woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) tries to rebuild her relationship with her estranged sister (Elsa Zylberstein).
Plot Keywords: ex-convict, sister, husband, co-worker, niece, probation officer, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Claire is a tightly wound midwife who forms an unlikely friendship with Béatrice, her late father's free-spirited mistress. Though polar opposites, the two women come to rely on each other after Béatrice reveals that she has brain cancer.
Plot Keywords: midwife, father, single woman, son, sweetheart, mistress, moving ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.
Plot Keywords: son, daughter, mother, father, patient, doctor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of the vaping revolution and tragic corruption leading to a billion deaths around the world.
Plot Keywords: expert, doctor, patient, family member, friend, narrator, brooding ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A struggling comedy writer, fresh from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and younger sisters, David feels like a stranger in his childhood home. As his mother worsens, he tries to convince everyone -- including himself -- he's doing okay.
Plot Keywords: writer, mother, father, sister, grandfather, grandmother, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person's request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had legalized the practice. 'How to Die in Oregon' tell the stories of those most intimately involved with the practice today -- terminally ill Oregonians, their families, doctors, and friends -- as well as the passage of a similar law in Washington State.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: patient, physician, politician, wife, widow, somber, disturbing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A bright and demanding professor (Emma Thompson) reassesses her life after finding out she has terminal ovarian cancer.
Plot Keywords: professor, doctor, patient, student, mentor, nurse, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Two hours from 17:00 to 19:00h on the longest day of the year in the life of a young Parisienne is presented. Florence Victoire, who is better known by her stage name Cléo Victoire (as in Cleopatra), is a singer with three hit singles to her name, and as such some renown. Two days ago, she went in for some tests for abdominal issues to see if it is cancer. She will be getting the results today at 18:30h. She is certain that it will be a terminal cancer diagnosis, her mind fixated on that outcome and what it actually means. This belief affects how she approaches the day, from her encounters with friends and acquaintances to what she observes in total strangers around her. It could be as simple as how she views the lyrics to new songs presented to her from her songwriting team, to her feelings about a conversation she overhears in a café between a couple having relationship problems, to the typical sweet nothings spoken to her from her lover, José. There are certain things that do ...
Plot Keywords: singer, soldier, fortuneteller, boyfriend, model, projectionist, charming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.ndnd
Plot Keywords: earl, girl, classmate, emotional, pittsburgh, leukemia, filmmaker ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hazel and Augustus are two teenagers who share an acerbic wit, a disdain for the conventional, and a love that sweeps them on a journey. Their relationship is all the more miraculous, given that Hazel's other constant companion is an oxygen tank, Gus jokes about his prosthetic leg, and they meet and fall in love at a cancer support group.
Plot Keywords: cancer patient, teen boy, author, parent, doctor, nurse, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John Books an aging gunfighter goes to see a doctor he knows for a second opinion after another doctor told him he has a cancer which is terminal. The doctor confirms what the other said. He says Books has a month maybe two left. He takes a room in the boarding house and the son of the woman who runs it recognizes him and tells his mother who he is. She doesn't like his kind but when he tells her of his condition, she empathizes. Her son wants him to teach him how to use a gun. Books tries to tell him that killing is not something he wants to live with. Books, not wanting to go through the agony of dying from cancer, tries to find a quicker way to go.
Plot Keywords: gunslinger, outlaw, innkeeper, son, sheriff, ex-lover, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn Levine - marriage something that he and his family never thought would happen for him - McElwee turns on the camera to film life as it happens in respect to this new phase in his life. Both in real terms (as it applies to himself and those around him) and philosophical terms, McElwee discusses, through self-narration, life, death, love, family and babies.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: filmmaker, widow, father, housekeeper, wife, patient, somber ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Adam is a 27 year old writer of radio programs and is diagnosed with a rare form of spinal cancer. With the help of his best friend, his mother, and a young therapist at the cancer center, Adam learns what and who the most important things in his life are.
Plot Keywords: cancer patient, therapist, mother, father, best friend, victim, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A personal, important, surprising, and funny documentary about the industries of death that give us cancer, and the unheralded science of prevention.
Plot Keywords: neurologist, cancer patient, director, emotional, engaging, inspiring, uplifting ...
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