A Lion in the House (2006), Other People (2016), Ikiru (1952), Wit (2001), Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), The Shootist (1976), The C Word (2016) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Cancer movies.
Storyline: Romain, 31, a photographer, learns that a malignancy may kill him within a few months. Decisions: Treatment? Work? How to tell his lover and his family. He remembers the sea and himself as a child. He stares in the mirror. He's cruel: facing death, he pushes people away - what's the point? He visits his grandmother to tell her; on the way, he chats briefly with a waitress. He looks at old photos, visits a childhood tree house. He takes pictures. Returning from his grandmother's, he stops for food and sees the waitress, Jany, again. She makes a request. He returns to an empty flat - his lover has left. Can Jany's proposition give him a way to move past self-pity?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: drama, french film, lgbt, family, death, cancer, life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Patrick Foley has been on the move all his life. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive ...—Willy Vanhaelen <willy.vanhaelen@advalvas.be>
Plot Keywords: adventure, drama, survival, australia, father-son relationship, wilderness, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "Song for Marion", a London-set comedic drama, is about shy, grumpy pensioner Arthur who is reluctantly inspired by his beloved wife Marion to join a highly unconventional local choir. At odds with his son James, it is left to charismatic choir director Elizabeth to try and persuade Arthur that he can learn to embrace life. Arthur must confront the undercurrents of his own grumbling persona as he embarks on a hilarious, life-affirming journey of musical self discovery.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, music, elderly, choir, family, heartwarming, british ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Out of the blue, Ben learns he has stage IV cancer; survival, with treatment, is 10 percent. So this risk-averse, slow-to-act, quiet man buys a used motorcycle, says goodbye to Samantha, his baffled fiancée, and heads west from Toronto. He imagines it's a quest for Grumps, a mythical figure from his childhood; he takes digital photos of various "world's largest" roadside attractions; he chats with strangers, including two women; his bike slips on a dead skunk on the highway. Calls to Samantha meet with pleading that he return for treatment and anger that he won't. He doesn't want to be a patient yet. But, will he make discoveries, and what about Grumps? What's important?
Plot Keywords: adventure, road movie, canada, cancer, self-discovery, motorcycle, life turning point ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Milly and Jess have been best friends forever. They've shared everything since they were kids - secrets, clothes, laughs, substances, boyfriends... now they are trying to be grown-ups. Milly has a high-flying job and lives in a beautiful townhouse with husband Kit and their two kids. Jess is a town planner and she and her boyfriend Jago live on a bohemian houseboat on a London canal. Their friendship is as rock solid as ever. That is until Jess struggles to have a much longed-for baby and Milly finds out she has breast cancer. How do you share that?
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, female friendship, cancer, emotional, life challenges, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, must cope with the fact that their parents divorced and their father is now with successful photographer Isabel. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when they're with their dad, but she also loves her work and doesn't plan to give it up. But full-time mother Jackie finds Isabel's efforts offensively insufficient and can't understand that work can be important to her as well as the kids. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnosis of cancer, which might be deadly for Jackie. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together.
Plot Keywords: family, drama, emotion, motherhood, children, marriage, divorce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey in the faithful old RV they call "The Leisure Seeker", travelling from Boston, Massachusetts to The Ernest Hemingway Home in Key West, Florida. They recapture their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the end.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, family, aging, road movie, marriage ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After learning about his terminal diagnosis, a college professor decides to live his life to the fullest by drinking, smoking and expressing real thoughts for the people around him. While going through the stages, he come to terms with the great truth of his life as he mends broken relationships, embraces the people in his life and learns to ignite his inner good spirit.—Santhosh
Plot Keywords: comedy, drama, black comedy, life transition, cancer, self-discovery, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Joan and Tom have been married for many years. There is an ease to their relationship which comes from spending a lifetime together, a depth of love which expresses itself through tenderness and humour. When Joan is diagnosed with breast cancer, the course of her treatment shines a light on their relationship; they are faced with the challenges of what might happen. ORDINARY LOVE is a story about love, survival, and epic questions about life.
Plot Keywords: love, marriage, illness, cancer, couple, daily life, emotions ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, romance, social issues, discrimination, legal battle, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rather than let cancer run her life, a young woman (Lisa Tomaschewsky) dons assorted wigs to express herself and live her life to the fullest.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, cancer, illness, true story, inspirational, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Juggling a job as a waitress and raising two boys on her own--little Peter, and the 11-year-old child prodigy, Henry--the single mother, Susan Carpenter, has a somewhat chaotic life, depending on Henry to manage the household's finances. However, things will take an unexpected turn, when Henry's innocent crush on the beautiful girl next door and hopeful ballet dancer, Christina, unveils a cruel and shocking revelation, dragging Susan in the middle of a dark conspiracy. Will the Carpenters take the law into their own hands; moreover, what's written inside Henry's little red book?
Plot Keywords: drama, family, mystery, emotional, children, motherhood, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lee Hayden is a veteran actor of Westerns whose career's best years are behind him after his one really great film, "The Hero". Now, scraping by with voice-overs for commercials, Lee learns that he has a terminal prognosis of pancreatic cancer. Unable to bring himself to tell anyone about it, especially his estranged family, Lee can only brood alone as troubling, yet inspiring, dreams haunt him. Things change when he meets Charlotte Dylan, a stand-up comedienne who becomes a lover who inadvertently jump-starts his public profile. Now facing a profound emotional conflict of having a potential career comeback, even as his imminent death is staring him in the face, Lee must finally come to terms with both realities when he finally confesses his situation to the one person he can.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, western, cancer, actor, hollywood, aging ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dying mother's life lessons to the husband and sons she left behind. Based on the best-selling novel by St John (Singe) Greene, the film is the story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when Kate was diagnosed with an incurable breast cancer. Over her last few days, she created her list: writing her thoughts and memories down, to help the man she loved create the best life possible for their two sons, after she was gone.
Plot Keywords: drama, family, biography, emotional, based on a true story, motherhood, memories ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young couple's relationship develops quickly when one of them is diagnosed with a life-changing illness.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, youth, coming of age, cancer, illness, life ...
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