Movies: Terminal illness

In this mother-daughter story, a young woman explores her own mortality through art and poetry as her terminal illness holds her back from a normal life....

Former lovers Pich and Shane reconnect through Thai floral art, but Pich’s illness leads Shane to seek peace by becoming a monk....

After discovering that his terminal illness is no longer manageable, Daniel leaves the hospital and wanders through landscapes in search of a final resting place....

This sensual drama depicts the story of an inseparable couple trying to cope with the obstacle in life....

John Baker emerges as a fine runner while in High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and then continues setting records at the University of New Mexico. His ability is world-class, and after receiving his university degree he accepts a position as a ...

The Swedish doctor of literature Vilhelm Canitz arrive to Lugano in Italy for a few weeks stay at a medical clinic. Canitz considers himself to be quite healthy and the stay as an extended vacation. He meets a number of patients at the clinic sufferi...

To find a bone marrow donor for himself, fashion designer Jesko visits his upper-class family in southwest Germany where he has to confront mental illness and long-held grudges....

The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the impla...

A documentary examining the end of live for five hospice patients and their families....

Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father...

A story about a fictional South African police base on the border between Angola and the former South West Africa. While patrolling, a mail convoy is ambushed and most of the soldiers are shot. The captain is rescued, but one of his constables is tak...

In an industry that is becoming increasingly competitive, what drives indie filmmakers to keep creating their art, even when there is no promise of money or fame? CREATE OR DIE explores the insatiable passion to create despite the overwhelming odds t...

When a spoiled British pop star is sent to the hospital before his first big tour, he meets a girl who gets him to see himself in a new light....

Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life. Lauro, a young and smiling nearby patient accompanies him on his final agony, reliving all Ulises' mis...

After an unlikely friendship forms between the homeless Darnell and Waitress Imani, they find out just how much someone with nothing might have to give....

Moataz falls in love with the widow Suhaam, and their relationship quickly grows, but he discovers that she has a serious illness, so he proposes to her even though his cousin loves him and wants to marry him....

Having learned that she has a terminal illness, a woman takes a final vacation only to discover a dreamlike triptych of fear, trauma and murder....

In 2011, the director and screenwriter Wolf Gremm receives the diagnosis - prostate cancer. According to the doctors, he has not much longer to live, maybe eight months. Wolf Gremm is torn by these devastating news in the midst of an active, fulfill...

The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism, art and love found a way to live decades past his expiration date....

A woman blames her terminally-ill daughter for her husband abandoning them and now fantasizes if life might be better if this child wasn't in the picture....