Movies: Terminal illness

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time....

A heartwarming urban adventure following straight-laced Leah as she meets an unpredictable stranger and falls back in love … with life....

A mild-mannered gay dentist and a womanizing bar owner rekindle their unlikely friendship when, upon meeting by chance after a decade apart, the latter turns out to be severely ill....

After years of estrangement due to difficulties accepting his brother's sexuality, a man diagnosed with a terminal illness decides to reconnect. As the brothers grow closer, their renewed bond starts to alienate their partners, leading to emotional t...

In the children’s ward, there are children whose last opportunity is organ transplantation. Even when they say that dying is only a wish, they build affectionate friendships without losing their smiles. Fathers of these two children fight desperately...

The year she turns ninety-five, Stella starts to see ghosts of her dead friends and loved ones, including her late husband Bill. They tell her to join them in crossing the Reach, an ice bridge that forms over the ocean between her home of Koati Islan...

A terminally ill old lady who wants to die on her own terms convinces a self-destructive addict to help kill her, in exchange for clean urine....

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 her cancer has returned, Moira Browning launches a quiet campaign to find a potential replacement for herself in her family's life....

Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The special centres around a wealthy car dealer Jonathan Donald who befriends a terminally ill teenager Fred...

The Old Vic in association with Bristol Old Vic, Jonathan Church Productions & Global Creatures’ present their Olivier Award-winning production, A Monster Calls. Thirteen-year-old Conor and his mum have managed just fine since his dad moved to Amer...

Jo, a witty 9-year old terminally ill girl is taken back to her rural village to live out the rest of her short life. Her only comfort during these dull times are her dreams of being a superhero, which prove to be something her rebellious teenage sis...

Maarten is an ordinary 16-year-old. He likes to hang around in the park, listen to music, play videogames and dance as much as possible. Preferably with his dance partner Roxanne. But almost nobody, especially not Roxanne, knows he has a metabolic di...

A young girl with a terminal heart condition plans to celebrate her 12th birthday on one last summer holiday with her parents in Nova Scotia....

Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline. They all struggle t...

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....

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community....

Based on true events, 'Alex: The Life of a Child' follows former 'Sports Illustrated' writer Frank Deford and his wife Carole when their happy, all-American family is rocked to the core when their baby daughter Alex is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis....

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....

Two brothers, Paul and Elliot, embark on one last road trip together to Mammoth, California....