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50/50 (2011)
, 1h40Directed by Jonathan Levine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anjelica Huston, Philip Baker Hall
Adam Lerner is a 27-year-old public radio journalist in Seattle with an artist girlfriend Rachael, of whom his best friend and co-worker Kyle disapproves; where Kyle is brash and outspoken, Adam is more introverted and mild-mannered.
The Doctor (1991)
, 2h2Directed by Randa Haines
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Mandy Patinkin, Elizabeth Perkins, Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo
Dr Jack McKee is a successful surgeon at a leading hospital. He and his wife have all the trappings of success, although Jack works such long hours that he rarely has time to see their son and has become somewhat emotionally dead to his wife. His "bedside manner" with his patients, in many cases seriously ill, is also quite lacking. The decorum in the operating theater is very casual, loud country and rock music, and the chatter between him and his partner, Dr. Murray Kaplan, not particularly professional. (When a patient with a chest scar mentions her husband is not close anymore, Jack responds that she should tell him that she is just like a "Playboy centerfold, because she has the staple marks to prove it.
Self/less (2015)
, 1h56Directed by Tarsem Singh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about computing, Medical-themed films, Films set in the future, Films about cancer, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Ryan Reynolds, Ben Kingsley, Natalie Martinez, Matthew Goode, Michelle Dockery, Victor Garber
Business tycoon and billionaire Damian Hale (Ben Kingsley) is master of his own universe, until he is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Now on his deathbed, he finds a business card directing him to a man named Professor Albright (Matthew Goode), who informs him about a radical medical procedure called "shedding", in which one's consciousness is transferred to an artificially grown healthy body. Damian decides to undergo the procedure and engineers his own public death. Albright transfers him into a new body (Ryan Reynolds) and prescribes medication to alleviate vivid hallucinations which he claims are side effects of the procedure.
My Life (1993)
, 1h52Directed by Bruce Joel Rubin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Queen Latifah, Haing S. Ngor, Rebecca Schull, Richard Schiff
Detroit, Michigan, 1963: Bob Ivanovich is a young boy, who prays one night for a circus in his backyard the next day after school. After school the next day, he runs home eagerly, followed by his friends. To his disappointment, no circus awaits. Angrily, Bob retreats to the closet in his room, his personal retreat space.
Midnight Sun (2018)
, 1h31Directed by Scott Speer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about cancer, Enfant musicien
Actors Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Rob Riggle, Quinn Shephard, Quinn Shephard, Tiera Skovbye
Katie Price est atteinte d'une maladie appelée xeroderma pigmentosum (XP). Cette infirmité l'oblige à rester enfermée chez elle le jour car le soleil lui est néfaste ; elle n'est donc autorisée à sortir que la nuit. Son amie d'enfance, Morgan, passe la voir tous les soirs pour lui consacrer du temps. Depuis son enfance, elle est amoureuse de son voisin Charlie, qu'elle voit tous les jours depuis sa chambre, puisque ce dernier passe à côté de chez elle lorsqu'il va en cours ou à la piscine.
One True Thing (1998)
, 2h7Directed by Carl Franklin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about euthanasia, Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Diana Canova
Ellen Gulden (Renée Zellweger) est une journaliste à l'essai pour l'hebdomadaire New York. De retour dans sa famille pour fêter l'anniversaire de son père George, elle apprend que sa mère, Kate (Meryl Streep) avec qui elle est en froid est atteinte d'un cancer. Son père lui demande de rester à la maison pour s'occuper de Kate, sachant que ce choix pourrait compromettre sa carrière.
Biutiful (2010)
, 2h27Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu
Origin Mexique
Genres Drama
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about families, Films about immigration, Medical-themed films, La précarité, Films about cancer
Actors Javier Bardem, Nasser Saleh, Eduard Fernández, Martina García, Blanca Portillo, Rubén Ochandiano
Uxbal lives in a shabby apartment in Barcelona with his two young children, Ana and Mateo. He is separated from their mother Marambra, a woman suffering from alcoholism and bipolar disorder. Having grown up an orphan, Uxbal has no family other than his brother Tito, who works in the construction business. Uxbal earns a living by procuring work for illegal immigrants and managing a group of Chinese women producing forged designer goods along with the African street vendors who are selling them. He is able to talk to the dead and is sometimes paid to pass on messages from the recently deceased at wakes and funerals. When he is diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer leaving him with only a few months to live, his world progressively falls apart.
Life as a House (2001)
, 2h4Directed by Irwin Winkler
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hayden Christensen, Jena Malone, Mary Steenburgen, Ian Somerhalder
George Monroe (Kevin Kline), a fabricator of architectural models, is fired from the job he has held for twenty years when he refuses to fall into step with his co-workers and use the computer technology available to them. In a fit of rage at his boss's refusal to let George keep a few of the models that he had built, he destroys all of the models with a spindle from an architectural drawing, keeping only one for himself. As he exits the building, he collapses on the pavement and is rushed to the hospital, where it is revealed he has cancer of such an advanced stage that the doctor feels any treatment would be futile.
The Farewell (2019)
Directed by Peter Saraf, Marc Turtletaub
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about writers, Films about families, Medical-themed films, Vieillesse, Films about cancer
Actors Chris Weitz, Awkwafina, Tzi Ma
Lorsqu’ils apprennent que Nai Nai, leur grand-mère et mère tant aimée, est atteinte d’une maladie incurable, ses proches, selon la tradition chinoise, décident de lui cacher la vérité. Ils utilisent alors le mariage de son petit-fils comme prétexte à une réunion de famille pour partager tous ensemble ses derniers instants de bonheur. Pour sa petite fille, Billi, née en Chine mais élevée aux Etats-Unis, le mensonge est plus dur à respecter. Mais c’est aussi pour elle une chance de redécouvrir ses origines, et l’intensité des liens qui l’unissent à sa grand-mère.
Love Is All You Need (2012)
, 1h56Directed by Susanne Bier
Origin Danemark
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about cancer, LGBT-related films, Films about marriage, LGBT-related film
Actors Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Kim Bodnia, Paprika Steen, Bodil Jørgensen, Ciro Petrone
Hairdresser Ida, who has recently ended a successful breast cancer treatment, returns home to find her husband Leif cheating on her. At the same time, her daughter is getting married in an Italian villa with a lemon orchard in a few days, and on the way there she runs into Philip, the groom's father. At the wedding, which is eventually called off when the putative bride and groom find that they are not, after all, right for one another, Ida and Philip develop an attraction. On their return to Denmark, Philip decides to reduce his workload and move permanently to Italy. He finds Ida at the hairdressing salon where she works, only to be rebuffed as she has returned to Leif. But Ida then has second thoughts and goes to Italy to be with Philip.
I Still Believe (2020)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about religion, Musical films, Films about cancer
Actors K.J. Apa, Britt Robertson, Melissa Roxburgh, Gary Sinise, Nathan Parsons, Terry Serpico
Le film raconte les combats et les apprentissages du chanteur Jeremy Camp et de sa femme Melissa Lynn Henning-Camp dont le cancer de l'ovaire a été diagnostiqué avant leur mariage.
Change of Plans (2009)
, 1h35Directed by Danièle Thompson
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Karin Viard, Dany Boon, Marina Foïs, Patrick Bruel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Christopher Thompson
Un 21 juin, à Paris. Comme tous les ans, un groupe d'amis se retrouve lors d'un dîner, le jour de la Fête de la musique. Piotr, le mari de Marie-Laurence Claverne, une avocate débordée spécialisée dans le divorce, étant en congé sabbatique, est donc chargé d'organiser ce dîner. Hélas le repas ne se passe pas aussi bien que d'habitude, puisque le code a changé ; fini celui de la dictature de l'apparence, avec son lot de cordialité, d'hypocrisie et de fausse bonne humeur, qui cachait les angoisses sous l'humour et étouffait les chagrins avec des éclats de rire. L'avocat réputé Lucas Mattei se dispute avec sa femme Sarah. La gynécologue Mélanie Carcassonne décide que c'est le moment idéal pour avouer à son cancérologue de mari Alain sa liaison extra-conjugale avec un jockey. Juliette, la sœur de Marie-Laurence, vient avec un invité surprise, son nouveau compagnon Erwann, de trente ans son aîné. L'arrivée d'Henri, le père de Juliette et Marie-Laurence, est un bouleversement de plus, car lui et Juliette ne se parlent plus depuis deux ans.
Marvin's Room (1996)
, 1h38Directed by Jerry Zaks
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Hume Cronyn, Gwen Verdon
A man who had a stroke 17 years ago (Hume Cronyn) is left incapacitated and bed-ridden. He has been cared for by his daughter Bessie (Diane Keaton) in their Florida home, and totally ignored by his other daughter, Lee (Meryl Streep), who moved to Ohio with her husband 20 years ago and has never contacted her family. Now, however, Bessie's doctor has informed her that she has leukemia and needs a bone marrow transplant and she turns to her sister for help. Lee, in turn, turns to her son Hank (Leonardo DiCaprio), who has been committed to a mental institution for setting fire to his mother's house. When Lee finds that she may have to take over her father's care, she at first begins shopping around for nursing homes. Eventually, however, the once-estranged family grows close.
My Life Without Me (2003)
, 1h46Directed by Isabel Coixet
Origin Espagne
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Sarah Polley, Scott Speedman, Mark Ruffalo, Amanda Plummer, Leonor Watling, Debbie Harry
Ann (Sarah Polley) is a hard-working 23-year-old mother with two small daughters, an unemployed husband (Scott Speedman), a mother (Deborah Harry) who sees her life as a failure, and a jailed father whom she has not seen in ten years. Her life changes dramatically when, during a medical checkup following a collapse, she is diagnosed with metastatic ovarian cancer and told she has only two months to live. Deciding not to tell anyone of her condition, using the cover of anemia, Ann makes a list of things to do before she dies. She decides to change her hair, record birthday messages for the girls for every year until they're 18, and tries to set up her husband with another woman. Feeling a longing to experience a life that was never available to her, she seeks out a man to experience how it feels to be in a sexual relationship with someone other than her husband. Her experiment ends up taking an emotional toll when she meets with a man named Lee, who ends up madly in love with her and is left heartbroken when Ann breaks up. He meets with her one last time and says that he will do anything to make her happy, taking care of her daughters and even finding her husband a job. She ends their relationship and never tells him that she is dying. At the end of the film Ann records a message to her husband telling him that she loves him and another one to Lee telling him the same. She then leaves all tapes she has recorded with her doctor asking him to deliver them after her death.
Bobby Deerfield (1977)
, 2h4Directed by Sydney Pollack, Alvin Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Films about cancer, Road movies
Actors Al Pacino, Marthe Keller, Anny Duperey, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Romolo Valli, Gérard Hernandez
Formula One auto racer Bobby Deerfield is a calculating, control-obsessed loner who has become used to winning the checkered flag on the track. But after he witnesses a fiery crash that kills a teammate and seriously wounds a competitor, Deerfield becomes unsettled by the spectre of death.