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The Clink of Ice (2010)
, 1h27Directed by Bertrand Blier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Black comedy
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about cancer
Actors Jean Dujardin, Albert Dupontel, Anne Alvaro, Myriam Boyer, Christa Theret, Audrey Dana
Charles Faulque, écrivain alcoolique, en dépression et en perdition, reçoit la visite impromptue de son cancer. Mais, malgré la dérive totale de sa vie, l'écrivain ne tient pas vraiment à la quitter.
Miss You Already (2015)
, 1h52Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Aniston, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine, Tyson Ritter
Miss You Already follows two best friends, Milly (Toni Collette) and Jess (Drew Barrymore), as they navigate life’s highs and lows. Inseparable since they were young girls, they can’t remember a time they didn’t share everything — secrets, clothes, even boyfriends — but nothing prepares them for the day Milly is hit with life-altering news.
A Christmas Tale (2008)
, 2h30Directed by Arnaud Desplechin
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Films about cancer
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Jean-Paul Roussillon, Mathieu Amalric, Anne Consigny, Melvil Poupaud, Émile Berling
Junon Vuillard is Abel Vuillard's wife, and the iron-willed matriarch of the Vuillard family. Junon held her family together through many tough times, and although her willpower helped the family survive and prosper, it also has left many bad feelings among her children. Junon is still a handsome woman, and though her husband (who owns a small fabric dying plant) has become obese and clearly aged, he retains a remarkable clarity, acceptance, tolerance, and unconditional love for his family, and it is clear that he and their love for each other is the lynchpin that holds an otherwise fragmented family together, albeit uneasily.
The Midwife (2017)
, 1h57Directed by Martin Provost
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Catherine Deneuve, Catherine Frot, Olivier Gourmet, Quentin Dolmaire, Mylène Demongeot, Karidja Touré
Claire est sage-femme dans une maternité dont la fermeture est programmée. Béatrice a été la maîtresse de son père, mort quelques années auparavant. Après trente ans de silence, les deux femmes vont se retrouver. Malgré son âge et sa santé précaire, Béatrice est fantasque et totalement immature. Claire, quant à elle, mène une vie rangée de bon Samaritain entre son hôpital et son appartement de Mantes-la-Jolie et commence à nouer une liaison avec Paul, un camionneur cinquantenaire. Expulsée de l'appartement où elle était hébergée, l'extravagante Béatrice s'installe chez Claire...
American Splendor (2003)
, 1h41Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes La bande dessinée, Films about films, Films about writers, Medical-themed films, Superhero films, Films about cancer, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Judah Friedlander, Donal Logue, James Urbaniak, Daniel Tay
American Splendor retrace la véritable histoire du scénariste de comics Harvey Pekar. Au début du film, celui-ci mène une existence plutôt morose entre son travail de documentaliste, quelques conversations sur tout et rien avec ses collègues et quelques connaissances, et sa passion pour le jazz, qu'il assouvit en recherchant des pièces rares dans les garage sales (équivalent américain des vide-greniers) ou les magasins d'occasion. C'est ainsi qu'il fait la connaissance du célèbre dessinateur de bande dessinée Robert Crumb, alors inconnu, qui est lui aussi collectionneur. Plusieurs années plus tard, alors que Crumb est devenu célèbre, Harvey lui soumet les story-boards d'un projet de bande dessinée basée sur sa vie, lui proposant d'en assurer le dessin. Crumb accepte, et contre toute attente, cette série intitulée American Splendor relatant une vie simple, banale, obtient un grand succès. Harvey Pekar acquiert ainsi une certaine célébrité aux États-Unis, dont les conséquences sur sa vie quotidienne sont présentées dans le film. En particulier, American Splendor lui permet de rencontrer sa future femme Joyce Brabner, qui écrit elle aussi des comics, et avec qui il va réaliser d'autres histoires autobiographiques, également intégrées en partie dans le film (notamment Our Cancer Year).
The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
, 1h50Directed by Felix Van Groeningen
Origin Belgique
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Jan Bijvoet, Blanka Heirman, Jan Hammenecker
The film is set in Ghent, in the Flemish Region of Belgium, and explores the lives of Didier and Elise over seven years as they fall in love through their passion for bluegrass music. They have a daughter, Maybelle, who develops cancer after her sixth birthday, and succumbs to it within a year. The outcome of Maybelle's illness has a devastating effect on their relationship and their lives.
The Professor (2018)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Johnny Depp, Rosemarie DeWitt, Danny Huston, Zoey Deutch, Ron Livingston, Linda Emond
Un professeur de littérature d'une université de Nouvelle Angleterre décide de se libérer des carcans le jour où on lui diagnostique un cancer des poumons en phase terminale. Pour le reste des six mois à vivre, il se transforme en fêtard rebelle, et au grand plaisir de ses étudiants, il mène une croisade contre l'autorité et l'hypocrisie.
More Than Blue (2009)
, 1h45Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about cancer
Actors Kwon Sang-woo, Lee Bo-young, Lee Beom-soo, Nam Gyu-ri, Jung Joon-ho, Lee Seung-Cheol
K and Cream first meet each other in high school & both are orphans; K was abandoned by his mother after his father died of cancer who nevertheless left him a sizable sum of money, while Cream lost her entire family in a traffic accident. The two become soulmates and come to share a home, though K watches Cream switch from boyfriend to boyfriend as he keeps his own feelings for her to himself. Knowing that Cream's biggest fear is to be left alone, K keeps the fact that he has terminal cancer a secret, and instead he urges her to marry a kind and healthy man. When Cream announces that she is in love with affluent doctor Joo-hwan, K is left heartbroken, but is satisfied that she has met her ideal partner.
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
, 1h52Directed by Denys Arcand, Jacques W. Benoît
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Aviation films, Films about cancer
Actors Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Roy Dupuis, Louise Portal, Dorothée Berryman, Marie-Josée Croze
Continuing seventeen years after Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire, the film centres on an exploration of the characters first met in the original film and their children, newly introduced. The older generation are still largely social-democrats and proponents of Quebec nationalism, but both political and economic developments after the “Quiet Revolution” of the 1960s, as well as their own aging, make their left-wing stance seem somewhat anachronistic.
, 1h46Directed by Paul McGuigan
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Annette Bening, Jamie Bell, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Walters, Kenneth Cranham, Leanne Best
Dans les années 1970, on diagnostique un cancer du sein à l'actrice américaine Gloria Grahame (notamment oscarisée en 1953 pour Les Ensorcelés). Elle part alors vivre à Liverpool avec le jeune Peter Turner.
Now Is Good (2012)
, 1h33Directed by Ol Parker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Pregnancy films, Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Dakota Fanning, Jeremy Irvine, Paddy Considine, Olivia Williams, Kaya Scodelario, Joe Cole
Tessa (Dakota Fanning) is diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Despite her four-year devotion to chemotherapy, she has discovered that she is going to die and comes up with a list of things she wants to do before she dies, including some risky behaviors that she deems necessary to have "lived". Her friend Zoey is excited and supportive of the outrageous bucket list until an unplanned pregnancy test comes up positive.
Restless (2011)
, 1h31Directed by Gus Van Sant
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about cancer, Films based on plays
Actors Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Jane Adams, Ryō Kase, Schuyler Fisk, Chin Han
A young man, Enoch, is out of school and has been befriended by a ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot. For unexplained reasons, he attends the funerals of strangers without invitation; at one of these he meets a young woman, Annabel, who says she works with children who have cancer, and the two start spending time together. Later Annabel acknowledges she has cancer herself, a fact which Enoch appears to accommodate, even when Annabel discovers she has only three months left to live. As their relationship becomes romantic, Enoch's placidity is explained by his own history of near-death experience, but when the loss of Annabel becomes a reality his behaviour betrays more evidence of turmoil. Annabel accepts and reacts to this. At Annabel's memorial Enoch asks to speak, but before he says anything memories of the couple's happiness together appear to resolve his grief.
A Few Hours of Spring (2012)
, 1h48Directed by Stéphane Brizé
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about euthanasia, Medical-themed films, Vieillesse, Films about cancer
Actors Vincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent, Emmanuelle Seigner, Olivier Perrier, Ludovic Berthillot, Sylvie Jobert
A man on his release from prison, is forced to return to his mother. This one, ill with terminal cancer, decided to choose the time of her death.
Akashadoothu (1993)
Directed by Sibi Malayil
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Madhavi Alladurgam, Murali, Kuthiravattam Pappu, Subair, Nedumudi Venu, Jose Prakash
The story revolves around Johnny (Murali) and Annie (Madhavi), a married couple who had both grown up together in an orphanage, fallen in love and had got married. The couple have four children; the eldest being a teenage girl named Meenu, twin boys Rony and Tony, and the youngest Monu, a toddler. Rony and Tony are about 8 years old and are very close to each other. Rony is physically handicapped. Johnny is a jeep driver by profession and Annie a violin teacher. Though the family struggles to live and make ends meet, they lead a happy life together, except for the moments when Johnny, a recurrent alcoholic spends most of his daily earnings at the local toddy shop. During an altercation between Johnny and the local milk delivery man Keshavan (N F Varghese), the latter is humiliated in front of his family. Keshavan therefore decides to take revenge on Johnny.
Song for Marion (2012)
, 1h30Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about families, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about cancer
Actors Gemma Arterton, Terence Stamp, Christopher Eccleston, Vanessa Redgrave, Anne Reid, Elizabeth Counsell
Arthur Harris is the grumpy husband of Marion, who is terminally ill yet continues to participate with enthusiasm at her local seniors' choir. Arthur is unimpressed when the choir, led by mistress Elizabeth, serenades the couple at their home.