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🌳 Terminal illness - life lessons
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A collection of films and shows that explore the realities of terminal illness, capturing the courage, struggles, and reflections of those nearing life’s end and the impact on the people who walk alongside them.


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Movie: Tuesdays with Morrie ( 1999 )
A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and society.
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Movie: The Nurse with the Purple Hair ( 2017 )
This movie follows Philadelphia Hospice Nurse Michelle Lasota as she navigates the difficult world of Hospice care with a sense of humor and a passionate drive to help others as they come to the end of life. Michelle works in an inpatient hospice unit designed exclusively for acute hospice care. The Nurse with the Purple Hair highlights how families can learn to accept the end of life with compassion, wisdom, and grace. It's impossible to watch this movie without feeling deeply grateful to these wonderful caring people as we watch them do their jobs with extraordinary compassion and love.
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Movie: Then Came You ( 2019 )
A hypochondriac working as an airport baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
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Movie: The Sea Inside ( 2005 )
The factual story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro, who fought a 28-year campaign in favor of euthanasia and his own right to die.
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Movie: Big Fish ( 2004 )
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
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Movie: Iris ( 2002 )
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Movie: Murder or Mercy ( 1974 )
An attorney comes out of retirement to defend a prominent doctor, who has been accused of the mercy killing of his wife.
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Movie: Steel Magnolias ( 1989 )
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.
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Movie: John Q ( 2002 )
John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his son's heart transplant.
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TV Show: Six Feet Under ( 2001 )
When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside on Six Feet Under.
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Movie: On Golden Pond ( 1982 )
Curmudgeon Norman is estranged from his daughter Chelsea. Nevertheless, at Golden Pond he and his wife agree to look after Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
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Movie: And the Band Played On ( 1993 )
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Movie: Brokeback Mountain ( 2006 )
Two shepherds fall for each other, but their relationship becomes complicated when they both get married to their respective girlfriends.
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Movie: My Left Foot ( 1990 )
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
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Movie: The Interpreter ( 2005 )
Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot.
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Movie: The Notebook ( 2004 )
A poor yet passionate young man (Ryan Gosling) falls in love with a rich young woman (Rachel McAdams), giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences.
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Movie: A River Runs Through It ( 1992 )
Two sons of a stern minister - one reserved, one rebellious - grow up in rural 1920s Montana while devoted to fly fishing.
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Movie: Coco ( 2017 )
Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
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Movie: Nowhere Special ( 2021 )
When John, a thirty-five-year-old window cleaner, is given only a few months to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for his three-year-old son, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.
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Movie: Amour ( 2012 )
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
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Movie: Dormant Beauty ( 2012 )
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
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Movie: The Perfect Circle ( 2014 )
The Perfect Circle depicts a man and a woman, Ivano and Meris, who spend their final days at a hospice in Northern Italy. The film intertwines two love stories and the possibility to give a new meaning to life.
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Movie: Beaches ( 1989 )
Wealthy privileged San Francisco debutante Hillary Whitney Essex and cynical struggling entertainer C. C. Bloom share a turbulent, but strong friendship over the years.
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Movie: The Barbarian Invasions ( 2004 )
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor Remy learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends to his family and friends before he dies. He first approaches his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estranged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.
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Movie: Meet Joe Black ( 1998 )
Death, who takes the form of a young man killed in an accident, asks a media mogul to act as his guide to teach him about life on Earth and, in the process, he falls in love with the mogul's daughter.
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Movie: Marley & Me ( 2008 )
A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog.
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Movie: Field of Dreams ( 1989 )
Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true.
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Movie: The Descendants ( 2011 )
A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.
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Movie: This Is Where I Leave You ( 2014 )
After their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes, and might-have-beens.
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Movie: 120 BPM ( 2017 )
Members of the advocacy group ACT UP Paris demand action by the government and pharmaceutical companies to combat the AIDS epidemic in the early 1990s.
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Movie: Here and Now ( 2018 )
A singer (Sarah Jessica Parker) in New York City gets a grim diagnosis that puts her life and dreams into perspective.
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Movie: Sorry Angel ( 2019 )
Jacques is a 35-year-old writer from Paris. Arthur is a young student in Rennes. They instantly fall in love. But they'll have to face sickness to keep it that way.
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Movie: The Hero ( 2017 )
An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.
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Movie: L'oncle Charles ( 2012 )
When Charles has an incurable disease, he is hit by a sudden resurgence of affection and decides to track down his sister in the west of France. But life can be full of surprises and one good thing often leads to another...
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Movie: Poetry ( 2011 )
A sixty-something woman, faced with the discovery of a heinous family crime and in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, finds strength and purpose when she enrolls in a poetry class.
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Movie: Mary and Martha ( 2013 )
Two mothers lose their sons to malaria.
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Movie: Adem ( 2010 )
Two young men share an incurable illness. Is their love for the women in their lives strong enough to conquer their fear of dying?
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Movie: New Life ( 2017 )
Ben met Ava at age seven standing in his driveway. As the two journey together through the seasons of life, a tragedy occurs that leaves their entire future in jeopardy.
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Movie: Finding Joy ( 2013 )
A self-absorbed writer, stuck in more ways than one, rediscovers himself, his offbeat family, and what it means to be happy when he meets Joy, a spirited young woman who asks him to write her obituary.
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Movie: Charlie St. Cloud ( 2010 )
After Charlie survives a car crash that kills his younger brother, he is given the gift of seeing the spirits of his brother and others who he has lost, and must use his powers to save the woman he loves from impending disaster.
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Movie: Wild Oats ( 2016 )
Everything changes for Eva when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for five million dollars instead of the expected fifty thousand dollars. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.
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Movie: So Long, My Son ( 2019 )
'We're waiting to grow old'. This sentence briefly sums up Yaoyun and his wife Liyun's bitter realization about their lives. They were once a happy family - until their son drowned playing by a reservoir. And so Yaojun and Liyun leave their home and plunge into the big city, although nobody knows them there and they cannot even understand the local dialect. Their adopted son Liu Xing does not offer them the comfort they had hoped for either. Defiantly rejecting his 'foreign' parents, he one day disappears altogether. The married couple are repeatedly enmeshed in their memories. Finally, they decide to return to the site of their lost hopes. In this family saga spanning three decades of Chinese history, the private and the political merge and the individual gets caught up in the gears of a society in the throes of constant change. Part melodrama, part critique of the times, this film takes us from the country's upheaval in the 1980s following the Cultural Revolution to the prospering turbo-capitalism of the present day. Told in sweeping tableaux, it makes visible the deep scars that lie beneath the surface of an ostensibly unbroken success story.
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Movie: Maze Runner: The Death Cure ( 2018 )
Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".
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Movie: Ways to Live Forever ( 2010 )
Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.
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Movie: Matching Jack ( 2010 )
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity. After a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
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Movie: Our Little Sister ( 2015 )
A story that revolves around three sisters who live in their grandmother's home and the arrival of their thirteen-year-old half sister.
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Movie: Snowmen ( 2010 )
This is a humorous and heartfelt coming-of-age story about three unlikely heroes and the winter that changed their lives forever. After a surprising discovery in the snow catapults three small-town boys into the spotlight, the best friends hatch a plan to be remembered forever by setting a Guinness World Records title. Along the way, the trio battles schoolyard bullie...Read all
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Movie: An Officer and a Spy ( 2019 )
In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a young promising officer, is degraded for spying for Germany, wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island. Among the witnesses to his humiliation is Georges Picquart, who is promoted to run the military counter-intelligence unit that tracked him down. But when Picquart discovers that secrets are still being handed over to the Germans, he is drawn into a dangerous labyrinth of deceit and corruption that threatens not just his honor but his life.
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Movie: The Etruscan Smile ( 2019 )
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman, travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. He moves in with his estranged son Ian, as he sees his life getting transformed through a newfound bond with his baby grandson.
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Movie: Realive ( 2017 )
Marc will die of cancer and chooses cryogenic freeze and hopes to be thawed, when there's a solution to his condition. He's the first human brought back 68 years later. Can he adapt mentally and physically?
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Movie: Sky ( 2016 )
Romy (Diane Kruger) is on holiday in the USA with her French husband, Richard (Gilles Lellouche). But the journey quickly turns into a settling of old scores for this worn out couple. After an ultimate fight, Romy decides to break free. She cuts off her ties to a stable and secure life that has become alienating and escapes to the unknown.
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Movie: Two Is a Family ( 2016 )
A bachelor enjoys his sweet life on the French Riviera until a one-night stand tells him that he is Gloria's father and leaves her with him. He moves to London with Gloria. Mom turns up 8 years later.
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Movie: All Things Fall Apart ( 2011 )
A drama centered around a promising football running back during his senior year in college.
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Movie: Kill Me Please ( 2010 )
Black comedy about a doctor who opens an assisted suicide clinic
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Movie: Stopped on Track ( 2011 )
When Frank is diagnosed with incurable brain tumor, he's got only a few months to live. Along with his wife, he doesn't know how and when to tell their children about it. Meanwhile, Frank's health is getting worse with each day.
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Movie: 18 Presents ( 2020 )
A pregnant mother Elisa, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer, gives birth to her baby daughter Anna and attempts to be part of her life by allocating 18 sentimental emotional gifts for her unborn daughter, soon after realizing that she has breast cancer. Elisa does this during her life time to allow Anna to receive her birthday gifts every year on her birthday until attaining the womanhood. Elisa dies when her baby is just one year old and Anna gets to know about her mother's love and sacrifice after growing up and feels guilty.
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Movie: Come As You Are ( 2020 )
Three young men with disabilities hit the road with a jaded nurse driver to a brothel in Montreal catering to people with special needs. Remake of the acclaimed Belgian film 'Hasta La Vista'.
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Movie: Terminal ( 2018 )
A film noir taking place in a train terminal at night. Add two male assassins, a female assassin, a waitress, a teacher, a janitor, and a crime boss. Add revenge. Who says mystery is a lost art?
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Movie: Chronic ( 2015 )
A home care nurse works with terminally ill patients.
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Movie: Let Me Eat Your Pancreas ( 2017 )
A dying girl meets a nonchalant boy who found out her secret. She decided to fulfill her bucket list with none-other-than the boy who couldn't care less about the world.
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Movie: And Now Ladies & Gentlemen ( 2002 )
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
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Movie: The House of Sun ( 2010 )
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Movie: One More Kiss ( 2000 )
Sam Murray runs a restaurant. He and Sarah grew up together and Sam hoped they'd grow old together.
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Movie: Extreme Measures ( 1996 )
A young doctor confronts a famous colleague when he learns about the true methods of his work.
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Movie: Christmas in Conway ( 2013 )
Duncan Mayor loved Susie so much he wanted to give her one last Christmas gift before she passes away. He didn't care about any consequences or anything else.
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Movie: Her Love Boils Bathwater ( 2016 )
A strict, but caring mother has an awakening when she is told she has cancer and it is terminal. She has a few months. She needs to complete her tasks in that short time frame. She needs to retrieve her husband who has vanished and get the family business restarted. She needs to help her daughter be able to pick after herself. Will the family bonds grow stronger or wither?
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Movie: Our Friend ( 2021 )
After receiving life-altering news, a couple finds unexpected support from their best friend, who puts his own life on hold and moves into their family home, bringing an impact much greater and more profound than anyone could have imagined
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Movie: ToY ( 2016 )
Young L.A. artist, Chloe, hires prostitutes to pose nude and talk openly about their lives while she films them for her new art project. She falls for one of them, the elegant 40-something Kat. The two begin a tragic passionate affair.
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Movie: First Time ( 2012 )
About Shiqiao, a girl who suffers from a neuromuscular disease but always dreamed of being a ballet dancer. She meets Gong, a boy who have a family problem because they are against his dream to become a rock band singer.
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Movie: Lost Time ( 2014 )
After leaving a doctor visit with the worst news, Valerie Dreyfuss and her sister Melissa come to a stop on a lonely stretch of road. Their car is engulfed by a blinding light....12 hours later Valerie wakes to the horror that her sister is gone, nowhere to be found.
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Movie: Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor ( 2014 )
The daily life of an hospital through the eyes of new intern Benjamin.
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TV Show: Mary Kills People ( 2017 )
Set in the morally grey world of assisted suicide, Mary Kills People is an intense, controversial, and thought-provoking drama. The series follows Dr. Mary Harris, a single mother and emergency doctor by day, who also moonlights as an underground angel of death — helping terminally ill patients who want to die and slip away on their own terms. So far Mary has managed to stay under the radar; but business is booming, and her double life is getting complicated. When her world starts to unravel, Mary realizes she's going to have to fight dirty if she's going to stay in the killing game.
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Movie: The Hippopotamus ( 2017 )
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
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Movie: Land and Shade ( 2015 )
Alfonso is an old farmer who has returned home to tend to his son, who is gravely ill. He rediscovers his old house, where the woman who was once his wife still lives, with his daughter-in-law and grandson. The landscape that awaits him resembles a wasteland. Vast sugar cane plantations surround the house, producing perpetual clouds of ash. 17 years after abandoning them, Alfonso tries to fit back in and save his family..
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Movie: Self/less ( 2015 )
A dying real estate mogul transfers his consciousness into a healthy young body, but soon finds that neither the procedure nor the company that performed it are quite what they seem.
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Movie: Helium (Short 2013) ( 2014 )
A young boy, Alfred, is dying, but through the stories about HELIUM - a magical fantasy world - told by the hospital's eccentric janitor Enzo, Alfred regains the joy and happiness of his life, and finds a safe haven away from daily life.
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Movie: Cool Kids Don't Cry ( 2014 )
Anja has cancer that's why she goes to a hospital to figure out what happen to her. Then that means that she is gonna stay there long. But at school there's a football competition there. Then Anja joins with some friends called Lars and Lisa also later turned nice Jonas who willing for her to enter the football game.
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Movie: The Death of Louis XIV ( 2016 )
Upon returning from a hunting expedition, King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die, surrounded by loyal followers in the royal chambers.
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Movie: Bye Bye Morons ( 2020 )
A seriously-ill woman tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist.
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Movie: Five ( 2011 )
An anthology of five short films exploring the impact of breast cancer on people's lives.
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Movie: Blood Orange ( 2016 )
Blood Orange stars Iggy Pop as Bill, an ageing rock star living with his beautiful and promiscuous young wife Isabelle (Kacey Barnfield). Into their peculiar paradise comes a dangerous ex-lover (Ben Lamb) hell bent on revenge.
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Movie: Ocean Heaven ( 2010 )
Explores the subject of parental love and autism in kids.
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Movie: Just Like Our Parents ( 2017 )
When Rosa's mother makes a surprising disclosure to her one day, Rosa decides to break out of her usual obligations. In so doing she discovers that life holds many surprises in store for her.
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Movie: Mr. Church ( 2016 )
Unique friendship develops when a girl and her dying mother retain the services of a talented cook - Henry Joseph Church. What begins as a six month arrangement instead spans into fifteen years and creates a family bond that lasts forever.
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Movie: Intruders ( 2016 )
Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only problem.
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Movie: Magical Girl ( 2014 )
The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter's last wish, a ridiculously expensive collectors' costume from a Japanese TV series. The request will drive him into a journey within his city's dark underbelly.
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Movie: Quick ( 2019 )
The captivating story of Sweden's greatest judicial scandal ever, about one man who sacrificed everything in his hunt for the truth.
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Movie: Frankie ( 2019 )
Three generations grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in Sintra, Portugal, a historic town known for its dense gardens and fairy-tale villas and palaces.
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Movie: The Farewell Party ( 2015 )
Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
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Movie: Awoken ( 2020 )
When nothing can be done for a Fatal Familial Insomnia patient at the hospital, a med student has her brother moved to a secret facility in the basement for alternative treatment. Is it demonic possession?
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Movie: Blackbird ( 2020 )
Lily is dying and by the end of this weekend, she'll be dead. She suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and is planning to pursue euthanasia with the help of her husband Paul and invites her family and her longtime best friend Liz to the house so they can spend her final days together. But there's tension between her daughters, the uptight Jennifer and the wayward Anna, and it threatens to destroy her perfectly laid-out plan.
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Movie: Leave ( 2011 )
Henry Harper is a successful novelist who has it all. But after surviving a recent trauma he finds himself haunted by a dream that terrifies him. Convinced that the only way to understand what the dream means is to write his way through it, Henry decides to go to a remote second home to begin work on his next novel, a thriller. While on his way there he encounters a s...Read all
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Movie: Declaration of War ( 2011 )
When their young son is diagnosed with a brain tumor, young parents Roméo and Juliette unite in the fight for his survival.
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Movie: The Music Never Stopped ( 2011 )
Tale of a father who struggles to bond with his estranged son Gabriel, after Gabriel suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the beliefs and interests that caused their physical and emotional distance, Henry must learn to embrace his son's choices and try to connect with him through music.
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Movie: LX 2048 ( 2020 )
In the near future, the sun has become so toxic people can no longer leave their houses in daytime, and normal life is conducted mostly inside the virtual realm. Against this dystopian backdrop, a dying man seeks to ensure the future well-being of his family, while coping with what it means to be human in this new reality.
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Movie: The Clink of Ice ( 2010 )
An alcoholic writer is visited by an incarnation of his cancer.
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Movie: The Amazing Catfish ( 2014 )
Martha, a single mother of four children, lets Claudia move into her home. As Claudia bonds with the family, Martha's health slowly deteriorates.
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Movie: The Forger ( 2015 )
A thief works with his father and son to forge a painting by Monet and steal the original. Together, they plan the heist of their lives.
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TV Show: The Midnight Club ( 2022 )
Inside a hospice for terminally ill teens, members of an exclusive club make a chilling pact: The first to die must send a sign from beyond the grave.
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Movie: A Ring of Endless Light ( 2002 )
Based on a novel by Madeline L'Engle. During the summer her grandfather is dying of leukemia and death seems all around, 15-year-old Vicky finds comfort with the pod of dolphins with which she has been doing research.