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🌳 Terminal illness - life lessons
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People diagnosed with terminal illness and their struggle with mortality and stories of people dealing with end-of-life experience.


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Movie: Gold Star ( 2017 )
Vicki, a music school drop out, boards a train from NYC to CT to care for her first music teacher, her dying father. While reconciling her feelings toward her upbringing in his old age, she realizes the future she wanted for herself isn't necessarily the one she needs.
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TV Show: Move to Heaven ( 2021 )
Finding life in all that's left behind, a trauma cleaner with Asperger's and his ex-con uncle deliver the untold stories of the departed to loved ones.
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Movie: Kal Ho Naa Ho ( 2003 )
The film's female lead, Naina (Preity Zinta) narrates the story. Her father had committed suicide years ago which left a deep impact on her heart. Her family is dysfunctional since her mother and grandmother just cannot stop arguing. But when Aman (Shahrukh Khan) arrives next door, the whole gloomy conditions change. Aman infuses life in skeptical and overtly serious Naina, and she falls in love with him. But Aman knows that he cannot marry Naina because of a secret which he cannot divulge to her. So he intends upon setting her up with her best pal Rohit (Saif Ali Khan).
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Movie: More Than Blue ( 2009 )
"K" loves Cream but has terminal cancer so he keeps his love for her secret and tries to find a mate for her before he dies so she will not be alone after he dies.
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Movie: More Than Blue ( 2018 )
A terminally ill man sets up his best friend, whom he has loved since high school, so that she will not be lonely after he passes away.
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TV Show: More than Blue: The Series ( 2021 )
A high-level manager of a record label and his assistant set out in search of the original writer of the hit song "The Saddest Thing of All". With the help of seasoned professionals in the field, they uncover the truth behind a heart-wrenching love story and rekindle an old flame between a kind-hearted dentist and photographer. 
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Movie: Getting Grace ( 2017 )
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer, crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies, but ends up teaching awkward funeral director Bill how to celebrate life.
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Movie: Swan Song ( 2021 )
In the near future, a terminally ill man explores a heart wrenching, emotionally complex solution to save his wife and son from grief by duplicating himself without them knowing.
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Movie: Ghost ( 1990 )
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
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Movie: Heaven Can Wait ( 1978 )
Joe Pendleton is a football quarterback preparing to lead his team to the Superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he was not ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. Another body must be found without his death being discovered, and that of a recently murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant, the murderers, are confused by this development, as he buys the Los Angeles Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl. At the same time, he falls in love with an English environmental activist who disapproves of his policies and actions.
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Movie: The Lovely Bones ( 2009 )
Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
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Movie: The Lovely Bones ( 2015 )
Based on the best-selling novel by Alice Sebold and directed by award winning director Andrew McKeough, The Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
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Movie: The Big Chill ( 1983 )
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
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Movie: Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close ( 2012 )
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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TV Show: The One and Only ( 2021 )
An emotional romance drama about three terminally ill women who meet at a hospice. They decide that before they die, they want to take down one bad guy before they go – but in their attempt to take down "just one person," they wind up meeting the most valuable person of their lives.
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Movie: Legacy of Love ( 2021 )
Unexpected tragedy causes a coming-of-age woman to question the meaning of life, until she finds her purpose by helping others deal with the loss of a loved one.
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Movie: The Sky Is Everywhere ( 2022 )
A shy, teenage musician tries to keep things together in the aftermath of her older, more outgoing sister's death.
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Movie: Dual ( 2022 )
A woman opts for a cloning procedure after she receives a terminal diagnosis but when she recovers her attempts to have her clone decommissioned fail, leading to a court-mandated duel to the death.
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TV Show: Surviving Death ( 2021 )
What happens after we die? This docuseries explores personal stories and research on near-death experiences, reincarnation and paranormal phenomena.
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TV Show: Time of Death ( 2013 )
People are mortal, which is a point driven home by this series that follows people who are facing their imminent mortality. The terminally ill people on Time of Death are supported by family, friends, health care professionals, and hospice workers. The stories told include those of a single mother with invasive breast cancer; a psychotherapist specializing in death and dying but who, herself, has pancreatic cancer; a veteran with a rare form of cancer; and a young woman who has metastatic melanoma.
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TV Show: Falling for Innocence ( 2015 )
After enduring both business and family upheavals, a ruthless investment director has a heart transplant and finds a new way to look at life and love.
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TV Show: Fantastic ( 2016 )
A cheerful-but-weighty romance story between Lee So Hye, a popular TV drama series writer who has only 6 months left to live and Ryu Hae Seong, a popular actor, but he is not good at acting.
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TV Show: Marriage Contract ( 2016 )
A widow has been forced to raise her daughter alone as her husband died by an accident, but unfortunately she discovers that she has a tumour in her brain. Now she is tasked to find a Guardian for her daughter.
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TV Show: Scent of a Woman ( 2011 )
A woman, Lee Yun Jae, is given the grim prognosis that she only has a short time left to live. She decides to quit her job at a travel agency and live her life to the fullest. During the time, she meets Kang Jin Wook and they both fall in love.
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TV Show: Boku no Ita Jikan ( 2014 )
Fourth year university student Sawada Takuto is having a tough time looking for a job. The eldest son of the director of a hospital, Takuto's parents had expected him to become a doctor, but they began to focus their hopes on his younger brother Rikuto instead, some time during his junior high school. Although Takuto is popular and good at befriending ladies, he has no confidence that he will be loved and thus avoids deep emotional involvement with anyone. One day, he is informed that he does not have long to live because he is suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an incurable, progressive neurodegenerative disease. Takuto, who had given only vague thoughts to his goals in life, starts to explore what is left of his life and live with a positive attitude.
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Movie: 1 Litre of Tears ( 2005 )
'1 Litre of Tears' is a Japanese movie mainly based on a published version of the Diary, "1 Litre no Namida" (Ichi Rittoru no Namida) written by a girl called 'Aya Kito' (Kito Aya, July 19, 1962 - May 23, 1988) about her real and personal life experiences coping with a fatal and incurable disease and this diary was published shortly before her death. One day when Aya returned home injuring his chin due to fall while going to school her mother realizes there is something strange happening to her daughter. She convinced her to go to hospital where on examination doctor told her that her daughter is suffering from 'Spinocerebellar ataxia' or 'Spinocerebellar degeneration' which is a hereditary, progressive and an incurable and fatal neurodegenerative disorder in which the person gradually looses ability to control his body movements due to the degeneration of the cerebellum and nervous system. At first Aya was not informed with actually what was she is suffering from and was told that it is some small neurological disorder and her doctor advised her to start writing a diary so it would help her sorting her doubts and worries she is facing. But with her deteriorating condition she herself realizes that something has happened to her. But even after knowing the truth she keeps on writing about her chronicles with the disease until she looses the ability to hold pen and write. So the movie revolves around her and the people around her, that how she and they coped, reacted and kept up with her fears, emotions, struggles and desire of her to keep living even after knowing what is her fate and in the process inspiring everyone around her. The disease onsets with her having difficulty in coordination, walking and balancing, which progresses in few years into loosing altogether the ability to focus with eye, speak, swallow and ceasing of other muscle controlled movements leading her to be bedridden and die in span few years (in her case it is about 10 years). As the disease affects only the communication between the muscles and the brain, the mental part of the body remains intact thus imprisoning her in her own body. Asae Oonishi is the lead actress and Kazuko Kato plays as her mother. This daughter and mother duo also played a cameo in the Drama series with the same name which was more fictional based on the life of Aya Kito.
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TV Show: Ichi Rittoru no Namida ( 2005 )
This drama is based on the real-life struggles of a 15-year-old girl named Aya Kito who suffered from an incurable disease, but lived life to the fullest until her death at 25. The script is based on the diary Aya kept writing until she could no longer hold a pen. Aya Ikeuchi proved her courage and positive attitude towards an uncertain future when suffering such an illness, spinocerebellar ataxia. The drama spans a decade, during which she graduates from school while her conditions worsen.
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TV Show: Radiant Office ( 2017 )
Eun Ho Won faces repeat rejections in her job search until despair drives her to attempt suicide. At the hospital, she learns she might be terminally-ill, but then at the same time, she also finally succeeds in getting hired. Thinking she has nothing to lose, she tackles her job and life with new perspectives. Seo Woo Jin is her superior at work and considers her a pain in the neck. They become a bickering pair.
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TV Show: Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake ( 1998 )
A touching love story about a girl Kano Masaki who contracted HIV after selling her body in order to earn money for the concert of a famous composer Ishikawa Keigo. After the concert, Keigo saw Masaki chasing after his van. She was drenched, and thus Keigo took her to his apartment, where they spent the night.
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TV Show: Amanza ( 2020 )
A 26-year-old man's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer. As he struggles with the pain of his treatment and the realization that he never truly lived, he retreats into his imagination, to a magical forest where answers and miracles can be found.
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Movie: Inuyashiki ( 2018 )
An middle-aged office worker encounters aliens and is gifted with alien technology and limitless powers.
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TV Show: My Last Days ( 2016 )
My Last Days is an uplifting documentary series about living an extraordinary life, told from the perspective of those who are terminally ill.
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TV Show: Valkyrien ( 2016 )
Doctor Ravn is a surgeon desperate to find a cure for his dying wife Vilma. The hospital had given up on her, so Ravn enters into an alliance with Oslo's underworld and opens a clinic in a disused underground station for those in need, who either have no GP or cannot use public hospitals. Ravn's endeavours both to build a clinic and get patients is made possible by the corrupt Leif. Convinced that the end of the world is nigh, Leif has widespread access and knowledge of the city's underground shelters and secret passages, as well as a significant network in the Oslo underworld and its black economy.
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Movie: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever ( 2022 )
The people of Wakanda fight to protect their home from intervening world powers as they mourn the death of King T'Challa.
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Movie: In Good Hands ( 2022 )
Diagnosed with terminal illness, a single mother encounters a suave bachelor as she grapples with the future of her headstrong six-years-old.
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Movie: Living ( 2022 )
In 1950s London, a humorless civil servant decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis.
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Movie: You Are My Sunshine ( 2021 )
Tom and Joe have been together for years. And to some extent, have been together alone. You Are My Sunshine charts their humble beginnings in a world only just waking up to homosexuality, to present day, and a world facing their elder selves. As present day brings further conflict as well as the potential change in the air, Tom and Joe's story will be shown from its first monumental day all the way to its loving last.
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Movie: The Grand Duke of Corsica ( 2021 )
As a deadly epidemic slowly begins to sweep Malta, a brilliant architect embarks upon an unusual commission for an eccentric billionaire who calls himself 'The Grand Duke of Corsica'. A state of emergency creates chaos but Alfred Rott, ever the professional, remains to finish the job.
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Movie: Nothing to Laugh About ( 2021 )
Kasper Berntsen is a successful stand-up comedian, who has everything he could wish for. One day everything changes. He learns that he has a serious illness, and his girlfriend puts an end to it. Kasper's rising star as a stand-up comedian is given new life, when he uses humor as a disarming and life-giving force. He discovers new sides of himself and not least - what is most important in this life.
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Movie: Sweet Girl ( 2021 )
Devoted family man Ray Cooper (Jason Momoa), vows justice against the pharmaceutical company responsible for pulling a potentially life saving drug from the market just before his wife (Adria Arjona) dies from cancer. But when his search for the truth leads to a deadly encounter that puts Ray and his daughter Rachel (Isabela Merced) in harm's way, Ray's mission turns into a quest for vengeance in order to protect the only family he has left.
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Movie: Ida Red ( 2021 )
Ida "Red" Walker may not survive her terminal illness while incarcerated for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
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Movie: Old ( 2021 )
A vacationing family discovers that the secluded beach where they're relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.
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Movie: Vanquish ( 2021 )
A mother, Victoria (Rose), is trying to put her dark past as a Russian drug courier behind her, but retired cop Damon (Freeman) forces Victoria to do his bidding by holding her daughter hostage. Now, Victoria must use guns, guts, and a motorcycle to take out a series of violent gangsters - or she may never see her child again.
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Movie: Faith Under Fire ( 2020 )
Fireman Tom Hatcher is at the end of his rope. He saves lives but couldn't save his wife from cancer. Now his daughter faces the same battle. From an unlikely friend, Tom is challenged to face grief and embrace faith in his darkest hours.
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Movie: Out of My League ( 2021 )
Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for her. Not any boy - the most handsome of them all. One day, she may have found her match.
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Movie: The Hospice ( 2014 )
This film is set in a hospice located outskirts of Seoul, where terminal patients who cannot find any more hope come to finalize their lives. On average, a patient spends his or her last 21 days in the hospice, trying to make the most out of what remains of life and preparing for a peaceful death. Some succeed in spending quality time with their beloved, but others keep struggling against the reality of their imminent death. The film invites the audiences to the hospice and offers a unique opportunity to observe the patients and how they deal with death.
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Movie: One Day ( 2017 )
A man, who witnessed his wife's suicide, gradually cures his emotional scars through a fateful encounter with a woman in coma...
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Movie: 65 ( 2023 )
An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.
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Movie: Last Night in Rozzie ( 2021 )
When a New York lawyer returns to his Boston hometown to reunite his dying friend with his young son, he is forced to finally confront a childhood trauma.
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Movie: Things to Do Before You Die ( 2021 )
After a friend dies from a terminal illness, five friends discover what they are really like and how much they need the support and involvement of their loved ones: one that they have chosen out of authenticity, enjoyment and affection.
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Movie: God, You're Such a Prick ( 2020 )
A young girl in Germany graduates from high school, then gets a cancer diagnosis. She decides to enjoy the time she has left instead of spending her remaining time in the hospital, and goes on an adventure with an unexpected travel companion.
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TV Show: Most Dangerous Game ( 2020 )
Most Dangerous Game follows the story of a terminally ill man named Dodge Tynes who will do anything to provide for his pregnant wife before he dies. In the throes of desperation, he accepts an offer to participate in a deadly hunt, only to discover that he's not the hunter, but the prey.
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Movie: The Goddess of Fortune ( 2019 )
Alessandro and Arturo have been a couple for more than 15 years. Although passion and love have turned into an important affection, their relationship has been in crisis for some time. The sudden arrival in their lives of two children left in custody for a few days by Alessandro's best friend could give an unexpected turn to their tired routine. The solution will be a crazy gesture; on the other hand, love is a state of pleasant madness.
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Movie: Window to the Sea ( 2020 )
Faced with life changing news, Maria, a fifty-five year old Spanish woman from Bilbao, chooses to take a trip to Greece with her closest girlfriends against the advice of her son and doctors. There, she unexpectedly finds love and what seemed like a brief escape from reality turns into a luminous story of a woman, who dares to live for the moment on her own terms.
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Movie: White Lie ( 2021 )
Katie Arneson is faking cancer. A university dance major, Katie's falsified diagnosis and counterfeit fundraising have transformed her into a campus celebrity surrounded by the supportive community she's always dreamed of: a close-knit group of friends, security in her academic pursuits, and a caring relationship with her girlfriend. Dependent upon a bursary for sick students to maintain her ruse, Katie learns the funding is in jeopardy unless she can provide copies of her medical records within the week.
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Movie: Dil Bechara ( 2020 )
The emotional journey of two hopelessly-in-love youngsters; a young girl, Kizie, who is suffering from cancer; and Manny, a boy Kizie meets at a support group.
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Movie: See You on Venus ( 2023 )
An 18 year-old orphaned girl wants to travel to Europe to track down her biological mother, so when she meets a kind-hearted young man reeling from the guilt of a fatal accident, she convinces him to accompany her on the journey.
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Movie: Bobby Deerfield ( 1977 )
Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
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Movie: Kindling ( 2023 )
Kindling follows a group of young men who return to their home town in order to turn their friend's final days into a celebration of life and friendship.
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TV Show: Etterglød ( 2022 )
When Ester finds out that she is seriously ill, she and her friends decide to make the most of life - because it can end at any moment.
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Movie: The Upside ( 2019 )
Philip is a disabled billionaire, who feels that life is not worth living. To help him in his day-to-day routine, he hires Del, a parolee who is trying to reconnect with his estranged wife. What begins as a professional relationship develops into a friendship as Del shows his grouchy charge that life is worth living.
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Movie: Brain on Fire ( 2018 )
A young, capable professional cannot explain her newly erratic behavior.
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Movie: The Theory of Everything ( 2014 )
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
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Movie: Unrest ( 2017 )
When Harvard Ph.D. student Jennifer Brea is struck down by a fever that leaves her bedridden, she sets out on a virtual journey to document her story as she fights a disease that medicine forgot.
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Movie: Miss You Already ( 2015 )
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
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TV Show: Jealousy Incarnate ( 2016 )
The drama depicts romance as well as intense competitive rivalry between an anchor and a weather forecaster working together for a television news show.
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TV Show: A Pledge to God ( 2018 )
A Pledge to God is about how two married couples will do whatever it takes to save their children. That's without taking into account that they'll leave ethics and morals to one side in order to do it.Seo Ji Young is an anchorwoman and talk show host who is also fiercely devoted to her children. Meanwhile, Kim Jae Wook is the heir to a large architecture firm who is willing to lay everything on the line and stand up against his family in order to protect his children.
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TV Show: Koizora ( 2008 )
Tahara Mika is an ordinary high school girl. One day, out of the blue, one of her classmates kisses her. His name is Sakurai Hiroki also known as Hiro. Hiro stands out because of his bleached hair and piercing. Apparently he is also dating someone. Mika is shocked and hurt that her first kiss had to happen this way. She desperately tries to forget about it. Then, her friend tells her that she should find somebody else and suggests Tatsuya, another boy in their class. However, before she even realizes it, Mika is already in love...
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TV Show: To Love ( 2020 )
A story that follows people whose lives are entangled due to a complicated case. While investigating a drug cartel as an undercover cop, Yan Jin falls in love with the beautiful coffee shop owner Ji Xiao'ou.
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TV Show: Nine: Nine Times Time Travel ( 2013 )
Park Sun Woo works as an anchorman at a TV broadcasting station. He is in love with newsreporter Joo Min Young, who is bright and honest. Park Sun Woo then obtains 9 incense items, which allows him to go back 20 years in time. Park Sun Woo travels to the past.
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TV Show: My Love, Enlighten Me ( 2020 )
A young, 22-year-old hopeful and a kind-hearted, pop star named Nuan Nuan is forced to reinvent herself after the girl group she is a member of disbands on the night of its debut. Overnight, her dreams come to a halt as she's hit with the harsh reality of her situation. While she struggles in her search for a post-pop career, her life gets intertwined with a man named Han Che. Han Che is a successful sound and light engineer who also happens to have an impeccable memory and a cold personality. However, despite his amazing memory, Han Che misremembers something very important which can later threaten to jeopardize his relationship with Naun Naun. Meanwhile, Nuan Nuan, who has always had a keen eye for fashion, begins to explore her love of clothes - hoping to secure a permanent spot at a clothing store's headquarters.
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Movie: My Annoying Brother ( 2016 )
A now-blind athlete must rely on his estranged brother, who may have just used him as an excuse to get himself out of jail. The two were never close, but brothers soon realize a connection they couldn't always see.
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TV Show: Choose ( 2017 )
Ton and Tawan love each other deeply but their love is tested by Ton's new secretary who seems to be the perfect match for him. Then Tawan starts acting distant and cold towards Ton, pushing him away.
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TV Show: Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol ( 2020 )
A romantic drama that tells the story of the pianist Goo Ra Ra whose life fell to the bottom when her family was ruined. She got to meet and to fall in love with the mysterious Sun Woo Joon.
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TV Show: Remembering Lichuan ( 2016 )
By chance, college student Xie Xiaoqiu (played by Jiao Junyan) met a young architect named Wang Lichuan (played by Gao Yixiang). flame. However, one day, Wang Lichuan found out that he was seriously ill. In order not to drag Xie Xiaoqiu down, he pretended to leave coldly, so that Xie Xiaoqiu could taste the pain. In a blink of an eye, four years have passed. Xie Xiaoqiu, who has graduated, entered the company as a professional translator. Who knew that he had reunited with Wang Lichuan in an accident. Xie Xiaoqiu found that she still had feelings for Wang Lichuan in her heart, but the indifference of the other party made her feel cold. Xiao Guan (played by Lin Youwei) is Xie Xiaoqiu's boss. He loves this girl madly and passionately. On the one hand, he is pursued by his boss, and on the other hand, he is coldly rejected by his lover. What choice should Xie Xiaoqiu make?
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TV Show: The Third Charm ( 2018 )
The 12-year love story of two people with completely opposite personalities, who unexpectedly meet on a blind date.
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TV Show: Work Later, Drink Now ( 2021 )
A full-fledged authentic drama depicting the daily lives of three women who believe every day should end with a drink.
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TV Show: Silence ( 2006 )
Zhou Shen Shen loses her voice after a bus accident and gets taken to the hospital by her friend Zuo Jun (who blames himself for making her mute) there she meets Qi Wei Yi a boy who leg got broken by jealous peers. He finds a letter she had put in a bomb shelter wall. They leave each other letters and promise to come back in the Christmas of 2006. They become good friends and fall in love but Wei Yi is unaware that Shen Shen is mute. When he has to leave before her, He gives her his phone number and tells her to call him. Years pass and in the year of 2006 they met again but is unaware of who each other is until Wei Yi finds out he has liver cancer and is dying So he decides to go back to the hospital he went to as a child and he finds out that Shen Shen is his childhood love but not wanting to hurt her when he dies he hides his identity and eventually pushes her away.
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TV Show: Revenge of Others ( 2022 )
The story of Ok Chan Mi who is finding the murderer of her twin brother.
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TV Show: Duel ( 2017 )
Jang Deuk Chun is the chief of a crime squad. At home, he is a kind and friendly father to his daughter. He meets a human clone and gets involved in a shocking case. A battle takes place between human clones
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Movie: I Give My First Love to You ( 2009 )
Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves so that she can easily move on. What he didn't know is that he is under-estimating her.
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TV Show: If You Wish Upon Me ( 2022 )
The story of patients and the caregivers of a hospice department. It is the story of people who dream of 'well-dying'.
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TV Show: Smile to Life ( 2022 )
Xu Duo Cheng is a young girl full of joy and life. No one knows that there is a shadow behind her smile: she actually suffers from ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS), which means that she does not have long to live and in the end she will be slowly but surely paralyzed. Because of this, Duo Cheng is doing his best to fully enjoy the rest of his days. But things get more complicated when she meets a handsome young musician, Jiang Nan, who falls in love with her. Will she surrender to her heart or leave it to protect it from pain?
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Jiu Sui He.
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Movie: The Last Ride ( 2016 )
A high school boy with Lou Gehrig's disease asks his lifelong friends to grant him a last wish.
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TV Show: Uncontrollably Fond ( 2016 )
When Shin Joon Young and No Eul were younger, they were separated and became heartbroken. As adults, they meet again. Shin Joon Young is now a top actor and singer. He is intelligent and attractive. No Eul is the PD of documentaries. She values money over justice and kisses up to those with more power than her.
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TV Show: Winter Sonata ( 2002 )
Joon-sang moves to a new high school in search for his biological father. Yu-jin and Sang-hyuk are close childhood friends, although Sang-hyuk wants to be more than a friend, Yu-jin sees him as a brother. On a trip together with other high school mates, Oh Chelin, Jin-suk and Yong-kuk, Yu-jin is saved after an accident by Joon-sang. They become close and she opens up his cold heart. However, circumstances and fate dictate that their love will never be. He abruptly disappears from their lives.Ten years later, the old High School buddies gather to celebrate Yu-jin and Sang-hyuk's soon-to-be wedding. Yu-jin, who was deeply in love with Joon-sang, still has a fire in her heart for him. But at the party, Oh Chelin's new boyfriend arrives, who appears the same as Joon-sang.
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TV Show: Winter Sonata ( 2009 )
Winter Sonata is a romantic drama about Yoo Jin, a young girl who falls in love with Joon Sang. After losing him in an accident, Yoo Jin decides to marry her childhood friend. However, she soon faces a dilema as she meets someone that looks exactly like her lost love.
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Movie: Ms. Christmas Comes to Town ( 2023 )
A shopping channel host known as Ms. Christmas receives a terminal diagnosis, which inspires a multi-city excursion set to spread Christmas cheer before her farewell broadcast.
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Movie: The Big Sick ( 2017 )
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings.
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Movie: That Good Night ( 2018 )
Ralph, a once-famous screenwriter, is in his seventies and terminally ill. He has two final missions: to be reconciled to his son, Michael, and, secretly, to ensure he is not a burden to his wife, Anna, as he goes "into that good night".
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Movie: Villa 69 ( 2016 )
A dramedy about illness, intimacy and death sparkles with the lighthearted touch of Director Ayten Amin. Hussein, played by Khaled abol Naga, is a terminally ill, yet charming architect who...
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Movie: Stuck in Love. ( 2013 )
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
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Movie: In a Better World ( 2010 )
The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
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Movie: Letters to God ( 2010 )
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's journey and his family by reading the letters. They inspire him to seek a better life for himself and his own son he's lost through his alcohol addiction.
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Movie: A Christmas Tale ( 2008 )
The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas.
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Movie: The Guitar ( 2008 )
The life of a woman is transformed after she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, fired from her job and abandoned by her boyfriend. Given two months to live, she throws caution to the wind to pursue her dreams.
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Movie: The Ultimate Gift ( 2007 )
A deceased billionaire leaves his spoiled adult grandson a series of odd tasks to perform in order to receive "the ultimate gift," with the resentful grandson having no idea what that might be.
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Movie: Kings & Queen ( 2004 )
The stories of Nora during a brief period when her father falls ill and of Ismaël while involuntarily committed to a mental institution for observation. Nora's in her 30s and has loved four men - her son Elias, Elias's deceased father, her own father, and Ismaël, a musician given to odd behavior with whom she lived seven years. She will soon marry a businessman. Faced with her father's death, Nora seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias; a great deal else roils from her past. Ismaël has his own challenges, not the least of which are his feelings toward adopting Elias and his meeting Arielle, another patient. Ismaël's surface shows a lot; Nora's, very little.
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Movie: Crying Out Love in the Center of the World ( 2004 )
While searching for his fiancee Ritsuko, Sakutarou rediscovers through flashbacks the void deep within him caused by the events from his high school days.
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Movie: Erin Brockovich ( 2000 )
Erin Brockovich-Ellis is an unemployed single mother, desperate to find a job, but is having no luck. This losing streak even extends to a failed lawsuit against a doctor in a car accident she was in. With no alternative, she successfully browbeats her lawyer to give her a job in compensation for the loss. While no one takes her seriously, with her trashy clothes and earthy manners, that soon changes when she begins to investigate a suspicious real estate case involving the Pacific Gas & Electric Company. What she discovers is that the company is trying quietly to buy land that was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a deadly toxic waste that the company is improperly and illegally dumping and, in turn, poisoning the residents in the area. As she digs deeper, Erin finds herself leading point in a series of events that would involve her law firm in one of the biggest class action lawsuits in American history against a multi-billion dollar corporation.