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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: 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: 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: 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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Movie: 65 ( 2023 )
An astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet only to discover he's not alone.
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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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: All My Life ( 2020 )
A couple's wedding plans are thrown off course when the groom is diagnosed with liver cancer.
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Movie: Life in a Year ( 2020 )
The movie follows 17-year-old Daryn who finds out that his girlfriend is dying. He sets out to give her an entire life in the last year she has left.
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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: 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: Clouds ( 2020 )
Seventeen-year-old Zach Sobiech is a fun-loving high school senior with raw musical talent. But a few weeks into his senior year, just after asking out his long-time crush, Zach's world gets turned upside down when he finds out his cancer has spread, leaving him with a life expectancy of just six months. With the limited time he has left, he and his best friend and writing partner, Sammy, decide to follow their dreams and finally make an album. Little do they know, they'll soon become a viral music phenomenon. But with time running out, Zach is confronted with the reality that no matter how he spends his time, he is going to hurt the people he loves the most, including Amy, the love of his life. As Zach's health condition begins to worsen, he is left to make difficult decisions about how to spend his time and more importantly with whom. Ultimately, he discovers the best way to say goodbye is with music, and his hit song CLOUDS is born. With an unfiltered, heartbreaking, and beautiful look at the duality of life set to uplifting music, Zach's inspiring story is a testament to what can happen when you start to live as if each day might be your last.
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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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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: 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: 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: 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: Babyteeth ( 2020 )
Milla, a seriously ill teenager, falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents' worst nightmare.
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Movie: Awoken ( 2020 )
A young medical student attempts to cure her brother from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to help him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.
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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: Romance Doll ( 2020 )
It was a pre-destined love and marriage for Sonoko and Tetsuo. They tied the knot and became husband and wife no questions asked. All is well then. Well, perhaps not. Each holds a secret that even the binds of matrimony cannot untie. Sonoko does not know that Tetsuo makes sex dolls or Dutch wives. Sonoko has a secret too. She is about to tell Tetsuo what she has been hiding. Their marriage is already sexless. Will they make it?
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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: 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: 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: 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: Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America ( 2019 )
An exploration of the changing attitudes in the United States surrounding death, including the ways it is recognized today and how many approach the end of life.
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Movie: The Farewell ( 2019 )
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
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Movie: The Professor ( 2019 )
After learning about his terminal diagnosis, a college professor decides to live his life to the fullest by drinking, smoking and expressing real thoughts for the people around him. While going through the stages, he come to terms with the great truth of his life as he mends broken relationships, embraces the people in his life and learns to ignite his inner good spirit.
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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: Five Feet Apart ( 2019 )
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness. There's an instant flirtation, though restrictions dictate that they must maintain a safe distance between them. As their connection intensifies, so does the temptation to throw the rules out the window and embrace that attraction. Love has no boundaries.
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Movie: Paddleton ( 2019 )
An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbors becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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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 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: 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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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: Brain on Fire ( 2018 )
A young, capable professional cannot explain her newly erratic behavior.
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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: Terminal ( 2018 )
A film noir taking place in a train terminal at night. Add 2 male assassins, female assassin, waitress, teacher, janitor and crime boss. Add revenge. Who says mystery is a lost art?
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Movie: Sorry Angel ( 2018 )
Jacques is an older writer from Paris. Arthur is a young student in Rennes. They instantly fall in love. But they'll have to face rejection and sickness to keep it that way.
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Movie: End Game ( 2018 )
Filmed and edited in intimate vérité style, this movie follows visionary medical practitioners who are working on the cutting edge of life and death and are dedicated to changing our thinking about both.
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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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Movie: The Etruscan Smile ( 2018 )
Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman travels to San Franciso to seek medical treatment where he moves in with his estranged son, Rory as he sees his life getting transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson.
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Movie: Midnight Sun ( 2018 )
A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.
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Movie: Irreplaceable You ( 2018 )
A couple who have known each other since 8 are destined to be together until death do them apart.
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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: 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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Movie: Defining Hope ( 2017 )
We aren't dying the way we used to. We have ventilators, dialysis machines, ICUs-technologies that can "fix" us and keep our bodies alive-which have radically changed how we make medical ...
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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: BPM (Beats Per Minute) ( 2017 )
In the early 1990s, with AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly 10 years, ACT UP Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a radical militant, who throws his last bits of strength into the struggle.
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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: 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: 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: 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: Let Me Eat Your Pancreas ( 2017 )
A high school girl with a terminal illness opts to make the most of her few remaining months, be cheerful and experience as much as possible before it is all too late. She has a crush on a class-mate and acts on her impulse. She loves her best friend and receives loyalty in return. She brings wonder to those around her. Part of her disposition is owing to her superstitious beliefs and the diary she is leaving behind, which acts as a letter to her sullen school crush.
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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: The Hero ( 2017 )
An ailing movie star comes to terms with his past and mortality.
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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: Everything, Everything ( 2017 )
A 17-year-old girl named Madeline Whittier has a rare disease that requires her to stay indoors 24/7 with her filtered air. Her whole life, basically, is books, her mom, and her nurse Carla. One day, a moving truck pulls in next door, and out steps Olly Bright, Maddy's new neighbor. They get to know each other through emails. The more they get to know each other, the deeper in love they fall. Olly makes Maddy realize she isn't really living; this starts the adventures of her new life.
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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: Realive ( 2017 )
Marc (Tom Hughes) is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year left to live. Unable to accept his own end, he decides to freeze his body. Sixty years later, in the year 2084, he becomes the first man to be revived in history. It is then he discovers that the love of his life, Naomi (Oona Chaplin), has accompanied him this entire time in a way that he'd never expected.
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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: 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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Movie: Two Is a Family ( 2016 )
A bachelor enjoys his sweet life on the French Riviera until a one-night stand tells him, he's dad to Gloria and leaves her with him. He moves to London with Gloria. Mom turns up 8 years later.
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Movie: Mr. Church ( 2016 )
"Mr. Church" tells the story of a unique friendship that develops when a little 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: 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: 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: A Monster Calls ( 2016 )
A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness.
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Movie: Extremis ( 2016 )
Witness the wrenching emotions that accompany end-of-life decisions as doctors, patients and families in a hospital ICU face harrowing choices.
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Movie: Wild Oats ( 2016 )
Everything changes for Eva when she receives a life insurance check accidentally made out for $5,000,000 instead of the expected $50 thousand. She and her best friend take the money and head out for the adventure of a lifetime.
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Movie: Other People ( 2016 )
Follows David as he moves back home to be with his mother for the year between her giving up her fight against cancer and slowly dying. Davids relationship with his family is, at best, strained (especially in regard to his father) because of an apparent difficulty in accepting his homosexuality. Although the subject matter is genuinely distressing, his mothers death ultimately helps restore his familial bonds and become an integrated part of the family unit again.
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Movie: Last Cab to Darwin ( 2016 )
When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is told he doesn't have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms.
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Movie: Me Before You ( 2016 )
A girl in a small town forms an unlikely bond with a recently-paralyzed man she's taking care of.
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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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: Chronic ( 2015 )
A home care nurse works with terminally ill patients.
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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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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: Tig ( 2015 )
An intimate, mixed media documentary that follows Tig Notaro, a Los Angeles based comedian, who just days after being diagnosed with invasive stage II breast cancer changed the course of her career with a poignant stand-up set that became legendary overnight. This documentary explores Tig's extraordinary journey as her career ignites and as her life unfolds in grand and unexpected ways, all the while continuing to battle a life-threatening illness and falling in love. This film is a hybrid of comedy and drama that captures a personal journey about facing crisis head on with honesty and grace and overcoming pain and suffering with the healing power of comedy. It's a story about moving forward during a period of your life when you don't know what is going to happen. When you are willing to risk it all for what you believe is the right thing to do and for what you want to happen in this life.