Movies: Terminal illness

A heart-warming story about a former dressmaker who reinvents herself after befriending a young Chinese fashion designer, who inspires her to follow her dream. A joyful and moving journey that beautifully celebrates age, culture, and the diversity of...

To find a bone marrow donor for himself, fashion designer Jesko visits his upper-class family in southwest Germany where he has to confront mental illness and long-held grudges....

Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life. Lauro, a young and smiling nearby patient accompanies him on his final agony, reliving all Ulises' mis...

A successful architect, Yi Zhong, learned the bad news that he was suffering from bone cancer while receiving the good news of his wife's pregnancy. Facing a painful turning point in life, physical and psychological suffering, Yi Zhong made a wish to...

After discovering that his terminal illness is no longer manageable, Daniel leaves the hospital and wanders through landscapes in search of a final resting place....

Pê, a man with terminal cancer, wanders through his city, Lisbon. Throughout the day, he is confronted with a reality unaware of his suffering while he prepares his imminent death by writing a farewell letter to his daughter. When emptying her father...

A drama about friendship that spans ages, this is based on a true story which chronicles the life of a man who died at the age of 23 after an illness that started with the partial collapse of his cranial bone, and a subsequent battle with seven types...

A documentary examining the end of live for five hospice patients and their families....

Randall Zimmerman (Eric Starkey) is a simple man who loves his job as a parking enforcement officer. When he discovers he is dying, he just wants everything to stay the way that it is. Unfortunately for Randall, his friends and family have other idea...

Fast Freddie, The Widow and Me is a 2011 one-off Christmas special, made by STV Productions and broadcast by ITV on Tuesday 27 December 2011. The special centres around a wealthy car dealer Jonathan Donald who befriends a terminally ill teenager Fred...

During an annual cabin retreat, a dying man must confront past mistakes after learning he may not know his friends as well as he may think....

A woman suffering from terminal cancer determines to resolve several relationships in her life, especially with her daughter....

In this mother-daughter story, a young woman explores her own mortality through art and poetry as her terminal illness holds her back from a normal life....

The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the impla...

After discovering that her cancer has returned, Moira Browning launches a quiet campaign to find a potential replacement for herself in her family's life....

A social climber/con artist schemes to inherit one million dollars by trading identities with a dying man....

A TV producer documents his cancer treatment with the help of a miniature camera hidden in his glasses, upsetting his close friends and family in the process....

A doctor with a talent for playing the piano finds artistic inspiration in hospital patients and composes her last melody....

A story about a fictional South African police base on the border between Angola and the former South West Africa. While patrolling, a mail convoy is ambushed and most of the soldiers are shot. The captain is rescued, but one of his constables is tak...

Dr. Carlos Cristos, 47, is terminally ill. He call a film director and proposes him to record his struggle for to live and die with dignity and without drama....