Here we've displayed a list of the best Cancer films : A Lion in the House(2006), A Billion Lives(2016), How to Die in Oregon(2011), Cleo From 5 to 7(1961), Time Indefinite(1993), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl(2015), The Fault in Our Stars(2014), 50/50(2011), The Shootist(1976), The C Word(2016), A Monster Calls(2016), Aquarius(2016) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2006
229 Minutes
son daughter mother father patient doctor emotional inspiring hospital household cincinnati cancer childhood family illness medicine growing up quest discovery 2000s
Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.
Documentary
USA|Belgium|Canada|France|Ireland|Mexico|Peru|Poland|Turkey|UK
2016
95 Minutes
expert doctor patient family member friend narrator brooding emotional intense doctor's office hospital nepal restaurant bar store tobacco smoking cigarettes cancer death
The story of the vaping revolution and tragic corruption leading to a billion deaths around the world.
Documentary
USA
2011
107 Minutes
patient physician politician wife widow somber disturbing gripping oregon hospital family home suicide cancer compassion death euthanasia escape transformation 2000s
In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person's request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had ... See full summary »
Drama
France|Italy
1961
90 Minutes
Corinne Marchand Antoine Bourseiller Dorothee Blank Michel Legrand Dominique Davray José Luis de Vilallonga Jean-Claude Brialy Eddie Constantine Danièle Delorme Sami Frey Jean-Luc Godard
singer soldier fortuneteller boyfriend model projectionist charming uplifting playful paris park café cab death cancer transformation 1960s
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
Documentary
USA
1993
117 Minutes
filmmaker widow father housekeeper wife patient somber inspiring north carolina mexico death cancer pregnancy breakup arson christianity growing up transformation 1990s
Forty year old documentary filmmaker Ross McElwee has a penchant for filming everything around him. Following the announcement of his impending marriage to his film-making partner Marilyn ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
2015
105 Minutes
Thomas Mann Olivia Cooke RJ Cyler Nick Offerman Molly Shannon Jon Bernthal Connie Britton Bobb'e J. Thompson Chelsea T. Zhang Masam Holden Katherine Hughes
earl girl classmate emotional pittsburgh leukemia filmmaker cancer transformation
High schooler Greg, who spends most of his time making parodies of classic movies with his co-worker Earl, finds his outlook forever altered after befriending a classmate who has just been diagnosed with cancer.
Romance, Drama
USA
2014
126 Minutes
Shailene Woodley Ansel Elgort Willem Dafoe Nat Wolff Laura Dern Sam Trammell Mike Birbiglia Emily Peachey
cancer patient teen boy author parent doctor nurse amusing charming emotional sad hospital doctor's office support group bedroom street trolley cancer dying wish relationships love
Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2011
99 Minutes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt Seth Rogen Anna Kendrick Bryce Dallas Howard Philip Baker Hall Anjelica Huston Serge Houde Andrew Airlie
cancer patient therapist mother father best friend victim heartwarming emotional hilarious hysterical apartment family home doctor's office nightclub cancer friendship dating mortality struggle relationships
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Western
USA
1976
99 Minutes
John Wayne Lauren Bacall James Stewart Ron Howard Richard Boone Hugh O'Brian Harry Morgan Rick Lenz John Carradine Sheree North Scatman Crothers
gunslinger outlaw innkeeper son sheriff ex-lover gritty gutsy moving carson city, nev. american west cancer swan song revenge notoriety death quest rivalry 1900s
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
Documentary
USA
2016
89 Minutes
neurologist cancer patient director emotional engaging inspiring uplifting beach house hospital school grocery store court cancer health society science bad choices discovery pursuit
A personal, important, surprising, and funny documentary about the industries of death that give us cancer, and the unheralded science of prevention.
Adventure, Fantasy, Drama
UK|Spain|USA
2016
108 Minutes
Lewis MacDougall Sigourney Weaver Felicity Jones Toby Kebbell Ben Moor James Melville Oliver Steer Dominic Boyle Jennifer Lim Geraldine Chaplin Liam Neeson
mother son monster grandmother creative emotional rousing spectacular house bedroom countryside cancer grief family ties love imagination adventure escape growing up love
A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness.
Drama
Brazil|France
2016
145 Minutes
Sonia Braga Maeve Jinkings Humberto Carrão Carla Ribas Zoraide Coleto Irandhir Santos Allan Souza Lima Buda Lira Pedro Queiroz Germano Melo Fernando Teixeira
resident woman saber-toothed cat survivor developer maid intense engaging heartwarming melodramatic emotional moving brazil apartment apartment building cancer refuse bullying real estate money
Clara, 65, lives her life to the fullest with her family and friends. A construction company wants her Recife oceanfront condo, as they've already bought all the other in the 3 story building. Clara's staying.
Drama
USA
2009
108 Minutes
Cameron Diaz Abigail Breslin Alec Baldwin Sofia Vassilieva Jason Patric Joan Cusack Evan Ellingson Thomas Dekker Elizabeth Daily Heather Wahlquist Emily Deschanel
teen girl sister mother lawyer patient judge heartwarming somber los angeles hospital montana courtroom cancer family organ donation sisterhood death lawsuit sacrifice quest
Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive.
Biography
UK|Germany|Japan|USA
1999
118 Minutes
Jim Carrey J. Alan Thomas Bob Zmuda Max Alexander Peter Bonerz Bobby Boriello Brent Briscoe Jeff Conaway Danny DeVito Tom Dreesen Paul Giamatti
comedian wrestler agent actor actress singer quirky amusing nightclub television studio comedy fame cancer wrestling deception television quest transformation fall 1980s
The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.
Drama, Comedy
USA
1983
132 Minutes
Shirley MacLaine Debra Winger Jack Nicholson Jeff Daniels Danny DeVito John Lithgow Betty King Lisa Hart Carroll Huckleberry Fox Troy Bishop
mother daughter professor astronaut touching emotional sad small town midwest family home family romance cancer mother/daughter relationship love growing up 1980s
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.
Drama
USA
2000
131 Minutes
Julia Roberts Albert Finney Aaron Eckhart Marg Helgenberger Cherry Jones Veanne Cox Conchata Ferrell Tracey Walter Peter Coyote Scotty Leavenworth Gemmenne de la Peña
attorney single mother businessman judge heroine lawyer powerful inspiring gripping disturbing gritty california office family home courtroom small town law firm corruption betrayal lawsuit
An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city's water supply.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2013
119 Minutes
Meryl Streep Julia Roberts Ewan McGregor Chris Cooper Abigail Breslin Benedict Cumberbatch Juliette Lewis Margo Martindale Dermot Mulroney Julianne Nicholson Sam Shepard
matriarch daughter husband cancer patient poet cook playful emotional melodramatic oklahoma funeral rural community addiction family dysfunction family gathering funeral cancer mother/daughter relationship fall sacrifice
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Other, Drama
USA
2011
90 Minutes
Candace Cameron Jeanne Neilson Eric Beck Anita Renfroe Matthew West Burgess Jenkins Kelsey Marie Kingsbury Erin Bethea Christopher Shone Nicholas Shone Dendrie Taylor
family cancer patient terminally ill person businesswoman boy emotional heartwarming family home hospital small town united states christmas cancer illness discovery transformation 21st century
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death.
Romance, Drama
UK
2006
95 Minutes
Peter O'Toole Leslie Phillips Jodie Whittaker Richard Griffiths Vanessa Redgrave Julian Rhind-Tutt Cathryn Bradshaw Kate Lock Corin Redgrave Liam McKenna Meg Wynn Owen
actor friend great-niece wife witty endearing london apartment museum seaside friendship troubled youth cancer death may-december romance art love pursuit 2000s
Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.
Drama
USA
2017
73 Minutes
Bryce Hirschberg Annie Newton Bridget Avildsen Maxx Bricklin Noel Castellanos Barret Hirschberg Nick Huebner Taylor Lockwood Robert McEveety Peyton Pritchard Shawn Rolph
college graduate mother counterfeiter friend confident emotional gripping apartment house bar hospital cancer counterfeit money treatment medicine abuse of power pursuit rescue rise temptation
A young man, Bridger, creates a "do-it-yourself" method of counterfeiting money to save his dying mother. But when you are making more money than you need, who can you trust?
Documentary
USA|UK
2003
107 Minutes
Ross McElwee Charleen Swansea
filmmaker cousin businessman cancer patient doctor engaging lighthearted hospital north carolina farm tobacco american south lawsuit cancer addiction smoking discovery quest transformation 2000s
North Carolina produces more tobacco than any other state in America. Bright Leaves describes a journey taken across the social, economic, and psychological tobacco terrain of North ... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1998
85 Minutes
comedian audience actress hilarious lighthearted stage new york city cancer family dysfunction comedy fall transformation love 1990s
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Comedy, Drama
Australia
2005
100 Minutes
William McInnes Justine Clarke Anthony Hayes Lisa Flanagan Andrew Gilbert Daniela Farinacci Sacha Horler Maggie Dence Edwin Hodgeman Andreas Sobik
artist photojournalist reporter girlfriend editor driver dark passionate adelaide, australia funeral household accident cancer pregnancy grief death discovery 2000s
During one unusually hot and tragic weekend, four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news, this in turn brings them together.
Drama
USA
2011
93 Minutes
Henry Hopper Mia Wasikowska Ryô Kase Schuyler Fisk Jane Adams Chin Han Lusia Strus Christopher D. Harder
young man cancer patient young woman mother kamikaze pilot imaginary friend charming emotional gutsy family home funeral cemetery hospital hockey rink park terminal illness young love unlikely friendship cancer ghosts
The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2015
112 Minutes
Toni Collette Drew Barrymore Paddy Considine Dominic Cooper Frances de la Tour Jacqueline Bisset Tyson Ritter Honor Kneafsey Ryan Baker Mem Ferda
cancer patient best friend young woman mother father child emotional endearing heartwarming inspiring moving united states hospital home town cancer relationships pregnancy best friends life
The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Drama
Italy|France
1974
82 Minutes
Monique Melinand Hubert Deschamps Philippe Léotard Nathalie Baye
mother wife husband son daughter-in-law father dark disheartening raw emotional france store hospital bedroom cancer family dysfunction infidelity terminal illness marriage rivalry
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
2005
96 Minutes
Cynthia Nixon Michael Angarano Sunny Mabrey Michael Rispoli Brian Stokes Mitchell Gina Gershon Gideon Glick Matt Bush
teenager model news reporter musician mother friend heartwarming cheeky unrestrained pennsylvania new york city hospital car high school dying wish cancer road trip mother/son relationship friendship sex
A young man with a terminal illness makes an unconventional request on local television.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Italy|USA
2002
110 Minutes
John Malkovich Dougray Scott Ray Winstone Lena Headey Chiara Caselli Sam Blitz Lutz Winde Hanns Zischler
sociopath mobster wife singer police officer suspenseful intricate italy hotel train restaurant murder deception cooking drugs cancer wealth mystery revenge rivalry
A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.
Romance, Drama
UK
2019
91 Minutes
Lesley Manville Glenn Leyburn Liam Neeson David Wilmot Amit Shah Lalor Roddy Maggie Cronin Desmond Edwards Melanie Clark Pullen Stella McCusker Geraldine McAlinden
husband wife couple cancer patient doctor heartwarming passionate sad emotional street family home doctor's office train hospital cafeteria couples cancer love perseverance devotion
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Drama
USA
1978
115 Minutes
Burt Young Doug McKeon Madge Sinclair Bobby Cassidy Martin Beck Jason Bernard Bert Remsen Allan Rich
musician young boy friend hotel owner emotional touching hotel hospital jazz club depression friendship grief jazz father figure cancer discovery underdog 1970s
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles through each other's encouragement.