Cancer Movies, Movies about Cancer

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) ... ...

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A Lion in the House

Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.

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A Billion Lives

The story of the vaping revolution and tragic corruption leading to a billion deaths around the world.

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How to Die in Oregon

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 »

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Cleo From 5 to 7

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

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Time Indefinite

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 »

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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.

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The Fault in Our Stars

Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam.

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50/50

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.

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The Shootist

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

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The C Word

A personal, important, surprising, and funny documentary about the industries of death that give us cancer, and the unheralded science of prevention.

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A Monster Calls

A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mother's terminal illness.

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Aquarius

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.

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My Sister's Keeper

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.

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Man on the Moon

The life and career of legendary comedian Andy Kaufman.

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Terms of Endearment

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems.

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Erin Brockovich

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.

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August: Osage County

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.

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The Heart of Christmas

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.

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Venus

Life for a pair of veteran actors gets turned upside down after they meet a brash teenager.

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Counterfeiters

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?

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Bright Leaves

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 »

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God Said, Ha!

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.

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Look Both Ways

During one unusually hot and tragic weekend, four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news, this in turn brings them together.

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Restless

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.

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Miss You Already

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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The Mouth Agape

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 »

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One Last Thing ...

A young man with a terminal illness makes an unconventional request on local television.

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Ripley's Game

A dying family man in need of money is persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.

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Ordinary Love

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

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Uncle Joe Shannon

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.

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