Terminal Illness Movies

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 ill...

A woman discovers the truth about her former lover from the diary that his first wife wrote to their son, Nicholas.

In an industry that is becoming increasingly competitive, what drives indie filmmakers to keep creating their art, even when there is no promise of mo...

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

A lesbian couple in conservative Japan must fight to stay together when one of them is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

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 h...

In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death reigns, pla...

Two old friends who share a life-long secret are forced to face the truth—and its consequences—when one is diagnosed with a terminal illness and wants...

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...

Spurred on by the death of her husband, Peabody-award winning NPR journalist Diane Rehm crosses the country to investigate the right-to-die movement i...

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

A terminally ill pop-music singer's retirement is complicated by the arrival of a defecting scientist and a CIA agent.

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. La...

An obscure actor is hired by the police to get a confession out of a dying mafioso.

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

Marika has terminal cancer, with a stomach full of tumors. It’s been 10 months since she was told she has two months to live. Her first goal was to fi...

In 2011, the director and screenwriter Wolf Gremm receives the diagnosis - prostate cancer. According to the doctors, he has not much longer to live,...

When an estranged couple come to the aid of their dying daughter, the experience sends them spiraling into spiritual crisis and brutal heartbreak.

Having learned that she has a terminal illness, a woman takes a final vacation only to discover a dreamlike triptych of fear, trauma and murder.

Maarten is an ordinary 16-year-old. He likes to hang around in the park, listen to music, play videogames and dance as much as possible. Preferably wi...