Battling Illness
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    Chinese Box (1998)

    A British financial reporter (Jeremy Irons) with six months to live pursues his true love (Gong Li)...

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    Something to Believe In (1997)

    A woman with only weeks to live travels to Italy in search of a statue with healing powers, where...

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    Changing Hearts (2002)

    A woman (Lauren Holly) who has cancer faces her problem with optimism and hope.

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    I Remember Me (2001)

    About chronic fatigue syndrome.

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    Son Frere (2004)

    A gravely ill man (Bruno Todeschini) leaves the hospital and moves to a seaside house with his...

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    The River Niger

    A dying woman (Cicely Tyson), her poet husband (James Earl Jones), their ex-Air Force son (Glynn...

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    A Woman's Tale (1992)

    The story revolves around an old woman with a young heart living in today's society.

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    A Time for Dancing

    Two young friends (Larisa Oleynik, Shiri Appleby) who enjoy dancing face challenges after one learns...

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    Fireworks (1998)

    Detective Nishi has just lost his infant daughter and is about to lose his wife to a fatal illness....

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    Southern Comfort (2001)

    Filmmaker Kate Davis chronicles the final year in the life of a female-to-male transsexual dying of...

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    Julie Walking Home (2004)

    A Canadian housewife (Miranda Otto) meets a Russian faith healer (Lothaire Bluteau) who cures her...

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    Promises in the Dark

    This is a tragic tale of the slow degeneration of a cancer patient that is filled with pathos and...

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    Phir Milenge (2004)

    Tamanna is a charming, 26-year-old young woman, who breathes fresh air into the lives of everyone...

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    Movies

    Queenie in Love

    A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.

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    1918 (1985)

    World War I and a deadly flu epidemic change a Texas family (William Converse-Roberts, Hallie Foote,...

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    Dad (1989)

    A guilty Wall Street yuppie (Ted Danson) moves in with his parents (Jack Lemmon, Olympia Dukakis) to...

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    The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006)

    A catastrophic bus crash overwhelms a city's hospitals, causing a dying widower (Ion Fiscuteanu) to...

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    One More Kiss

    Sarah is a hot-tempered career girl who leaves England and her long-time boyfriend Sam to live in...

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    Go Now (1998)

    With the help of his girlfriend (Juliet Aubrey), a British plasterer (Robert Carlyle) copes with the...

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    Movies

    Un Zoo la nuit (1988)

    An ex-convict (Gilles Maheu) on the run comes to terms with his dying father (Roger Le Bel).

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    The Sleepy Time Gal (2002)

    A tale concerning a bohemian writer whose life focus is altered by her on-going fight against...

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    The Memory of a Killer (2005)

    A hit man (Jan Decleir) who has symptoms of Alzheimer's disease goes on a killing spree after...

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    So Much So Fast (2006)

    Filmmakers Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan chronicle a man's struggle with ALS, known as Lou Gehrig's...

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    My Life Without Me (2003)

    A dying woman (Sarah Polley) hides her illness from her family and sets out to tie up the loose ends...

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    The Doctor (1991)

    An aloof California surgeon (William Hurt) becomes a cancer patient and begins to see things...

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    Dying Young (1991)

    A young working-class woman (Julia Roberts) answers an ad for a nurse for a rich young man (Campbell...

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    Movies

    Steel Magnolias (1989)

    Based on the play about six Southern women who become close friends despite their eccentricities and...

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    Timothy Leary's Dead (1997)

    Documenting the life and last days of the one-time Harvard psychology professor who was fired for...

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    Movies

    Silence Like Glass (1990)

    A ballet dancer is affected with cancer.

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    Fubar

    A documentary filmmaker chronicles the daily activities of two hard-drinking fans of heavy-metal...