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    Docteur Francoise Gailland (1978)

    A doctor gains a new perspective on her life and career when she faces a life-threatening illness in...

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    Jenny Kissed Me

    Woven around premises that are hard to swallow, this is a saccharine story of how the love of a...

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    Rak

    In this French drama, the limitations of the medical system are exposed. Lila Kedrova plays a mature...

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    La Gueule ouverte

    When cancer strikes the mother of the family in this French film, everyone in the family expresses a...

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    Ikiru (2003)

    A rigid clerk (Takashi Shimura) resolves to do something of lasting importance after learning that...

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    La Notte (1962)

    A married couple drift apart for an evening, but somehow manage to reconciliate.

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    Heavenly Pursuits (1986)

    A Scottish schoolteacher (Tom Conti) heralds other seeming miracles after losing a brain tumor in a...

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    Sauve-toi, Lola

    Based on a semi-autobiographical novel by Ania Francos, this tragi-comedy follows the diagnosis and...

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    Hoxsey: The Quack Who Cured Cancer (1988)

    This documentary concerns Harry M. Hoxsey, the former coal miner whose family's herbal recipe has...

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    Sunshine Part II (1973)

    After a young mother is diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, she begins writing a journal containing...

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    Thank You Doctor Papanicolaou

    Documentary on the inventor of the "Pap" test for cervical cancer.

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    Never Leave Nevada (1991)

    Two travelling salesmen fall in love with two small town women.

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    Princes in Exile (1991)

    A group of kids struggling with cancer escape to camp for the summer.

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    The Money Tree (1992)

    A young man braves one inconvenience after another while trying to bring his marijuana crop to...

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    Thank You and Good Night! (1992)

    The filmmaker, through the use of documentary footage and cardboard cutout characters, comes to...

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    Freud Leaves Home

    A 25-year-old woman finally leaves home, but it's not long before she realizes that she's neglected...

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    Warlords 3000

    In the year 3000, Earth is a barren and decayed land torn by raging electrical storms and rampant...

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    Coming to Terms

    A dramatic triptych offering differing perspectives about death and its aftermath, set on a Brittany...

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    Viva Castro! (1994)

    Based on a loose assemblage of autobiographical experiences, the story, set in the small towm of...

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    C'est La Vie, Mon Cherie

    Min is fragile, naive and forever cheerful, while Kit is handsome, aloof and world-weary. Yet as one...

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    Joint Adventure (1994)

    A stolen car transports three man-crazy teenagers to adventure as they search for the father of...

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    Daibyonin

    Inspired by his own near death experience and subsequent hospital recovery--having been stabbed...

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    A Healthy Baby Girl

    Filmmaker Judith Helfand learns she has cervical cancer because her mother took the drug DES while...

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    Alchemy (1996)

    Can an university computer scientist (Cavanagh) make a woman fall in love with his interactive...

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    Zapomenute Svetlo (1998)

    Father Holy is a man of faith who is trying to keep the local Communist leaders from closing an...

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    Angel on My Shoulder (1998)

    Filmmaker Donna Deitch chronicles the struggles of her cancer-stricken friend, actress Gwen Welles.

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    The Climb (1999)

    A bullied boy (Gregory Smith) befriends a gruff neighbor (John Hurt) who helps him prove himself by...

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    The Ride

    A rodeo star (Michael Biehn) forced to volunteer at a group home has only a few weeks to train a boy...

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    God Said, Ha! (1999)

    Julia Sweeney gives a one-woman account of her brother's terminal cancer and her bout with cervical...

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    Guided by Voices (2003)

    A deadly dose of epileptic eyedrugs.