leukemia
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    The Express (2008)

    Under the guidance of Syracuse University football coach Ben Schwartzwalder, Ernie Davis overcomes...

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    Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)

    A fun-loving bachelor woos and weds a secretary, but the bonds of this marriage aren't strong enough...

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    Marvin's Room (1996)

    A Florida leukemia patient (Diane Keaton) needs her sister's (Meryl Streep) bone marrow, but first...

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    Calendar Girls (2003)

    When older women pose nude for a calendar to raise money for a Yorkshire hospital, the results are a...

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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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    The Darkest Light

    One day, while roaming about the local Yorkshire moorlands, 10-year-old Catherine and her new Hindu...

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    The American Friend

    Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.

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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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    The Mephisto Waltz

    A writer (Alan Alda) and his wife (Jacqueline Bisset) become the satanic hosts of a dying concert...

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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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    Ripley's Game (2002)

    A sociopath (John Malkovich) tells his former business partner (Ray Winstone) to coerce a terminally...

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    Ocean Tribe (1998)

    A serio-comic exploration of male camaraderie about four old friends who reunite to take a...

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    Edward Said: The Last Interview (2006)

    Edward Said, University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was...

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    Hard Luck (2002)

    88 days before his scheduled release from a state mental hospital Lucky O'Donnell returned home on...

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    Mon premier amour (1978)

    This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old...

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    The Fourth Wish

    The principal characters in this Australian miniseries were James Casey (John Meillon) and his...

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    Ngati (1987)

    A stranger in a seaside village becomes embroiled in a town crisis, and his life is changed by...

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    Love Story Wo Kimi Ni

    A college student (Tôru Nakamura) provides companionship for a young girl (Kumiko Goto) who is dying...

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    Crisis (1998)

    A militant group uses the guise of extremist environmentalists to locate nuclear weapons.

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    Green Desert

    Teenage Katja and Johann are best friends who spend most of their time together. But Katja's world...

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    Shattered Glass

    A tragically comic story about two very dissimilar brothers who finally face their past.

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    Prohibido Prohibir

    Leon is a sociology undergraduate. Unfortunately for him, his girlfriend Leticia, an architecture...

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    Before Flying Back to Earth

    A short documentary about a hospital ward for children with leukemia in Lithuania.

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    Desperate Measures (1998)

    To save his terminally ill son, a San Francisco policeman (Andy Garcia) arranges for a sociopathic...

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    John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997)

    A Memphis law school graduate (Matt Damon) aids a battered wife (Claire Danes) and fights a...

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    Breaking the Rules (1992)

    Three guys (Jason Bateman, C. Thomas Howell, Jonathan Silverman) in a van drive from Cleveland to...

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    Looking for an Echo (2000)

    A former teen idol (Armand Assante) watches his middle child struggle with starting a rock band,...

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    Sozun Bittigi Yer

    Turgut lives with his son Umut. Umut is hospitalized with leukemia which brings about the return of...

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    Out of Time

    A look at four old-world Austrian businesses that cannot compete with gentrification. Focuses on the...

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    Hundred Hour Hunt

    The Hundred Hour Hunt was originally released in Britain as Emergency, then as Emergency Call. A...

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    You Came Along (1945)

    "You can live a long time in three days -- sometimes when you're in a tight spot, you can live a...

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    Solino

    In 1964 a couple and their two sons move from Italy to Germany and open a successful restaurant.

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    A Civil Action (1998)

    A lawyer (John Travolta) crusades for years on behalf of Massachusetts families whose children died...

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    TV

    Out of Time (2000)

    A modern retelling of Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle." In 1980 rural Oregon, Jack Epson is a...

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    TV

    A Civil Action (1998)

    Examines the eight-year-old court case brought by parents in Woburn, Massachusetts against the W.R....

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    TV

    The Medicine Show (2003)

    A cynical young man with cancer meets his match in a female leukemia patient who shares his distaste...

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    TV

    Desperate Choices: To Save My Child (1992)

    A young woman's life depends on a bone-marrow transplant that only her stepbrother can provide, but...

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    Leave of Absence (1994)

    A man asks his wife for a six-month leave of absence in order to care for his mistress who is dying...

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    Lifeline: Inside St. Jude (2001)

    Documentary that tells the stories of children who participate in clinical trials and their...

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    TV

    Ride With the Wind (1994)

    A down-and-out motorcycle racer's life changes when he meets a young boy battling leukemia.

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    Something For Joey (1977)

    A dramatization of the true-life relationship between 1973 Heisman Trophy-winning football star John...

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    TV

    Strange Relations (2002)

    When a neurotic, thirty-something psychiatrist is diagnosed with leukemia and needs a bone marrow...

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    Why, Charlie Brown, Why? (1990)

    An animated special featuring the Peanuts gang in a story about a classmate who has contracted...