Movies About Cancer
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Movies about Cancer 1. Miss You Already (2015) The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill. Director: Catherine Hardwicke | Stars: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette, Dominic Cooper, Paddy Considine 2. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015) 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. Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon | Stars: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman 3. The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in Amsterdam. Director: Josh Boone | Stars: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff,Laura Dern 4. Lullaby (II) (2014) A man estranged from his family receives word that his father has chosen to take himself off life support within forty-eight hours. Director: Andrew Levitas | Stars: Garrett Hedlund, Richard Jenkins, Anne Archer, Jessica Brown Findlay 5. Cool Kids Don't Cry (2014) After an accident at school, the teenage-girl Anja must battle cancer while participating in summer camp, preparing for a soccer tournament and dealing with boys. Director: Katarina Launing | Stars: Mia Helene Solberg Brekke, Victor Papadopoulos Jacobsen, Sigrid Welde, Ulrik William Græsli 6. Kankerlijers (2014) Four teenage friends who suffers from cancer, uproar the hospital so to be a healthy child again. Director: Lodewijk Crijns | Stars: Massimo Pesik, Gijs Blom, Jasha Rudge,Vera van der Horst 7. Wish List Life changes for a thirtysomething career woman when a coin she threw in a magic fountain as a girl finally reaches the bottom. Star: Reese Witherspoon 8. Mood Indigo (2013) Wealthy, inventive bachelor Colin endeavors to find a cure for his lover Chloe after she's diagnosed with an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs. Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh,Omar Sy 9. Safe Haven (I) (2013) A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her. Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons 10. The Girl with Nine Wigs (2013) Rather than let cancer run her life, a young woman starts wearing different wigs to express herself and live her life to the fullest. Director: Marc Rothemund | Stars: Lisa Tomaschewsky, Karoline Teska,David Rott, Alice Dwyer 11. Now Is Good (2012) A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity. Director: Ol Parker | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Josef Altin, Jeremy Irvine,Paddy Considine 12. Stuck in Love (2012) An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year. Director: Josh Boone | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Connelly, Lily Collins,Nat Wolff 13. Cool Kids Don't Cry (2012) Akkie is a pretty schoolgirl who is good at soccer and doesn't let boys mess with her, until she is diagnosed with leukemia and has to start her battle to stay alive. Director: Dennis Bots | Stars: Hanna Obbeek, Nils Verkooijen, Fiona Livingston, Bram Flick 14. Mike Says Goodbye! (2012) After bouncing back from leukemia, 10-year-old Mike is ready to leave the hospital, but his mother never arrives to take him home. Director: Maria Peters | Stars: Maas Bronkhuyzen, Faas Wijn, Bracha van Doesburgh, Carine Crutzen 15. Love Is All You Need (2012) A hairdresser, who has lost her hair to cancer, finds out her husband is having an affair, travels to Italy for her daughter's wedding, and meets a widower who still blames the world for the loss of his wife. Director: Susanne Bier | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Molly Blixt Egelind, Sebastian Jessen 16. Falling Overnight (2011) On the day before his scheduled surgery to remove a brain tumor, Elliot meets Chloe Webb, a young photographer who invites him to her art show. An intimate night threatens to be overwritten when Elliot shares his news the next morning. Director: Conrad Jackson | Stars: Parker Croft, Emilia Ares, Barak Hardley,Millie Zinner 17. After Fall, Winter (2011) WINTER is a dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ... See full summary » Director: Eric Schaeffer | Stars: Eric Schaeffer, Lizzie Brocheré, Marie Luneau, Christian Mulot 18. Natural Selection (2011) Having discovered that her dying husband has an illegitimate child living in Florida, a devout Christian housewife leaves her sheltered world on a mission to reunite father and son. Director: Robbie Pickering | Stars: Matt O'Leary, Rachael Harris, John Diehl,Gayland Williams 19. A Little Bit of Heaven (2011) An irreverent young woman who uses her humor to prevent matters from getting serious has a life-changing visit with her doctor. Director: Nicole Kassell | Stars: Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Kathy Bates, Peter Dinklage 20. 50/50 (2011) 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. Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Anna Kendrick, Bryce Dallas Howard 21. One Day (2011) After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day. Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Anne Hathaway, Jim Sturgess, Patricia Clarkson, Tom Mison 22. The Heart of Christmas (2011 TV Movie) The Locke family are devastated when they learn their 2-year-old son, Dax, has leukemia. Director: Gary Wheeler | Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Jeanne Neilson,Christopher Shone, Nicholas Shone 23. Restless (I) (2011) 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. Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Henry Hopper, Ryo Kase,Schuyler Fisk 24. Endings (2010) Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35 year old drug addict who is determined to make Director: Christopher J. Hansen | Stars: Matthew Brumlow, Emma Hansen,Ellen Halper, Joseph Frost 25. Norman (2010) A troubled high-school kid pretending to be dying of cancer confronts problems with his new girlfriend and terminally ill father as he struggles with his daily existence. Director: Jonathan Segal | Stars: Dan Byrd, Emily VanCamp, Richard Jenkins, Adam Goldberg 26. Ways to Live Forever (2010) Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the Director: Gustavo Ron | Stars: Ben Chaplin, Robbie Kay, Alex Etel, Emilia Fox 27. Hopeful Notes (2010) A young violinist with leukemia brings hope and life into a desolate Russian hospital for children. Director: Valerio Zanoli | Stars: Walter Nudo, Colin Ross, Ian Poland, Laural Merlington 28. Letters to God (2010) A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and community and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman Directors: David Nixon, Patrick Doughtie | Stars: Tanner Maguire, Jeffrey Johnson, Robyn Lively, Lisa Curtis 29. Johnny (I) (2010) Johnny is an inspirational story about a ten year old boy in a foster group home who is dying of leukemia. Even though he has every reason to doubt God all he does is trust Him. Johnny is Director: D. David Morin | Stars: Jerry Phillips, Musetta Vander, Lonnie Colón, Leslie L. Miller 30. The Last Song (2010) A rebellious girl is sent to a Southern beach town for the summer to stay with her father. Through their mutual love of music, the estranged duo learn to reconnect. Director: Julie Anne Robinson | Stars: Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth, Greg Kinnear, Bobby Coleman 31. Living Downstream (2010) Based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., Living Downstream is an eloquent and cinematic feature-length documentary following Sandra during one Director: Chanda Chevannes | Star: Sandra Steingraber 32. Love Life (2009) A serial adulterer faces his demons when his loving wife falls severely ill. Director: Reinout Oerlemans | Stars: Carice van Houten, Barry Atsma, Anna Drijver, Jeroen Willems 33. Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009) Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to Director: Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt | Stars: Michèle Laroque, Amir Ben Abdelmoumen, Max von Sydow, Amira Casar 34. One in Nine (2009) Nine convicts are forced to play a game that will leave only one of them alive. Director: Michael Stromenger | Stars: Jim Alger, Jim Algers, Dylan Bradt,Chad Driscoll 35. My Sister's Keeper (2009) 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. Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Walter Raney 36. Funny People (2009) When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.