Cancer Movies

A documentary of director Frank Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995.

In the compelling follow-up to the internationally award-winning documentary, "Burzynski: the Movie,", Part II explores the current status of...

Two women meet in the hospital.

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

Philipp wishes to give his terminally ill father Walter one last treat. To coax him out of his hospital bed he tells a white lie: Philipp pretends...

Rubén has three months to live or, probably, one year and a half with treatment. After a very complex process he decides to kill himself,...

In 1970, Joey and Pete left Nova Scotia to try life in the big city in the Canadian Classic Goin’ Down the Road. Now, some forty years later,...

In the dead of night, Donovan drives with his girlfriend, Lucy and several friends to a secret rendezvous in the woods. They believe they are meeting...

Filmmaker Judith Helfand turns the camera on herself to document her battle with cancer caused by DES, a drug prescribed to her mother during...

A look at the people who use and champion the treatment of cancer with Cannabis.

This film's story is based upon the famous romance novel 'Love Story' by the American writer Erich Segal.

Huiju learned of her biopsy test results, but lied to her mum about them. Feeling guilty about the lie, she embarks on her journey to find cancer...

When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they've developed lung...

Novelist and screenwriter Emmanuèle Bernheim and filmmaker Alain Cavalier have been friends for 30 years. They are preparing a film based on...

When a four year old and other children in same neighborhood develop leukaemia, the parents suspect a nearby factory. Based on real events.

An intimate journey of a 37-year-old Cristina, as fate brings to her life both a new love and an unbeatable challenge. Determined to pass on a...

Little Ilker's father has died when he was very small. His mother Selma is a famous singer who is always on tour. Ilker goes to boarding-school, and...

The story of a young science-writer at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, who risked everything by blowing the whistle on a massive cover-up...

A dying woman participates in an experiment which makes unexpected changes to her body.

Based on the autobiographical notes by Leonhard Lentz the film tells the story of a man who was diagnosed with throat cancer. Besides the progress of...