Movies: Cancer

The true story of a young man's battle with bone cancer and his family's fight to carry him through. Written and Directed by the older brother of the story's main character, this biographical account offers an intimate glimpse into a family perserver...

Self-portrait of a 38-year-old mother from Abitibi, struggling with breast cancer....

Centered around a soldier returning home from deployment to find his boyfriend diagnosed with stage three Leukemia....

Erika has cancer and wants to die with dignity. Ruedi, her husband, does not want to live without her, so they decide to depart this world together. Everything is ready: someone is going to help them, but Ruedi suddenly has doubts. A reflection on “a...

Martin Kollár’s acclaimed cinematography reigns resplendent in the silent story of a man waiting for important surgery. Discovering he's facing the possibility of only having a few months left to live, Ján Kollár embarks on a journey with no destinat...

A young man is diagnosed with a tumor in his pancreas and doesnt have the insurance to pay for it, his three best friends take matters into their own hands and start making money to pay for the surgery in their own way. With one small mistake comes a...

Death is a disease, growing from the inside beneath the Shell. Cursed blessings trickling down tubes, pushing hope through weak veins. Waiting for blissful Heaven to return. Heaven is Hell....

The rock star Pau Donés has advanced cancer, but he is confronting the disease with humour and in a positive light so as not to overdramatise it....

When filmmaker Debra Chasnoff faces stage-4 cancer, she turns her lens on herself and the disease. What emerges is a portrait of her extended LGBTQ family —a story about hanging on while letting go....

The Cancer Documentary addresses the worldwide cancer epidemic head-on, exploring an aspect of cancer that is often overlooked, its connection with diet and lifestyle....

A mother has cancer that will slowly eat her away until she eventually dies. She turns to her son, Ricky to help her die and they plan one final evening in together where he will cook her favourite food before he helps her....

Investigates the controversy swirling around the breast cancer screening test mammography....

A teenage boy battling cancer discovers a way to change the lives of the ones he meets....

Every day in Sutton, scientists from The Institute of Cancer Research at The London Cancer Hub try to discover what will defeat cancer. In the summer of 2022, communities in Sutton came together to celebrate their incredible research through the crea...

Explores concerns about uterine cancer and the value of the Pap Test in detecting this serious type of cancer....

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Cancer; The Integrative Perspective takes a deep dive into the fast-expanding paradigm of holistic and integrative wellness approaches for preventing and reversing cancer that treats the disease with conventional tools, while also supporting patients...

Reflections on writing, life and death with French Canadian poet Marie Uguay, who would die of bone cancer shortly after the making of this film....

The unspoken fears 16-year-old Sarah has about losing her mother to cancer are heightened when unexplainable and disturbing occurrences happen on the family farm....

An array of charismatic people articulate their pure and essential views about the disease of Cancer. The medical, ethical, psychological and social aspects are coherently interwoven in this thorough, and poetic, approach to the subject. In this film...