Cancer Movies

Childhood leukemia, which accounts for 30% of childhood cancer, affects the lives of three in every 100,000 children. Of those affected, 20% do not...

Merlin, a 15-year-old student, has lost all feeling in his legs after an accident. He wonders blindly through life, never happy, never content. It's...

A Jewish New Yorker is bedridden patriarch dying of lung cancer, confesses for the first time to son that he was always attracted to men. Despite his...

Games You Can’t Win explores “empathy” gaming, a new video game movement in which developers are sharing some of their most...

A famous actress dying from cancer sets off to the mountains where she witnesses human misery, yet being fascinated by patients' faith in healing via...

When rock singer Anna loses her daughter to cancer, she begins a downward spiral of grief and destructive behavior, threatening to forever stray her...

In the wig studio three women are sitting in front of a mirror. Their hair is about to fall off and they have to choose a wig. Grey, black and yellow...

When 35 year old stand-up comedian Steve Mazan learned he was dying of cancer, he dedicated the rest of his life to making his dream come true:...

A look at the life and music of Pekka Streng who died at the age of 26 in 1975.

In August 2007, after some medical studies, I was diagnosed with bone cancer. This movie is based on my memories of those days.

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

Harmful chemicals are disproportionately affecting Black communities in Southern Louisiana along the Mississippi River. I am One of the People is an...

Cameron Duncan wrote, directed and starred in this short film, the same year a lump in his knee turned out to be cancerous. Aged only 16, Duncan had...

Two young women, Alix and Tina, decide to go on a trip with their dog Pippo. They are given a hitchhike by Felix, but have no idea what is in the...

Guarded and aloof cancer survivor is trying to return to the normal life and forget the horrors of the defeated disease that are still haunting her....

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

Brother and sister Steven (Joseph Rene) and Samantha (Marci Journey) have had to make many sacrifices to survive while taking care of their dying...