Cancer Movies

List of the best movies about cancer patients selected by visitors to our site: The Fault in Our Stars, The Girl with Nine Wigs, Magical Girl, Funny People, Margarita with a Straw, Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Realive, Nothing Like the Holidays, Saint Maud, Evita.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:13

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, biography
CountryGermany, Belgium

The true story of a young woman whose lust for life means she is determined to be so very much more than just another cancer patient.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySpain, France

The father of a terminally ill girl is determined to grant his daughter her last wish, a very expensive anime costume.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:26

    Famous and wealthy funnyman George Simmons doesn't give much thought to how he treats people until a doctor delivers stunning health news, forcing George to reevaluate his priorities with a little help from aspiring stand-up comic Ira.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama
    CountryIndia
    Duration01:40

    A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves India to study in New York. On her journey of self-discovery, she unexpectedly falls in love.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music
    CountryIndia
    Duration02:25

    Ayan falls in love with his soulmate, Alizeh, but she doesn’t reciprocate the feeling. Later, a relationship with Saba helps him realize Alizeh’s value in his life, irrespective of their relationship status.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrefantastic, drama
    CountryBelgium, Spain, France
    Duration02:03

    Marc, a successful, ambitious man, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and is given a few months to live. Unable to accept death, he decides to cryogenically freeze himself. The love of his life is devastated. Seventy years later, Marc becomes the first cryogenic resuscitated person in history. But this doesn't happen in the idealized way he dreamt of.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama, musical, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:15

    The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryIndia

    Kizie and Manny, two ordinary people brought together by a tragic twist, embark on a bittersweet and extraordinary journey into the heart of that crazy little thing called 'life'.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure, family, cartoon
    CountryFrance, Belgium

    At a hospital in New York, Alex, a police officer, meets Leo, a boy who has the ability to get out of his body and pass through the walls like a ghost. Both team up with Mary, an intrepid journalist, to capture a disfigured villain who terrorizes the city.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, music
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration01:30

    Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySpain, Canada
    Duration01:46

    A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:42

    Gus is a fat cartoonist that recently won a battle against cancer, which explains his baldness. But he is also lonely. Therefore, his caring sister tries to set him up with suitable woman. But to do so, she must turn him into an irresistible man. When he falls in love with Emily, Gus takes the identity of a mysterious biker from New Zealand.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:30

    Arthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional local choir. But choir director Elizabeth sees something special in the reluctant Arthur and refuses to give up on him. As she coaxes him out of his shell, Arthur realizes that it is never too late to change.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:51

    After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know their love cannot last because he is destined to die.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrefantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

      Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true picture of his father from flashbacks of his amazing adventures.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:40

      Two young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her that the other one is terminally ill...

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genredrama, adventure, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Germany
      Duration02:17

      The story of two sisters on a journey, where they try to get close to each other and approach the tough questions in life. Euphoria is a contemporary drama about responsibility and reconciliation, in a world where these concepts are gradually being lost.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountrySpain, France
      Duration01:44

      Manuel is a crooked politician who enjoys the lifestyle that kickbacks afford. He eats at fancy restaurants, parties with his friends on yachts, and provides a very luxurious lifestyle for his family. Manuel brazenly bribes, extorts, and pays off anyone who threatens to expose the activities of his inner circle. When he is singled out to take the fall for a case of fraudulent government contracts, rather than admit to any wrongdoing, Manuel decides to sell out his whole party in an effort to avoid jail time. It's a decision that puts many lives at risk.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, drama, biography
      CountryHong Kong, China
      Duration01:15

      When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryTaiwan

      When Sanlian's ex-husband passes away, she discovers he has altered his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favor of a stranger named Jay.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror
      CountryCanada

      Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome death. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed's secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain
      Duration01:30

      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 facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody will answer.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Patch Adams is a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humour is the best medicine and he's willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it means risking his own career.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountrySweden
      Duration02:04

      Despite grumpy 59 year-old Ove being deposed as president of his condominium association, but he keeps looking over the neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:35

      The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genredrama
      CountryMexico, France

      David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops strong relationships people he cares for. But outside of work, it's a different story altogether.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountryUSA

      In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genredrama
      CountryGermany, France
      Duration01:50

      Frank and Simone have fulfilled a dream and live with their two children in a row house in the suburbs. They are a happy couple, until the day Frank is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. The family is suddenly confronted with death.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:09

      An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountrySpain, France, Portugal
      Duration01:41

      Set in Catalonia, Painless weaves two stories: in one, starting during the Spanish Civil War and running through to the '60s, an asylum attempts to rehabilitate children who feel no pain, by teaching them physical suffering. In the second, in the present time, a brilliant neurosurgeon who needs a bone marrow transplant, discovers this dark past when he searches for his biological parents.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      Alex Truelove is on a quest to lose his virginity, an event eagerly awaited by his patient girlfriend and cheered on with welcome advice by his rowdy friends. But Alex, a super gregarious dude, is oddly unmotivated. A magical house party throws Alex into the presence of Elliot, a hunky college guy, who pegs Alex as gay and flirts hard. Alex is taken aback but after a series of setbacks on the girlfriend front he takes the plunge and learns some interesting new facts about himself.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genredrama, family, sport
      CountryNetherlands
      Duration01:35

      Adaptation of one of Benelux most famous children's novels. Tough prime school girl Akkie loves soccer and can be a real bully. Love is the only thing she's scared of. When Akkie is diagnosed with Leukemia, she has to fight for her life. On the verge of going to high school, Akkie has to allow love to enter her life, and thus gain courage to accept the inevitable.

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