Cancer thriller movies

List of the best thriller films about cancer patients, selected by visitors to our site: Road to Perdition, Brokedown Palace, Kiss the Girls, Breakdown, Salvador, Heathers, Presumed Innocent, High Noon, The Place, Zero 2.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
Duration01:56

Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never seen Amy. Johnathan Mostow's tense thriller then follows Jeff's desperate search for his wife, which eventually uncovers a small town's murderous secret.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Mexico
Duration02:02

A second rated journalist from the US tries his luck in El Salvador during the military dictatorship in the 1980s.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, western
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryItaly
Duration01:37

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryLithuania
Duration01:30

What would you get if you mix a gangster film and a soap opera? "Zero 2" is a crazy twister of criminal romance and sexy violence that just might laugh you to death.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:53

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:05

    This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, adventure, history
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:01

    The amazing, true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:35

    Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. People are killed, and Terry is chased. Throughout she remains in contact with this unknown person, who needs Terry to help save his life.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrethriller, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:45

      A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing ritual that could implicate high-ranking officials such as shady Col. Nathan Jessep.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:05

      Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
      Duration01:35

      A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryColombia, Spain
      Duration01:32

      A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:02

      In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One night, a new neighbor catches Diane's eye, and the enigmatic man inspires her to set forth on the path to discovering her own artistry.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration02:23

      An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryGermany, USA, Mexico
      Duration02:00

      A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who was promised a better life in America also becomes a victim.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryRepublic of Ireland
      Duration01:36

      Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police officer disappears and Boyle's small town becomes key to a large drug trafficking investigation, he is forced to at least feign interest when dealing with the humorless FBI agent Wendell Everett assigned to the case.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Mexico, USA
      Duration01:58

      A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp

      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryRussia, Estonia, France

      Captain Fedor Volkonogov works in law enforcement. He is on the good books of the management, and his colleagues respect him. But one day, his life abruptly changes: he is declared a criminal. The Captain manages to run away before he is arrested. Suddenly he turns into an outcast, whom his former colleagues search across the whole city. At night Volkonogov is visited by a messenger from the other world, who warns him that after death he will go hell and be tormented forever. But he has an opportunity to change his fate and get to paradise if he repents, and at least one person forgives him. The Captain embarks on his way to find forgiveness. But he cannot even fathom what tests are awaiting him on this way.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Australia
      Duration01:51

      Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime. As the resourceful band of thieves burrows its way into a safe-deposit vault at a Lloyds Bank, they quickly realise that, besides millions in riches, the boxes also contain secrets that implicate everyone from London's most notorious underworld gangsters to powerful government figures, and even the Royal Family. Although the heist makes headlines throughout Britain for several days, a government gag order eventually brings all reporting of the case to an immediate halt.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
      Duration02:03

      Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy, USA
      Duration02:42

      Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration02:01

      Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

        Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

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