Thriller movies about terminally ill

List of the best thriller movies about terminally ill people selected by visitors to our site: Contagion, The Good Son, Suite Française, Sneaky Pete, The Book of Henry, The Devil All the Time, Dear John, The Ides of March, The Place Beyond the Pines, Nocturnal Animals.

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

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
Duration01:46

As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration01:47

France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A con man on the run from a vicious gangster takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his prison cellmate, Pete, “reuniting” with Pete’s estranged family, a colorful, dysfunctional group that threatens to drag him into a world just as dangerous as the one he’s trying to escape - and, just maybe, give him a taste of the loving family he’s never had.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:35

Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

    Sergeant John Tyree is home on a 2 week leave from Germany. He meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off the pier. John falls in love with Savannah who is a student on spring break helping build a house for Habitat for Humanity. A romance occurs and Savannah falls deeply in love with John. She promises to write John overseas until he returns.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

      Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

        A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

          Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:55

            Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the stories intersect with surprising twists that expose a shocking reality into our daily use of technology that mediates and defines our relationships and ultimately our lives.

            Markimdb: 7
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

              The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genrethriller, drama, crime
              CountrySpain, USA
              Duration02:00

              A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrethriller, drama, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:57

                An oil drilling team struggles to survive after a plane crash strands them in the wilds of Alaska. Hunting them is a pack of wolves that sees them as intruders.

                Markimdb: 7.2
                Genrethriller, drama, history
                CountryFrance, Italy

                In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:51

                Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.

                Markimdb: 7.4
                Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
                CountryUSA, Mexico
                Duration01:45

                A paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret "smart drug" that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrethriller, detective
                CountryRussia, USA, United Kingdom, Cyprus

                Looking to investigate recruitment techniques of ISIS to lure women into Syria, Amy Whitaker, a journalist, creates a Facebook profile of a Muslim convert. When an ISIS recruiter contacts her online character, she experiences the process first hand.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom

                A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genrethriller, drama, biography
                CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                Duration02:00

                As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                CountryUSA, Netherlands
                Duration01:38

                  The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose to the top... and there was no place to go but down.

                  Markimdb: 6.8
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:55

                  Five different criminals face imminent death after botching a job quite badly.

                  Markimdb: 7.2
                  Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:26

                  Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.

                  Markimdb: 6.3
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:50

                  A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

                  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: 7.3
                  Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom
                  Duration01:56

                  A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

                  Markimdb: 6.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:45

                  Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, USA, France
                  Duration02:08

                  A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:00

                  A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.

                  Markimdb: 7.8
                  Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom, India

                  What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

                  Markimdb: 6.6
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                  CountryWest Germany, USA
                  Duration01:56

                  This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.

                  Markimdb: 7.8
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA, Canada
                  Duration01:27

                  Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, military, history
                  CountryTaiwan, USA, Hong Kong, China
                  Duration02:37

                  During World War II a secret agent must seduce, then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission becomes clouded when she finds herself falling in love with the man she is assigned to kill.

                  Markimdb: 8.2
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:10

                  Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:37

                  An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

                  Markimdb: 8.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:53

                  Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty, however, of locating his wife's killer is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.

                  Markimdb: 7.1
                  Genrethriller, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:21

                  A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:49

                  Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.

                  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: 7
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:35

                  When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

                  Markimdb: 6.7
                  Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
                  CountryFrance, Spain, USA
                  Duration02:13

                  An all-expenses-paid international search for a rare copy of the book, 'The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom' brings an unscrupulous book dealer deep into a world of murder, double-dealing and satanic worship.

                  Markimdb: 7.3
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime, biography
                  CountryUSA, Germany
                  Duration01:49

                  Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.

                  Markimdb: 8.5
                  Genrethriller, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:52

                  Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

                  Markimdb: 6.9
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:59

                  A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrethriller, drama, detective
                  CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
                  Duration01:35

                  Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

                  Markimdb: 7.2
                  Genrethriller, drama, crime
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:52

                  A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

                  Markimdb: 6.4
                  Genrethriller, drama, military
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Canada, USA
                  Duration02:08

                  Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow marine to represent him.

                  Markimdb: 7.7
                  Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
                  CountryJapan

                  A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression, he makes questionable decisions.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrethriller, drama, military
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:06

                  Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

                  Markimdb: 6.9
                  Genrethriller, drama
                  CountryUSA

                  Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.




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