The Ultimate Gift

The Ultimate Gift 2007

7.60

When his wealthy grandfather finally dies, Jason Stevens fully expects to benefit when it comes to the reading of the will. But instead of a sizable inheritance, Jason receives a test, a series of tasks he must complete before he can get any money.

2007

The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker 1997

7.02

When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.

1997

Oscar and the Lady in Pink

Oscar and the Lady in Pink 2009

6.51

Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink he meets on the hospital stairs. As Christmas approaches, Rose uses her fantastical experiences as a professional wrestler, her imagination, wit and charm to allow Oscar to live life and love to the full, in the company of his friends Pop Corn, Einstein, Bacon and childhood sweetheart Peggy Blue. Written by American Film Market

2009

Cool Kids Don't Cry

Cool Kids Don't Cry 2012

8.00

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.

2012

Desperate Measures

Desperate Measures 1998

6.00

San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.

1998

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 2015

7.50

Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.

2015

Harlequin

Harlequin 1980

6.60

Up-and-coming senator Nick Rast's young son is terminally ill with leukemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe, appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan are less happy with events.

1980

The American Friend

The American Friend 1977

7.20

Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by gangster Raoul Minot to kill a rival, he suggests Zimmerman, and the two, exploiting Zimmerman's terminal illness, coerce him into being a hitman.

1977

Marvin's Room

Marvin's Room 1996

6.70

A leukemia patient attempts to end a 20-year feud with her sister to get her bone marrow.

1996

Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls 2003

6.50

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

2003

A Civil Action

A Civil Action 1998

6.40

Jan Schlickmann is a cynical lawyer who goes out to 'get rid of' a case, only to find out it is potentially worth millions. The case becomes his obsession, to the extent that he is willing to give up everything—including his career and his clients' goals—in order to continue the case against all odds.

1998

Why, Charlie Brown, Why?

Why, Charlie Brown, Why? 1990

7.40

A new girl comes to the neighbourhood school and Linus is smitten with her. Unfortunately, she develops the symptoms of leukemia and must go to the hospital for cancer treatment. Linus and Charlie Brown help her through the traumas of chemotherapy as best they can while Snoopy plays at being the world's greatest doctor.

1990

Camino

Camino 2008

7.40

A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.

2008

Lost and Found

Lost and Found 1996

7.10

A rich girl diagnosed with leukemia wants to follow a sailor friend to St Kilda, Scotland to find out. but first she must search him out, who is missing.

1996

Angel On The Clock

Angel On The Clock 2017

7.40

A girl with leukemia meets the strange angel that lives on her watch, so she asks him to stop the time.

2017

Ways to Live Forever

Ways to Live Forever 2010

7.20

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.

2010

Griffin and Phoenix

Griffin and Phoenix 1976

5.30

Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets Phoenix, who has terminal leukemia.

1976

Things in Their Season

Things in Their Season 1974

1

The son in a close-knit family of Wisconsin dairy farmers decides to get married and move out of the house, just as his mother discovers she has incurable leukemia and only a short time to live.

1974

Stones for Ibarra

Stones for Ibarra 1988

1

A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two of them find peace they were missing.

1988

My Daddy

My Daddy 2021

7.20

Kazuo Mido is a pastor at a small church. He lost his wife 8 years ago and raises his only daughter, a junior high school student, singlehandedly. When she is diagnosed with an illness, he undergoes a drastic change.

2021

Chasing Life

Chasing Life 2014

7.50

April, an aspiring journalist, is balancing her ambitious career with her family and a new office romance. In an unexpected twist of fate, April learns that she has leukemia.

2014

Jenny

Jenny 2017

1

A journey into the heart of a 13-year-old girl diagnosed with leukemia. Far from being overwhelmed, she discovers rather an impressive force of character that helps her fight her illness.

2017