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List of fighting illness movies

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The Michael J. Fox Show (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: After being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Mike Henry had to give up his career as a news anchor for New York's WNBC and focus on his health and his family. Four years later, Mike decides to get back to work and struggles between ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, sincere, touching, feel good ...
Plot: parkinson's disease, workplace, media, family values, parents and children, comeback, couples, couple relations, fighting illness, news anchor, family relations, videotaping ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.8
 17K
Destiny (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bekir is in love with Ugur, who loves Zagor, who loves to commit crimes.
Style: serious, tense, art house, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: romancing a criminal, life is a bitch, on the run, fall in love, estrangement, hopes, crime gone awry, love and romance, murder, destiny, fighting illness, prison ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, balkan, asia, europe, istanbul turkey ...
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 6.8
 15K
Lymelife (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his ...
Style: sexy, romantic, talky, touching, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, coming of age, american dream, infidelity, marital problem, first love, violence, marriage, teenage love, family problems, family life, love and romance ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
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Copying Beethoven (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: Germany, UK, Hungary
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been years since his last success and he is plagued by deafness, ...
Style: realistic, captivating, touching, serious, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: composer, classical music, musician, horse, artist, mute or deaf, biopic, music, pianist, musician's life, contests and competitions, love and romance ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1800s, ancient times, year 2006 ...
Place: germany, europe, austria, vienna
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 7.7
 33K
Fireworks (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A police officer leaves the force in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into a depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Style: bleak, art house, lyrical, bloody, emotional ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, police, dying, samurai, loss, death, couple relations, life is a bitch, love and romance, loss of loved one, loss of partner ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, mount fuji
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 7.8
 120K
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Style: disturbing, realistic, depressing, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: friendship, dream, prostitution, fish out of water, gay, cripple, homosexual, gay slur, prostitute, cowboy, female nudity, sexuality ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, texas, florida, manhattan new york city, usa ...
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The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
Style: heartbreaking, sad, touching, depressing, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: grief, terminal illness, depression, relationships, love story, love, cancer, musician, character study, honest, mental illness, parenthood ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, near future, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: belgium, scandinavia, europe
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 7.4
 137K
Man on the Moon (1999)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Style: offbeat, depressing, inspirational, touching, humorous ...
Plot: comedian, biopic, showbiz, wrestler, character study, prank, life philosophy, human spirit, actor's life, rising to stardom, performer's life, rise and fall ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1999, 70s ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, memphis, the philippines ...
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
Genre: Animation, Drama, War
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no ...
Style: anime, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: world war two, hunger, war, orphan, homelessness, survival, siblings relations, children, desperation, death of child, anti war, boy ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1945, post world war two
Place: japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
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 7.6
 339K
Grey's Anatomy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Style: medical drama, sentimental, sincere, captivating, bloody ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: hospital, doctor, medical, workplace, surgery, surgeon, patient, relationships, doctors and patients, coworker relationship, workplace romance, nurse ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: seattle, idaho, usa
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 7.8
 10K
Happiness (2021)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in ...
Style: apocalyptic, dorama, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: epidemic, apartment building, survival, virus, illness, zombie apocalypse, social problems, struggle for survival, society, social isolation, isolated place, fighting illness ...
Time: near future
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 6.8
 54K
To the Bone (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Style: bleak, captivating, motivational, emotional, teen ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: eating disorder, illness, anorexia, therapy, suicide, sister sister relationship, self harm, psychology, mental health, mental illness, mental disorder, relationship problems ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, arizona
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The Gravedigger's Wife (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Somalia, Qatar
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son, Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive surgery to treat a chronic kidney disease. Guled is already ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological
Plot: illness, family problems, life is a bitch, social problems, money problems, family relations, fighting illness, needing money, husband wife relationship, money, afro
Place: africa, somalia
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 6.7
 6K
Here Today (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Veteran comedy writer Charlie Berns, who is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality, befriends a talented young New York street singer Emma Payge. Together, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation ...
Style: psychological, captivating, semi serious, sincere, disturbing ...
Plot: dementia, love story, couple relations, fighting illness, romantic friendship, male female relationship, intergenerational friendship, generation gap, friends, comedian, friendship, trust ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
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The Theory of Everything (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style: touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: disability, genius, love, physicist, cambridge university, mathematics, prodigy, husband wife relationship, supportive spouse, scientist, against the odds, biopic ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 90s ...
Place: oxford university, england, united kingdom
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 9.5
 2.1M
Breaking Bad (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: criminal, cancer, peril, life turned upside down, drug dealing, drug cartel, unlikely partners, drug lord, master criminal, family problems, life is a bitch, drug ...
Time: y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, usa
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 6.7
 18K
Restless (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A powerful and emotional coming of age story, this remarkable tale is told with honesty and originality that will leave audiences moved. In the film, two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and ...
Style: serious, offbeat, psychological, touching, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: terminal illness, sadness, teenage love, love, cancer, coming of age, hospital, death, funeral, brain tumor, teenager, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Is relevant ?
 6.2
 253
Al Thaman (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: As a last resort to afford her son’s cancer treatment, a widowed mother asks her manager for money, but the latter poses one condition: she must spend the night with him.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, children's story
Plot: wealthy family, cancer, changing lives, money, needing money, fighting illness, life is a bitch, child illness, lifestyle change, family relations, blackmail, relationships ...
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 4.5
 163
The Prayer Box (2018)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: On a mission to get God's attention in hopes that God will heal his sister from terminal cancer, a young boy begins answering the prayers left by church members in the pastor's prayer box after the pastor throws them away, jaded by his own ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: faith, belief in god, fighting illness, family problems, brother sister relationship, kids and family, religious faith, religious, religion, illness, life is a bitch, brother ...
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Don't Cry, Mr. Ogre (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: What was once a superlative varsity baseball coach is now a jaded middle-aged man. He and a former student meet and the older man discovers that his now married pupil is afflicted with terminal cancer. Full of regrets of how he once treated the ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: japanese man, baseball, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, fighting illness, guilty conscience, cancer, illness, problem, terminal illness, student athlete
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Before the Vigil (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Matsuoi and his wife Tsuya moved to Oshima City because of her unpredictable character. Even though Tsuya continues to have affairs, Matsuoi loves her and is a devoted husband. Tsuya is then diagnosed with a cancer and later goes into a coma. ...
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: cancer, fighting illness, family relations, married couple, husband wife relationship, illness, coping, marriage, family problems, marital problem, problem, changing lives ...
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Good Life: Thank You, Papa, Goodbye (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: The basis for the drama is the novel “Kashikogi” by author Cho Chang-in, which has sold 2 million copies in Korea since its publication in 2000. It has already been adapted as a television drama and a stage play in that country. On February 4, ...
Style: captivating, sincere, tear jerker
Plot: terminal illness, illness, workaholic, father son relationship, family problems, fighting illness, relationship problems, reporter, relationships, parents and children, family relations, family life ...
Place: japan
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Let Me Be Your Knight (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A story of romance and healing between one of the world’s greatest idols who is suffering from somnambulism and the doctor who is secretly treating him. Jun’s character Yoon Tae In is an untouchable idol star who is loved all around the world, ...
Style: semi serious, captivating, disturbing, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot: fighting illness, musician's life, music, illness, doctor, musician, idol, satire, healing
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 6.4
 8K
The Healer (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The film follows a man with an unwanted gift for healing who meets a teenager with cancer who helps him to find himself.
Style: sincere, feel good, touching, light, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: faith, healer, teenager, intergenerational friendship, healing, legacy, love, child cancer, cancer, fall in love, stranded, girl ...
Place: nova scotia, canada, london
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The Angel and the Clock (2017)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A girl with leukemia meets the strange angel that lives on her watch, so she asks him to stop the time.
Style: captivating, sincere, disturbing, anime
Audience: family outing
Plot: fighting illness, wish come true, lifestyle, illness, sick child, introspection, wish fulfillment, self discovery, desire, time, leukemia, cancer ...
Time: 2010s
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Medical Team Lady da Vinci’s Diagnosis (2016)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Shiho works as a neurosurgeon at Nishitokyo General Hospital. She decides to quit her profession after hallucinating during surgery. Her ex-teacher Masayuki Kitabatake is the director at Tokyo University Hospital and he persuades Shiho to work at ...
Style: medical drama, suspense, captivating, tense, sincere
Plot: medical, female doctor, coworker, saving a life, fighting illness, hospital, physician, workplace situations, doctors and patients, doctor, uncover truth, doctor patient relationship ...
Place: japan
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 6.9
 14K
Then Came You (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An American hypochondriac who is working as a baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with a terminal illness enlists him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
Style: touching, sincere, inspirational, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: bucket list, friendship, love of one's life, teenager, hypochondriac, terminal illness, illness, cancer, last wish, fighting illness, wish fulfillment, escapades ...
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 349
In the Heart (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Masha (37) is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Style: touching, psychological, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: couple relations, tragic love, love and romance, parents and children, terminal illness, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, relationships, fighting illness, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
Is relevant ?
 7.5
 649
After Thomas (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with his dog, Thomas.
Style: captivating, motivational
Plot: autism, parenthood, disability, dog, coping, fighting illness, relationships, family problems, problem, problem solving, couple relations, family relations ...
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My Future Love (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1973, the 20-year-old Svante has a heart condition that the doctors cannot fix. When he has a breakdown on a subway platform, a strange train suddenly appears. He steps into the subway car filled with wonder, without knowing that the destination ...
Style: light, entertaining, captivating, romantic
Plot: time travel, sent to the future, emigrant, love and romance, time jump, time traveler, fighting illness, love story, male female relationship, relationships, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love ...
Time: future, year 1973, 70s, year 2016
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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