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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Polish Psychological Drama
Style:
reflective, existential, philosophical, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
aging, midlife crisis, mortality, character study, memory, mountain, friendship, fear of death, male friendship, crisis of faith, nostalgia, isolation ...
Time:
80s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story:
A director with no future and an actress with no tomorrow fall into a love story that cannot wait.
Style:
poignant, emotional, heartbreaking, romantic drama, meta
Plot:
mortality, tragic romance, filmmaking, terminal illness, love story, creative block, bittersweet, cancer, intimate, legacy, self discovery, grief ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Iran
TV show
Story:
In his last few days, Dr. Gharib remembers his childhood and compares the difference the time has made to medicine and medical procedures in Iran. Inspired by true events this show takes a look at Dr. Mohammad Gharib's life events as he spends ...
Style:
medical drama, melancholic, emotional, historical drama, reflective ...
Plot:
terminal illness, biopic, mortality, hospital, flashback, social change, family drama, family relations, persian
Place:
tehran
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Today is Jimmy's last day alive. His Alzheimer's is worsening, so he's decided to die like he has lived - with intention, humor, and zest. In his last day on Earth, Jimmy will show an obituary writer, his death doula, his estranged ...
Style:
surreal, existential, dark comedy, melancholic, offbeat ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
death, mortality, memory loss, bittersweet, gay, character study, intimate, legacy, family reunited, caretaker, euthanasia, small town ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Raghu Ramayya is a man with limited time to live. His children, who all live elsewhere, struggle to schedule their time around his death. But what happens when his grandson Saitakes it upon himself to give his grandfather the farewell he deserves?
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, comedy drama, life affirming, sentimental
Plot:
aging, relationships, mortality, legacy, family reunited, slice of life, empathy, bittersweet, generation gap, terminal illness, intimate, homecoming ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Mümtaz and Derya are condemned to live out their last moments each day in someone else's skin.
Style:
poignant, psychological, surreal, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
mortality, body swapping, identity, empathy, existential crisis, identity crisis, rehearsal, ethical dilemma, fate, isolation, desperation, memory ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A celebration of life, a glance into death, and a celebration of what happens in between.
Style:
romantic, contemplative, existential, captivating, reflective ...
Plot:
life, love interest, mortality, life & death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, love affair, relationships, romantic relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, intimate ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s ...
Style:
emotional, existential, melancholic, tragic
Plot:
old age, mortality, family drama, dignity, elderly man, father son relationship, trauma, grief, mourning, accident, retirement, intimate ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
I Am Yu Huanshui is a story for the underdogs about a man who tolerates as much as he can, yet things change when he discovers that he is terminal ill.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, tragicomedy, satirical ...
Plot:
cancer, male protagonist, terminal illness, hardship, social problems, character study, mortality, working class, midlife crisis, illness, coping, family problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.
Style:
poignant, reflective, dark comedy, tragicomedy
Plot:
family drama, mortality, terminal illness, grief, family reunited, regret, reconciliation, mourning, acceptance, humanism, intimacy, retirement home ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Meurtrière is the second movement of a triptych by Philippe Grandrieux whose common thread is anxiety. Each movement, White Epilepsy, Meurtrière, Unrest, consists of a performance, a film and an installation.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, experimental, art film, captivating ...
Plot:
female nudity, anxiety, visceral, mortality, investigation, secret revealed, uptight character, uncover truth, sexually liberated, eroticism, research, erotica ...
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370
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hamm is blind and unable to stand; Clov, his servant, is unable to sit; Nagg and Nell are his father and mother, who are legless and live in dustbins. Together they live in a room with two windows, but there may be nothing at all outside.
Style:
surreal, absurd, bleak, art house, black comedy ...
Plot:
blindness, absurdism, isolation, mortality, waiting, minimalism, existentialism, loneliness, dark humor, hopelessness, entrapment, mature ...
Place:
ireland
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When cancer-stricken alcoholic actor discovers he's only got 3 months to live, he decides to change his life and reconcile with his estranged daughter.
Style:
emotional, sincere, captivating, life affirming, reflective ...
Plot:
cancer, reconciliation, terminal illness, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, father daughter reunion, father daughter conflict, alcoholic, alcoholism, redemption, mortality, family drama ...
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387
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Stella is a clumsy, cynical, imaginative and tormented teenage girl. After a life-changing car accident involving a dog, she convinces herself she must count her age in dog years: one year of her life counts for seven, and now that she’s turning ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, satirical, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, adolescence, coming of age, self discovery, female protagonist, mortality, bucket list, lifestyle, teenage girl, couple relations, teenage life, satire ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
833
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
Style:
emotional, reflective, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
boxing, ex boxer, father daughter relationship, mortality, character study, als, terminal illness, redemption, illness, reconciliation, loss, bittersweet ...
Place:
germany, german democratic republic, east germany
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of patients and the caregivers of a hospice department. It is the story of people who dream of 'well-dying'.
Style:
sincere, realistic, touching, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
loss, grief, relationships, caregiver, terminal illness, compassion, humanity, mortality, runaway, workplace, life, life is a bitch ...
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912
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Ajay (Siddharth) comes to Kasi, where his thoughts and ideas on life and death undergo a sea change after he meets a young boy. He relocates to Chennai and stays in a house owned by a couple S V S Murthy (Mouli) and Jayam (Geetha). They treat him as ...
Style:
romantic, emotional, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
life & death, mortality, illness, cancer, male female relationship, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, relationship problems, love interest, love and romance, love affair ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The film tells a warm and realistic story, thinking and facing the ultimate problem that every ordinary person will face-imagining that death may come at any time, the only thing we have to do is love and cherish.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, suspense, sincere, psychological ...
Plot:
cancer, illness, friendship, terminal illness, hospital, empathy, mortality, family drama, fighting illness, cancer patient, life, dysfunctional family ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man Tomoya Nagase and a girl Mayuko Fukuda both learn that they have an untreatable illness and are nearing death. When one reveals that they have never been to the ocean, they embark on a comical adventure to see the sea.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense, road movie ...
Plot:
friendship, unlikely friendships, mortality, cancer, terminal illness, adult child friendship, fighting illness, stolen money, friends, escapades, child illness, money ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A couple of teenagers have a son who suffers from progeria, a rare genetic disorder which makes one age exponentially faster than normal. 16 years later, the child has the body of an 80 year old in the final days of his life writing a book about his ...
Style:
tear jerker, emotional, sincere, captivating, medical drama ...
Plot:
aging, illness, rapid aging, love, mother son relationship, terminal illness, parenting, mortality, family bonds, relationships, male female relationship, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seoul
Is relevant?
250
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: India
Story:
The film revolves round the lives, joys and sorrows of three friends, whose profession has to do with handling corpses.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, bleak, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide, mortality, couple relations, love affair, romantic relationship, relationships, love story, love and romance, male female relationship, relationship problems, romantic triangle, love triangle ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Country: China, Singapore
TV show
Story:
When Goddess Xiao Qi commits a major crime, she is stripped of her powers and banished to the mortal realm where she meets a mortal who helps her accomplish 100 charitable acts so she can regain her goddess status. The two fall in love, but when ...
Style:
costume drama, xianxia, captivating, sincere, fairy tale ...
Plot:
forbidden love, star crossed lovers, male female relationship, love and romance, in love, fall in love, love story, redemption, mythology, goddess, love affair, mortality ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Two seemingly disparate men experience powerful life lessons when a wheat harvester gives a hitch-hiking male model a ride on what feels to be the worst day of their lives, at the peak of the war in Vietnam. The harvester has just been diagnosed ...
Style:
melancholic, road movie, emotional, realistic, existential ...
Plot:
father son relationship, mortality, character study, village life, agriculture, male bonding, hitchhiking, small town, self discovery, bittersweet, drifter, coming of age ...
Place:
midwest, kansas
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Style:
emotional, realistic, heartfelt, sentimental, dramatic ...
Plot:
aging, teenager, disease, mortality, family drama, coming of age, parent child relationship, hopes, grief, resilience, loss, intimate ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Trent Butler, a listless 20 something, accidentally kills himself after a breakup. He negotiates with Death to get a 2 week extension to accomplish something with his life.
Style:
emotional, reflective, existential, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
deadline, second chance, afterlife, mortality, identity crisis, self discovery, personal growth, bittersweet, redemption, supernatural, regret, coming of age ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Sheldon's cancer has him navigating around his loving, but very dysfunctional family, providing comic relief as he follows his life's passion for photography. Left at the alter, he begins to realize that he's been in love with his ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, romantic drama ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, cancer, love story, couples, love and romance, relationships, family relations, relationship problems, couple relations, male female relationship, love interest, eccentric family ...
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Slovenia, Ireland, Finland, Sweden
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A man stays alone with his children in a half demolished house in the middle of a desolate field. His wife has just been killed by a grenade in a military battle. He is expecting a new attack. Instead a wandering caravan called Circus Fantasticus ...
Style:
surreal, touching, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
circus, hopes, wartime life, human spirit, performer's life, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, death in the family, magic realism, grief, mourning ...
Place:
poetic realism
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After Yoon, a professor of philosophy, fell from a heart attack, his wife brings in Sookhee, a care attendant. She treats her patient like her child as well as giving him sexual excitement.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, erotic, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual arousal, male female relationship, relationships, sexual relations, sexual desire, care, relationship problems, nursing, sexual attraction, co worker co worker relationship, employer employee relationship, sick ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
Momo (Celebrity Japanese adult starlet Sho Nishino) is very unlucky. All the guys she dates are only after her money, and she discovers she has only six months left to live. Momo meets Ms. Devil Girl Succubus (played by Japanese cult icon Asami) who ...
Style:
sensual, explicit, erotic, parody, melancholic ...
Plot:
seduction, soul selling, terminal illness, female protagonist, lust, sexploitation, supernatural, mortality, temptation, deal with the devil, dark humor, moral dilemma ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Tae-Il lives a fast life as low level thug. He then learns that he has a terminal illness and not much time left to live. Then, for the first time in his life, he falls in love.
Style:
romantic, uplifting, semi serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
terminal illness, unrequited love, opposites attract, bandit, bittersweet, tragic love, love and romance, gang war, family relations, redemption, cancer, sacrifice ...
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