Cancer movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant cancer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, realistic, sentimental, serious, emotional and sad films and TV shows about / with cancer, terminal illness, illness, life is a bitch, death, dying, grief, hospital, friendship and relationships plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Netherlands and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as cancer: Stricken (2009), Keith (2008), Now Is Good (2012), A Walk to Remember (2002), Clouds (2020), Dying Young (1991), New Life (2016), 50/50 (2011), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), The Fault in Our Stars (2014).

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 6.8
 6K
Stricken (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Handsome Dutchman Stijn is the star of an advertising agency with his buddy Frenk and a hot womanizer. The boys start their own agency and Stijn marries colleague Carmen, who accepts his incurable greed for truly meaningless one-night-stands. Even ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: cancer, cancer patient, true love, self discovery, infidelity, womanizer, love affair, crumbling relationship, life turned upside down, terminal illness, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
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 7.4
 37K
Keith (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style: sad, romantic, psychological, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, youth, opposites attract, first love, teenager, love story, teen romance, teenage love, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.0
 35K
Now Is Good (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A girl dying of leukemia compiles a list of things she'd like to do before passing away. Topping the list is her desire to lose her virginity.
Style: sad, emotional, romantic, heartbreaking, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, dying, youth, teenage love, love and romance, fighting illness, last wish, dealing with death, virginity, depression ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: brighton, usa
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A Walk to Remember (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big ...
Style: touching, romantic, inspirational, sad, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, love, first love, youth, teen romance, true love ...
Time: year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina
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 7.5
 12K
Clouds (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Young musician Zach Sobiech discovers his cancer has spread, leaving him just a few months to live. With limited time, he follows his dream and makes an album, unaware that it will soon be a viral music phenomenon.
Style: heartbreaking, touching, compassionate, teen, tear jerker ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: cancer, teenager, terminal illness, star crossed lovers, dying, dealing with death, dream, follow your dream, life is a bitch, hopes, love and romance, first love ...
Time: 2020s
Place: minnesota
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 6.0
 17K
Dying Young (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in love, but they always know ...
Style: romantic, sentimental, sad, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love story, life & death, leukemia, love, beautiful scenery, doctor, human nature, unfulfillment, parents and children, social differences, women ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: oakland california
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 6.1
 990
New Life (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Benjamin Morton's life changed forever the day he met the little girl next door. Ava was and always would be the girl of his dreams. From the innocence of a childhood friendship, through adolescent attraction, their love strengthens and grows. ...
Style: romantic, rough, sincere, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: best friends in love, cancer, car accident, childhood friend, relationships, french girl, romantic relationship, childhood love, couples, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tragic event ...
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 7.6
 342K
50/50 (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis, and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.
Style: touching, sentimental, tragicomedy, depressing, sad ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, friendship, chemotherapy, relationships, weed, meaning of life, doctor, patient, coming of age, best friend, life ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place: seattle, usa, iran, washington state, washington d.c. ...
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: touching, independent film, emotional, teen, depressing ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: high school, cancer, adolescence, teenager, terminal illness, friendship, dying, coming of age, leukemia, teenage boy, illness, friends ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
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 6.2
 11K
Life in a Year (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, clever ...
Plot: terminal illness, teenager, cancer, couple relations, romantic friendship, romantic relationship, life, promise, adolescence, dream, dying, loneliness ...
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 7.0
 12K
One Week (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to ...
Style: road movie, realistic, meditative, bad ending, philosophical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle, road trip, travel, self discovery, terminal illness, cancer, on the road, solitude, depression, beautiful scenery, coming of age, love story ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, ontario canada, pacific ocean, british columbia, toronto ontario canada
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 6.8
 12K
My Life (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: It seems that Bob Jones has everything a man could want, namely a fulfilling job and a beautiful, pregnant wife, Gail. But Bob's life is turned upside-down when he is diagnosed with cancer and given four months to live -- not even enough time ...
Style: sad, emotional, touching, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, death, reconciliation, family drama, childbirth, pregnancy, self discovery, couple relations, family life, expectant father, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa
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 6.7
 3K
Kiss and Cry (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A romantic drama based on the story of Carley Allison, a promising 18 year old figure skater and singer who made medical history in her fight against a rare 1 in 3.5 billion type of sarcoma.
Style: sincere, light, captivating, exciting, depressing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cancer, figure skating, terminal illness, ice skater, teenage girl, skating, doctor, hospital, nurse, contests and competitions, hopes, supportive parent ...
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My Sister's Keeper (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sara and Brian live an idyllic life with their young son and daughter. But their family is rocked by sudden, heartbreaking news that forces them to make a difficult and unorthodox choice in order to save their baby girl's life. The ...
Style: sad, touching, sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, family drama, terminal illness, sisters, lawyer, parenthood, mother daughter relationship, sick child, life is a bitch, leukemia, family relations, family life ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa, montana, los angeles
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 6.1
 3K
Lullaby (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Estranged from his family, Jonathan (Hedlund) discovers his father has decided to take himself off life support in forty-eight hours’ time. During this intensely condensed period, a lifetime of drama plays out. Robert (Jenkins) fights a zero sum ...
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic, sad
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, mercy killing, life is a bitch, estrangement, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, estranged family member, death in the family, death, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, new york, los angeles
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God, You're Such a Prick (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 16-year old Steffi just graduated from high school and is very much looking forward to her class trip to Paris where she has promised her boyfriend Fabian the romantic night that she has kept him waiting for so long. Her lifelong plan to join the ...
Style: road movie, captivating, realistic, sincere, touching ...
Plot: teenage girl, cancer, road trip, terminal illness, father daughter relationship, friendship, life philosophy, teenager, fighting illness, lifestyle, illness, travel ...
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 6.7
 94K
Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, terminal illness, love, fall in love, cancer, tragic love, bittersweet, couples, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on ...
Style: tear jerker, touching, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, love, dysfunctional family, friendship, single mother, husband wife relationship, grief, adultery, terminal illness, death of daughter, relationships, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1983, 60s ...
Place: texas, houston texas, new york, nebraska, louisiana ...
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 6.6
 13K
Freeheld (2015)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Style: uplifting, touching, sad, romantic, detective ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, lesbian love, cancer, older woman younger woman relationship, lgbtq, love, lgbtqi, equality, gay, gay bar ...
Place: new jersey, indiana
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August: Osage County (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
Style: touching, melancholic, independent film, stylized, depressing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, suicide, cancer, family secret, mother daughter relationship, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, drug addiction, pills, addiction, funeral, brother sister incest ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: oklahoma, peru, midwest, usa
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 7.1
 138K
Wild (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A woman with a tragic past decides to start her new life by hiking for one thousand miles on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Style: meditative, road movie, uplifting, inspirational, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: wilderness, self discovery, survival, nature, hiking, grief, female protagonist, starting over, human spirit, death of mother, cheating on husband, traveler ...
Time: year 1995, year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, portland oregon, usa, mojave desert, oregon ...
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The Red Band Society (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Polseres vermelles and Pulseras Rojas in Spanish, is a Catalan television show. The first season aired on TV3 in 2011, with a second season planned for 2013. The show was created by Albert Espinosa and draws on his childhood experiences as a ...
Style: serious, touching, humorous, medical drama, rough ...
Plot: cancer, illness, terminal illness, fighting illness, overcoming, child cancer, youth, teenage life, anorexia, patient, friendship, doctors and patients ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
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 8.0
 11K
Wit (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Style: depressing, sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: cancer, medical, hospital, nurse, doctor, poetry, terminal illness, chemotherapy, dying, philosophy, hopes, regret ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa
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Cool Kids Don't Cry (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 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. ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, youth, leukemia, cancer, teenage love, life is a bitch, school, hopes, social relations, teenager, sick child, cancer patient ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
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The Family Stone (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Style: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, cancer, holiday, family drama, terminal illness, secret, brother sister relationship, dysfunctional family, love, family values, christmas season, snow ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
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 7.8
 6K
Chasing Life (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: April is a smart aspiring journalist in her 20s who tries to balance her ambitious career with her family, which includes her widowed mom, rebellious little sister, and her grandmother. We meet April at a pivotal moment in her life: she's ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: journalist, cancer, dying, lesbian, workplace romance, coping, fighting illness, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, love and romance, female protagonist, workplace ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, boston, usa
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Miss You Already (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Style: touching, semi serious, sad, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, friendship, dying, terminal illness, illness, best friend, pregnancy, life turned upside down, love, relationships, unfulfillment, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: yorkshire, england
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Two Against Time (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Plot: cancer, family life, terminal illness, survival, family relations, parents and children, rebelliousness, dysfunctional family, couple relations, life is a bitch, single parent, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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 8.1
 16K
The Big C (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A suburban mother faces her cancer diagnosis while trying to find humor and happiness as well.
Style: humorous, sentimental, semi serious, sincere, crying ...
Plot: teacher, fighting illness, terminal illness, dying, cancer, couples, human spirit, hopes, couple relations, marriage, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut
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