Breast cancer movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant breast cancer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous and medical drama films and TV shows about / with breast cancer, cancer, female protagonist, female nudity, illness, terminal illness, hospital, hopes, mother daughter relationship and doctor plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, France, Belgium and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as breast cancer: My Breast (1994), 2 Become 1 (2006), Top Hearts! (1999), The Room (2003), Love Is Not What It Used to Be (2013), Two Voices (1997), Love Is All You Need (2012), The Braid (2023), List of a Lifetime (2021), Ladies (2017).
Best films
List of breast cancer movies
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Meredith Baxter plays Joyce Wadler in this heartwarming story of hope, courage and redemption inspired by the New York City journalist's real-life struggle with breast cancer. Stuck in a lackluster relationship with her boyfriend, she's ...
Style:
reflective, medical drama
Plot:
breast cancer, courage, journalist, female protagonist, inspiration, hopes, illness, introspection, self discovery, relationships, redemption, female empowerment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Bingo leads a carefree city life that revolves around work, friends and dating. Her yuppie life is turned upside down one passionate night when her hot date Dr. V discovers a lump on her left breast.
Style:
touching, psychological, realistic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
human spirit, couples, hopes, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, terminal illness, breast cancer, desperation, doctor, food industry, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A woman (Karin Viard) in the fourth month of her first pregnancy fights to save the baby while being treated for breast cancer.
Style:
medical drama, emotional, inspirational, reflective, bleak ...
Plot:
breast cancer, hospital, pregnant woman, pregnancy, female protagonist, motherhood, life & death, ethical dilemma, determination, resilience, cancer, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france
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99K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Johnny is a successful banker with great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his future wife Lisa. The happy-go-lucky guy sees his world fall apart when his friends begin to betray him one-by-one.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, funny ...
Plot:
infidelity, best friend, breast cancer, dark humor, suicide, flower shop, american football, seduction, strange behavior, psychologist, room, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, bay area, california
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shortly after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Geralyn Lucas lands her dream job working for 20/20. Lucas is then diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 and has a dilemma - whether to have a lumpectomy ...
Style:
serious, psychological, touching, humorous, realistic
Plot:
breast cancer, chemotherapy, human spirit, introspection, terminal illness, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, hopes, husband wife relationship, cancer, bare breasts, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alex comes across Lucias life, two youngsters who start discovering each other, the escape velocity will determine their future.Paz y Jorge see how their relationship is fading and they don't know what to do, hyperbola, whose bodies will never ...
Style:
witty, semi serious, touching, realistic, feel good
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
couples, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, city life, husband wife relationship, female nudity, restaurant, urban, professor, swimming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, valencia spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sybil, a housewife with breast cancer has to be subjected to a mastectomy after which will silicone implants. Another woman, Kathleen also uses a breast implant for cosmetic reasons. Sybil start having problems with implants and the surgeon advised ...
Plot:
friendship, breast cancer, cancer, secret document, judge, hospital, teenager, vacation, courtroom, mother daughter relationship, secretary, hotel ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
sicily, maryland, washington d.c., kentucky, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Romantic comedy from Academy Award winner Susanne Bier (Brothers, In a Better World), about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa.
Style:
feel good, witty, semi serious, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
wedding, breast cancer, couples, love and romance, wedding planning, fall in love, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, infidelity, hairdresser, meet the parents, bald woman ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
copenhagen, italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
In these two short films we will follow the lives of two women in a doctor's waiting room as they await to hear if they have breast cancer. Each short story will follow their journey after receiving the life changing diagnosis. All stories are ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, medical drama ...
Plot:
breast cancer, cancer, black american, diagnosis, black woman, medical examination, doctors and patients, multiple storylines, doctor, lifestyle change, illness, women ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Three women Smita, Giulia and Sarah from different parts of the world who have never met but they are bound by something intimate and unique.
Plot:
hair, empowerment, women, breast cancer, debt, middle class, high society, female lawyer, social class, poverty, lower class, girl fight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, italy, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When she's diagnosed with breast cancer, Brenda begins completing her bucket list with the help of the daughter she long ago put up for adoption.
Style:
emotional, exciting, serious, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot:
bucket list, mother daughter relationship, breast cancer, social issues, quitting job, surprise party, women, female protagonist, sick mother, daughter, cancer, fired from the job ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
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604
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Lucie is in remission and her illness is almost a distant memory. Her family pushes her to live life to the fullest, and in doing so Lucie meets the charming and arrogant Clovis, who is immediately beguiled by her wit and humor. It is Dalila, ...
Plot:
breast cancer, striptease, cancer, telephone call, dancing, nightclub, cemetery, love, mother daughter relationship, doctor, menstruation, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2017
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Linda Dackman has been diagnosed with breast cancer, but this does not prevent she from seeing the positive side of life and continue their quest for Prince Charming.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
breast cancer, lifestyle, looking for love, support group, couples, physical appearance, singleness, dating, female protagonist, resilience, single woman, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Style:
touching, sentimental, philosophical, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
cancer, husband wife relationship, love, hospital, family relations, couples, love and romance, life philosophy, power of love, lung cancer, destiny, illness ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A dying mother's life lessons to the husband and sons she left behind. Based on the best-selling novel by St John (Singe) Greene, the film is the story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sincere, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Plot:
cancer, last wish, mother, children, death, family relations, death of wife, parents and children, breast cancer, list, illness, wife ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Greece, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As teenagers, Blandine and Magalie were inseparable. Years passed and they lost sight of each other. As their paths cross again, they decide to take the trip together that they have always dreamed of. Direction Greece, its sun, its islands but also ...
Plot:
greek island, female protagonist, female friendship, self discovery, female nudity, divorced woman, babysitter, party, island, surfer, teenage girl, friendship ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2019
Place:
greece
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Elena (Kasia Smutniak) and Antonio (Francesco Arca) seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed ...
Style:
sexy, romantic, humorous, touching, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
opposites attract, love triangle, couple relations, love story, love, eroticism, love and romance, forbidden love, couples, husband and wife, husband wife relationship, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Living Proof is a 2008 Lifetime Television movie, directed by Dan Ireland, starring Harry Connick, Jr. The film is based on the true life story of Dr. Dennis Slamon and the book HER-2: The Making of Herceptin, a Revolutionary Treatment for Breast ...
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, lighthearted, light ...
Plot:
hopes, breast cancer, doctor, terminal illness, doctors and patients, ego clash, medical, cancer, special needs, explorer, biopic, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A trailer is burning in the middle of a plain. The bodies of two adulterous lovers are found. Scenes from both families, before and after the dramatic events, suggest an unusual connection between them. But what is their secret?
Style:
touching, sexy, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot:
teenage love, adultery, secret relationship, mother daughter reunion, caught having sex, unhappy wife, redemption, family drama, infidelity, breast cancer, abandonment, child abandonment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, portland oregon, new mexico, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Liverpool, 1978: What starts as a vibrant affair between a legendary femme-fatale, the eccentric Academy Award-winning actress Gloria Grahame, and her young lover, British actor Peter Turner, quickly grows into a deeper relationship, with Turner ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, captivating, melancholic, neo noir ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, doctor, terminal illness, breast cancer, dying, femme fatale, promise, lie, mother daughter relationship, actress, life is a bitch, love ...
Time:
year 1979, year 2017, 70s, year 1981, 80s
Place:
liverpool, los angeles, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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296
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, inspirational, medical drama, intercultural
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
breast cancer, resilience, father daughter relationship, coming of age, friendship, female protagonist, personal growth, football, working class, bittersweet, intimate, slice of life ...
Place:
hamburg germany
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624
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
It is during the final months of 1999 that 46-year-old physician Jerri Nielsen (Susan Sarandon) finds herself stranded at the Amundsen-South Pole Research Station along with a tiny staff of researchers and technicians. Although, at first, there is ...
Style:
dramatic, medical drama, suspense, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
cancer, survival, breast cancer, doctor, adaptation, isolation, hopes, happy ending, rescue, biopic, improv, blizzard ...
Place:
antarctica, south pole
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Terminal City was a Canadian mini-series about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer while running a failing reality tv show turning it into a hit as her life and body begin to change.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
self discovery, redemption, self fulfillment, terminal illness, life is a bitch, lifestyle, society, hospital, change of luck, breast cancer, rivalry, women ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hello Beautiful is a powerful and emotionally charged film that delves into the harrowing yet transformative journey of Willow, a successful model whose life is shattered by a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. Based on Christine Handy's ...
Style:
emotional, inspirational, heartfelt, medical drama, tear jerker ...
Plot:
transformation, cancer, female protagonist, resilience, breast cancer, biopic, empowerment, identity, self discovery, survival, women, personal growth ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Yasutake Shingo is a newspaper reporter whose only redeeming feature is his earnestness. He meets Matsunaga Chie, who attends a music college, and they start dating. Each day becomes all the more bright and enjoyable for Shingo because of the lively ...
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, romantic drama, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
terminal illness, female protagonist, family drama, motherhood, breast cancer, bittersweet, life & death, sacrifice, acceptance, empathy, slice of life, cooking and food ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When her mother gets sick, 13-year-old Fen moves back to Taiwan, where she struggles to fit in amid the 2003 SARS epidemic.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, tense, semi autobiographical, period drama
Plot:
coming of age, breast cancer, mother daughter relationship, illness, female protagonist, adolescence, family drama, epidemic, youth, identity, teenage angst, family conflict ...
Place:
taiwan, taipei, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The lives of a breast-cancer patient and a researcher who is trying to prove a genetic link to cancer intersect in a groundbreaking study.
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot:
genetics, coping, hopes, dysfunctional family, human spirit, optimism, inventions and discoveries, terminal illness, cancer, couples, genetic engineering, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1950
Place:
usa, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
Style:
sexy, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
couple relations, dysfunctional marriage, power relations, stalking, sexual relations, female masturbation, sex, surrealism, erotica, photograph, sexual blackmail, pink film ...
Place:
japan, europe, asia, italy, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Paris, 1981. The winds of change are blowing on election night and the French storm the streets, elated. But Élisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) struggles to share the general mood of optimism. Her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
sex scene, junkie, unrequited love, swimming pool, women, teenage sex, frustration, boredom, sadness, fall in love, wanderer, young man ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, year 1984, year 1981
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story:
Known for her distinctive storytelling and offbeat sense of humor, Tig Notaro often draws on her highly personal experiences with no-holds-barred honesty. Over the course of her one-hour show, Notaro tells stories about a number of subjects, ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, captivating, satirical, humorous ...
Plot:
female comedian, deadpan, honest, honesty, live performance, storytelling, stand up comedian, satire, comedian, irony, social satire, public speaking ...
Place:
boston, mississippi
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