Leukemia movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant leukemia movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, emotional, touching, serious, sentimental and sincere films and TV shows about / with leukemia, cancer, hospital, terminal illness, illness, death, coming of age, youth, doctor and bittersweet plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres shot in USA, Spain, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as leukemia: Cool Kids Don't Cry (2012), Swimming Upstream (2002), A Walk to Remember (2002), Johnny (2010), Ways to Live Forever (2010), My Sister's Keeper (2009), White as Milk, Red as Blood (2013), Scents and Sensibility (2011), Sweet November (2001), The Children Act (2017).
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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:
cancer, terminal illness, leukemia, youth, teenage love, life is a bitch, teenager, hopes, school, sick child, social relations, first kiss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, holland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This is a heart-wrenching story about a happy-go-lucky 17 year-old boy with a passion for life and love. Under his free spirit are problems that he must deal with. His mother died, his alcoholic father is unapproachable, and ...the biggest problem ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, poignant, reflective, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, cancer, family drama, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, friendship, mortality, adolescence, bittersweet, tragedy, grief, coming of age ...
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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:
romantic, touching, inspirational, sentimental, sad ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night, kids ...
Plot:
cancer, teenager, love story, opposites attract, fall in love, terminal illness, love and romance, teenage love, love, first love, youth, teen romance ...
Time:
year 2002, 1900s, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, southern usa, virginia
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Dr. Drew Carter tragically loses his ten-year old son in a car accident, he didn’t expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, his wife (Julia) has become emotionally absent towards him and their daughter. When Johnny, a ...
Style:
christian film, realistic, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
adoption, leukemia, terminal illness, doctor, family relations, cancer, family problems, child illness, religions or cults, unfulfillment, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the beautiful family home, at the end of the summer, Monique celebrates her 70th birthday, surrounded by her 4 children, all of whom have come for the occasion. There is Jean-Pierre, the elder, who took on the role of head of the family after the ...
Plot:
photograph, dancing, male masturbation, christmas, pregnant woman, theater, teacher, doctor, loss of brother, poem, leukemia, birthday ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, sad ...
Plot:
teenage life, friendship between boys, youth, child cancer, leukemia, friends, death, coming of age, best friend, human spirit, life is a bitch, child illness ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
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:
touching, sad, sentimental, heartbreaking, tear jerker ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
cancer, terminal illness, family drama, sisters, parenthood, lawyer, relationships, mother daughter relationship, sick child, life is a bitch, hospital, leukemia ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa, los angeles, montana
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Leo falls in love with Beatrice, a slightly older high-school student who has leukemia.
Style:
sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, psychological
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, love and romance, friendship, self discovery, youth, high school, leukemia, teenager in love, love story, mentally unstable, friends, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A twist on the classic Jane Austen novel.
Style:
rom com, realistic, serious, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
hopes, love affair, love triangle, eccentric family, family business, social differences, love and romance, estrangement, family relations, going straight, youth, wooing ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
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, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
love, love story, terminal illness, bittersweet, fall in love, life, tragic love, cancer, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, destiny ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, california, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
Style:
thought provoking, suspenseful, rough, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
judge, jehovah's witness, hospital, moral dilemma, illness, courtroom, religion, leukemia, marriage crisis, female judge, cancer, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
london, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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, black comedy ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, cancer, adolescence, friendship, terminal illness, teenager, coming of age, dying, leukemia, friends, teenage boy, illness ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
For some, the lives we have are not always the lives we wanted. For Joe, a small time guy from the small time town of Sandwich, Illinois, his has not even come close - until now. Faced with death and having recently met the girl of his dreams, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, romantic ...
Plot:
terminal illness, love affair, introspection, against the odds, best friend, life is a bitch, race against time, bittersweet, small town, male female relationship, dying, leukemia ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The movie portrays the story of an Italian family emigrated in Germany in the 1970s. Romano (Gigi Savoia), the father, decides to open a pizzeria which, by mutual decision with the wife Rosa (Antonella Attili), will call Solino, leaving his sons ...
Style:
humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
immigrant, restaurant, family business, fall in love, working class, society, brother brother relationship, sibling rivalry, love triangle, cheating, food, pizzeria ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 70s, 2000s, 60s
Place:
germany, italy, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
inspirational, emotional, uplifting, christian film, realistic ...
Plot:
golf, father daughter relationship, cancer, christian, family drama, courage, family bonds, resilience, coming of age, redemption, grief, sacrifice ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A religious organization interferes with the life of a terminally ill girl.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, spiritual ...
Plot:
child cancer, children, guardian angel, family relations, family problems, doctors and patients, family in crisis, hopes, youth, parents and children, life is a bitch, religion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany, Spain, Monaco
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A team of astronauts is sent to the moon to rescue an alien who is seeking help to save her dying race. They are attacked by a force of bandit robots and discover that enemy spies are out to kill the alien.
Style:
psychotronic, eurospy
Plot:
space opera, spacecraft, leukemia, astronaut, invasion, space adventure, robot, friendly alien, spaceship, human alien relationship, alien robot, outer space ...
Time:
1930s
Is relevant?
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, inspirational, sad, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
cancer, life & death, love story, love, forbidden love, leukemia, beautiful scenery, doctor, human nature, unfulfillment, parents and children, social differences ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
oakland california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, psychological horror, intense ...
Plot:
murder, yacht, leukemia, murder mystery, cruise, journalist, paranoia, investigation, isolation, danger, claustrophobia, survival ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
england, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
\When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle ...
Style:
christian film, inspirational, sentimental, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot:
christian, christianity, illness, faith, mother daughter relationship, medical, hospital, parent child relationship, sick child, child cancer, female protagonist, coping ...
Place:
boston
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young violinist with leukemia brings hope and life into a desolate Russian hospital for children. This film aims to raise awareness and funds to end childhood cancer, and is part of the project Let's Make a Difference.
Style:
emotional, heartfelt, tear jerker, bleak, uplifting
Audience:
adult
Plot:
leukemia, cancer, hopes, compassion, courage, resilience, classical music, family bonds, survival, families, christian, faith ...
Place:
russia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
WINTER is a dangerous, sexy, poignant and at times darkly funny story about two people who desperately want intimacy but have fashioned lives of reclusivity and emotional fracture which ultimately spells the doom of their great love. WINTER begins ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
dominatrix, couple relations, bdsm, man in a cage, male bondage, sex, looking for love, love and romance, hopes, starting over, couples, nursing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot:
sick child, hospital, friendship, nurse, boy, coming of age, child illness, terminal illness, wrestling, youth, human spirit, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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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:
sincere, captivating, disturbing, touching, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
illness, self discovery, leukemia, wish come true, fighting illness, angel, desire, time, introspection, wish fulfillment, lifestyle, sick child ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A 10-year-old boy starts to die of neglect when his widowed father spends too much time forsaking his parental duties in favour of playboy activities and a jet-set life-style.
Plot:
adolescent boy, coming of age, leukemia, friend, workaholic, lawyer, boarding school, travel, fear, father son relationship, beach, tiredness ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Father got leukaemia. Mother was laid off long ago. She had to borrow money for her husband everywhere. Sister went to a night club to be a waitress secretly and soon became a “call girl”. Lin was cold-shouldered at school because of father’s ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, realistic, art house, tragic
Plot:
leukemia, family drama, illness, mother son relationship, poverty, financial difficulty, coming of age, teenage protagonist, desperation, empathy, loss, social realism ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Un hombre enfermo de leucemia busca desesperadamente un donador de médula.
Style:
dramatic, emotional, melancholic, psychological, medical drama ...
Plot:
mental illness, leukemia, cancer, family drama, illness, family secret, relationships, family conflict, fashion, secrets, confrontation, intimate ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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, realistic, serious, sincere, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
journalist, cancer, dying, lesbian, coping, workplace romance, female protagonist, fighting illness, life turned upside down, love and romance, workplace, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, massachusetts, boston
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced ...
Style:
emotional, poignant, melancholic, sad, contemplative ...
Plot:
cancer, drug addict, terminal illness, death, dying, mortality, family relations, empathy, child protagonist, character study, grief, addiction ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of ...
Style:
gothic, feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, unlikely couple, friends, age difference, intergenerational friendship, teenage life, human nature, workplace, follow your dream, odd couple, youth, sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
albuquerque new mexico, new mexico
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