Film Medical Theme: Cancer

Life as a House

Language : English

Year : 2001

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mary Steen burgen, Jena Malone, Hayden Christensen

Story Line : Kevin stars as George, an architect. George suddenly loses his job and discovers that he's terminally ill too. Attempting to reconnect with his estranged and troubled son, Sam, George spends summer, building his dream house. In the process he is able to rebuild his relationship with his son.

Maternal Instincts

Language : English

Year : 1996

Medical Theme : Cancer/Mental Imbalance

Actors : Delta Burke, Beth Broderick, Garwin Sanford, Sandra Nelson

Story Line : Dr. Eva Warden has a patient,Tracy, whose dying wish is to become a mother.Eva performs a surgery on Tracy, only to find out that she has cancer and to save her life she'll have to do a hysterectomy. When she comes to consciousness, she is very angry with the doctor and she takes revenge on her doctor.

Our Time is Up

Language : English

Year : 2004

Medical Theme : cancer

Actors : Kevin Pollak, Frankie J. Allison, Vivian Bang, Michael Comacchia, Mathew Frauman

Story Line : When a therapist Dr.Leonard Stem discovers that he has six weeks to live, he adopts a fresh method of treatment.

Stepmom

Language : English

Year : 1998

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon,Ed Harris,Jena Malone

Story Line : Jackie and Luke are husband and wife,with two kids. Both have fallen out of love and the father is marrying a younger woman. Isabel, a successful photographer who loves her work and does not plan to give up. But when Jackie is diagnosed with cancer, it changes everybody's life.

Sleepless in Seattle

Language : English

Year : 1993

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger

Story Line : The film is about a man Sam Baldwin, who has lost his wife to cancer and trying to make a fresh start to life with his son in Seattle. The son Jonah, eight Years old calls in on a Nation wide radio show and finds new mother in Annie.

See Dick Die

Language : English

Year : 1999

Medical Theme : Cancer/Euthanasia

Actors : Kendra Jaymes, Shannah Laumeister, Jo Marr, Brett Tabor

Story Line : Karen wants to leave her husband for 'another woman', Monica, a former drug addict. Meanwhile, Karen learns that her husband is terminally ill and feels obliged to stay with him. Dr.Schreck helps Ricky to end his life on his birthday and interferes in two women's lives and their inheritance.

Soft Fruit

Language : English

Year : 1999

Medical Theme : Cancer/Artificial Insemination

Actors : Jeanie Drynan, Linal Haft, Sacha Horler

Story Line : For the first time in 15 Years, all four siblings in a family show up to care for their dying mother, who is only given a couple of weeks to live. The four try to fulfill their mother's last wishes.

The Doctor

Language : English

Year : 1991

Medical Theme : Throat Cancer/ Doctor

Actors : William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin,
Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo, Wendy Crewson, Bill Macy, J.E. Freeman

Story Line : It is a story of a Doctor who suffers from throat cancer and realizes that there is more to life than medicine and profession. He starts liking a cancer patient and his outlook towards life changes from arrogance to one of understanding.

The Bucket List

Language : English

Year : 2007

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Rowena King, Rob Morrow,Beverly Todd,Morgan Freeman, Jack Nicholson, Alfonso Freeman

Story Line : Jack and Morgan star as two terminally ill cancer patients who decide to breakout of the hospital and live their last days to the fullest.

Terms of Endearment

Language : English

Year : 1983

Medical Theme : Terminal Illness-Cancer

Actors : Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny De Vito

Story Line : Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. The movie covers several Years of their lives as each finds different reasons for living. Debra Winger suffers from terminal illness.

The Red Cell

Language : English

Year : 2007

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Janet Green, Chris Schwartz, Donovan Schwartz

Story Line : A terminally ill patient wakes up in a dark, underground chamber. An I V pumps an unknown liquid into his body. He hasn't informed his close associates about his illness before which he has been held as a captive by a psychotic killer.

The Cancer

Language : English

Year : 2003

Medical Theme : Cancer/Mystery Disease

Actors : Theodore Cahn, Marybeth Gorman, Ed Miller

Story Line : While investigating a suicide, a detective unravels a bizarre conspiracy involving a fifty Year old military mission and the answer to life itself, ultimately leading mankind toward his own genocide.

Two Weeks

Language : English

Year : 2006

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Sally Field, Ben Chaplin, Julianne Nicholson

Story Line : Four adult siblings gather at their dying mother's house in North Carolina for a quick, last good-bye to their mother. Instead, they find themselves trapped together for two weeks.

The Paper

Language : English

Year : 1994

Medical Theme : Cancer/Cesarean Section

Actors : Michael Keaton, Robert Duvall, Glenn Close

Story Line : Henry Hackett is a workaholic Editor for a New York City tabloid. Henry's wife is pregnant and Henry is pressurized to spend more time with her.

Twilight

Language : English

Year : 1998

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman

Story Line : A retired ex-cop and private detective, who lives with a rich actor who is dying from cancer and his actress wife, gets mixed up in murder when he's asked to deliver blackmail money. He walks into a 20 Year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of the actress's former husband.

Wit

Language : English

Year : 2001

Medical Theme : Ovarian Cancer

Actors : Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Jonathan M. Woodward, Audra McDonald, Eileen Atkins, Harold Pinter

Story Line : A literature professor is hospitalized for treatment of ovarian Cancer. She bravely endures eight grueling rounds of Chemo therapy by taking shelter under meta physical poetry( especially John Donne's)

Walking and Talking

Language : English

Year : 1996

Medical Theme : Alzheimer's Disease/Cancer

Actors : Amy Braverman, Catherine Keener, Anne Heche

Story Line : Things have been tough lately for Amelia. Her best friend moved out of the apartment, her cat got cancer, and now her best friend, Laura is getting married. She copes with things, with the help of Andrew, Frank, Laura and a brief romance with Bill "the ugly guy".

X-Files I want to believe

Language : English

Year : 2008

Medical Theme : Lung Cancer

Actors : David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet

Story Line : X-files is a movie presenting the horrific side of medical crimes all entangled in a chain of paranormal activities and hidden medical experiments run at the cost of man slaughter. FBI Agent Dana Scully fights her battle to treat a young boy suffering from Sandhoff disease whose caretakers unanimously agree on Euthanasia while Dana is all against it. On the other hand the abduction of an FBI agent demands the presence of FBI agent Moulder to help find these missing women at the cost of believing a psychic priest charged for abuse of 37 altar boys. The psychic visions of the priest suffering with Lung cancer helps the FBI agents to a shocking revelation of Human organs being stolen at the cost of innocents being murdered for Years. Worse, these organs are used to keep the culprit Tomczeszyn alive. The missing agent was abducted to have her head beheaded and transferred to Tomczeszyn which fails as Moulder and Scully reach the crime scene and save the agent. X-file is a spool of science against faith constantly revolving around the concept “don’t give up”.

Knocking on Heaven's Door

Language : English

Year : 1997

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : HuubStapel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Til Schweiger, Theirry Van Werveke, Jan Josef Liefers

Story Line : Two terminally ill patients leave their hospital beds for the open highway. When cancer victim Rudi meets Martin, who has a brain tumor, they decide to head North to experience life at the seashore. However, the car they have stolen belongs to two thieves and contains a million Marks and so they are pursued by both cops and the thugs.

Forbidden World

Language : English

Year : 1982

Medical Theme : Cancer/Genetic Experiment

Actors : Jesse Vint, Dawn Dunlap, June Chadwick

Story Line : On planet Xarbia, an experimental life form, Subject 20, has been created by an elite group of researchers in hopes of preventing a galactic food crisis. However, when Subject 20 becomes deadly, the best trouble shooter in the Galaxy is called into investigate.

Erin Brockovich

Language : English

Year : 2000

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart

Story Line : The film Erin Brockovich is a true story of a woman whose name is also the same as the film’s title. Erin is a single mother, with three children and without a job to run her family. It is under these circumstances she injures her neck in a car accident and while filing for a lawsuit, she gets to know Edward Masry, a successful lawyer. Masry hires Erin to work for him and soon she goes on to prove her worth by involving herself in various aspect of the firm’s activities and now Erin comes to know about how PG&E has polluted Hinkley’s (a small town) water supplies with hexavalent chromium and how the company has also successfully managed to keep the whole issue very quiet. Erin also comes to know about many people in the town who are affected by cancer and other serious illness, because of the toxic waste PG&E has polluted the town’s water supply with. So she decides to take on PG&E legally with the support of her boss, in what would become one of the biggest lawsuits in the history of the American legal system.

Evita

Language : English

Year : 1996

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Madonna, Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce

Story Line : The film is based on the true story of Argentina's most controversial First Lady, Eva Peron(1919-1952). She starts out life as a poor girl and goes on to become an actress and then becomes the wife of the President of Argentina Juan Peron. Evita suffers from Cancer which she keeps a secret and dies at he age of 33, resulting in hysterical mourning in Argentina.

Counting Days

Language : English

Year : 2000

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Brian Young, Gladys Jimenez, David Povall, Alexa Robbins

Story Line : Ray, a cab driver, views the world to be as lost as the passengers he picks up. Contact with his brother, Dr.Tom McCarmac(Peter Neil Lincoln) and father is non-existent. Tom's world takes a turn when he finds out that his father is dying of cancer. In an effort to bring the family together before his father's death, Tom decides to reach out to Ray who was the "black sheep"of the family. Ray is introduced to the Rev.John Santos, a family counselor.

A little Kiss

Language : English

Year : 2006

Medical Theme : Lung cancer / Dementia

Actors : Reza Kianian, Jameshid Mashayekhi,Hedye Tehrani, Fatemeh Mohamed Arya

Story Line : It's a story about the reunion and blossoming friendship of two lost souls during their final days. Jamshid is contemplating suicide in the shadow of impending lung cancer. Reza a writer from Iran is suffering from dementia. Both meet and share their grief while death looms large.

A Message from Holly

Language : English

Year : 1992

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Molly Orr, Lindsay Wagner, Shelly Long, Cotter Smith

Story Line : Free spirited artist Lindsay Wagner learns that she's dying from cancer. She can handle that but she worries about the future of her six Year old daughter Molly Orr.

A Walk to Remember

Language : English

Year : 2002

Medical Theme : Cancer

Actors : Peter coyote, Daryl Hannah, Shane West, Lauren German, Mandy Moore

Story Line : Landon Carter is the high school student. Landon seeks help from Jamie Sullivan to help a fellow student who is paralyzed in an accident. Later both fall in love.

Man on the Moon

Language : English

Year : 1999

Medical Theme : Lung Cancer

Actors : Jim Carrey, Gerry Becker, Leslie Lyles, Budd Friedman

Story Line : A film about the life and career of an eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman. The film studies Kaufman's comedy antics as well as his personal life and his relationship with his manager George Shapiro, his best friend Bob Zmuda and his girl friend Lynne Margulies.