Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keywords "dying", "patient"

1. The English Patient (1996)

R | 162 min | Drama, Romance, War

At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin Scott Thomas

Votes: 201,439 | Gross: $78.65M

2. Awakenings (1990)

PG-13 | 121 min | Biography, Drama

The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.

Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson

Votes: 159,046 | Gross: $52.10M

3. 21 Grams (2003)

R | 124 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston

Votes: 246,041 | Gross: $16.29M

4. Breathe (I) (2017)

PG-13 | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The inspiring true love story of Robin and Diana Cavendish, an adventurous couple who refuse to give up in the face of a devastating disease.

Director: Andy Serkis | Stars: Andrew Garfield, Claire Foy, Hugh Bonneville, Ed Speleers

Votes: 24,712 | Gross: $0.49M

5. K-PAX (2001)

PG-13 | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet named K-PAX. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.

Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard

Votes: 193,191 | Gross: $50.34M

6. Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

An Oxford graduate takes up a job in a mental asylum, only to discover that the "revolutionary" new treatments are inhumane, and that there is more going on than meets the eye.

Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson

Votes: 60,452

7. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

R | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.

Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán

Votes: 104,838 | Gross: $16.78M

8. Madeline (1998)

PG | 88 min | Comedy, Family

Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.

Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer | Stars: Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne, Hatty Jones, Ben Daniels

Votes: 8,052 | Gross: $29.77M

9. Choke (2008)

R | 92 min | Comedy, Drama

A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.

Director: Clark Gregg | Stars: Sam Rockwell, Anjelica Huston, Kelly Macdonald, Kathryn Alexander

Votes: 33,631 | Gross: $2.93M

10. Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.

Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans

Votes: 13,928 | Gross: $0.57M

11. Dragonfly (2002)

PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A grieving doctor is being contacted by his deceased wife through his patients' near death experiences.

Director: Tom Shadyac | Stars: Kevin Costner, Susanna Thompson, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin

Votes: 39,989 | Gross: $30.32M

12. Ordinary Love (2019)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance

An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

Directors: Lisa Barros D'Sa, Glenn Leyburn | Stars: Lesley Manville, Liam Neeson, Esh Alladi, Melanie Clark Pullen

Votes: 5,256

13. Good (2008)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, War

John Halder, a German literature professor in the 1930s, is initially reluctant to accept the ideas of the Nazi Party. He is pulled in different emotional directions by his wife, his mother, his mistress, and a Jewish friend.

Director: Vicente Amorim | Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Jason Isaacs, Jodie Whittaker, Steven Mackintosh

Votes: 7,841 | Gross: $0.02M

14. Visiting Hours (1982)

R | 103 min | Horror, Thriller

A deranged, misogynistic killer assaults a journalist. When he discovers that she survived the attack, he follows her to the hospital to finish her off.

Director: Jean-Claude Lord | Stars: Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner

Votes: 4,845 | Gross: $13.26M

15. The Barbarian Invasions (2003)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.

Director: Denys Arcand | Stars: Rémy Girard, Dorothée Berryman, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée Croze

Votes: 30,045 | Gross: $3.43M

16. Swept from the Sea (1997)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

The story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy.

Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen, Kathy Bates

Votes: 3,613 | Gross: $0.28M

17. Washington Square (1997)

PG | 115 min | Drama, Romance

In this adaptation of the Henry James novel set in 19th-century New York City, a wealthy spinster with an overbearing father is pursued by a handsome fortune hunter who may be only after her money.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney, Maggie Smith, Ben Chaplin

Votes: 3,640 | Gross: $1.71M

18. Day of the Wacko (2002)

Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

24 hours in the bitter life of a frustrated divorced teacher who stays in the vicious circle of his numerous obsessions.

Director: Marek Koterski | Stars: Marek Kondrat, Janina Traczykówna, Andrzej Grabowski, Michal Koterski

Votes: 11,830

19. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The chronically suicidal Wilbur, and his good-hearted big brother, Harbour, are in their thirties when, their father dies and leaves them with nothing but a worn down second-hand bookshop in Glasgow.

Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Jamie Sives, Adrian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa McKinlay

Votes: 8,079 | Gross: $0.23M

20. Lackawanna Blues (2005 TV Movie)

PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Music

In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.

Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: S. Epatha Merkerson, Marcus Carl Franklin, Yasiin Bey, Carmen Ejogo

Votes: 2,551

21. All Mine to Give (1957)

Passed | 103 min | Drama, Family, Romance

An immigrant family in 1850's Wisconsin prospers until tragedy strikes.

Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: Glynis Johns, Cameron Mitchell, Rex Thompson, Patty McCormack

Votes: 1,578

22. Best Worst Movie (2009)

Not Rated | 93 min | Documentary, Comedy

A look at the making of the film Troll 2 (1990) and its journey from being crowned the "worst film of all time" to a cherished cult classic.

Director: Michael Paul Stephenson | Stars: George Hardy, Pita Ray, Micki Knox, Tommy Bice

Votes: 8,529 | Gross: $0.10M

23. Murderers Among Us (1946)

Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds an ex-soldier living in her apartment. Together the two try to move past their experiences during World War II.

Director: Wolfgang Staudte | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Elly Burgmer, Erna Sellmer, Hilde Adolphi

Votes: 2,548

24. A Brief Vacation (1973)

PG | 112 min | Drama, Romance

Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.

Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud, José María Prada

Votes: 982 | Gross: $0.66M

25. Close to Leo (2002 TV Movie)

Unrated | 88 min | Drama, Romance

When 21-year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+ family bonds are tested. The family decides that 11-year-old Marcel, the youngest, is ... See full summary »

Director: Christophe Honoré | Stars: Yaniss Lespert, Pierre Mignard, Marie Bunel, Rodolphe Pauly

Votes: 1,123

26. Julie Walking Home (2002)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Romance

A desperate mother (Miranda Otto) in the midst of a failing marriage travels to Poland in search of a mysterious man rumored to have miraculous healing powers in this fantastic romantic drama.

Director: Agnieszka Holland | Stars: Miranda Otto, William Fichtner, Lothaire Bluteau, Ryan Smith

Votes: 1,075

27. Hawks (1988)

R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

Two terminally ill patients in a hospital yearn for relief from their predicament. With little or no friends, they form an uneasy alliance and plot an escape for one last wild time.

Director: Robert Ellis Miller | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Anthony Edwards, Janet McTeer, Camille Coduri

Votes: 1,220

28. Happy (2012)

Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

Happy takes us on a journey from the swamps of Louisiana to the slums of Kolkata in search of what really makes people happy.

Director: Roko Belic | Stars: Marci Shimoff, Ed Diener, Richard Davidson, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Votes: 3,382

29. House of Fools (2002)

R | 104 min | Drama, Music, Romance

In the midst of the Chechen War, a remote psychiatric institution is left without staff leaving the patients to fend for themselves. Based on a true story.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Yuliya Vysotskaya, Sultan Islamov, Bryan Adams, Evgeniy Mironov

Votes: 2,905 | Gross: $0.06M

30. Monsieur Vincent (1947)

Not Rated | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.

Director: Maurice Cloche | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt, Lise Delamare

Votes: 995

31. Strange Relations (2001 TV Movie)

R | 106 min | Drama, Comedy

A 39 y.o. NYC Jewish shrink has leukemia. His mom tells him that he was adopted from a teen Catholic girl in Liverpool, UK. He visits his bio mom and finds that he has two brothers (bone marrow donor?).

Director: Paul Seed | Stars: Paul Reiser, Amber Sealey, Lachele Carl, George Wendt

Votes: 813

32. Lifebreath (1997)

R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller, Romance

A man plans a perfect murder to get a lung transplant for his dying wife.

Director: P.J. Posner | Stars: Luke Perry, Francie Swift, Gia Carides, Gary Basaraba

Votes: 384

33. Big Shot's Funeral (2001)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama

Yankie director Don Tyler faces mounting insecurity and declining health while on location in Beijing, so his assistant hires down-and-out camerman YoYo to take the reins. Scrambling, ... See full summary »

Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Rosamund Kwan, Paul Mazursky, You Ge

Votes: 2,410 | Gross: $0.00M

34. His Brother (2003)

92 min | Drama, Romance

Two brothers with a problematic relationship in the past, find together again when the elder one gets a dangerous disease and asks his brother to accompany him to several doctors.

Director: Patrice Chéreau | Stars: Bruno Todeschini, Éric Caravaca, Nathalie Boutefeu, Maurice Garrel

Votes: 1,982

35. $50K and a Call Girl: A Love Story (2014)

R | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

When Ross is diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given six weeks to live, his newly engaged older brother Seth offers to spend his $50,000 wedding fund on a final trip of a lifetime. ... See full summary »

Director: Seth Grossman | Stars: Ross Patterson, Jessie Wiseman, Seth Grossman, Lauren Aboulafia

Votes: 2,180

36. Maangamizi: The Ancient One (2001)

110 min | Drama

An American woman doctor comes to Tanzania to work at a hospital for the mentally disturbed, with her Tanzanian lover. There, she meets a sometimes catatonic patient, Samahe, who seems to ... See full summary »

Directors: Martin Mhando, Ron Mulvihill | Stars: Barbara O, Amandina Lihamba, Samahani Kejeri, Waigwa Wachira

Votes: 79

37. 75 (2017)

97 min | Crime, Drama

A crash victim, a housewife and two repressed teens are connected by hard-working therapist Viola, who helps them battle their addictions while two disillusioned detectives struggle with the mounting war against heroin in Cincinnati.

Director: Joe Zappa | Stars: Tifani Winkfield, Kip Bennett, Marcus B. Jackson, Shannon Faith

Votes: 60

38. Frozen (1996)

99 min | Drama

A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of ... See full summary »

Director: Xiaoshuai Wang | Stars: Hongsheng Jia, Xiaoqing Ma, Yu Bai, Geng Li

Votes: 306

39. On the Bridge (1992)

95 min | Documentary

A documentary of director Frank Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995.

Director: Frank Perry | Stars: Frank Perry, Lauren Bacall, Ohad Rossen, Barbara Walters

Votes: 41

40. Urine Aid (2017)

62 min | Documentary

URINE AID is a rare look into the controversial world of urine therapy. With documentation dating back to the ancient Egyptian Eber's papyrus in 3000BC, urine therapy is one of the oldest ... See full summary »

Director: Steven Williams | Stars: Moray Aitken, Andulairah, Anand Bapat, Canon James Brady

Votes: 35

41. Dokuritsu shônen gasshô-dan (2000)

129 min | Drama, Music

The lives of two orphan boys begin to intertwine when the choir and the feelings they share bring them closer to one another.

Director: Akira Ogata | Stars: Atsushi Itô, Sora Tôma, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryôko Takizawa

Votes: 255

42. Amoki (1927)

70 min | Drama

A drug-addicted doctor has in Africa isolated life. Once a pretty young married woman asks him to make an abortion. He'll agree only if she accepts his sexual offer. Woman refuses and leaves immediately.

Director: Kote Marjanishvili | Stars: Nato Vachnadze, Aleksandre Imedashvili, Valerian Gunia, Siko Palavandishvili

Votes: 42

43. Grandfather and Grandson (2019)

108 min | Drama

A troubled young doctor Nikola, is struggling to right himself after the death of one of his patients. The story is told through the eyes of Nikola, who is running away and he goes at his grandfather place in country side.

Director: Piperkoski Ilija | Stars: Refet Abazi, Salaetin Bilal, Daniela Ivanoska, Katerina Kocevska

Votes: 47

44. Still Visage (2022)

10 min | Short, Drama, Horror

While caring for her dying patient, a hospice nurse begins to suspect they're not alone.

Director: Ryan Stockstad | Stars: Darielle Deigan, Bobby Reed, Ryan Stockstad

45. Brain Death: Seven Critical Tests (1980)

18 min | Documentary, Short

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Director: Justin Milne | Star: John Dick

46. The Decalogue (1989–1990)
Episode: Dekalog, dwa (1989)

TV-MA | 59 min | Drama

A woman with a gravely ill husband and pregnant of her lover faces a dilemma: if her husband dies, she'll keep the baby; if not, she'll abort.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Krystyna Janda, Aleksander Bardini, Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Artur Barcis

Votes: 5,665

47. The Decalogue (1989–1990)
Episode: Dekalog, osiem (1989)

TV-MA | 56 min | Drama

A researcher meets a professor and reveals herself as the child to whom she refused to shelter during World War II.

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski | Stars: Maria Koscialkowska, Teresa Marczewska, Artur Barcis, Tadeusz Lomnicki

Votes: 3,674

48. Doctor Who (2005–2022)
Episode: New Earth (2006)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The Doctor and Rose arrive on New Earth and meet old friends and enemies in a hospital which can cure every disease. But the cures come at a terrible cost.

Director: James Hawes | Stars: David Tennant, Billie Piper, Camille Coduri, Noel Clarke

Votes: 8,003