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1) Our friend
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Journalist Matt, his vibrant wife Nicole and their two young daughters, have their lives upended by Nicole's heartbreaking diagnosis of terminal cancer. As Matt's responsibilities as caretaker and parent become increasingly overwhelming, the couple's best friend Dane Faucheux offers to come and help out. As Dane puts his life on hold to stay with his friends, the impact of this life-altering decision proves greater and more profound than anyone could...
2) The hero
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A former Western icon re-evaluates his life, his image and more importantly his heart after a surprise diagnosis.
3) Last holiday
Language
English
Description
Georgia Byrd is a department store employee who leads a life of frustrated desires. She particularly likes the bashful salesman from the outdoor furnishings department. But when she learns she only has a few weeks left to live, Georgia gathers her money, quits her job, and flies to the swank European resort she's always dreamed of visiting. Naturally, her new carelessness with money and fearless candor lead everyone around her, including a senator...
4) Beaches
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Two childhood friends are reunited in their middle age and one learns she is dying of a fatal disease.
5) Big fish
Language
English
Formats
Description
William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward - outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Richard, a buttoned-down college lecturer, who after learning he has six months to live, transforms into a rebellious party animal. To the shock of his wife and school chancellor, and the delight of his students, Richard leads a hilarious crusade against authority and hypocrisy in this dark comedy.
9) Self/less
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
10) Here and now
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Follows a singer in New York City after she receives a bleak medical diagnosis and struggles to process the news while preparing for a local performance and encountering family, friends, and colleagues.
11) Babyteeth
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When gravely ill teenager Milla falls deeply in love with petty drug dealer Moses, it's her parents' worst nightmare. But as Milla's first encounter with love brings her a new lust for life, things get difficult and traditional morals go out the window. Milla soon shows everyone in her circle, her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a promising child violinist, and a charmingly honest pregnant neighbor, how to live like there is nothing to...
12) South of Heaven
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release he vows to give his girlfriend Annie, who is dying of cancer, the best last year of her life. But when Jimmy gets into a freak accident that puts him in the crosshairs of local crime boss Whit Price, he must stop at nothing to save Annie and fight for whatever time they have left.
13) Wish man
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After surviving a near-fatal accident and being framed for police brutality, a man's whole world falls apart. Unexpectedly, he finds hope in the shape of a terminally ill boy, who reunites him with his father after 28 years. To honor the boy, he creates the Make-A-Wish Foundation.
14) Amulet
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Tomaz is a homeless former soldier who takes refuge in the decaying home of Magda, a lonely young woman in desperate need of help as she cares for her ailing mother. At first hesitant, Magda soon welcomes Tomaz into their lives. But as he gets closer to and begins to fall for Magda, Tomaz notices strange and unexplainable phenomena. Something seems very wrong with the mysterious old woman who never leaves the top floor, and Tomaz begins to suspect...
15) Living
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
An ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful after receiving a terminal diagnosis.
16) Then came you
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A hypochondriac who works as an airport baggage handler must face his fears when a terminally ill teenager asks him to help her carry out her eccentric bucket list.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Austin and Julie Locke are devastated when they receive news that their young son, Dax, has been diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. With courage, determination and faith, they decide to give their beloved boy a joyful, final Christmas-in October. When the community learns the heartbreaking truth, what happens next is a miraculous outpouring of caring and support that stretches beyond the neighborhood and around the world.
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 71
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Vanessa Marks returns to her hometown library to read to children the book that she wrote, "November Christmas." The book is about her serious illness as a child and how her family and community teamed up to move Halloween to August and Christmas to November to help her.
20) Somebody's child
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A divine twist of fate causes Constance Rivers (Lynn Whitfield) and her son Douglas (Michael Jai White) to open their hearts to ex-convict, Benjamin Sparks (Byron Minns). While on the brink of losing her battle with kidney disease, Constance's near death confession causes her past and present to instantly collide. SOMEBODY'S CHILD is a heartwarming story about a son losing hope, a mother gaining faith, and God's divine and perfect plan.
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