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1) Mirror
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Russian
Description
In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before the eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director2s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal...
2) Tucked
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When veteran, 74-year-old drag queen Jackie Collins receives a diagnosis with six weeks left to live, all he wants to do is perform his long-running act, and behave as if all is normal. But between a surprising new friendship with a rising young queen called Faith and unfinished business with his estranged daughter, he may just have the most eventful month and a half of his life.
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
On a mission to rid society of its most repellent citizens, terminally ill, recently divorced and fired, Frank makes an unlikely accomplice in 16-year-old high school student Roxy, who shares his sense of rage and disenfranchisement and together they embark on a nation-wide assault on our country's dumbest, most irritating reality show and phony celebrities.
4) The Hero
Publisher
The Orchard
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lee Hayden (Sam Elliot) is a Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories with his former co-star-turned-drug dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter,...
5) Our friend
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
8) Living
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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.
10) Amulet
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment, Magnet
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Based on his own novel Metaphysics, Lech Majewski crafts intimate passion plays and creates "a luminous, highly erotic treatise on art, love and death" (Chicago Reader). When a terminally-ill art historian meets an engineer, it is love and lust at first sight. But their love is threatened by her looming illness. With her remaining days on earth numbered, she chooses to fan the flames of her obsession by taking her lover on a trip to Venice, where...
Author
Publisher
New Directions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife, Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy, who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
13) Ikiru
Series
Criterion collection volume 221
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
日本語
Appears on list
Description
A young Japanese businessman dying of cancer wants to give something back to society before his death, so he decides to build a playground for children.
14) Liz in September
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Based on the classic lesbian play, Last Summer at Bluefish Cove, the gorgeous drama Liz in September stars Latina lesbian supermodel Patricia Velasquez as Liz, a hardcore party girl and womanizer. Liz (who is ill) and her friends are at a beach resort celebrating what they don't realize could be her last birthday. When an outsider joins the party, Liz's friends dare her to seduce the newcomer - and nothing turns out as expected.
15) Dark victory
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Judith Traherne, a dying heiress, is determined to find happiness in her few remaining months.
17) Bigger than life
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a friendly, successful suburban teacher and father is prescribed cortisone for a painful, possibly fatal affliction, he grows dangerously addicted to the experimental drug, resulting in his transformation into a psychotic and ultimately violent household despot. "This Eisenhower-era throat-grabber, shot in expressive CinemaScope, is an excoriating take on the nuclear family. That it came in the day of Father Knows Best makes it all the more shocking...
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