When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a single wish—to go to a Swiss nursing home for euthanasia. But in order to get there, he needs a volunteer escort.
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant...
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit countr...
Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with ...
After returning home from the war, Vietnam veteran Julius Vrooder resides in a veteran's hospital, w...
Abigail, a divorced mother of two, is struggling to balance the dynamics within her dysfunctional fa...
A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing.
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who st...
In this film, the wife of a renowned doctor becomes ill with multiple sclerosis. Trying to spare her...
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for he...
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing test...
Euthanizer tells the story of a mechanic who euthanises sick and old pets as a side job. Despite the...
When John Halder's latest novel is enlisted by powerful political figures in the Nazi party to push ...
A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. ...
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Ea...
Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look...
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life toge...