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A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like The Life Peddler Starring Stan Houston, Tina Gloss, Michael Gordon, Peter Knox, and more. If you liked The Life Peddler then you may also like: 50/50, Until Forever, The Vatican Tapes, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, Wit and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
All hope is lost for Michael to keep his wife alive when Susan decides she's done fighting cancer and ends her chemotherapy treatments. That is until an old salesman offers him a mysterious box. The box can extend Susan's life using the memories embedded in the walls of their house. But Michael soon finds out that using the box comes with severe consequences.
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Until Forever
Until Forever: The Michael Boyum Story is a powerful, true account of one young man's courageous battle with leukemia and his journey of faith.
The Vatican Tapes
In a highly secured vault deep within the walls of Vatican City, the Catholic Church holds thousands of old films and video footage documenting exorcisms/supposed exorcisms and other unexplained religious phenomena they feel the world is not ready to see. This is the first tape - Case 83-G - stolen from these archives and exposed to the public by an anonymous source.
Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
Shortly after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Geralyn Lucas lands her dream job working for 20/20. Lucas is then diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 27 and has a dilemma - whether to have a lumpectomy or the potentially safer mastectomy.
Ordinary Love
An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Washed Away
After the death of her husband, a woman tries to get on with her life, but during a business trip she spots him alive and comes to realize that he faked his death.
Come and Find Me
When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be.
The Girl in the Park
A mother, enduringly traumatized by the disappearance of her three-year old daughter 15 years ago, has cut herself off from her ex-husband and son. However, when a troubled young woman with a checkered past enters her life, old psychic wounds painfully resurface, as does the illogical and increasingly irrational hope that the young woman may be the daughter she lost so long ago.
I'm Losing You
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
The Haunting in Connecticut
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's clairvoyant son Jonah served as a demonic messenger, providing a gateway for spiritual entities to crossover.
The River Niger
An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
Sweet November
Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.
That's Life!
A wealthy architect struggles with a severe case of male menopause at the approach of his 60th birthday.
Mum's List
The story of Singe and Kate, a couple from North Somerset, whose lives were turned upside down when Kate was diagnosed with an incurable breast cancer. Over her last few days, she created her list: writing her thoughts and memories down, to help the man she loved create the best life possible for their two sons, after she was gone.
Decoration Day
A cantankerous widower (Garner) who is virtually living the life of a recluse is forced to rejoin his community when his Godchild (Skaggs) gets in trouble and a childhood friend (Cobbs), a black tenant farmer, refuses to belatedly accept a Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in World War II.
The C-Word
The C Word is an adaptation of Lisa Lynch's inspiring and candid book, based on her blog, about her battle with cancer.
A Father for Brittany
Keith and Kim Lussier are a childless couple who are given custody of a 3-month-old foster child, Brittany. However, tragedy strikes when Kim dies of cancer in the middle of the adoption process, leaving Keith to fight for Brittany's custody alone.
The Heart of Christmas
Told in flashback from the perspective of Megan, the storyline unfolds when her commitment to faith and family is renewed after reading the blog of Julie Locke, the online journal that Julie kept after her 13 months old Dax was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
The Shadow Box
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death.
The Russell Girl
Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her loving family to share some important news, but instead finds herself attempting to finally confront a difficult period from her past.
What If God Were the Sun?
A grieving nurse finds comfort and inspiration in her new assignment, where she meets a terminally ill woman with a quick with and strong faith.
Two Against Time
This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.
Universe Zone
Misha, an idealist dreamer suffering from severe epilepsy, collects abandoned memories of lost ones. He believes “Love” can make miracles. In the only tavern of the abandoned town, which is aside by the Zone, other fellow smugglers mock Misha. However, Eva, a beautiful young woman with a maternal nature who works at the tavern, has a great admiration for Misha’s innocence. She seeks to enter the Zone with Misha in the hope to find her missing son Gabriel despite she has been told to accept the fact that he is gone forever. There are some rumours that dead people appeared alive in the Zone if they have been truly loved and missed.
Thanksgiving
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.
Living Proof
Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to look for ways to fund the medication.
The Reason
The film, based on the William Sirls book, follows a small-town pastor, his wife and their sick child as a mysterious man is sent to give them hope. Sirls adapted his book for the screen, writing the screenplay with Aviv Rubinstein and Richard Clark Jr.
Johnny
When Dr. Drew Carter tragically loses his ten-year old son in a car accident, he didn’t expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, his wife (Julia) has become emotionally absent towards him and their daughter. When Johnny, a terminally ill foster child with leukemia, is referred to Drew he sees a chance to heal his family. With Julia against the idea, Drew takes matters into his own hands and adopts Johnny. Johnny doesn’t know what he is in for, but believes he is here for a special mission.
Bound By a Secret
Two old friends who share a life-long secret are forced to face the truth—and its consequences—when one is diagnosed with a terminal illness and wants to put her affairs in order.
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Wife of an upscale business executive becomes pregnant and at the same time discovers she has cancer in her uterus. Treatment means terminating the pregnancy. Keeping the baby means her ultimate death. The couple take a second honeymoon in Bermuda to make decision and while on a boat trip she is taken by what appear to be the forces of the Bermuda Triangle. The husband vows to find her, amid accusations of foul play and consults the help of a charter boat captain and a frustrated scientist.
Respire
The Ancient Romans believed that the soul escaped one's body with the last breath. It was believed that last breath held the power to cure disease and prolong life. In 1930's, Dr. Robert Kaminsky devoted his life to finding out how to harness the power in the last breath. Susan Jordan owns a local novelty shop. One item in her shop, an antique box once owned by Doctor Kaminsky, draws the interest of two men: Raif Collins who hopes it's contents can save his dying sister, and Alex Poe whose motives are more mysterious. Susan quickly finds herself in a perilous struggle to protect the box and the secrets that it holds.
All hope is lost for Michael to keep his wife alive when Susan decides she's done fighting cancer and ends her chemotherapy treatments. That is until an old salesman offers him a mysterious box. The box can extend Susan's life using the memories embedded in the walls of their house. But Michael soon finds out that using the box comes with severe consequences.
A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like The Life Peddler Starring Stan Houston, Tina Gloss, Michael Gordon, Peter Knox, and more. If you liked The Life Peddler then you may also like: 50/50, Until Forever, The Vatican Tapes, Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, Wit and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.
50/50
Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.