Australia is well behind the Western world in organ and tissue donor rates, causing immense suffering for those awaiting organs, while donors inspire us with their gift of life.
Ryu è un ragazzo sordomuto che, per pagare le cure della sorella malata, cerca di vendere un rene: truffato dai trafficanti di organi, su consiglio della sua ragazza Yeong-mi organizza il rapimento della figlia dell'uomo che l'ha licenziato. Per un incidente, la bambina muore affogata, ed il padre, Park Dong-jin, dà la caccia a Ryu e Yeong-mi per vendicarsi.
Two couples who can't stand each other need to become friends. Because this is their only chance for a life-saving organ donation.
Three stories about persons forced to think about the ethics and moral issues raised by medical advances.
Dopo che una rapina andata male al banco dei pegni, due criminali si nascondono in una fattoria isolata. Ma lì troveranno qualcosa di molto più minaccioso.
A brain-dead youth's family agrees to donate his heart to a girl who needs an immediate heart transplant. A disparate group of people decide to complete this task by racing against time.
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.
Il dottor Wilde ha usato il corpo di Marvin Mange per uno strano esperimento; trasformare un essere umano in uno zoo ambulante.Marvin si ritrova così a passare dal sedentario lavoro di archivista della polizia alla mobilità disinvolta di numerose specie animali assemblate in un solo corpo. Si arrampica come una scimmia e nuota come un delfino. Rob Schneider, noto negli Usa per le sue performance al "David Letterman Show" e al "Saturday Night Live" si mette al servizio di questo Dottor Doolitle al contrario. Lui non parla con gli animali, 'è' una serie di animali. E' il classico film imperniato su un attore che, a quanto si dice, faceva ridere innanzitutto la troupe durante le riprese.
Stu Miley, un brillante disegnatore che ha raggiunto il successo creando il personaggio della scimmietta Monkeybone, è innamorato di Julie e sta per sposarla quando subisce un banale incidente ed entra in coma. Si trova così intrappolato a Morfeolandia, luogo di sosta tra il mondo dei vivi e quello dei trapassati; ma Monkeybone, con uno stratagemma, riesce a tornare sulla Terra al suo posto...
When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
The film explores the subject of organ donation through the lens of transplant coordinators, highlighting their role in the process of organ donation, retrieval and transplantation.
Director Penny Lane’s decision to become a “good Samaritan” by giving one of her kidneys to a stranger turns into a funny and moving personal quest to understand the nature of altruism. “Confessions of a Good Samaritan” is a provocative inquiry into the science, history, and ethics of organ transplantation, asking an ancient question in a whole new way: Who is your neighbor, and what do you owe them?
Pat Spurgeon is a professional musician whose dreams of being in a successful rock 'n' roll band have come true. But just as his band, Rogue Wave, starts to take off, his kidney starts to fail. "D tour" chronicles the life of a musician with "no back-up plan" as he's faced with daily dialysis, a grueling tour, and a search for a new kidney.
The life stories of four families who were confronted with organ donation or transplantation issues. With humility and great generosity, the characters reveal to us the suffering, feelings, happiness that have surrounded these exceptional moments.
Desperate for money, Lizette pursues the dark and thankless world of organ donation, hoping for a better life.
What lies beyond the art of giving and receiving? Ellie, a liberal Democrat and kind-hearted masseuse, decides she wants to share the gift of life with a stranger. Five hundred miles away, Kathy loses hope of receiving a transplant until she hears from Ellie. Over the course of four years, both women face unexpected challenges.
In the distant future, the gap between rich and poor has become immeasurable. Wealthy enclosures like Parkland, home of medical pioneer Dr. Roland Parker, are home to few. With medical technology, Parkland's rich are able to buy their immortality through organs from the poor. When Detective Quinn is assigned to capture an escaped donor from his slum, he unknowingly becomes a donor for Parker. As his days alive diminish, Quinn races to expose a conspiracy fueled by the murder of innocent people.