I en nær fremtid bliver menneskeheden ramt af sterilitet. Jordens yngste borger dør i en alder af 18, og den totale udryddelse er lige om hjørnet. Sekter og dommedagsprofeter hærger London, og den desillusionerede bureaukrat og tidligere fredsaktivist Theo ser ikke mere lyst på tilværelsen. Alligevel indvilliger han i at hjælpe, da en gravid kvinde på mirakuløs vis dukker op. En kvinde som bestemt ikke alle ønsker skal overleve.
Den succesrige, homoseksuelle advokat Andrew Beckett bliver fyret af et prestigefyldt advokatfirma på trods af, at han netop er blevet forfremmet. Cheferne begrunder fyringen med, at han er inkompetent. Imidlertid er han sikker på, at den virkelige årsag er, at de har opdaget, at han har aids, og han sagsøger derfor firmaet for diskrimination.
Kay kan ikke få sin bog færdig og derfor er både hendes forlægger og fans er utålmodige. Hendes hovedperson Harold er en desillusioneret embedsmand, der underligt nok viser sig også at være en virkelig person, der er stærkt plaget af en mytisk fortæller stemme inde i sit hoved. Da Kay beslutter at gøre det af med sin hovedperson, forsøger Harold samtidig at opspore kilden til den mærkelige stemme.
Bob Hightower er lederen af en gruppe forbrydere, der røver en bank i Arizona og flygter gennem ørkenen med sheriffen i hælene. Under en slem sandstorm, hvor de mister deres heste, opdager de en kvinde i fødsel. Hun dør under fødslen, men får dem til at love, at de vil tage sig af barnet og bringe det i sikkerhed. De drager derfor, i bagende solskin, mod New Jerusalem.
Journalisten Robert Torres (Dougray Scott) bliver bedt om at skrive en bog om den kanoniserede præst Josemaria Escriva, der grundlage Opus Dei organisationen. Det går op for Torres, at hans far, som han ellers ikke taler med, kendte præsten da han var yngre. De var født i samme by og gik endda i skole sammen. Filmen går tilbage til 1911 og til den spanske borgerkrig, hvor kimen til de to mænds skæbner blev lagt.
En comedy-forfatter fra New York forsøger, trods store kærestesorger, at være tapper og tage sig af sin døende mor i Sacramento.
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', middle-aged Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. His ex-wife, Louise, asks their estranged son, Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the Canadian healthcare system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while reuniting some of Remy's old friends, including Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude, who return to see their friend before he passes on.
A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girl friend, declines but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.
A dying woman wishes to see her family through the good times and the bad times she will miss.
A couple's marriage gets tainted as the husband cheats. How can the wife take her husband's dying plea to be with her and his mistress at the remaining days of his life?
A shallow Broadway press agent learns he is dying just as his son by his ex-wife arrives for a visit.
Janneke has been working as a volunteer in palliative terminal care for over twenty years, both in the hospice and in people's homes. In The Night Watchman we see Janneke both in her daily life and while waking. Scenes in which surprising parallels and paradoxes show Janneke's position in her life and how they seem to embrace death at first sight.
This animated short film attempts to answer the eternal questions, What is dying? and How does it feel? Based on recent studies, case histories and some of the ancient myths, the afterlife state is portrayed as an awesome but methodical working-out of all the individual's past experiences. Film without words.
A young Iowa schoolteacher, thinking she is dying of leukemia, goes to San Francisco, where she hires a mob killer to take her life. However, she soon changes her mind, and with the help of the local police, tries to find the killer before he fulfills his part of the bargain.
This film is about the experience of dying. Five terminal patients in a Palliative Care Unit share the last days of their lives and deaths with a film crew.
A drama about Gavin, a recovering alcoholic, who ends up in a strangely familiar bar.
Some 70 years after Jacob Burkitt snapped and killed his entire family, thrill-seeking teens crash the allegedly haunted Burkitt Manor to give their friend Sara (Adrienne Fischer) a spooky surprise for her 18th birthday. But as the night drags on -- and her friends start dying off, one by one -- Sara begins to realize that an unspeakable evil is throwing her a killer party. Alicia Kenney and Oliver Lucach co-star.
The owner of a fetish club finds out that, along with dealing with his wife who wants to leave him, his dying father, and the city wanting to close his club, he now has to deal with a psycho killer that's offing his employees and patrons.
Portrait of the last year of the life of famous New York drag queen Consuela Cosmetic.
Liam White's career has peaked—to put it kindly. Uninspired and burnt-out, the titular character loses his will to finish his next novel and even shirks his public appearance commitments. To top it all off, Liam is told by his oncologist that his cancer has returned. Resigned to the fact that his life will soon come to an end, he begins a journey of reflection as he comes to grips with his life thus far and the people who shaped him, for better and worse.