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TV Shows & Series: Best "terminal illness" TV Shows/Series


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Run for Your Life(1965-1968)

1h per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.

Breaking Bad(2008-2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| Drama, Crime
4.5/5 (with 6,525 votes)

When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's financial future at any cost as he enters the dangerous world of drugs and crime.

Radiant Office(2017)

1h per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Ho Won is a young woman who struggles to find a steady job. Tired and hopeless, she attempted suicide. Hospital check-up discovers she might have terminal illness. Soon after, a furniture company accepts her as a contract worker. Faced with a possibility of dying, Ho Won decides to just let herself loose. Her newfound bold attitude puts her at odds with her workaholic manager Woo Jin.

Sick Note(2017-2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 25min per episode | Comedy, Crime
3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

When Daniel Glass is misdiagnosed with a fatal disease he begins to notice how everyone around him treats him better. But then he finds out he was misdiagnosed by the most incompetent oncologist on Earth and now he has a big decision to make: come clean and go back to his old rubbish life, or keep pretending to be ill.

Love, Now(2012-2013)

43min per episode | Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Love, Now is a 72 episode Taiwanese idol romance drama television series created and developed by SETTV. It stars Annie Chen, George Hu as the main leads and Bobby Dou, Harry Chang from Taiwanese band Da Mouth and Vivi Lee as the supporting leads. The drama is set to debut on SETTV and ETTV on 31 October 2012. It ended its last episode on 5 March 2013 with 72 episodes

With Annie Chen, George Hu, Bobby Dou, Harry Chang, Vivi Lee, Esther Yang, ...

Living Towards the Sun(2020-)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

It is based on the story of young cartoonist Xiong Dun who encounters double setbacks in love and the workplace. In the face of adversity, she bravely fights her illness and spreads positivity with her infectious smile. Xiang Yang is a carefree young woman who comes to Beijing to fulfill her dreams of becoming a manhua artist. After persuading her family and finally finding a job and a house, Xiong Dun settles down in Beijing. Life may be hard but Xiang Yang is surrounded by people that she loves. Unfortunately, life does not treat her kindly. Xiang Yang's boyfriend cheats on her and she experiences a setback in her career. Misfortunes come in threes as she starts to get sick. When her childhood friend forces her to go to the hospital for an examination, Xiang Yang learns that she has a tumor. From being unwilling and unable to accept her circumstances, Xiang Yang gradually finds the strength to live her life to the fullest.

Lo que callamos las mujeres(2013-2016)

25min per episode | Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Anthology series that deal with different stories of women, who must endure the abuses and injustices of life.

Doom at Your Service(2021)

1h 4min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
4.0/5 (with 207 votes)

A woman with only a short time to live and a man with the supernatural power to bring the world to an end discover the true meaning of life and love.

My Last Days(2012-)

45min per episode | Documentary

Documentary series about courageous people facing one of life's most difficult challenges: a terminal illness.

Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World(2004)

55min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 5 votes)

"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then.

The Last Goodbye to Mama(2021)

45min per episode | Kids & Family
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A story of hope and despair surrounding the lives of a mother and son from a small town in Subei. The 18-year-old Ding Xiao Jun who lives with his mother Ding Bi Yun has been admitted to a university in Beijing. However, as soon as he entered university, he is ridiculed by his classmates. Ding Xiao Jun starts to rebel until he gets a warning that he will no longer graduate. Luckily, his mother gets through to him in time for him to pull himself together and earn enough credits to graduate.

The Lost Tomb 2: The Wrath of The Sea(2019)

45min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

This drama is adaption of Kennedy Xu's novel series"Grave Robbers’ Chronicles". 50 years ago, a group of Changsha grave robbers dug out manuscripts of the location of treasures from Warring states, but an encounter with an undead rendered almost the whole group dead. In the present, the young grandchild of the sole survivor, Wu Xie, discovers a secret within his grandfather's notes. Together with his third uncle, Wu Sansheng, and a few other experienced tomb robbers, to search for the treasure. But what no one expected to find the intriguing mysteries that accompanied their tomb robbing adventure - just who was the owner of that tomb? Will they be able to find the real coffin? And just where will these puzzle lead the group?

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1 Litre of Tears(2005)

48min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
4.2/5 (with 61 votes)

1 Rittoru no Namida is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.

If There Is No Tomorrow(2020)

45min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
4.2/5 (with 6 votes)

If There Is No Tomorrow is a story for the underdogs about a man who tolerates as much as he can, yet things change when he discovers that he is terminal ill.

Thirty-Nine(2022)

1h 12min per episode | Drama
4.2/5 (with 20 votes)

Leaning on each other through thick and thin, a trio of best friends stand together as they experience life, love and loss on the brink of turning 40.

With Son Ye-jin, Jeon Mi-do, Kim Ji-hyun

Amor Fati(2021-)

35min per episode | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A divorcee with cancer and a penniless single father meet and heal their wounds with the help of each other. Do Yeon-Hee (Choi Jung-Yoon) is the only daughter-in-law of a family, who runs the Rara Group. She has a perfect life, but her husband cheats on her. Due to the other woman, Do Yeon-Hee’s life changes completely. Han Jae-Kyeong (Ahn Jae-Mo) used to be a professional golfer. To let his wife achieve her dream and support her while she studies abroad, he quit playing golf and became a golfing instructor at a practice facility. He raises his son by himself, while his wife is away. When his wife returns to South Korea, she asks him for a divorce.

Beautiful Life(2000)

51min per episode | Drama
4.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Kyoko, a young woman with an unhindered spirit despite being physically bound to a wheelchair due to illness, and Shuji, a stylish and popular fashion magazine hairstylist, are brought together in a fateful traffic incident. Despite their confrontational meeting, they soon find themselves falling in love, with Shuji drawn to her courage and enthusiasm and Kyoko attracted to his ability to look beyond her physical limitations and into her heart. However, Kyoko's protective older brother and her worsening condition begin to test the bounds of their love for each other and threaten to end their beautiful life together.

The One and Only(2021-2022)

1h 5min per episode | Drama
3.3/5 (with 8 votes)

A contract killer gets entangled with a murder case and three terminally ill women who have each decided to end the life of one person before they die.

With Kim Kyung-nam, Ahn Eun-jin, Joy, Kang Ye-won

More than Blue: The Series(2021)

45min per episode | Drama
3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

A man with a terminal illness seeks to help his beloved find a long-term partner.

With Fandy Fan, Gingle Wang, Wang Po-chieh, Ivy Shao, Figaro Tseng, Eleven Yao, ...

The Interpreter(2016)

45min per episode | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

She knows what she wants and is determined to go after it. Qiao Fei is a French postgraduate student who dreams of becoming a professional interpreter. Her mentor during her schooling in Paris is Cheng Jia Yang, the son of a foreign minister and a genius French interpreter. Their budding romance is complicated when Qiao Fei’s ex-boyfriend, Gao Jia Ming, happens to be Jia Yang’s adopted brother, and Jia Yang’s family thinks Wen Xiao Hua is much more suited for Jia Yang’s station in life. With the support of his friend, Wang Xu Dong, can Jia Yang stand up to his family and follow his heart?

With Yang Mi

The Hours of My Life(2014)

54min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family
3.9/5 (with 62 votes)

Your whole outlook on life can change in an instant. Takuto Sawada (Haruma Miura) is your average college student. But one day, he finds out that he has ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and only has a short time to live. How will he choose to spend the remaining days of his precious life?

A Song to the Sun(2006)

47min per episode | Drama
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Amane Kaoru lives a night life, not because she wishes so, but because she is infected with the xeroderma pigmentosum virus. This virus defects the ability to repair damage caused by the sun's rays. Although she cannot expose her body to the sunlight, she dreams of becoming a singer, even if remaining positive has been ruined many times due to her illness. One night, playing outside, she meets Fujishiro Kouji, who has lost his job and hope, and becomes someone who reminds him of his long forgotten music passion.

Sky of Love: Someone I love is there(2008)

48min per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 129 votes)

An ordinary senior high school girl named Mika meets Hiro, a showy boy with dyed hair and pierced ears. It is a "pure love" story of the two going through many unimaginably sad incidents while nurturing their love single-mindedly. It not only depicts the first love of the senior high school couple but also weaves "a story of Mika and Hiro" through episodes probably familiar to anybody, such as warmth and affection of their family members supporting the two, importance of living, interactions with friends, and so on.

The Package(2017)

1h per episode | Drama
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

A group of strangers meet as part of a sightseeing tour in France, but end up learning more about one another than the tourist spots that they visit.

Directed by Jeon Chang-geun, Kim Jin-won

Looking Up at the Half-Moon(2006)

25min per episode | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

During the winter, Yuichi was hospitalized due to hepatitis. Randomly he would try to escape from the hospital but would get beat up by the nurse. One day, he happened to meet Rika, a girl of his age, in the next building. He was fascinated by her beauty, but she was very selfish girl. Although she led him by the nose, he began to be attracted by her. However, when Rika told him about her illness, he knew why she acted so selfish; she didn't have long to live.

MIOKA –MY LAST DAYS WITH YOU–(2010)

54min per episode | Drama
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

One day, Taichi, an ordinary university student, meets Mioka, a girl who is like a storm. Taichi finds himself drawn to Mioka, who lives freely as she wishes without holding back, and they eventually fall in love. However, Mioka tells Taichi of her shocking truth. She has an incurable brain disease, with no medicine or treatment that can help her.

Silence(2006)

1h 30min per episode | Drama
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Silence is a 2006 Taiwanese drama starring Vic Chou of F4, Korean actress Park Eun-hye, Cantopop singer Andy Hui and Kingone Wang. It was produced by Comic Ritz International Production and Chai Zhi Ping and Hsiao Yi as producers and directed by Zhang Zhong It was first boardcasted in Taiwan on free-to-air China Television from 21 May 2006 to 24 September 2006, on Sundays at 22:00. It was also shown on cable TV Eastern Television.

Good Life: Thank You, Papa, Goodbye(2011)

54min per episode | Drama, Kids & Family

The basis for the drama is the novel “Kashikogi” by author Cho Chang-in, which has sold 2 million copies in Korea since its publication in 2000. It has already been adapted as a television drama and a stage play in that country. On February 4, Shogakukan is publishing the book in Japan under the title “Good Life.” Sorimachi plays the part of Daichi Sawamoto, a newspaper reporter who has always prioritized his work over his family. When his wife suddenly leaves him, he finally notices the love he has been receiving from his son. Just as he decides to answer back, it is discovered that his son has leukemia.

Money Crazy(2009)

47min per episode | Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Fuutarou has always lived in poverty and hated it. Because of his past he had become obsessed with money and will do anything to obtain it.

Directed by Yoshinori Wada

My Sunset Girl(2021)

31min per episode | Drama

A young woman pursues love and adventure despite her disease. Her world turns upside down when she discovers that her circumstances are born out of revenge and heartbreaks of the past.

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