Em 2022 a face da Terra está bem modificada. Em Nova York há 40 milhões de habitantes e o efeito estufa aumentou muito a temperatura, fazendo o calor ficar quase insuportável. Somente os ricos e poderosos têm acesso a comidas raras, como carnes, frutas e legumes. Quando um empresário das indústrias Soylent é assassinado em seu luxuoso apartamento, o detetive Robert Thorn é designado para investigar o caso.
Jack Kevorkian (Al Pacino) sempre defendeu que o ser humano tem o direito de morrer com dignidade, escolhendo a forma como deseja encerrar a vida diante de doenças terminais. Apoiado pelo amigo Neal Nicol (John Goodman) e por sua irmã Margo Janus (Brenda Vaccaro), ele passa a prestar uma "consultoria de morte". Desta forma, Jack ajudou em mais de uma centena de suicídios assistidos, o que lhe rendeu o apelido de Dr. Morte. Em seu trabalho ele ganha o apoio de Janet Good (Susan Sarandon), a presidente do Hemlock Society, e a ira dos promotores locais, que abrem um processo contra Jack. O responsável por defendê-lo na corte é Geoffrey Fieger (Danny Huston), que precisa lidar não apenas com o processo em si mas também com a cobertura da mídia ao julgamento.
O universo dos reality shows visto a partir da história de Adam Rogers, um homem narcisista e implacável, que tem como único propósito que seu programa seja o mais assistido da televisão. Em sua busca por audiência, Adam desenvolve um reality show impactante e inédito na TV, com regras rígidas e brutais, que levarão os participantes a ultrapassarem qualquer limite da ética e dos valores humanos para alcançarem seus objetivos.
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.
Camiel é um estudante de Odontologia, gay, filho de uma família conservadora do interior da Holanda. Em Amsterdã, ele é atropelado por Simon, um irreverente proprietário de um Coffee Shop. O acidente cria uma ligação entre esses dois homens de vidas tão diferentes.
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function normally. He arranges a party to reconnect and say goodbye to his closest friends and his confused parents. But when his ex-partner, Brandon, a television director who left Nick when he was diagnosed with HIV, shows up, what was supposed to be a celebratory event becomes much more difficult for everyone.
Two sides of the same country: a chaotic and violent city contrasting against a natural paradise where the oldest mountains on the planet can be found. Two main characters that find each other at a crucial moment. Two fearless journeys, one that begins as a childlike adventure and ends up on the other side of the country and a one-way journey, free and determined. The same destiny will inevitably bond a woman with her grandson. Without knowing it they are part of an unbreakable family circle that deeply unites them. Second opportunities will arise while individual freedom of choice will become imposing. Everything comes together to tell us: there is only one destiny, the one you choose for yourself.
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
Conheça a história real de Anne Turner. Diagnosticada com uma doença degenerativa, ela opta por cometer um suicídio assistido na esperança de mudar a cabeça e a lei do seu país quanto à eutanásia.
A terminally ill old lady who wants to die on her own terms convinces a self-destructive addict to help kill her, in exchange for clean urine.
Jac and Bill decide to end it all at the same time, together.
Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected bond, the two embark on a harrowing journey to confront their respective pasts, all while slowly realizing that they may not have to face their uncertain futures alone.
Is it ever rational to choose death? On Independence Day at Stern Ranch, 77-year-old solar energy pioneer Bob Stern finds out he’s seriously ill – possibly dying. Meanwhile, an elderly in-law is dying on artificial life support. Bob decides to cheat that fate and take his own life. His family tries to stop him. Bob sets up a video camera. Daughter Susan Stern explores “rational suicide,” the “right-to-die” and the difficult end-of-life choices faced by an aging population.
Two brothers, Paul and Elliot, embark on one last road trip together to Mammoth, California.
Rubén has three months to live or, probably, one year and a half with treatment. After a very complex process he decides to kill himself, before the cancer start showing symptoms. In "Translucido" we will be witnesses of his fate.
A documentary on assisted suicide, authored by actor and disability rights activist Liz Carr.
Sam is a sound technician, who must literally walk in the footsteps of the characters on the screen. A "film within a film" that connects the world of modern film-making to the Paris of painter Toulouse-Lautrec and his model/lover Mireille.
