Human Transplantation - Dramas

Desperate Measures
Director: Barbet Schroeder
Country of origin and year: USA, 1998
Starring Michael Keaton, Andy Garcia and Marcia Gay Harden
Andy Garcia stars as Frank Conner, a widowed San Francisco police officer whose young son Matt is suffering from leukemia. Without a bone marrow transplant, Matt will die, but Frank is not a donor. The only potential match is prison inmate Peter McCabe, a psychotic but charming serial killer. Eventually, the convict relents and agrees to the procedure. However, McCabe escapes the confines of the operating room where Matt's oncologist, Dr. Hawkins is scheduled to perform the transplant. Faced with the dual nightmare of his son's deteriorating condition and a mass murderer on the loose in a major metropolitan hospital, the frantic Conner finds himself bending and even breaking the law to bring McCabe down and save Matt's life.
Internet Film Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118966/

Boodan Yaa Naboodan (To Be or Not to Be)
Director: Kianoush Ayari
Country of origin and year: Iran, 1998
Starring: Asal Badii, Farhad Sharifi and Hossein Ilbeygi
A young woman is in dire need of a donor for a heart transplant, but despite repeatedly approaching surgeons and families of severe accident victims, she has had no luck. She discovers a young man, a member of a disreputable crime family, who was killed at his wedding party, and the woman and her family make a desperate appeal to the gangsters to let his heart live on in her.
Internet Film Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0234899/

No Greater Gift
Director: Anson Williams
Country of origin and year: USA, 1986
Starring: Betty Thomas, Dr. Mary Lewis, Reni Santoni
A young, terminally ill cancer patient gradually comes to accept his condition through his friendship with a kidney patient awaiting a donation. As the title implies, the cancer patient makes a wonderful gift to his friend after he passes on.
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21 grams
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Country of origin and year: USA, 2003
Starring: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts
A group of troubled people find that they are linked in unpredictable ways. Paul Rivers is an academic dealing with a terminal heart condition, but his life is changed by a car crash that seems unrelated to his ailment. The traffic accident, involving ex-con Jack Jordan and the husband of Cristina Peck, is one that ruins lives but ultimately also resurrects them.
Internet Film Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315733/

The Law of Averages (Short)
Director: James Duesing
Country of origin and year: USA, 2005
The very ordinary Bloggs family live an uncomplicated life. But their lives change forever when their brother Joe is diagnosed with a serious kidney disease and requires a transplant. The film explores the angst and frustration the family goes through as Joe’s parents are found to be unsuitable as donors and his sister is rejected as a donor for being too young. Unless a suitable donor kidney is found from someone who has died, Joe will die too.
Internet Film Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116837/

Blood Work
Director: Clint Eastwood
Country of origin and year: USA, 2002
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus, Tina Lifford
Terry McCaleb was one of the best and most thorough detectives at the FBI's Southern California office, until a massive heart attack sidelined him from police work for good. Following a heart transplant which saved his life, McCaleb has resigned himself to living quietly on a houseboat for the rest of his days, observing a strict health regimen. However, he is persuaded to take on one last case through the insistence of a woman named Graciela Rivers. Rivers's sister was murdered in cold blood by a mugger, and her heart was used for McCaleb's transplant; now, Rivers wants McCaleb to find her sister's killer. McCaleb agrees to take on the case, but he quickly discovers his weakened physical condition makes the rigors of handling an investigation far harder and more difficult than it has ever been before.
Internet Film Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309377/

Seven Pounds
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Country of origin and year: USA, 2008
Starring: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson and Woody Harrelson
Will Smith stars as a Ben, man who causes a car crash by reading his mobile phone's display while driving; seven people die: six strangers and his fiancé. Ben resolves to help seven strangers as an act of repatation. During this mission, Ben meets Emily Posa, a beautiful young woman at risk from a deadly heart condition. Ben begins to fall in love with Posa, which threatens his plan.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0814314/

Repo Men
Director: Miguel Sapochnik
Country of origin and year: USA, 2010
Starring: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga
Humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you don't pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property... with no concern for your comfort or survival. When Remy, one of the best organ repo men in the business, suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in the job. Remy joins Beth, another debtor who teaches him how to vanish from the system. And as he and Jake embark on a chase across a landscape populated by maniacal friends and foes, one man will become a reluctant champion for thousands on the run.
Internet Movie Database webpage: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/