In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door,” the Spanish director’s first English-language feature film, Julianne Moore plays Ingrid, a celebrated author who’s just written a book about death. She’s at a book signing in New York when she hears that an old friend, a war correspondent named Martha Hunt (Tilda Swinton), has been diagnosed with cancer.

In Pedro Almodóvar's acclaimed new film, "The Room Next Door," Tilda Swinton stars as a woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis who seeks to die on her own terms and timeline.