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I have been trying for ages to find the title of a movie where the main character can see the remainder of a person's life counting down on their forehead. (Note, specifically not their arm.)
It is is not The Frightened, it is not In Time, nor a short movie or manga. The closest I've found is White Noise: The Light. But it's not that either. Also it's not the Nickelback song "Savin me". But the movie is exactly like that song.
It's not a movie but a TV episode, but the 2009 episode "The Future's So Bright" (season 6, episode 9) of Medium has the title character find a pair of glasses that show her a count of the number of days people have left to live on their foreheads.
A review on IMDb explains these are a lifetimer countdown:
The Lina Wertmuller-styled white rimmed sun glasses that Arquette dons in a very flimsy early plot twist (resolved convincingly in the final reel as to their source) let her see white digits superimposed on people's foreheads, not unlike the way place names and building names are super-ed in each episode of FRINGE. Younger people have numbers like 20100 or 15500, but when she sees both suspects and colleagues with a big 1 or 2 on their noggins, it becomes obvious that she can perceive how many days each person has left to live.
Unlikely to be confused with a full length movie, but there is a Korean short film "Numbers" by Robert Hloz starring a male protagonist who can see number above the heads of other people.This is understood to be a death timer. The protagonist meets another person who can see the same.
When you said it's not "The Frightened" (I couldn't find a movie matching that title), we're you referring to the 1996 Comedy/Horror, "The Frighteners"?
If not, it fits all the details you provided. The Frighteners - Wikipedia
Michael J Fox (male lead) plays a character named Frank Bannister who gains the power to see ghosts after the death of his wife.
He later finds himself facing off against a "Grim Reaper"-like entity who kills people after marking their foreheads with a glowing number that only Frank can see. Example:
It does somewhat resemble the glowing numbers from "Savin' Me" and fits all the details you've provided (unless this is the movie you were referring too and already discounted it).
