Illness Movies

Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.

Ognyan and Vera meet again after 10 years of separation. What unites them is a "time capsule" buried by them when they were children. Childhood...

Vince is a 13-year-old drummer. His father, Fred, is 48, and a faded guitarist and singer rock "star." He’s going to play with him one of his...

A woman travels to Italy and tries to make a decision.

A father intends to save the life of his own son, by paying out a new type of suicide life insurance.

In WOODSMAN, young couple Alan and Lottie make do with what they've got: each other. After an accident has left Lottie bedridden and nonverbal, the...

While Elif is pregnant, she receives a blow to her stomach, and the baby remains paralyzed because the baby's food cord is damaged. When she cannot...

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both...

A pre-teen boy is drawn into a cult that worships youth and murders anyone over 40. The boy's father teams up with a woman whose daughter is also in...

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.

Julião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see...

A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders among young people leads Dr Robert Bartholomew to question whether social media is making us sick. Doctors...

An animated science-fiction short directed by Matthew Hood. A mechanical man finds his routine of life disturbed by illness from an unusual source.

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now...

The A.I. system in a home informs a woman that her husband has a certain condition. And now she has to make a very tough choice.

Ten-year-old Adam suffers from Juvenile Arthritis. To cope with the daily struggles of his illness Adam draws comics and retreats into his...