Illness Movies

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys forever.

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal...

A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.

2013, Taipei, a gay couple who just moved in together are forced to separate because one of them has HIV...

Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with the married Clara and becomes her lover. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he...

Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a...

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl"...

Ruth, an elderly lady with dementia, becomes lost within her own home. As she tries to find answers, she ends up losing herself further, confusing...

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to...

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After...

‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and their carers, along with input from...

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark...

When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a...

Monks at remote Lansley Abbey face crisis when plague victims become undead. As refugees seek shelter and infected attack, the brothers clash over...

A family tragedy during the recession of 2008, catalyzed by unemployment, personal crisis, and illness.

A thriller with supernatural overtones about a man with a medical condition that causes him to black out during moments of extreme stress and leads...

During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to...

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while...

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her...