Illness Movies

After a cancer diagnosis, a man tries to confront God.

A dreaded sickness destroys Karen Viljoen life as rich man's wife. She is diagnosed as leprous. While Karen is in the Westford hospital with her...

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...

How many imaginary deathly diseases can you have before you die from fear and anxiety? This short documentary answers this question by trying to show...

The fight against breast cancer has inspired this story, in which Silvia, finds reasons to celebrate when she meets Rafa

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

A short film about what it’s like to work in an emergency department at a large hospital in Stockholm.

A successful businessman's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with cancer. On the verge of giving up, he forms an unlikely bond with a...

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 profile of the controversial novelist Mitsuharu Inoue, filmed during the last years of his life.

In this powerful story, a teenage girl escapes reality through live action role-playing when her mother is suffering an illness, which will soon...

The disappearance of three teddy bears brings eight lonely hearts together. Tiring of serving people, Peter, a tour guide, brings Teddy Bears that...

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...

Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a...

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.

Trump’s declarations concerning Israel and a Palestinian immigrant’s uncle’s medical diagnosis conspire to throw the latter into...

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...

an exploration of queerness and fear of illness through personal and shared experiences.

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...