Illness Movies

Romania. Seven years in the life of a family of believers, struck by the illness of a little girl suffering from spina bifida pass before the camera,...

Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting signs in her...

A fisherman's daughter has to accept her father's disease when she arrives at her childhood home and finds her father vulnerable and fragile.

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

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

Survivors presents an intimate portrait of Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical turm...

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

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that endang...

It follows a chronically ill young woman who finds herself alone at rock bottom, struggling to come to terms with her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis...

Centered around a soldier returning home from deployment to find his boyfriend diagnosed with stage three Leukemia.

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 gi...

Told via Seussian poem, the short film exhibits the bravery of a person who has faced the ultimate adversity...a tummy ache.

At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he ge...

In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify, fo...

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon.

A sick boy's toy rabbit comes to life. Part of the Enchanted Musical Playhouse series. Marie Osmond played the part of the Velveteen Rabbit. Songs wer...

A man with a bottle of whiskey gets onto a roof to admire the world.

Two co-workers eat some contaminated apples. At dinner, a couple of nights later, they discover a truth more bizarre and horrifying than they could ev...