Illness Movies

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

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...

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of the previous tenant.

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

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

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

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...

A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.

Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all...

An extraordinary video diary about living with AIDS documenting, with guts and humor, the love and dedication of longtime companions Tom Joslin and...

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

A buddy series of "Dukgyu," a 68-year-old making weird poses in front of the gym mirror, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt, and his grandson "Donghyun,"...

A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway, the Island of Saipan, and the one in Rjukan...

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

The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-paid job, Anna has a home studio where she works...

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...

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

A teachers assistant, trapped in a small town with a strange illness, takes on a local missing persons case aided by a Pale Man down the hall.

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film...

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...