Illness Movies

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...

Andrea is devastated after learning her sister has leukemia, but a closer look will reveal that there is something hidden in her psyche.

Teenager Calvin gets drawn into a cult that worships youth but threatens adults. His father struggles to rescue him - but Calvin may not want saving.

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.

When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.

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 lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

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...

A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing.

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...

A simple organic fruit farmer Rong Guang (Wu Kang-Ren) is raising his son Feng (Chen Yu-Cheng) alone in a small rural community, although with poor...

Jane, a person with cancer gets supported by Gwen who shows her that the community still cares about her.

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

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

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

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

I didn't worry about it, until the symptoms got worse. The doctors said I had no cure, I'd be sick for the rest of my life. I wish they had been...

A documentary that records the daily life of a mother with a limited life expectancy and a grandmother, directed by the daughter, Haruyo Kato.

When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best...