Illness Movies

Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent...

A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.

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

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

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...

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

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...

Jordy, a 12 years old dreamer, has locked himself into the imaginary universe of his favorite movie, “Stand by me”. His elder brother...

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

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 woman travels to Italy and tries to make a decision.

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

A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders among young people leads Dr Robert Bartholomew to question whether social media is making us sick. Doctors...

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now...

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.

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