Illness Movies

Inés, Irene and Ivonne gather at their mother's house to attend their father's funeral; they will not return until a year after for the...

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the...

Trista and Ellis are a young couple, but their relationship is tested when Trista is suffering from an illness that changes her daily life. Ellis...

A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.

Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a...

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

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

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...

Called a maverick, a miracle-worker, and a quack, Dr. Marty Goldstein is a pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine. By holistically treating...

Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego....

Chinese romance film directed and co-written by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Oho Ou, Zhang Huiwen, Yang Zi, Wang Zhi, and Yao Lu. The film is an...

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

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

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.

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

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

Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It's a question of life, death and karaoke.

‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and their carers, along with input from...

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...