Illness Movies

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in...

On the eve of her husband’s birthday, Esther struggles to come to terms with an impending event.

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

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

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...

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes...

17-year-old Guido suffers since his early childhood from neurodermatitis. After being taken to the hospital due to a heavy attack, he starts to...

When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a...

A woman travels to Italy and tries to make a decision.

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

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...

After waiting 74 years to ascend to the throne, Charles III fell ill less than a year after his coronation. The king's health is a cause for concern...

Humans are story-telling creatures. By thinking, we all unconsciously "author" a self-story in our heads. Most often, the characters and plot of our...

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.

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

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

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

Vince is a 13-year-old drummer. His father, Fred, is 48, and a faded guitarist and singer rock "star." He’s going to play with him one of his...