Illness Movies

Today in France, one in five young people suffers from severe depressive symptoms, and the number of minors visiting psychiatric emergency rooms has...

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up...

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria...

At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he...

A young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the...

A young mail-order-bride from France recently loses her American husband to a incurable illness. Finally rid of the man she felt nothing for she...

The tragic and inspiring true story of Julie Vega, the beloved "Soap Opera Princess" of the Philippines. The film follows her quick rise from a...

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

Trump’s declarations concerning Israel and a Palestinian immigrant’s uncle’s medical diagnosis conspire to throw the latter into...

Ralf wakes up sick on his birthday, so he wants to rest at home. However, there he is disturbed by various people and his headache makes his birthday...

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker...

Nothing predestined Bruce Willis to become an actor, still less of action movies, and yet in a few years he would become one of the most profitable...

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

Rina is the it girl. She is thin, has long hair, is flaunting and dresses attractively. Every man wants to be with her and every woman wants to be...

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.

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

Monks at remote Lansley Abbey face crisis when plague victims become undead. As refugees seek shelter and infected attack, the brothers clash over...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.