Illness Movies

A patient with chronic anemia marries her doctor, but falls in love with his colleague.

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...

Daniel is ten years old and is very ill. His parents need to find a donor for a liver transplant, nobody is willing to help, they have little time...

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

Survivors presents an intimate portrait of Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical...

The disappearance of three teddy bears brings eight lonely hearts together. Tiring of serving people, Peter, a tour guide, brings Teddy Bears that...

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

The fight against breast cancer has inspired this story, in which Silvia, finds reasons to celebrate when she meets Rafa

Ten-year-old Adam suffers from Juvenile Arthritis. To cope with the daily struggles of his illness Adam draws comics and retreats into his...

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 man with a terminal illness goes throughout his day. Something then happens that changes his life forever.

A paediatrician asks Louis 'to brush the teddy's toes', indicating that Louis's own are somehow developing differently......

Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all...

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 thirteen-year-old girl named Daisy, who suffers from terminal Epidermolysis Bullosa, meets Stinky, a British war veteran and drug addict. Like...

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

An exploration of the interconnected experiences of queerness and illness, this film navigates personal and collective journeys through medical...

Jail of Flesh, is a documentary that delves into a rare neurological disease. It is fatal, incurable and what provokes it is unknown. Amyotrophic...