Illness Movies

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...

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

Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and...

While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After...

A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's...

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.

Tetsuo Togami is in the 2nd grade of high school. Due to a fight, he is hospitalized. There, he meets Maiko Takashiro. She has an incurable disease....

2013, Taipei, a gay couple who just moved in together are forced to separate because one of them has HIV...

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with...

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...

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

Told in flashback from the perspective of Megan, the storyline unfolds when her commitment to faith and family is renewed after reading the blog of...

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

A couple's vacation to Ireland transforms into a nightmare as a virus spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, causing the dead to rise and feast...

A struggling actor's life is turned upside down when his estranged mother appears on his doorstep with a terminal illness.

Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says...

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys forever.