Illness Movies

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

In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify,...

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world...

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...

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...

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

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 lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig...

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The...

A thriller with supernatural overtones about a man with a medical condition that causes him to black out during moments of extreme stress and leads...

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...

Trapped in limbo by the vivid memories of his recently departed mother, the family home becomes an allegory for a son's loss.

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

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

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

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

Autumn 1979: 15-year-old Motte’s world is turned upside down when his best friend Bogi falls seriously ill, his parents separate, and he falls...