Illness Movies

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

The A.I. system in a home informs a woman that her husband has a certain condition. And now she has to make a very tough choice.

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

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...

Inés, Irene and Ivonne gather at their mother's house to attend their father's funeral; they will not return until a year after for the...

A buddy series of "Dukgyu," a 68-year-old making weird poses in front of the gym mirror, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt, and his grandson "Donghyun,"...

Baldies – What About My Hair? is an animated short about a fearless group of kids battling cancer who meet in hospital and turn their fight...

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of the previous tenant.

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

Ivan uses experimental meditation to induce out-of-body experiences that might make it possible for him to escape a mysterious illness. His training...

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter...

Two women set out on a road trip across the American West. Junior is trying to let go of her past. Mads is trying to find hers. Their long journey...

Life of young Bronja, living in the '70s changed when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by the loss of her mother, her grown up...

A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway, the Island of Saipan, and the one in Rjukan...

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

When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.

Plagued by cluster headaches that turn his life into a living horror, Adam secretly seeks euthanasia as a final escape. When Evelyn discovers his...

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

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...

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). 17 million people around the world suffer from...