Illness Movies

Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique...

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...

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use instead of narcotics, and withers away.

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her...

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...

Based on Robert Sullivan’s bestselling book, Morgan Spurlock and his team travel around the world to bring viewers face to face with rats while...

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

A successful businessman's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with cancer. On the verge of giving up, he forms an unlikely bond with a...

The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-paid job, Anna has a home studio where she works...

In a tuberculosis-clinic a young patient steels the hearts of her fellow patients.

While Elif is pregnant, she receives a blow to her stomach, and the baby remains paralyzed because the baby's food cord is damaged. When she cannot...

Told via Seussian poem, the short film exhibits the bravery of a person who has faced the ultimate adversity...a tummy ache.

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

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...

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that...

The films was inspired by true events. Przemyslaw Saleta, World's Kickboxing Champion and European Champion in professional boxing gave a kidney to...

A peculiar journey begins on Jeju Island. The artists transform into Sim Bong-sa and Ppaengdeok Eomeoni, slipping into a playful parody of The Tale...

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both...

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.