Illness Movies

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

Ruth, an elderly lady with dementia, becomes lost within her own home. As she tries to find answers, she ends up losing herself further, confusing...

A man decides to jump off a building, diagnosed with a terminal illness. On the rooftop, he has a seizure and goes through immense suffering. A...

A family tragedy during the recession of 2008, catalyzed by unemployment, personal crisis, and illness.

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful...

Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.

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

It follows a chronically ill young woman who finds herself alone at rock bottom, struggling to come to terms with her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis...

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

Lotte (18) and Roos (16) are sisters and both have Usher syndrome. That means they will soon become deaf and blind. It is not known how fast that...

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.

Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting...

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...

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

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

Andrea is devastated after learning her sister has leukemia, but a closer look will reveal that there is something hidden in her psyche.

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

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

In a primary school classroom, teacher Liliane anxiously awaits an important phone call. Her student Mathieu is even more of a disturbance than...