Illness Movies

Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...

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

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...

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head."...

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

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker...

At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the...

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

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria...

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

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...

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...

A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible. One day, four young physicians...

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...

Before WWII: Dr. Hasenbein lives with his son Peter in a small town. Aunt Uschi's orphanage houses many children and a hamster. When the hamster...

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

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.

Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego....

In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the...