Illness Movies

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...

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

Centered around a soldier returning home from deployment to find his boyfriend diagnosed with stage three Leukemia.

A young mail-order-bride from France recently loses her American husband to a incurable illness. Finally rid of the man she felt nothing for she...

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

2013, Taipei, a gay couple who just moved in together are forced to separate because one of them has HIV...

When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a...

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

Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It's a question of life, death and karaoke.

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.

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

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...

At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he...

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...

When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best...

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

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

Pico discovers black spots on his neck. He goes to the doctor. A trip to hell begins. His counterpart is a young and arrogant doctor, eager to make...

Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a...