Illness Movies

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...

A sick boy's toy rabbit comes to life. Part of the Enchanted Musical Playhouse series. Marie Osmond played the part of the Velveteen Rabbit. Songs...

The disappearance of three teddy bears brings eight lonely hearts together. Tiring of serving people, Peter, a tour guide, brings Teddy Bears that...

Dusan and Laza are traveling through Eastern Serbia to Belgrade. Terminally ill, Dusan has to find a new home for his son Laza, to whom Dusan is all...

Two lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are...

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

Marion is an artist with FSH, an incurable muscular myopathy. She guides us on the path she has taken to no longer identify with her illness.

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...

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...

An animated science-fiction short directed by Matthew Hood. A mechanical man finds his routine of life disturbed by illness from an unusual source.

A fisherman's daughter has to accept her father's disease when she arrives at her childhood home and finds her father vulnerable and fragile.

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...

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now...

Serious health issues and cultural resistance to inter-ethnic marriage test a young couple's relationship.

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

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

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...

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...

Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent...