Illness Movies

Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against...

A simple organic fruit farmer Rong Guang (Wu Kang-Ren) is raising his son Feng (Chen Yu-Cheng) alone in a small rural community, although with poor...

A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing.

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

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

In the quiet villa, a girl cares for her ailing father, a man confronting the weight of his past as his body fails him. As their days blur between...

Jordy, a 12 years old dreamer, has locked himself into the imaginary universe of his favorite movie, “Stand by me”. His elder brother...

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

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

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.

A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.

Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and...

Tetsuo Togami is in the 2nd grade of high school. Due to a fight, he is hospitalized. There, he meets Maiko Takashiro. She has an incurable disease....

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up...

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...

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl"...