Illness Movies

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

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...

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

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

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...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

While Elif is pregnant, she receives a blow to her stomach, and the baby remains paralyzed because the baby's food cord is damaged. When she cannot...

When our loved ones lose their strength and can no longer support us, it’s our turn to support them, and each other. Inspired by Tim's personal...

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

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 man with a terminal illness goes throughout his day. Something then happens that changes his life forever.

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...

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while...

A documentary that records the daily life of a mother with a limited life expectancy and a grandmother, directed by the daughter, Haruyo Kato.

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

A woman whose sister suffers from Bipolar Disorder.

A group of educators led by Fernand Deligny are working to create contact with autistic children in a hamlet of the Cevennes.

Overwhelmed by her husband’s medical bills, Sofia takes a desperate measure: she becomes an egoblogger.