Illness Movies

During a vacation in the United States, the protagonist is seized by severe abdominal pain that forces him to return to Italy in a daring way and to...

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

Aaron is a 19 year-old with a close relationship with his family. His grandmother Pilar has dementia and wants to return to Salcedillo, the village...

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful...

Cicily is on her last train out of New York after learning that she must return home to treat her life-threatening illness. While on the train,...

A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders among young people leads Dr Robert Bartholomew to question whether social media is making us sick. Doctors...

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...

This educational film combines medical information and story to teach the viewers about the prevention and treatment of syphilis. The four episodes...

After waiting 74 years to ascend to the throne, Charles III fell ill less than a year after his coronation. The king's health is a cause for concern...

The fight against breast cancer has inspired this story, in which Silvia, finds reasons to celebrate when she meets Rafa

The films was inspired by true events. Przemyslaw Saleta, World's Kickboxing Champion and European Champion in professional boxing gave a kidney to...

A young woman combating an illness begins to have chilling visions. Is it a hallucination or is it just the illness.

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

Cameron Duncan wrote, directed and starred in this short film, the same year a lump in his knee turned out to be cancerous. Aged only 16, Duncan had...

A precarious highway carries an unnamed protagonist to a series of doctors' appointments, where it is unclear what ails her. She speaks to no one and...

Motte is 15 years old in the fall of 1977 and has to come to terms with the news that his best friend Bogi has to go to the hospital with a...

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

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

A young woman attempts to cook a family recipe by memory. This means remembering a difficult revelation with her mother.