Illness Movies

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...

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...

A couple's vacation to Ireland transforms into a nightmare as a virus spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, causing the dead to rise and feast...

A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.

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...

How many imaginary deathly diseases can you have before you die from fear and anxiety? This short documentary answers this question by trying to show...

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"...

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.

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter...

A short film about what it’s like to work in an emergency department at a large hospital in Stockholm.

Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis in her marriage with...

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...

Two women set out on a road trip across the American West. Junior is trying to let go of her past. Mads is trying to find hers. Their long journey...

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...

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

When Marie moves into her boyfriend's apartment, she uncovers a disturbing mystery about the fate of the previous tenant.

While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After...

Harold is suffering from a terrifying new disease that is turning him into a zombie. As his condition deteriorates, he and his friendly care worker...

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

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...