Illness Movies

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

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 b...

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

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 possibl...

First published in 1922, Margery Williams' enchanting story about a toy rabbit is a classic of children's literature. This gentle rendition comes aliv...

At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he ge...

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

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

A family tragedy during the recession of 2008, catalyzed by unemployment, personal crisis, and illness.

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 wh...

Ten-year-old Adam suffers from Juvenile Arthritis. To cope with the daily struggles of his illness Adam draws comics and retreats into his imagination...

Daniel is ten years old and is very ill. His parents need to find a donor for a liver transplant, nobody is willing to help, they have little time and...

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

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

Centered around a soldier returning home from deployment to find his boyfriend diagnosed with stage three Leukemia.

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...

In WOODSMAN, young couple Alan and Lottie make do with what they've got: each other. After an accident has left Lottie bedridden and nonverbal, the tw...

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 h...

A beautiful and vital film that tells the story of a young woman's fight with death.