Illness Movies

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

A dying student rekindles a relationship with an old friend and tries to turn their life around for the better.

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 young wife discovers that she has Hodgkin's Disease. It can be treated, but complicating the situation is the fact that she is pregnant, and the tre...

Serious health issues and cultural resistance to inter-ethnic marriage test a young couple's relationship.

A successful businessman's life is turned upside down when he is diagnosed with cancer. On the verge of giving up, he forms an unlikely bond with a gi...

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. S...

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

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

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 tog...

Julião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see him again...

I didn't worry about it, until the symptoms got worse. The doctors said I had no cure, I'd be sick for the rest of my life. I wish they had been right...

‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and their carers, along with input from Dr Nigel Spei...

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.

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film adapt...

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...

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

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

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