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...

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

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

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

Based on Robert Sullivan’s bestselling book, Morgan Spurlock and his team travel around the world to bring viewers face to face with rats while...

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...

Two brothers, Paul and Elliot, embark on one last road trip together to Mammoth, California.

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...

A peculiar journey begins on Jeju Island. The artists transform into Sim Bong-sa and Ppaengdeok Eomeoni, slipping into a playful parody of The Tale...

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

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

W. A. Mozart's childhood was very busy, connected with constant travelling, full of fame and admiration. His father Leopold, an accomplished...

Filmmaker Diego Gutiérrez knows that he is soon to lose two loved ones: his mother Gina Coppe and his best friend Danniel Danniel. Both ask...

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

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...

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

An animated science-fiction short directed by Matthew Hood. A mechanical man finds his routine of life disturbed by illness from an unusual source.