Illness Movies

Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her...

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

A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, we follow the lives of four sisters - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March - detailing their passage...

After their father dies, a family of five children are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq.

Marta may be an orphan, and she may be affected by a lethal illness, yet she is the most positive person one can meet. She wants a boy to fall for...

Nine years and nine months: that's how long it took Cécile Togni and her partner Benjamin to finally fulfill their dream of having a child....

A young mail-order-bride from France recently loses her American husband to a incurable illness. Finally rid of the man she felt nothing for she...

When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his...

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

Ariane lives with Simon in his large Paris flat. Simon is obsessed with her: he wants to know everything about her, secretly follows her when she...

Ivan uses experimental meditation to induce out-of-body experiences that might make it possible for him to escape a mysterious illness. His training...

Golf never wanted a brother. Bank just wanted to be loved. What grew between them changed both boys forever.

A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway, the Island of Saipan, and the one in Rjukan...

Akio wishes he had a better relationship with his reserved father Akira. One day Akira suddenly quits his job and retires without giving out any...

Life of young Bronja, living in the '70s changed when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by the loss of her mother, her grown up...

One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of his ancestors, in an attempt to save the boy's...

The tragic and inspiring true story of Julie Vega, the beloved "Soap Opera Princess" of the Philippines. The film follows her quick rise from a...