Illness Movies

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

When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it’s "all in her head."...

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...

A simple organic fruit farmer Rong Guang (Wu Kang-Ren) is raising his son Feng (Chen Yu-Cheng) alone in a small rural community, although with poor...

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

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...

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.

To keep using their school's abandoned observatory as a refuge, two sleepless high school students decide to revive the defunct astronomy club.

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

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

After a decade of ignoring his family, a young filmmaker has to care for his father, newly diagnosed with Alzheimer's, for the first time.

Baldies – What About My Hair? is an animated short about a fearless group of kids battling cancer who meet in hospital and turn their fight...

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...

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...

Having just lost her mother, Anna finds herself facing a nightmarish situation...a fur monster appears in her home. She will have to live with this...

Two lonely people at opposite chapters of life accidentally meet on a busy summer day in a Cairo taxi. Frail old Shawky and bubbly young Doaa are...

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

2013, Taipei, a gay couple who just moved in together are forced to separate because one of them has HIV...

The disappearance of three teddy bears brings eight lonely hearts together. Tiring of serving people, Peter, a tour guide, brings Teddy Bears that...