Illness Movies

Told in flashback from the perspective of Megan, the storyline unfolds when her commitment to faith and family is renewed after reading the blog of...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark...

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...

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...

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

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...

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

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.

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.

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.

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...

A thirteen-year-old girl named Daisy, who suffers from terminal Epidermolysis Bullosa, meets Stinky, a British war veteran and drug addict. Like...

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his...

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl"...

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

Plagued by cluster headaches that turn his life into a living horror, Adam secretly seeks euthanasia as a final escape. When Evelyn discovers his...

Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says...

Trapped in limbo by the vivid memories of his recently departed mother, the family home becomes an allegory for a son's loss.