Illness Movies

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

A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal...

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....

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

Alena falls mysteriously ill after Mira breaks off their secret relationship.

Seeking evidence of an afterlife for her seriously ill father, a Dublin teenager attempts to contact the spirit of late Irish rockstar Phil Lynott.

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

A thriller with supernatural overtones about a man with a medical condition that causes him to black out during moments of extreme stress and leads...

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

A clinical gaze inspects a liminal place beyond space and time, where living and dead bodies coexist. As they resist collapse, the unidentified...

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

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

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

A young man's body is overtaken by an undefined itching fever, leading his parents to seek healing.

Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.

A profile of the controversial novelist Mitsuharu Inoue, filmed during the last years of his life.

Monks at remote Lansley Abbey face crisis when plague victims become undead. As refugees seek shelter and infected attack, the brothers clash over...