Illness Movies

Tuberculosis is the deadliest killer in human history, responsible for one in four deaths for almost two centuries. While it shaped medical pursuits,...

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...

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...

When the seven-year-old daughter of an architect falls ill with a rare but curable form of cancer, the family wants to give the child the best...

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

A sick boy's toy rabbit comes to life. Part of the Enchanted Musical Playhouse series. Marie Osmond played the part of the Velveteen Rabbit. Songs...

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

A dreaded sickness destroys Karen Viljoen life as rich man's wife. She is diagnosed as leprous. While Karen is in the Westford hospital with her...

Teenager Calvin gets drawn into a cult that worships youth but threatens adults. His father struggles to rescue him - but Calvin may not want saving.

A buddy series of "Dukgyu," a 68-year-old making weird poses in front of the gym mirror, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt, and his grandson "Donghyun,"...

Cameron Duncan wrote, directed and starred in this short film, the same year a lump in his knee turned out to be cancerous. Aged only 16, Duncan had...

Two co-workers eat some contaminated apples. At dinner, a couple of nights later, they discover a truth more bizarre and horrifying than they could...

Martje is the manager of a successful laundry service, but in her personal life she struggles with her self-image after the amputation of one of her...

Ognyan and Vera meet again after 10 years of separation. What unites them is a "time capsule" buried by them when they were children. Childhood...

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...

A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.

After a cancer diagnosis, a man tries to confront God.

It follows a chronically ill young woman who finds herself alone at rock bottom, struggling to come to terms with her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis...

Cicily is on her last train out of New York after learning that she must return home to treat her life-threatening illness. While on the train,...

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