Illness Movies

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.

Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the imminent closure of the maternity clinic where she...

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

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.

In WOODSMAN, young couple Alan and Lottie make do with what they've got: each other. After an accident has left Lottie bedridden and nonverbal, the...

The diary of a typical non-stop working day of a wartime district nurse.

A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s...

High school student Rina has a bad attitude and thinks that friends are something that you use when you need them. She doesn't have any real...

A fist-person story of the director of the documentary, who talks about the loneliness that entails living with an eating disorder and her vision now...

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The...

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

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful...

Three girls meet by chance in a hospital. Struggling to come to terms with their fate, they all look back on a decisive moment in their life: Sara, a...

When a meddlesome mother enrolls in university with her son, old and new worlds collide with awesome consequences.

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon.

Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.

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...

Inspired by a Norman Rockwell painting, this 1950s coming of age drama centers on a young man leaving home to attend college, where he will learn the...

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...