Illness Movies

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...

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...

A struggling actor's life is turned upside down when his estranged mother appears on his doorstep with a terminal illness.

No one seems to understand Nakami. His nights are restless, his days sleepy, and his time at school is isolating. Yet all that seems to change when...

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...

A father intends to save the life of his own son, by paying out a new type of suicide life insurance.

Tetsuo Togami is in the 2nd grade of high school. Due to a fight, he is hospitalized. There, he meets Maiko Takashiro. She has an incurable disease....

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...

Told via Seussian poem, the short film exhibits the bravery of a person who has faced the ultimate adversity...a tummy ache.

A man with a terminal illness goes throughout his day. Something then happens that changes his life forever.

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

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...

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while...

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

A mysterious outbreak of tic disorders among young people leads Dr Robert Bartholomew to question whether social media is making us sick. Doctors...

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...

In an early 19th century African village, Wend Kuuni – a young man, lives with his adopted family after his mother was killed as a witch. When...

The lives of Anna, Paul and their little son Thomas seem perfect from the outside. Paul has a well-paid job, Anna has a home studio where she works...

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter...