Illness Movies

Lisbon, 1989. A middle-aged poor man, tormented by an illness, lives in a cheap room in a family boarding house, in the old section of the city's...

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

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up...

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

Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band's tomboy accordionist Diego....

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

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

An exploration of the interconnected experiences of queerness and illness, this film navigates personal and collective journeys through medical...

Brussels, La Monnaie Opera House. Three people near the end of their lives meet with choreographers, actors and musicians. They take part in a unique...

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that...

A young journalist asks an old artist about the portrait of a naked Indian woman that he has in his study. The artist tells the story of Maria...

Jordy, a 12 years old dreamer, has locked himself into the imaginary universe of his favorite movie, “Stand by me”. His elder brother...

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

Jane, a person with cancer gets supported by Gwen who shows her that the community still cares about her.

Drawing heavily from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's 1971 novella 'Piknik na obochine' ('Roadside Picnic') as well as Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 film...

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