Illness Movies

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

First published in 1922, Margery Williams' enchanting story about a toy rabbit is a classic of children's literature. This gentle rendition comes...

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

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...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Chinese romance film directed and co-written by Kwak Jae-yong, starring Oho Ou, Zhang Huiwen, Yang Zi, Wang Zhi, and Yao Lu. The film is an...

A look at the life of activist, musician, and cultural icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the "riot grrrl"...

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 precarious highway carries an unnamed protagonist to a series of doctors' appointments, where it is unclear what ails her. She speaks to no one and...

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 young woman attempts to cook a family recipe by memory. This means remembering a difficult revelation with her mother.

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.

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...

Diego is a film director who, when he is told that he has a malignant disease which could be fatal, marries his girlfriend of many years, says...

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

A young woman combating an illness begins to have chilling visions. Is it a hallucination or is it just the illness.

Two brothers, Paul and Elliot, embark on one last road trip together to Mammoth, California.

Called a maverick, a miracle-worker, and a quack, Dr. Marty Goldstein is a pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine. By holistically treating...

The A.I. system in a home informs a woman that her husband has a certain condition. And now she has to make a very tough choice.

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