Illness Movies

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"...

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

The films was inspired by true events. Przemyslaw Saleta, World's Kickboxing Champion and European Champion in professional boxing gave a kidney to...

On the eve of her husband’s birthday, Esther struggles to come to terms with an impending event.

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

In a tuberculosis-clinic a young patient steels the hearts of her fellow patients.

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

Adaptation of Mayu Ohara's autobiography.

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

While Elif is pregnant, she receives a blow to her stomach, and the baby remains paralyzed because the baby's food cord is damaged. When she cannot...

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

Lotte (18) and Roos (16) are sisters and both have Usher syndrome. That means they will soon become deaf and blind. It is not known how fast that...

A woman travels to Italy and tries to make a decision.

A person brings their partner to a doctor to treat an unknown itching fever. Two men come to see the doctor, one of them suffering from insomnia....

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

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

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