Illness Movies

One of the most moving stories in the annals of sports is presented in this true drama documenting the love affair of baseball immortal Lou Gehrig...

Told in flashback from the perspective of Megan, the storyline unfolds when her commitment to faith and family is renewed after reading the blog of...

Life of young Bronja, living in the '70s changed when her mother dies of cancer. After a childhood marked by the loss of her mother, her grown up...

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

Baldies – What About My Hair? is an animated short about a fearless group of kids battling cancer who meet in hospital and turn their fight...

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

Pico discovers black spots on his neck. He goes to the doctor. A trip to hell begins. His counterpart is a young and arrogant doctor, eager to make...

The amnion – the fetal membrane protecting the embryo – becomes a metaphor in the film for an intimate space where pain can be shared and...

A simple organic fruit farmer Rong Guang (Wu Kang-Ren) is raising his son Feng (Chen Yu-Cheng) alone in a small rural community, although with poor...

In the vestibule of a hospital room, a young boy waits to see his dying mother. The clamor and spiralling movements of bodies around him intensify,...

Giorgio, a young soldier, is in love with Clara. But they are separated when Giorgio is posted far away, where he meets the unhappy, unhealthy, and...

At a time where there were no alarm-clocks, an old men worked as an awaker. Every day he walked the long way from his house to the village until he...

Virgie Cary's father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his dying wife and is arrested. A Yankee officer takes pity and...

Nine years and nine months: that's how long it took Cécile Togni and her partner Benjamin to finally fulfill their dream of having a child....

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

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...

Ralf wakes up sick on his birthday, so he wants to rest at home. However, there he is disturbed by various people and his headache makes his birthday...

Trapped in limbo by the vivid memories of his recently departed mother, the family home becomes an allegory for a son's loss.

A buddy series of "Dukgyu," a 68-year-old making weird poses in front of the gym mirror, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt, and his grandson "Donghyun,"...

Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world...