Illness Movies

Henrik wants to sing a song for his wife. It has to be today, it has to be now. It's a question of life, death and karaoke.

In the quiet villa, a girl cares for her ailing father, a man confronting the weight of his past as his body fails him. As their days blur between...

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.

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

A romantic anthology with five episodes featuring five love stories in Japan, United States, Norway, the Island of Saipan, and the one in Rjukan...

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

Survivors presents an intimate portrait of Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak, exposing the complexity of the epidemic and the sociopolitical...

Alena falls mysteriously ill after Mira breaks off their secret relationship.

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...

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

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

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

When Maria meets Niels for the first time, he comes across as an angry and unsympathetic young man. His chronic illness has been concentrated into a...

‘Voices from the Shadows’ shows the brave and sometimes heartrending stories of five ME patients and their carers, along with input from...

Plagued by cluster headaches that turn his life into a living horror, Adam secretly seeks euthanasia as a final escape. When Evelyn discovers his...

Ivan uses experimental meditation to induce out-of-body experiences that might make it possible for him to escape a mysterious illness. His training...

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