Disease Movies

Set in a distant barrio, a strange skin disease throws a tight-knit village into turmoil. At the heart of their struggle stands an ancient tree...

Sarah Prentice has lived in her house for the past two years. Her fear of going outside has crippled her ability to interact with the outside world....

Kathryn Calder, one of the vocalists behind the Influential and successful indie band The New Pornographers, puts her life on hold when her mother is...

DIS-EASE is a feature-length documentary about how we imagine disease, and how that affects what we do when we encounter illness, outbreaks, doctors,...

A sick man discovers empathetic wisdom on how to cope with his deadly autoimmune disease within the colorful expressive works of the late...

Floyd Benson, a neurotic college student, must learn to overcome his fears and discover who he truly is after he's forced to confront a particularly...

It was called the Black Death, a disease that started in the 14th century, and swept across Europe wiping out half the population, one of the most...

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is the human version of mad cow disease and has been described as a "ticking time bomb" in Britain. This...

A woman fleeing a dystopian city forms a connection with someone she cannot touch.

Elias and Nora discover that their daughter Léa is the fountain of life in human form. Through mutual contact with water, she can cure anyone...

This film chronicles the health and social problems that African albinos face and details the fight waged on their behalf by advocacy groups in Spain.

A bereaved epileptic ditches her pills and follows a mysterious woman to the outskirts of her town, where she slips back into the fearsome yet...

This film makes visible the invisible cholera germs as a young boy shows how to help the sick and guides his village in preventing the spread of...

The capture of Naples, the first great European city to be liberated, revealed the magnitude of the tasks involved in re-creating the means of...

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they...

A journalist afflicted with the underresearched debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome embarks on a quest to find out why the CDC...

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

Follows the lives of three sisters affected by one having ALS, finding a cure, and the foundation formed to combat the disease, Project ALS.

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.