Illness Movies

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...

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

Boris Buzančić plays an idealistic young doctor who is assigned a nearly deserted village. The backwards residents at first resent...

Artemis, a single 24-year-old living in Paris, France, receives a frantic phone call from her mother—her father Paris is in the hospital and...

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

Serious health issues and cultural resistance to inter-ethnic marriage test a young couple's relationship.

A lonely woman's prank phone call leads to an unexpected friendship with a grieving widow.

A professional novelist struggles to resolve an increasingly burdensome family situation, and his relationship with his partner, all the while...

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

Two brothers are going through financial difficulties to pay for their mother's medical treatment. One of them also has a significant debt that...

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a construction master to become a highly successful...

Lou Colpé has been filming her grandparents since she was 15. In the process of this intense relationship, she notices some disconcerting...

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...

An ant colony finds that the strange new food source they've discovered may be something more of a curse than a boon.

It follows a chronically ill young woman who finds herself alone at rock bottom, struggling to come to terms with her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis...

Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a...

Inés, Irene and Ivonne gather at their mother's house to attend their father's funeral; they will not return until a year after for the...

A rational young man and his devoutly Catholic wife believe their sickly son may have leukemia. As they await further tests over a weekend they both...