Illness Movies

Small-town doctor bitten by rabid dog, races the clock to get to the city and receive treatment.

To keep using their school's abandoned observatory as a refuge, two sleepless high school students decide to revive the defunct astronomy club.

At an isolated log cabin in the harsh wilderness of Indiana circa 1817, the rhythms of love, tragedy, and the daily hardships of life on the...

After witnessing an old dark stormy cloud painfully rain and die in sorrow; Noma, a puffy white cloud realizes that Mixtli, her daughter, a dark...

A couple's vacation to Ireland transforms into a nightmare as a virus spreads from slaughtered animals to humans, causing the dead to rise and feast...

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...

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic...

When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his...

A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.

A thirteen-year-old girl named Daisy, who suffers from terminal Epidermolysis Bullosa, meets Stinky, a British war veteran and drug addict. Like...

Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche.

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,...

The life story of a young man who has been pursuing an impossible love with his straight boyfriend and contemplating on the mortality of his loved...

An old lady’s house is full of boxes filled with memories. Every Wednesday, along with her cockroach friends, she tells her granddaughter...

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...

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...

In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in...

First published in 1922, Margery Williams' enchanting story about a toy rabbit is a classic of children's literature. This gentle rendition comes...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.