Illness Movies, Movies about Illness

Here we've displayed a list of the best Illness films : A Lion in the House(2006), Rain Man(1988), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly(2007), My Left Foot(1989), Amour(2012), Under Our Skin(2008), Sicko(2007), Indestructible(2007), Moon(2009), The Best Intentions(1992), Fireworks(1997), Little Women(2019) ... ...

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A Lion in the House

Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.

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Rain Man

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.

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My Left Foot

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

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Amour

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

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Under Our Skin

Exposes the hidden epidemic of Lyme disease and reveals how our corrupt health care system is failing to address one of the most serious illnesses of our time.

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Sicko

A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories including shotgun deaths.

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Indestructible

Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, film-maker Ben Byer starts documenting his life. One of the most intimate and powerful films you will encounter on a degenerative illness.

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Moon

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

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The Best Intentions

In 1909, poor theology student Henrik falls in love with Anna, the intelligent daughter of a rich family in Uppsala. After marrying Henrik becomes a priest in northern Sweden. Urbane Anna hates living in the county, growing restless.

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Fireworks

Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.

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Little Women

Jo March reflects back and forth on her life, telling the beloved story of the March sisters - four young women, each determined to live life on her own terms.

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Days of Heaven

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

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Food, Inc.

An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.

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Adam's Apples

A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

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The Theory of Everything

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.

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Rockstar

Janardhan Jakhar chases his dreams of becoming a big Rock star, during which he falls in love with Heer.

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The Pride of the Yankees

The story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig.

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Murmur of the Heart

As France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother.

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Seven Pounds

A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

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Moulin Rouge

A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.

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The Others

A woman who lives in her darkened old family house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that the home is haunted.

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28 Days Later

Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.

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The Incredible Shrinking Man

When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.

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Maudie

An arthritic Nova Scotia woman works as a housekeeper while she hones her skills as an artist and eventually becomes a beloved figure in the community.

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Brute Force

At a tough penitentiary, prisoner Joe Collins plans to rebel against Captain Munsey, the power-mad chief guard.

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Away From Her

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.

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One Way Passage

A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.

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Tristana

Shortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances.

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Still Alice

A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.

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