Disease Movies

Four brothers live in the shadow of their repressive father who claims to be the leader of a sect, thanks to his rumored healing powers. They come to...

Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely...

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...

When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he would never make music again and that he...

A respected documentary maker hears from a friend that his long term depression has been helped after watching a video entitled "Food matters" and...

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

A documentary focused on infectious disease outbreaks.

It is 1918 and the end of WWI. Millions have died, and the world is exhausted by war. But soon a new horror is sweeping the world, a terrifying virus...

Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past...

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...

Samuel sees his life change completely when he receives a call from people who were taking care of his father. He needs to abandon his plans in the...

In the early 1900s, as the Panama Canal is being built, a group of doctors try to discover a cure for yellow fever, a disease that is decimating the...

In a futuristic society being decimated by plague, a fascist movement seizes power and quarantines not only the plague victims, but anyone related to...

A fragile mother has a hard time keeping her life together while raising her teenage daughter and 13-year-old sun who is diagnosed with XP, a rare...

Kaoru has Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), and is not allowed to be exposed to sunlight. She sleeps during the day and is active at night. She busks every...

The sea around Minamata was heavily polluted with mercury during the 1950s and 1960s from the Chisso Corporation's chemical factory. This highly...

Luigi Liberio Pensuti (Roma 1903 – Molteno 1945) was one of the fathers of Italian animation. From 1930 to 1940 he worked on a long and...

TB is the most deadly infectious disease in history - it has killed over a billion people in the last 200 years. Multi-BAFTA winning film-maker,...

A grad student breaks up with her boyfriend to focus on her thesis, not realizing something has infected him and that he's going to wreak havoc on...