Chronic Illness Movies

Ry, a college student with a chronic illness, escapes to Mallorca for the summer with her mother, where she unexpectedly falls for a local and begins...

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health...

An intimate look at Jeff Gammons, a chronically ill man who finds peace and beauty chasing the world's largest hurricanes.

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

Seven years after the mysterious death of her mother, an isolated botanist meets an enigmatic, teenage runaway in a creek. Forming an unexpected...

Set in Los Angeles, a young woman, Dylan, is in and out of the hospital with a life-changing diagnosis, but something isn't right with her partner,...

Marion is an artist with FSH, an incurable muscular myopathy. She guides us on the path she has taken to no longer identify with her illness.

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

Isolated by Long COVID-related chronic illness, Christina accidentally summons Wilhelmina, a ghost from 14th-century England, and decides to help her...

An intimate and transformative short film about chronic illness and love.

Lydia cannot rest. Days are counting down to a deadline she cannot miss. With each moment that passes the wall she built to protect herself from the...

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone...

Maarten is an ordinary 16-year-old. He likes to hang around in the park, listen to music, play videogames and dance as much as possible. Preferably...

While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After...

Three young people share the challenges of being chronically ill in a curated online world. When the internet allows you to be anyone, why be ill?

What is true healing? And where does it start? World-renowned functional medicine expert Dr. Jill Carnahan draws on her own experience overcoming...

A young woman is surprised to see her chronically ill sister has a new life.

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...