Saint Maud (2019), We Are Together (2006), When the Wind Blows (1986), Hasta la Vista! (2011), A Monster With a Thousand Heads (2015), Walking and Talking (1996), Sunrise at Campobello (1960), A Lion in the House (2006) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Illness movies.
Storyline: Maud, an unstable, newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient's soul -- but sinister forces and her own sinful past threaten her holy calling.
Plot Keywords: nurse, patient, dense, intense, intricate, hospice, doctor's office ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This U.K.-produced HBO documentary covers the spread of AIDS in South Africa, focusing on an orphanage called Agape, founded by one "Grandma" Zodwa Mqadi. The story centers on the local children's choir as they rehearse for a trip to England, and follows the Moya family as they struggle with the disease, which has plagued the region. Notable names such as Lorraine Bracco, Alicia Keys, Paul Simon and Kanye West appear as themselves to help carry the narrative along.
Plot Keywords: orphan, choir director, uplifting, emotional, intense, africa, south africa ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this hand-drawn animated tale, elderly married couple Hilda (Peggy Ashcroft) and Jim Bloggs (John Mills) have their quiet, simple lives in the English countryside interrupted when they learn of an impending nuclear attack. Not completely understanding the gravity of their situation, Hilda and Jim react archaically and insufficiently after the attack -- and the film takes a dark turn as the radiation begins taking its toll on the unsuspecting couple.
Plot Keywords: retiree, wife, husband, amusing, disheartening, sad, sussex, england ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three disabled men drive to Spain to visit a brothel that caters to people with disabilities.
Plot Keywords: young man, disabled person, blind person, prostitute, driver, sick person, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman (Jana Raluy) resorts to desperate measures when an insurance company refuses to help her terminally ill husband.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, terminally ill person, bureaucrat, moving, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Amelia (Catherine Keener) is jealous when her closest friend and roommate, Laura (Anne Heche), moves out to live with her fiancé. Suddenly alone, Amelia takes a pessimistic look at her own life. Her pet name for Bill (Kevin Corrigan), the last guy she dated, is the "Ugly Guy"; her conversations with her ex-boyfriend, Andrew (Liev Schreiber), usually devolve into name-calling; and her beloved cat has come down with cancer. She then tries to put aside her envy and rely on Laura for support.
Plot Keywords: single woman, best friend, fiancé, ex-boyfriend, video store clerk, therapist, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the summer of 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Ralph Bellamy) is vacationing with his family at their estate on Campobello Island on the Maine/New Brunswick border. During their stay, the 39-year-old Roosevelt comes down with a fever and sudden paralysis that is eventually diagnosed as polio. With the help of his wife, Eleanor (Greer Garson), and his close friend and political consultant, Louis Howe (Hume Cronyn), FDR battles his newfound disability.
Plot Keywords: franklin delano roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, political consultant, son, daughter, politician, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five families struggle with the ups and downs of cancer treatment over the course of six years.
Plot Keywords: son, daughter, mother, father, patient, doctor, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a one-night stand with a mysterious and beautiful woman, a man falls ill and starts to believe that he's the victim of a sinister supernatural plot.
Plot Keywords: man, woman, creepy, suspenseful, united states, paranoia, illness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Five years after World War II, Hiroshima's survivors still struggle with the memories of their horrible ordeal.
Plot Keywords: young woman, uncle, aunt, poor person, survivor, bleak, touching ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Kurdish orphans work odd jobs for food and to raise money so their severely handicapped brother can have surgery.
Plot Keywords: sister, child, kurd, refugee, brother, orphan, sad ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A rigid clerk (Takashi Shimura) resolves to do something of lasting importance after learning that he is dying of cancer.
Plot Keywords: bureaucrat, co-worker, writer, mayor, prostitute, sad, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A woman (Tracy Coogan) tries to adapt to the new behavior of her husband (Graham Sibley) after an encounter with a zombie leaves him in a similar state.
Plot Keywords: husband, wife, zombie, doctor, friend, gory, creepy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby - Jean-Do to his friends - awakens not knowing where he is. He is in a Berck-sur-Mer hospital, where he has been for the past several weeks in a coma after suffering a massive stroke. Although his cognitive facilities are in tact, he quickly learns that he has what is called locked-in syndrome which has resulted in him being almost completely paralyzed, including not being able to speak. One of his few functioning muscles is his left eye. His physical situation and hospitalization uncomfortably bring together the many people in his life, including: Céline Desmoulins, his ex-lover and mother of his children; Inès, his current lover; and his aged father who he calls Papinou. Among his compassionate recuperative team are his physical therapist Marie, and his speech therapist Henriette. Henriette eventually teaches him to communicate using a system where he spells out words: she reads out the letters of the alphabet in ...
Plot Keywords: editor, nurse, doctor, patient, lover, emotional, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Charles Sanford "Charlie" Babbit is a self-centered Los Angeles-based automobile dealer/hustler/bookie who is at war with his own life. Charlie, as a young teenager, used his father's 1949 Buick convertible without permission and as a result, he went to jail for two days on account that his father reported it stolen. It is then that Charlie learns that his estranged father died and left him from his last will and testament a huge bed of roses and the car while the remainder will of $3 Million goes into a trust fund to be distributed to someone. Charlie seemed pretty angry by this and decides to look into this matter. It seems as if that "someone" is Raymond, Charlie's unknown brother, an autistic savant who lives in a world of his own, resides at the Walbrook Institute. Charlie then kidnaps Raymond and decides to take him on a lust for life trip to the west coast as a threat to get the $3 Million inheritance. Raymond's acts and nagging, including repeated talks of "Abbott & Costello",...
Plot Keywords: autistic, car dealer, doctor, girlfriend, lawyer, emotional, moving ...
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