Drunken Angel (1948), Little Fish (2005), A Billion Lives (2016), Afflicted (2013), I Am Because We Are (2008), Philadelphia (1993), It's Not Yet Dark (2016), BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Disease movies.
Storyline: Nurse Anne Lee blames herself for a fatal mistake of her sister Lucy, who also is a nurse. Anne loses her job, and gets a new one at a poorly equipped country hospital. There she falls in love with Dr. Prescott, who is battling with Mr. Bowly, the chairman of the local hospital board, who also makes Anne's life miserable. But then a virulent epidemic begins...—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: drama, nurse, sacrifice, duty, world war ii, england, hospital ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film follows the harrowing experience of a writer struggling with a rare neurological disease from when she first suffers symptoms to the many attempts at diagnosing it and the eventual discovery of the real cause of her illness. Based on the book, 'Brain On Fire', the true story of Susannah Cahalan, a journalist for the New York Post.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, medical drama, psychological, true story, illness, mental health ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A scientist living in an apartment complex kills a girl and uses acid to destroy her internal organs, and then kills himself. While investigating, a doctor discovers that the scientist was doing experiments on the use of genetically engineered parasites as organ transplants. Soon, other people in the complex begin showing signs of carrying the parasites, spreading the things through wanton orgiastic abandon, and the complex begins suffering an attrition problem.
Plot Keywords: horror, science fiction, body horror, canadian film, societal collapse, experimental, cult film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Singing star loses his voice, recuperates in the country, meets aspiring playwright and her daughter.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, science, medicine, france, 19th century ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sheila Bennet returns to New York from Cuba carrying $40,000 worth of smuggled diamonds - and smallpox, which could start a devastating epidemic in the unprotected city. Treasury agent Johnson loses her but keeps doggedly on the trail, while Public Health Doctor Wood searches in vain for the unknown person spreading the deadly disease far and wide. Meanwhile, the increasingly ill Sheila is concerned only with her faithless husband Matt, who plans to abscond with the diamonds.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, drama, thriller, suspense, mystery, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Portland couple have two children with Pompe disease, a genetic anomaly that kills most before a child's tenth birthday. The husband, John, an advertising executive, contacts Robert Stonehill, a researcher in Nebraska who has done innovative research for an enzyme treatment. He has little money to fund his laboratory, and a thorny personality that drives away colleagues and funders. John and his wife Aileen raise money to help Stonehill's research and the required clinical trials. John takes on the task full time, working with venture capitalists and then rival teams of researchers. Time is running short, Stonehill's angry outburst hinder the company's faith in him, and the profit motive may upend John's hopes. The researchers race against time for the children who have the disease.
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, medical, family, inspirational, based on true story, fatherly love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is tasked with learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life, a mission that pulls him toward a village ruler who has made a dark pact with evil forces.
Plot Keywords: medieval, religion, faith, death, fear, knight, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She's soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino's fall, are Ariza's hopes delusional?
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, literary adaptation, historical, 19th century, 20th century, waiting ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Best friends Derek and Clif set out on a trip of lifetime. Their plan: travel to the ends of the earth, see the world, and live life to the fullest. But the trip soon takes a dark and bloody turn. Just days in, one of the men shows signs of a mysterious affliction which gradually takes over his entire body and being. Now, thousands of miles from home, in a foreign land, they must race to uncover the source before it consumes him completely. Footage meant to be travel memories may now become evidence of one of the most shocking discoveries ever captured on film...and perhaps will be their only postcard home.
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, supernatural, found footage, thriller, vampire, disease ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Mother Teresa (Juliet Stevenson), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, is considered one of the greatest humanitarians of modern times. Her selfless commitment changed hearts, lives, and inspired millions throughout the world. This movie is told through personal letters she wrote over the last forty years of her life and revealed a troubled and vulnerable woman who grew to feel an isolation and an abandonment by God. The story is told from the point of view of Vatican Priest Father Celeste van Exem (Max Van Sydow), charged with the task of investigating acts and events following her death. He recounts her life's work, her political oppression, her religious zeal, and her unbreakable spirit.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, religion, faith, india, charity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
Plot Keywords: science fiction, romance, dystopian, loneliness, humanity, disease, rebellion ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: While taking photographs through his window, an invalid (Karl Geary) witnesses an attack by a giant, carnivorous cockroach.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, sci-fi, creature, mystery, survival, mutation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The college friends Paul, Karen, Bert, Marcy and Jeff rent an isolated cabin in the woods to spend a week together. When they arrive, a man contaminated with a weird disease asks for help to them, but they get in panic and burn the man, who falls in the water reservoir and dies. The whole group, except Karen, makes a pact of drinking only beer along the week without knowing where the dead body is. When Karen drinks tap water and gets the disease, the group begins their journey to hell.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, virus, isolation, survival, gore, forest ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Emma and her sister Stacey are normal teenagers in a small town, when a mysterious infection begins to spread. With the town quarantined, and their parents stuck on the other side of the barrier, the girls have a blast eating junk food and sneaking out to go to parties. But when the disease starts to infect people they know, the girls, together with their neighbor Evan (Emma's secret crush), barricade themselves into their home. But it may already be too late, as the infection is already in their midst, and Emma will be faced with a choice: protect her sister or survive the virus.—Bryan Do
Plot Keywords: epidemic, quarantine, apocalypse, survival, family, sisters, fear ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Seeking a new laboratory to pursue his controversial genetic research, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at the world-renowned Institute for Molecular Cell Biology & Genetics in wintry Dresden, Germany. His contribution to their most top-secret project - a human regeneration gene - has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years. But when he uncovers a conspiracy amongst his colleagues, he finds instead something quite different: a terrifying new virus, with potentially devastating consequences for humanity - and for Geoff, who is not only its first victim, but its unwitting source.—Production
Plot Keywords: sci-fi, thriller, drama, genetic engineering, human experimentation, medical, mystery ...
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