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: Akira Kurosawa's postwar allegory focusing on an alcoholic doctor's determination to cure a gangster of tuberculosis.
Plot Keywords: gangster, alcoholism, doctor, black market, moral dilemma, social criticism, humanity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Four years clean, video store manager Tracy (Cate Blanchett) lives quietly, avoiding anything that might trigger a heroin relapse. Her ex-boyfriend Jonny (Dustin Nguyen) returns, claiming he is now a drug-free banker, and the two begin seeing each other again. Tracy looks after Lionel (Hugo Weaving), the man who introduced her to the drug. But, Lionel is thrown into a panic when his dealer, Brad (Sam Neill), suddenly retires. Lionel begs Tracy to help him score, testing her shaky sobriety.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, science fiction, virus, emotion, future, pandemic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story of the vaping revolution and tragic corruption leading to a billion deaths around the world.
Plot Keywords: documentary, health, public health, science, policy, controversy, investigation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two friends' tour of Europe takes a dark turn when one of them contracts a mysterious illness. They race to find out what it is and how to cure it before the sickness consumes him completely.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, found footage, supernatural, vampire, disease, travel ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look into the lives of Malawi's 1 million plus orphans in the wake of the AIDS pandemic. It offers hope and real solutions to the challenges that people face living in extreme poverty.
Plot Keywords: documentary, poverty, orphans, humanitarianism, social issues, africa, health crisis ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Fearing it would compromise his career, lawyer Andrew Beckett hides his homosexuality and HIV status at a powerful Philadelphia law firm. But his secret is exposed when a colleague spots the illness's telltale lesions. Fired shortly afterwards, Beckett resolves to sue for discrimination, teaming up with Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), the only lawyer willing to help. In court, they face one of his ex-employers top litigators, Belinda Conine.
Plot Keywords: legal, discrimination, homosexuality, courtroom drama, social justice, human rights, lawyer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: It's Not Yet Dark tells the ground breaking story of Simon Fitzmaurice, a talented young Irish film maker with ALS (MND), as he embarks on directing his first feature film through the use of his eyes and eye gaze technology.
Plot Keywords: documentary, biography, disease, inspirational, true story, life, struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Early 1990s. With AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, Act up-Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has his world shaken up by Sean, a radical militant, who throws his last bits of strength into the struggle.
Plot Keywords: lgbtq+, activism, paris, 1990s, protest, french cinema, politics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Alice Howland is a renowned linguistics professor happily married with three grown children. All that begins to change when she strangely starts to forget words and then more. When her doctor diagnoses her with Early-onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family's lives face a harrowing challenge as this terminal degenerative neurological ailment slowly progresses to an inevitable conclusion they all dread. Along the way, Alice struggles to not only to fight the inner decay, but to make the most of her remaining time to find the love and peace to make simply living worthwhile.
Plot Keywords: disease, family, emotion, drama, psychological, identity crisis, motherhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Until about the age of seven, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD (adrenoleukodystrophy): an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder. Frustrated at the failings of doctors and medicine in this area, the Odones begin to educate themselves in the hope of discovering something which can halt the progress of the disease.
Plot Keywords: disease, medical, family, parents, struggle, research, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of 11th-century London to small villages throughout England and finally to the medical school at Ispahan. Though apprenticed to an itinerant barber surgeon, it is the dazzling surgery of a Jewish physician trained by the legendary Persian physician Avicenna that inspires him to accept his gift and to commit his life to healing by studying at Avicenna's school. Despite the ban on Christian students, Rob goes there, disguising himself as a Jew to gain admission. Gordon has written an adventurous and inspiring tale of a quest for medical knowledge pursued in a violent world full of superstition and prejudice.
Plot Keywords: historical, drama, adventure, medical, medieval, biographical, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery by an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He realizes his sole reason for living: the pleasures of the flesh.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, vampire, korean cinema, religion, desire, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A half-wolf, half-husky named Balto gets a chance to become a hero when an outbreak of diphtheria threatens the children of Nome, Alaska in the winter of 1925. He leads a dog team on a 600-mile trip across the Alaskan wilderness to get medical supplies. The film is based on a true story which inspired the Iditarod dog sled race.
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, family, dog, alaska, hero, true story ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An odd epidemic appears across the globe: people suddenly lose one of their senses. At first, it's an outbreak of loss of smell. It's often presaged by a destructive temper tantrum. In this mix are a scientist and a chef - she's Susan, one of a team trying to understand the epidemic; he's Michael, charming and engaging. Susan and Michael begin a relationship in the middle of increasing chaos, as the loss of other senses plagues more people and as civil authorities try to maintain order. Susan's voice-over reflections provide insight. Is love possible in such a changed world? Can anything make perfect sense?
Plot Keywords: romance, science fiction, disaster, drama, emotional, apocalyptic, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, science fiction, mystery, emotion, memory, virus ...
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