Topic: Disease · Illness

Direction Vince Gilligan · Michelle MacLaren · Adam Bernstein · Colin Bucksey

Cast Bryan Cranston · Aaron Paul · Anna Gunn · Dean Norris

Plot TV Series (2008-2013). 5 Seasons. 62 Episodes. Breaking Bad follows protagonist Walter White (Bryan Cranston), a chemistry teacher who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with his wife Skyler (Anna Gunn)...

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Jack Nicholson · Louise Fletcher · Brad Dourif · William Redfield

Plot A misbehaved con named McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The troublemaker soon finds...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Takashi Shimura · Nobuo Kaneko · Kyôko Seki · Makoto Kobori

Plot Kanji Watanabe has served in a monotonous bureaucratic position in City Hall for 30 years, providing for a son who only seems to care about his money. He is seemingly...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Anthony Hopkins · John Hurt · Anne Bancroft · John Gielgud

Plot John Merrick (John Hurt) is a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the...

Direction Miguel Ángel Hernández Arango · Vladimir Ráez

Direction Kinuyo Tanaka

Cast Yumeji Tsukioka · Ryoji Hayama · Junkichi Orimoto · Hiroko Kawasaki

Plot Fumiko (Tsukioka Yurneji) is married to a taciturn and unsympathetic husband and has two children. She seems like a devoted and dutiful wife, but is dissatisfied with her situation. Her...

Direction Shosuke Murakami · Takao Kinoshita

Cast Erika Sawajiri · Ryô Nishikido · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Riko Narumi

Plot The story of a family whose 15-year old eldest daughter comes down with an incurable disease (Spinocerebellar Degeneration) but puts up a fierce battle to live while bearing up under...

Direction Antoni P. Canet

Cast Carlos Cristos

Plot Doctor Carlos Cristos, who at the age of 47 is suffering a terminal illness, calls up a friend, a film director, to shoot struggle for the dignity in living and...

Direction Jesús Muñoz · Santi Padró · Xavi Torres

Cast Juan Carlos Unzué

Direction Susan Muska · Gréta Olafsdóttir

Cast Edie Windsor · Thea Spyer

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Hideko Takamine · Chishu Ryu · Tatsuo Saito · Sanae Takasugi

Plot Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of them failed to...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Harriet Andersson · Kari Sylwan · Ingrid Thulin · Liv Ullmann

Plot Karin and Maria come to the aid of their dying sister, Agnes, but jealousy, manipulation, and selfishness come before empathy. Agnes, tortured by cancer, transcends the pettiness of her sisters'...

Direction Charlie Russell

Cast Terry Pratchett

Plot In this documentary Terry Pratchett discusses his Alzheimer's and how it is slowly eroding away his life and his talent. He meets others with medical conditions which will inevitably lead...

Direction Don Hertzfeldt

Plot Compilation movie who includes Everything Will be OK (2006), I Am So Proud of You (2008) y It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011). The newly unified trilogy is titled IT'S...

Direction Jon Amiel

Cast Michael Gambon · Patrick Malahide · Janet Suzman · Joanne Whalley

Plot Detective novelist Philip Marlow suffers from the crippling disease of psoriatic arthropathy. Confined to a hospital bed, Marlow mentally rewrites his early Chandleresque thriller, "The Singing Detective," with himself in...

Direction Kim Jin-Man · Kim Dae-Jin

Cast Ji Sung · Hwang Jung-Eum · Park Seo-joon · Kim Yeong-ae

Plot TV Series (2015). 20 Episodes. The human body is capable of all sorts of things to survive difficult situations. Cha Do Hyun (Ji Sung) is a third-generation business heir who...

Direction Florian Zeller

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Olivia Colman · Imogen Poots · Rufus Sewell

Plot Almost 80, mischievous, caustic, and defiantly living alone, Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) rejects each and every hired caretaker that his daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman), lovingly introduces. Anne is desperate for help....

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Ingrid Thulin · Gunnel Lindblom · Jörgen Lindström · Haakan Jahnberg

Plot The third entry in Ingmar Bergman's trilogy about faith and redemption (with 'Through a Glass Darkly' and 'Winter Light'). Two sisters - the sickly, intellectual Ester and the sensual, pragmatic...

Direction Michael Rossato-Bennett

Cast Dan Cohen · Louise Dueno · Nell Hardie · Norman Hardie

Plot As dementia continues to affect millions of elderly Americans, Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory reveals a remarkable, music-based breakthrough that has already transformed lives. Spearheaded by social...

Direction William Wyler

Cast Bette Davis · Henry Fonda · George Brent · Margaret Lindsay

Plot Set in antebellum New Orleans during the early 1850's, this film follows Julie Marsden through her quest for social redemption on her own terms. Julie is a beautiful and free...