Disease Movies

A reflective look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the first years of the crisis.

Bruce Taylor works as a doctor at a mental hospital with a dark mysterious history. When the nightmares of a patient start to affect Bruce's sleep,...

What happens when a group of Finns travel to a tiny village in Benin to participate in a vaccination study? By participating, they can aid in the...

On the final night of a heated divorce, a husband and wife acquire a strange new disease.

The fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country.

Discover how the 1900 outbreak of bubonic plague set off feat and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco. A fascinating medical mystery and timely...

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.

Frank and Cam have been friends all their lives, Cam is on the High School Football team, coached by his dad, Frank is a promising runner, with a...

A dramatic comparison between the mating habits of animals and the way humans choose their own partners. The film is now considered to be a lost film.

The story of Robert Flanagan, a man who was born with cystic fibrosis and told he wouldn't live past 20, who through a unique odyssey of masochism,...

An SF thriller genre film in which animals that have become human during vaccine new drug trials are created against the backdrop of a virtual future...

After a deadly disease breaks out onboard a Sydney-bound flight from Los Angeles, a flight attendant struggling with the recent death of her mother...

Follows the lives of three sisters affected by one having ALS, finding a cure, and the foundation formed to combat the disease, Project ALS.

A journalist afflicted with the underresearched debilitating condition known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome embarks on a quest to find out why the CDC...

A precious animated short from the pioneer of Italian animation Liberio Pensuti, commissioned by the Italian National Fascist Federation against...

When doctors diagnosed 19-year-old rock star Jason Becker with Lou Gehrig's Disease, they said he would never make music again and that he...

The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paranoid about Saeko’s health, making her wear...

In a country whose people have just been successfully persuaded of their superiority and the justification for military expansion by the fiery...

Living in a village full of slopes can drive you mad. Those who have climbed them in the old-fashioned way are fully aware of that. What they...