Disease Movies

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

It was called the Black Death, a disease that started in the 14th century, and swept across Europe wiping out half the population, one of the most...

Luigi Liberio Pensuti (Roma 1903 – Molteno 1945) was one of the fathers of Italian animation. From 1930 to 1940 he worked on a long and...

Four brothers live in the shadow of their repressive father who claims to be the leader of a sect, thanks to his rumored healing powers. They come to...

Franco, an elderly man, lives his life in serenity together with his wife Margherita. The arrival of his brother Vittorio, with whom he hasn’t...

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

An emotional film about how we respond to tragedy.

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is the human version of mad cow disease and has been described as a "ticking time bomb" in Britain. This...

With the world increase in spillover diseases from animals Scientists trace outbreaks such as the Zika and Ebola viruses which have the potential to...

Dying for the Other is a video triptych, documenting the lives of mice used in breast cancer research and humans suffering from the same disease. In...

This film makes visible the invisible cholera germs as a young boy shows how to help the sick and guides his village in preventing the spread of...

A mother discovers that her son has a disability that causes her breast milk to intoxicate him. But the discovery comes too late to prevent the loss...

A fragile mother has a hard time keeping her life together while raising her teenage daughter and 13-year-old sun who is diagnosed with XP, a rare...

A respected documentary maker hears from a friend that his long term depression has been helped after watching a video entitled "Food matters" and...

The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a...

This project was born when I discovered a letter that my mom had written to a friend before her death. The attention she felt there, its simple and...

A woman fleeing a dystopian city forms a connection with someone she cannot touch.

Laura has already accepted an engagement ring from Edgar when he discovers that he has tuberculosis. Persuaded by the doctor that he risks infecting...