Child illness movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant child illness movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, emotional, realistic, touching, captivating and sentimental films and TV shows about / with child illness, family relations, illness, family problems, life is a bitch, terminal illness, hopes, parents and children, death and hospital plots mostly in Drama, Family and Biography genres shot in USA, Canada, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as child illness: Johnny (2010), Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Mountain Miracle (2017), A Family Man (2016), The Miracle of the Cards (2001), Letters to God (2010), Frozen Impact (2003), Heaven Is for Real (2014), Ways to Live Forever (2010), A Christmas Tale (2008).
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Dr. Drew Carter tragically loses his ten-year old son in a car accident, he didn’t expect to lose his whole family as well. Since the accident, his wife (Julia) has become emotionally absent towards him and their daughter. When Johnny, a ...
Style:
christian film, realistic, psychological, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
adoption, leukemia, terminal illness, doctor, family relations, cancer, family problems, child illness, religions or cults, unfulfillment, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. 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: an extremely rare ...
Style:
touching, sincere, inspirational, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
terminal illness, against the odds, family relations, human spirit, hopes, child illness, death, medical, life is a bitch, cure, disability, family drama ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1984, year 1983, year 1986 ...
Place:
washington d.c., pittsburgh, edinburgh scotland, london, england ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A girl struggling with asthma is taken to a clinic in South Tyrol to be cured. After some time she decides to get out of this hell (that's how she feels about it) and soon she'll meet a new friend. Together they try to reach the peak of a ...
Style:
sincere, touching, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
asthmatic, asthma, child illness, mountain, friendship, teenager, life is a bitch, fighting illness, healing, sick child, legend, climbing ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dane Jensen is a driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When Dane's boss announces his retirement, he pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven but polar-opposite rival at the firm, in a ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, sentimental, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
parent child relationship, family relations, job, businessman, illness, choice, child illness, family problems, customer, fighting illness, relationships, ambitious woman ...
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
"The Miracle of the Cards" is based on the true story of Marion Shergold and her son, Craig, an eight-year-old English boy who had a brain tumor. Several events convinced Marion that God was leading her to a cure for Craig and that the ...
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, christian film
Plot:
brain tumor, terminal illness, child illness, christian, hopes, life is a bitch, disability, miraculous event, journalism, sick child, faith, youth ...
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, sentimental, sad, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
god, faith, letter, hopes, cancer, pastor, brain tumor, terminal illness, child illness, christian, sick child, salvation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Rutland, Vermont, Forestry Service supervisor Dan Blanchard and his wife Dr. Christy Blanchard hope life will return to normal now a transplant liver is expected for their brave son Jason (12). Daughter Marie was ordered to bring Jason to perform ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense
Plot:
disaster, escapades, forces of nature, child illness, against the odds, danger, survival, heroes, daring rescue, save the day, race against time, one man army ...
Place:
usa, vermont
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Heaven is for Real recounts the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Four-year-old Colton shares the details of his amazing journey ...
Style:
christian film, touching, emotional, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
faith, afterlife, christianity, jesus, heaven, religion, near death experience, happy ending, god, small town, child illness, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, usa, lithuania
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, sad ...
Plot:
teenage life, friendship between boys, youth, child cancer, leukemia, friends, death, coming of age, best friend, human spirit, life is a bitch, child illness ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
christmas, dysfunctional family, transplant, family in crisis, cancer, justice, family relations, siblings relations, death in the family, christmas party, mental illness, family problems ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, flanders
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Zeynep is an innocent and beautiful girl who's very fond of her mother. One day, her mother Cemre dies in an accident. No one can bring themselves to tell Zeynep that her mother is dead. Zeynep was born with a heart condition and she is not ...
Style:
tear jerker, emotional, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
heart disease, family drama, mother love, domestic drama, mother daughter relationship, relationships, male female relationship, problem, marital problem, sister in law sister in law relationship, couple relations, dysfunctional family ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In this prequel to the TV series, the individual fates of the members of the later "Red Bracelets" and how they came together are told.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, touching, melancholic, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
wedding ceremony, teenage girl, teenage boy, death of friend, death of mother, soccer match, cancer patient, brother sister relationship, brother brother relationship, hospital, death of loved one, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the unexpected death of their daughter, a couple work to build a state of the art children's hospital where families are welcomed into the healing process.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
hospital, child illness, parents and children, family problems, couples, life is a bitch, last wish, family relations, couple relations, dealing with death, hopes, against the odds ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children, Megan and Patrick, are diagnosed with Pompe disease - a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, inspirational, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, kids, teens
Plot:
medical, hopes, race against time, family drama, cure, against the odds, family problems, unlikely partners, doctors and patients, child illness, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, portland oregon, boston, las vegas, california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story:
Hong Ji Won grew up at an orphanage. To escape from her poor background, she studied hard and graduated from a prestigious university. She then worked as a secretary at a large company. Finally, Hong Ji Won married the owner of the company and gave ...
Style:
soap opera, dramatic, serious, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, child illness, family drama, protective mother, motherhood, sacrifice, fighting illness, vengeance, illness, mother and son, orphan, avenge ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Geum Bi is only 8-years-old, but she suffers from dementia. She is slowly losing her memory. Her father Hwi Cheol is a swindler. While taking care of Geum Bi, he learns about the preciousness of life. Jang Joo Young becomes involved with Geum Bi and ...
Style:
emotional, psychological, disturbing, captivating, medical drama ...
Plot:
family relations, child illness, father daughter relationship, family drama, love affair, memory lapse, life is a bitch, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, romantic relationship, love story ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Farmer’s wife and mother of three Hanni worries about her youngest, Magdalena, who’s smaller and more sensitive than her siblings. She gets stomach flu and can’t see well. The doctors prescribe nothing but panaceas, and don’t take her case ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot:
child illness, mother daughter relationship, motherhood, female protagonist, family problems, children, family relations, problem, doctors and patients, treatment, dysfunctional family, cure ...
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412
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, on the run, self discovery, human spirit, danger, hopes, life is a bitch, child illness, friendship, religion, fight, terrorist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Romania
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Yusuf and his best friend Memo are pupils at a boarding school for Kurdish boys, secluded in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia. When Memo falls mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic obstacles put up by the ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thought provoking, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
illness, tragedy, boys' school, friends, friendship, child illness, fighting the system, race against time, sick, boy, child, resentment ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, spiritual
Plot:
butterfly, family life, parents and children, family relations, child illness, disability, single parent, tragic hero, rain forest, male female relationship, child in peril, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
latin america, central america, costa rica, canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy ...
Plot:
down syndrome, haunted by the past, disability, child illness, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, hidden identity, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
kentucky, pittsburgh
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, hopes, cancer, chemotherapy, child illness, life is a bitch, babies and infants, optimism, couples, family problems, overcoming, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2011, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, marseille
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A divorced couple learns that the only way to possibly save their daughter, who is suffering from blood cancer, is to have another child. The problem is they've both already remarried.
Style:
emotional, captivating, touching, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
child illness, parents and children, transplant, terminal illness, family relations, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, remarry, parents separation, love, family problems, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Between fear of success and a tricky break-up, Ludovic is beyond all hope as he is getting close to the 30's stage. His unexpected meeting with a sick child, Raphael, shakes up his daily life and his future approach. Together, they go after ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
hopes, self discovery, introspection, child illness, life turned upside down, cause and meaning, terminal illness, disorder, friendship, family relations, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, provence, marseille
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384
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, society, social misfits, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, youth, single parent, family problems, child illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
What appears to be a grand love story turns sour when parents-to-be discover that their unborn child will likely be born with serious birth defects, as a result of the mother's exposure to chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq war. The father ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, sad, islamic, entertaining
Plot:
iraq iran war, iranian, child illness, pregnant woman, family problems, pregnancy, mother child relationship, illness, dysfunctional family, parenthood, relationship problems, motherhood ...
Place:
iran, persia, middle east, iraq
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Baby Annie is HIV positive and has been left in the clinic by her drug addicted mother. To prevent that she's deported to a home where they'd just wait for her to die, nurse Susan takes charge of Annie at her home. Two years later she ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot:
adoption, aids, hiv, medicine, child illness, child care, foster child, foster parent, women, orphan, poverty, homeless ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, infidelity, coming of age, bittersweet, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, life turned upside down, child illness, family in crisis, terminal illness, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, ireland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
true love, cancer, infidelity, family relations, hopes, betrayal, couples, danger, dishonesty, human nature, survival, terminal illness ...
Place:
poland, nova scotia, europe, holland, canada
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205
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Egypt, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
“Lust” takes us into the lives of the inhabitants of a marginalised street in Alexandria, Egypt, before the revolution. Each character is isolated in their fierce, yet fragile dreams, including Umm Shooq, who has deserted her wealthy family to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, rough, bleak
Plot:
social decay, family relations, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, family in crisis, low lives, family problems, realism, dealing with death, death in the family, child illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
egypt, middle east
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