Illness movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant illness movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, sad, sentimental, tear jerker, realistic and emotional films and TV shows about / with illness, terminal illness, disease, hospital, death, love, doctor, disability, family relations and teenager plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as illness: After Everything (2018), For Ever, Plus One Day (2020), Breathe (2017), Miracles from Heaven (2016), Close to the Horizon (2019), The Children Act (2017), Five Feet Apart (2019), Miss You Already (2015), To the Bone (2017), Everything, Everything (2017).

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After Everything (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Elliot, a brash 23-year-old living carefree in New York City, meets the sensible Mia and receives a damning diagnosis all in the same week, his world is turned completely upside down. But as their love blossoms amidst the chaos of his ...
Style: touching, light, sweet, sentimental, humorous
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: illness, love, cancer, couple relations, couples, male female friendship, road not taken, friends, youth, bucket list, threat, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
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For Ever, Plus One Day (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Chuck has a rare illness and is going to die. He and his girlfriend Delphine decide to take full advantage of the time they have left by doing absolutely everything they want.
Style: suspenseful, serious, touching, suspense
Plot: illness, life & death, terminal illness, fighting illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love of one's life, tragic love, love, impossible love, doomed love, love and romance, tragedy ...
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 7.1
 25K
Breathe (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Style: sad, touching, compassionate, factual, inspirational ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: disability, illness, supportive spouse, paralysis, marriage, love, husband wife relationship, euthanasia, hospital, biopic, adaptation, quadriplegic ...
Time: 50s, year 2017, year 1971, year 1958, year 1960 ...
Place: africa, england, spain, germany, kenya
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Miracles from Heaven (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: \When Christy discovers her 10-year-old daughter Anna has a rare, incurable disease, she becomes a ferocious advocate for her daughter’s healing as she searches for a solution. After Anna has a freak accident and falls three stories, a miracle ...
Style: christian film, inspirational, sentimental, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Audience: family outing, kids, chick flick
Plot: christian, christianity, illness, faith, medical, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, sick child, miraculous event, child cancer, little girl, hospital ...
Place: boston
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Close to the Horizon (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jessica knows exactly what her life is supposed to look like and where it takes her. But then she meets Danny. He has a complicated past and could confuse all their plans. Jessica has to decide.
Style: touching, sentimental, romantic, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: young couple, love and romance, couple relations, fall in love, youth, illness, obstacle, attraction, sad ending, young adult, tragic romance, pain ...
Time: 2000s, year 1999, 90s
Place: germany
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The Children Act (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family's refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.
Style: thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, rough, serious ...
Plot: judge, jehovah's witness, illness, moral dilemma, courtroom, religion, teenager, leukemia, marriage crisis, hospital, cancer, crisis of faith ...
Time: year 2017
Place: london
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Five Feet Apart (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.
Style: thought provoking, melancholic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: terminal illness, disability, fighting illness, star crossed lovers, true love, forbidden love, hospital, couple relations, danger, suffering, fall in love, illness ...
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Miss You Already (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The friendship between two life-long girlfriends is put to the test when one starts a family and the other falls ill.
Style: touching, semi serious, sad, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: cancer, friendship, dying, terminal illness, illness, best friend, pregnancy, life turned upside down, love, relationships, unfulfillment, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: yorkshire, england
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 6.8
 54K
To the Bone (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young woman dealing with anorexia meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.
Style: bleak, captivating, motivational, emotional, teen ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: eating disorder, illness, anorexia, therapy, suicide, sister sister relationship, self harm, psychology, mental health, mental illness, mental disorder, relationship problems ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, arizona
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Everything, Everything (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenager who's lived a sheltered life because she's allergic to everything, falls for the boy who moves in next door.
Style: romantic, sincere, captivating, romantic drama, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: teenager, love, illness, neighbor, teen romance, teenage love, interracial love, interracial romance, teenage girl, love interest, teenage protagonist, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2017
Place: hawaii, america, new york, los angeles
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 6.8
 615
Call DiCaprio! (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: The main character is the star of a popular TV series about doctors, actor Yegor Rumyantsev. Having achieved great success, he becomes an egoist and does not notice the feelings and experiences of those around him: he does not come to the shooting, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: aids, illness, death of brother, unrequited love, sexually transmitted disease, complex characters, love triangle, actor, terminal illness, true love, sex, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: moscow russia
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 6.1
 33K
I Kill Giants (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, Belgium, Denmark, UK, Sweden, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sophia, a new high school student, tries to make friends with Barbara, who tells her that “she kills giants,” protecting this way her hometown and its inhabitants, who do not understand her strange behavior.
Style: sad, psychological, atmospheric, rough, heartbreaking ...
Audience: kids
Plot: teenage girl, escape from reality, imagination, giant, school, death of mother, cancer, illness, psychologist, girl, fantasy world, bully ...
Time: 2010s
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The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a patient named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, sentimental, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: cancer, terminal illness, teenager, fall in love, love story, youth, first love, teenage life, dealing with death, adolescence, coping, coming of age ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, usa, pittsburgh, ethiopia, indiana ...
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 7.5
 143K
Still Alice (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.
Style: sad, heartbreaking, touching, emotional, inspirational ...
Audience: teens
Plot: memory loss, alzheimer's disease, illness, supportive spouse, mother daughter relationship, columbia university, family drama, terminal illness, family bonds, mental illness, psychology, relationships ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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I Am Not a Robot (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Inevitably, everybody gets hurt at some point in their lives. There are different remedies for different types of wounds, and as time elapses, these remedies start to become less effective. This is a story about a man who created a shield for his ...
Style: feel good, light, funny, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: couples, happy ending, fall in love, company, youth, robot, rich man poor woman, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, secret, illness, humanoid robot ...
Place: korea
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 6.6
 36K
Midnight Sun (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Katie, a 17-year-old, has been sheltered since childhood and confined to her house during the day by a rare disease that makes even the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Fate intervenes when she meets Charlie and they embark on a summer romance.
Style: romantic, sincere, sad, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teen romance, terminal illness, teenage love, true love, first love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, star crossed lovers, teenager, life & death, illness, tragic love, teenage girl ...
Place: seattle
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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to ...
Style: touching, independent film, emotional, teen, depressing ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: high school, cancer, adolescence, teenager, terminal illness, friendship, dying, coming of age, leukemia, teenage boy, illness, friends ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, found footage, demon, investigation, mental illness, insanity, kidnapping, serial killer, surveillance, possession, snake, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia
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 7.9
 105K
Amour (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Style: philosophical, sad, sincere, art house, reflective ...
Plot: elderly, aging, death, old couple, life & death, elderly lovers, husband wife relationship, life philosophy, illness, love, family relations, daughter ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: paris france, germany, nebraska, france
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 7.5
 143K
The Big Sick (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's ...
Style: romantic, sweet, feel good, romantic comedy, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot: comedian, illness, hospital, interracial love, arranged marriage, stand up comedy, love, relationships, interracial romance, cultural difference, character study, infection ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: chicago, pakistan, new york
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My Life Without Me (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Pedro Almodovar production in which a fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies with out telling her family of her illness.
Style: sad, touching, contemplative, philosophical, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: terminal illness, cancer, secret love, illness, love and romance, dealing with death, death, parents and children, infidelity, hospital, relationships, love story ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: canada
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 6.7
 94K
Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, terminal illness, love, fall in love, cancer, tragic love, bittersweet, couples, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, compassionate, depressing, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: aids, transsexual, fighting the system, hiv, transgender, human spirit, life is a bitch, drug, casual sex, treatment, gay slur, hiv positive ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 2010s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: texas, usa, america, midwest, nebraska ...
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The Theory of Everything (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style: touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: disability, genius, love, physicist, cambridge university, mathematics, prodigy, husband wife relationship, supportive spouse, scientist, against the odds, biopic ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 90s ...
Place: oxford university, england, united kingdom
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Life as a House (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, father son relationship, dying, cancer, dysfunctional family, relationships, reconciliation, illness, divorce, fighting illness, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2001
Place: california, usa
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The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A widowed field mouse must move her family -- including an ailing son -- to escape a farmer's plow. Aided by a crow and a pack of superintelligent, escaped lab rats, the brave mother struggles to transplant her home to firmer ground.
Style: fairy tale, touching, atmospheric, feel good, witty ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: mouse, heroic mission, friendship, against the odds, laboratory, rat, rescue, illness, family problems, cure, danger, heroes ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 90s, 20th century
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 7.8
 10K
Happiness (2021)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: A new type of deadly virus spread throughout the city, and the apartment where has different social classes of people is sealed off. With the fear of the virus, and the conflicts of the different classes, the residents have to spend and survive in ...
Style: apocalyptic, dorama, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: epidemic, apartment building, survival, virus, illness, zombie apocalypse, social problems, struggle for survival, society, social isolation, isolated place, fighting illness ...
Time: near future
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Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style: romantic, touching, offbeat, depressing, realistic ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, bipolar disorder, love, family drama, depression, life philosophy, adaptation, supportive parent, male female friendship, father son relationship, happy ending, social misfits ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa, peru, america ...
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 6.1
 24K
Excision (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by ...
Style: disturbing, surreal, scary, tense, dark comedy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: social outcast, body horror, dysfunctional family, surgeon, high school, sister sister relationship, gory, surgical operation, mentally unstable, teacher, mentally unstable protagonist, erotic dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, usa
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 7.2
 14K
The Mighty (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, disability, friendship, boy, bully, loneliness, misfit, youth, social misfits, illness, fight, best friend ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio
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