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poster
76
IMDb 85
6.7
/12970/
65
/638/
66
/101/
3.8
/102906/
91
/185/
79
/23/
77
/34/
cc age 15+

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
poster
Starz Apple TV Channel
76
7.4
/18534/
78
/1734/
76
/338/
3.3
/15899/
84
/102/
99
/639/
57
/16/
cc age 11+

Ordinary Angels (2024)
Inspired by the incredible true story of a hairdresser who single-handedly rallies an entire community to help a widowed father save the life of his critically ill young daughter.
poster
72
7.7
/11710/
77
/315/
79
/339/
3.9
/20401/
50
/10/
84
/438/

The Cure (1995)
Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter's life in an eventful summer.
poster
Netflix
65
6.5
/29783/
71
/2398/
78
/891/
3.2
/157082/
53
/30/
69
/620/
56
/7/
cc age 15+

STRAW (2025)
What will be her last straw? A devastatingly bad day pushes a hardworking single mother to the breaking point — and into a shocking act of desperation.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.1
/8852/
65
/341/
60
/214/
2.9
/4006/
70
/23/
41
/61/
68
/8/

The Harvest (2015)
After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his mother’s strong objections. Her persistence leads to a friendship, but during secret visits, she uncovers dark secrets in the boy's home.
poster
Hulu
56
5.5
/5954/
60
/589/
64
/226/
2.7
/5517/
59
/29/
52
/26/
55
/7/
cc age 15+

Blood (2023)
Jess, a newly separated mother and nurse, moves into her old family farmhouse with Tyler, her teenage daughter, and Owen, her eight-year-old son. One night, the family dog senses something in the woods and runs off to find it. He returns a couple of days later and attacks Owen, savagely biting him before Jess is able to intervene. Owen is rushed to the hospital. His condition worsens, and no one can figure out why... until Jess discovers a disturbing cure...
poster
59
54
5.7
/8414/
62
/139/
57
/115/
3.0
/2663/
72
/25/
44
/57/
66
/19/

The Trigger Effect (1996)
A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.
poster
Hoopla
51
6.5
/14579/
73
/1426/
67
/524/
2.9
/4152/
17
/24/
57
/68/
21
/7/
cc age 15+

A Family Man (2016)
Dane Jensen is a driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When his boss pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven but polar-opposite rival at the firm, in a battle for control over the company. When his young son is then given a harrowing diagnosis, Dane is suddenly pulled between achieving his professional dream and spending time with the family that needs him now more than ever.
poster
67
48
7.0
/1580/
61
/40/
67
/59/
3.6
/1993/
66
/219/

Ingeborg Holm (1913)
After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.
poster
Hulu
48
5.4
/104561/
59
/9291/
59
/2714/
2.1
/196314/
35
/130/
64
/709/
40
/27/
cc age 14+

65 (2023)
65 million years ago, the only 2 survivors of a spaceship from Somaris that crash-landed on Earth, must fend off dinosaurs to reach the escape vessel in time before an imminent asteroid strike threatens to destroy the planet.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
47
6.3
/2504/
61
/79/
63
/52/
3.0
/1692/
61
/88/

A Christmas Carol (2004)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
poster
71
46
7.2
/1130/
71
/49/
74
/37/
3.3
/1392/
76

My Brilliant Life (2014)
A couple of teenagers have a son who suffers from progeria, a rare genetic disorder which makes one age exponentially faster than normal. 16 years later, the child has the body of an 80 year old in the final days of his life writing a book about his parents' love story.
poster
67
41
6.9
/2093/
68
/31/
71
/31/
3.5
/1062/
57
/341/

The Mayor of Hell (1933)
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.
poster
Kanopy
69
38
7.2
/2602/
66
/51/
72
/41/
3.4
/1490/
69
/2/

Helium (2014)
A young boy, Alfred, is dying, but through the stories about Helium, a magical fantasy world, told by the hospital's eccentric janitor, Enzo, Alfred regains the joy and happiness of his life, and finds a safe haven away from daily life.
poster
31
3.5
/12935/
50
/1363/
47
/652/
1.6
/8796/
11
/9/
10
/132/
cc age 16+

Day of the Dead: Bloodline (2017)
In a world overrun by zombies, military personnel and survivalists live in an underground bunker while they seek a cure.
poster
61
28
7.4
/208/
79
/22/
82
/49/
3.7
/385/
35
/79/
24
/448/

Et les mistrals gagnants (2017)
N/A
poster
63
25
6.7
/1137/
62
/12/
55
/11/
3.3
/505/
61
/63/

Vigil in the Night (1940)
A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.
poster
The Roku Channel
64
20
6.8
/1302/
72
/78/
62
/19/
3.1
/214/
60
/8/
cc age 10+

The Heart of Christmas (2011)
Told in flashback from the perspective of Megan, the storyline unfolds when her commitment to faith and family is renewed after reading the blog of Julie Locke, the online journal that Julie kept after her 13 months old Dax was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
poster
fuboTV
66
12
7.3
/251/
56
/6/
66
/14/
3.6
/307/

Tlayucan (1962)
Desperate because of his son's illness, the peasant Eufemio steals a pearl from the image of Santa Lucía in the village church.
poster
?
10
/1/

L'enfant bleu (1985)
Eleven-year-old Guillaume suffers from a serious and potentially fatal heart condition. Gradually, the young boy's family fractures under the weight of his illness.
poster
?
10
/1/

Black Pete – No, You're It (1980)
A drama-documentary film about the fatal effect of poor living conditions on health – the so-called "social inheritance." The principal characters in the film are two fourteen or fifteen-year-old children, Carl and Hanne. Covering a hundred-year period and drawing on case stories recorded by actual hospital staff, the film illustrates a number of variations of "the same old story."
poster
?
5.6
/60/
63
/3/
60
/1/

Laura (2010)
“Laura” is based on a true story about a dramatic search and rescue mission at Halemba coal mine that gripped Poland in February of 2006. A miner was trapped underground, and by the fourth day when everyone was beginning to lose hope of his safe return, the rescue team heard a faint knocking on the pipeline. After a nearly a week long search, the miner was rescued. Those who followed the story closely called it a miracle. But the miner claimed that what saved him was stronger than a miracle – his love for his daughter Laura, and his wife Marlena.
poster
?
7.4
/25/

The Visit (2018)
Klaus works voluntary as a Santa Claus in a shopping mall. After an exhausting day, he considers to hang up his job. But then, he gets a call from the children's intensive care unit.
poster
?
7.3
/22/
10
/1/

Shankhabela (1966)
Tripti's ill son has been admitted to the hospital. A teacher by profession, she visits her son every day after school. One day on her way, she comes across her estranged husband, Sunil Ganguly.
poster
?
10
/1/

The Post Office (1973)
Amol, a child, is confined to his adoptive uncle's home by an incurable disease. He stands in the courtyard and talks to passers-by and inquires about the places they go to. The construction of a new post office nearby prompts the imaginative Amol to fantasise about receiving a letter from the King or being his postman.
poster
54
?
6.2
/230/
35
/2/
65
/6/

Emergency Call (1952)
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
?
6.8
/78/
58
/5/

Down by the River (2014)
A family deals with the disease of sickle cell, in there youngest family member. In the midst of this trying time and prosperous time at moments, there are many other obstacles that come in to play, that test the very foundation of this family.
poster
The Roku Channel
?
7.4
/43/
10
/1/
60
/1/

The Forgiving (2020)
Avi Brickman is a middle-aged man still broken from the tragic death of his eight-year-old daughter five years earlier. When he is suddenly fired from his job, a thin threaded lifeline to his shattered existence, he decides to kill himself in the very home where the accident occurred. However, when he arrives at the isolated house in the woods, he finds a woman and her young daughter taking shelter there. During one long night, in his confused state of mind, he is haunted by the ghosts of his past as he confronts his guilt and pain to a cathartic and unexpected conclusion.
poster
51
?
6.8
/157/
37
/4/
48
/5/

The Night Before Christmas (1968)
Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.
poster
?
5.1
/20/
10
/1/
20
/1/

La Lola... dicen que no vive sola (1970)
A prostitute promises to the Virgin Mary not to practice her trade for a year if she heals her sick child.
poster
?
4.8
/50/

Riot Squad (1941)
Crime drama starring Richard Cromwell as a young medic who becomes the private physician to an underworld gang.
poster
58
?
6.3
/364/
56
/3/
56
/19/

Tom and Lola (1990)
Born with their immune systems damaged, Tom and Lola are doomed to live their lives in isolation, sealed in separate plastic bubbles. However, neither cold urethane nor chillier hospital technicians can keep down the beguiling spirit of these indomitable siblings.
poster
48
?
3.3
/490/
54
/23/
47
/7/
58
/5/
cc age 13+

Faith Under Fire (2020)
Fireman Tom Hatcher is at the end of his rope. He saves lives but couldn't save his wife from cancer. Now his daughter faces the same battle. From an unlikely friend, Tom is challenged to face grief and embrace faith in his darkest hours.
poster
52
?
6.0
/157/
44
/7/
42
/5/
3.3
/320/

Trilogy of Terror (1968)
An anthology divided in three segments, helmed by three of the most important Brazilian directors of the 20th century. A mother becomes involved with black magic and offers a virgin woman to the Devil in exchange for curing the illness of her only son. A poor laborer is the only man in the village with courage to face a group of guerrilheiros ("guerrilla ghosts") that haunt the minds of the locals. A young man is afflicted by fear of reptiles and spiders and the fear of being buried alive. When he undergoes a shocking event, he becomes unresponsive and is mistakenly buried, only to revive in the coffin after burial.
poster
45
?
6.5
/234/
10
/2/
60
/3/

Children of the Dark (1994)
The true story of parents who discover that their two young daughters have a genetic disease that makes it fatal for them to be exposed to ordinary light.
poster
?

Les petits miracles (2017)
The story of families whose kids are hospitalized at Sainte-Justine hospital. The film plunges us into the daily living of these parents ready for everything in order to help their kids recover health.
poster
?

Indigo Blue (2025)
A desperate couple risks everything to secure life-saving surgery for their sick daughter.
poster
?

Guillaume (2019)
N/A
poster
?

The 9th Inning (2023)
Vera, a mom in the 1930s, mourns the loss of her baseball player husband and her 7-year-old daughter. After finding relics from her daughter’s life in a room, she unexpectedly experiences the time in which her loved ones were alive. In this dream-like world opened through her memory, she reconnects with her daughter and husband and comes to terms with her collapsed world.
poster
?

Austin Kringle (2022)
Austin Kringle steps into the shoes of Santa Clause for a day, delivering the gifts to a sick child.
poster
?

A Physician's Honor (1912)
N/A
poster
?

The Wireless Miracle (1912)
The daughter of a lighthouse keeper falls ill with diphtheria, but there is no doctor on the island. A wireless operator has the idea of contacting a passing passenger liner, to try and find a doctor.
poster
?
6.2
/10/

The Actress (1911)
N/A
poster
?

Sail Away (2013)
Edinburgh 1861. Smout, a young boy confined to bed due to his fragile health is secretly joined by his friend Sam. Together, they flee to a colorful world seeking a marvelous treasure. Will Smout's health be strong enough to live this adventure?
poster
?

Nobody's Child (2017)
Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that finding him will right all wrongs. Her quest leads her into an adult world, which it seems, is no place for a child. The answers Lolly seeks are secreted in the unspoken past. As the doors close on her efforts, Lolly is faced with the harshest of realities. Nobody’s Child is a coming of age story about a young girl searching for her identity.


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