Movies and TvShows featuring "lyme-disease" theme.

Lymelife is a coming-of-age drama that takes place in suburban America during the late 1970s. The film explores various themes including love, family dynamics, and infidelity. It follows the lives of two families and the complex relationships that unfold within them. As the teenagers in the film navigate first love and sexual awakening, the adults grapple with their own marital issues and the consequences of their actions. Lymelife captures the innocence, turmoil, and disillusionment of adolescence in the midst of the American Dream.

The Punk Singer is a biographical documentary that chronicles the life and career of a punk singer. It explores topics such as feminism, punk rock music, body politics, and the singer's battle with Lyme disease.

A workaholic man moves into a cottage and begins experiencing strange phenomena, including hearing voices and seeing flickering lights. When he discovers a hidden garden, he realizes he can travel through time by exchanging letters with a woman from the past. As he delves deeper into the garden's mysteries, he must confront his own fears and insecurities while finding love and healing.

In a dystopian Rhode Island, a father and son navigate the dangers of a zombie apocalypse while trying to survive. They encounter cannibalistic groups, hunt for food and supplies, and face the constant fear of infection. The father-son relationship is tested as they fight to stay alive.

Under Our Skin is a documentary that investigates the controversial topic of Lyme disease and the medical establishment's response to it. Through interviews with patients, doctors, and researchers, the film explores the experiences and challenges faced by those affected by the disease, as well as the scientific and political controversies surrounding its diagnosis and treatment.

This investigation by Marie-Monique Robin makes the link between the proliferation of new viruses and the destruction of biodiversity and probes the scientists gathered around the issue of global health. To counter the multiplication of health crises, these specialists advocate the preservation of biodiversity as an antidote.

In 1984-85, people at Lake Tahoe fell ill with flu symptoms, but they didn't get better. Medical literature documents similar outbreaks: in 1934 at LA county hospital, in 1948-49 in Iceland, in 1956 in Punta Gorda, Florida. The malady now has a name, chronic fatigue syndrome, and filmmaker Kim Snyder, who suffered from the disease for several years, tells her story and talks to victims and their families, and to physicians and researchers: is it viral, it is psychosomatic, is it one disease or several (a syndrome) ; what's the CDC doing about it; what's it like to have a disease that's not yet understood? Her inquiry takes her to Punta Gorda and to a high-school graduation.

Director, Joonas Berghäll, suffers from chronic Lyme disease. He looks for a cure to his illness and by doing so finds himself thrown into the midst of a worldwide lobby-driven and political medical debate about Lyme disease and the threat of it becoming the next wide scale epidemic.

Under the Eightball is a thought-provoking documentary that examines the struggles faced by Lyme disease patients in getting proper diagnosis and treatment. It delves into the controversy surrounding the medical community's view on chronic Lyme disease and highlights personal stories of those affected. Through interviews with patients, doctors, and researchers, the film sheds light on the challenges and frustrations experienced by individuals living with this debilitating illness.

This production lifts the veil on a little-known disease caused by the bite of infected black-legged ticks: Lyme disease. Discussing its transmission methods, its spread, its devastating effects on victims, the prognostic and the treatments, this documentary reveals an infectious disease growing in Quebec and round the world.

A look through the eyes of those who suffer from Lyme Disease and those who have chosen to fight for them. With digital graphics from DE and original music by Arte Bratton, this explores the real issues involved with this spreading disease.

A couple turns the cameras towards themselves showing an intimate side of Lyme Disease the world has yet to see. They also take the viewer on a journey researching the truth, lies and healing behind our modern era's most misunderstood chronic illness.