Movies and TvShows featuring "mysterious-illness" theme.
House is a medical drama that follows the unconventional and misanthropic genius Dr. Gregory House as he leads a team of diagnosticians at Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital. Known for his brilliant mind and unorthodox methods, House takes on complex medical cases and solves medical mysteries that other doctors can't crack. Along the way, he confronts his own pain and struggles with prescription drug abuse.
A group of workers on a remote Scottish oil rig are due to return to the mainland when a mysterious fog enshrouds them and supernatural forces take hold. The crew must navigate through the fog and the unknown force that drives it. As they struggle to survive, they question who they can trust.
A doctor investigates a series of murders connected to a voodoo ritual in Jamaica, leading her to uncover a family secret and a supernatural power. As she delves deeper into the investigation, she discovers a conspiracy that involves betrayal and revenge.
When an Iraq War veteran receives a calling from a higher power, he embarks on a mission to stop a fallen angel from raising an army of the dead to take over the world.
One night Nancy Lyon awakes in pain and dies shortly after - poisoned with arsenic. Her family immediately suspects her husband Richard, who left her temporarily the year before because of an affair. Especially Nancy's brother is keen on getting the children away from the suspected murderer. All evidence points against Richard, but in court Richard surprisingly presents proof that his wife had depressions and maybe killed herself - or are these proofs just fake? -- Depicts an authentic case.
13-year-old Nala takes her family to her grandmother's home in the countryside in search of a cure for her sister's illness. However, they soon discover that her granny is hiding a sinister secret.
Consumed tells the story of a single mother who becomes entangled in a web of biotechnology, illness, and corruption, as she investigates the mysterious illness plaguing her son. With the help of a determined lawyer, they uncover a dark conspiracy involving genetically modified organisms and a small town's secrets. Consumed is a thought-provoking and intense exploration of the effects of GMOs on individuals and society.
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.
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at the conclusion that she has tetanus. Her parents have to bear the sufferings of their child. The once peaceful family has changed completely.
One Summer follows the story of a teenage boy who forms a bond with a mysterious girl, facing various challenges and unraveling secrets along the way. Set against the backdrop of a small coastal town, the film explores themes of love, family, and self-discovery.
An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.
A 13-year-old girl is more than her widowed father can handle at times, even with help from her aunt, until a tragic accident changes her outlook on life.
In this thrilling movie, Flash Gordon must save the universe from an evil ruler by embarking on a dangerous adventure through otherworldly planets and battling against deadly enemies. With his courage and intelligence, Flash Gordon aims to conquer the Universe and bring peace back to his people.
Mariela arrives from Venezuela to the United States to care for the Collins' young daughter, Abbey. But behind this family's seemingly perfect facade hides a sinister secret.
The life of Ipse, a 19-year-old girl who cannot get out of her own bed due to psychological trauma, is as motionless as a plant. Having no family and no clue of her family's mysterious history, she lives completely dependent on her neighbors, but starts to feel suffocated under the abuse and the looks she gets as if she was something to be eaten up. One day, in the midst of her hellish everyday life, a stranger comes to her house.
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.
1931: in Ireland, a film maker hears of an aged ship's carpenter who knows the fate of the Hollandia, a Norse ship that set sail in 1905 and vanished. The old salt has canisters of film to prove his tale. We see the footage as he narrates. They sail south in June, 1905, with scores of Siberian huskies aboard, meeting no living soul, the crew ignorant of the trip's purpose, until they reach Antarctica. A mysterious Italian paces the deck; a polar bear appears, and the Italian, possessed, hunts it down. That night, the boatswain explains to the crew how an Arctic bear could be at the South Pole and why the Hollandia has come. Visitors arrive, and the Gothic tale plays out.
A terrible disease is found in a Mexican town. A doctor tries to alert the authorities when he discovers its epidemic nature. No one listen to him and soon after the disease spreads. The government tries to control the information in order to prevent panic.
When a man visits an old friend's mansion, he discovers that the house is haunted and filled with dark secrets. As he explores further, strange occurrences and unexplained events start to happen, leading him to uncover the truth behind the mysterious illness that has plagued his friend and his own involvement in the supernatural events.
Believing she's contracted a mysterious illness, a socialite begins sabotaging her own life in the face of rejection from her own body and her family.