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  • Dark Night Of The Soul Trailer

    Dark Night Of The Soul Trailer

    September 22, 2011 / Drama, Health & Disease, Movie Trailers, Prasanna Vithanage, Sinhalese, Sri Lanka

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Original Title: Anantha Rathriya Released: 1996 Country: Sri Lanka Director: Prasanna Vithanage Language: Sinhalese Theme: Health & Disease Genre: Drama Summary Suwisal is a successful, middle-aged company director, but he has a melancholic personality and is very forgetful. His beautiful young fiance finds herself having to remind him of daily appointments, special occasions and [...]

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  • Time Bomb

    Time Bomb

    September 22, 2011 / Drama, Hassan Rastgar, Health & Disease, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Released: 2006 Country: Iran Director: Hassan Rastgar Language: Persian Theme: Health & Disease Genre: Drama Summary When Hussein was seven, he contracted hemophilia, hepatitis and AIDS due to a government-approved blood transfusion. Despite its obvious guilt, the fledgling Iranian government abandoned him to deal with his condition alone. Director Hasan Rastagar blurs the foundations [...]

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  • Simple Courage – An Historical Portrait for the Age of AIDS

    Simple Courage – An Historical Portrait for the Age of AIDS

    September 22, 2011 / Documentary, English, Health & Disease, Movie Trailers, Stephanie Castillo, United States

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:    Released: 1992 Country: United States Director: Stephanie Castillo Language: English Theme: Health & Disease Genre: Documentary Summary A Director’s Cut version of a 1993 EMMY Award-winning documentary, re-released in 2008. Father Damien, Simple Courage tells the tragic story of Hawaii’s leprosy epidemic (1865-1965) and the compassionate intervention of Belgium missionary priest Father Damien de [...]

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  • Death Of A Doctor

    Death Of A Doctor

    July 5, 2011 / Drama, English, Health & Disease, Hindi, India, Movie Trailers, Tapan Sinha

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:   Original Title: Ek Doctor Ki Maut Released: 1990 Country: India Director: Tapan Sinha Language: Hindi,English Theme: Health & Disease Genre: Drama Summary Dr. Dipankar spends his days treating patients at a government hospital, and his nights working on a leprosy vaccine in his home laboratory. Straining both his health and his relationship with his [...]

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  • Wheelchair

    Wheelchair

    July 5, 2011 / Bengali, Drama, Health & Disease, India, Movies, Tapan Sinha

    Released: 1994 Country: India Director: Tapan Sinha Language: Bengali Theme: Health & Disease Genre: Drama Summary Sushmita is attacked one night after staying late at the office. She falls down the stairs in her attempt to escape and suffers damage to her spinal cord, resulting in paralysis. Despondent and wishing for death to end her suffering, she is sent to live in a nursing home for neurologically handicapped patients, run by Dr. Mitra, who is himself, wheelchair-bound. As Sushmita struggles [...]

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  • Wheelchair

    Wheelchair

    July 5, 2011 / Bengali, Drama, Health & Disease, India, Movie Trailers, Tapan Sinha

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:   Released: 1994 Country: India Director: Tapan Sinha Language: Bengali Theme: Health & Disease Genre: Drama Summary Sushmita is attacked one night after staying late at the office. She falls down the stairs in her attempt to escape and suffers damage to her spinal cord, resulting in paralysis. Despondent and wishing for death to end [...]

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  • Alas Nice Days

    Alas Nice Days

    June 27, 2011 / Drama, Hassan Rastgar, Health & Disease, Iran, Movie Trailers, Persian

    Enjoy the trailer? Now watch the entire movie. Hit “purchase” to subscribe to a three-year stream of the film. Have a coupon? Enter code here:   Original Title: AahRooz-Haye Released: 2007 Country: Iran Director: Hassan Rastgar Language: Persian Theme: Health & Disease Genre: Drama Summary This film is in two parts. In the first part, a woman with four kids who is four-months pregnant finds out that she’s been infected with HIV. The film follows her and how she’s been [...]

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