Movies: Sick child

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 ...

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A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake....

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 M...

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....

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 so...

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 i...

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....

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....

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....

A prostitute promises to the Virgin Mary not to practice her trade for a year if she heals her sick child....

Austin Kringle steps into the shoes of Santa Clause for a day, delivering the gifts to a sick child....

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-lik...

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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...

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....

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....

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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....