Movies hold great power to influence the audience. Some movies have the potential to create a long-lasting impact on the audience. These movies helped create awareness and eliminate stigmas. These movies are a great window to unpopular medical conditions. These movies are entertaining but have a message.
1. Deep
The Thai movie is about four medical students who put themselves at risk for one million. A foreign pharmaceutical company tests their medicines that put the students in a deadly state of sleep deprivation. They must find a way to escape from the laboratory.
2. Sia Dai 1
The movie involves teenagers getting into drug dependence, and it's too late when the parents notice the signs. The movie came with the valid motive of raising awareness about the consumption of drugs by teenagers.
3. Chocolate
The film is about a girl on the journey to save money for her mother, who is suffering from cancer. She finds a ray of hope when she stumbles upon her mother’s register consisting of a list of names. Those names were of the people who took money from his mother.
4. Memoria
The critically acclaimed film is about a woman who works as a florist to support the medical expenses of her sister suffering from respiratory illness. While she is traveling through the jungles of Columbia she hears an unsettling noise and starts experiencing sensory syndrome.
5. Tropical Malady
The film is a compilation of different stories. One of the stories shows two soldiers in love who save a dog, but they later find out that the dog has cancer. This tale indicates the friendship and the evolution of love between the pair.
6. Heart Attack
The film is about a man overloaded with work and visits the doctor after finding a rash on his body. The doctor and man get romantically involved, but it gets difficult for them to take time out from their busy schedules.
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
The story is about a man who is inevitably dying soon due to kidney disease. The man begins hallucinating and sees his dead wife and a peculiar creature as his child.
8. Under The Mask
The story is about tuberculosis and how it affects a person’s social life and family. The film raises awareness about the symptoms and treatments of the disease.
9. One For The Road
The film captures the story of two friends deciding to go on a road trip and leave everything behind. But things come to a twisting point when one of the friends discovers he has cancer.
10. Cemetery Of Splendour
The story captures the epidemic that infested Thailand. A woman is in charge of the injured soldier with sleeping sickness. The woman starts hallucinating as a symptom of the disease.
