Disabled child movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant disabled child movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, emotional, realistic, disturbing and sincere films and TV shows about / with disabled child, disability, family relations, handicapped, family drama, physical disability, coming of age, female protagonist, small town and mother daughter relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres shot in USA, Italy, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as disabled child: The Nest (2019), Fly Me Away (2021), Life Feels Good (2013), Sweet Nothing in My Ear (2008), Iona (2015), The Color of Paradise (1999), Shino Cannot Say Her Own Name (2018), Roll No. 56 (2017), The Colors of Fire (2022), 37 Seconds (2019).
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Samuel is a paraplegic young boy living with his mother Elena in "Lake manor," an isolated mansion surrounded by woods. With the strict prohibition to walk away from the mansion, stuck in a family routine, Samuel grows serene but ...
Style:
gothic horror, suspense, gothic, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
disabled child, boy girl relationship, overprotective mother, family secret, isolated house, doctor, runaway, mansion, teenage girl, evil mother, twists and turns, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Thomas, a blasé young man, spends his nights in clubs and his days in bed. Until his father, Dr. Reinhard, fed up with his son’s escapades, cuts him off completely and forces him to take care of one of his young patients. Mar- cus, 12, was born ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
disabled child, man boy relationship, father son relationship, rich, illness, father son conflict, lifestyle change, changing lives, fighting illness, boy, single father, serious illness ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Mateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz’s protected world is ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, compassionate, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
cerebral palsy, longing, physical disability, disabled child, handicapped, family relations, faith, parents and children, life is a bitch, childhood, training, love ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 2000s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Family drama about a deaf and hearing couple who struggle to decide whether or not to give their deaf son a cochlear implant.
Style:
captivating, ambiguous ending, entertaining
Plot:
deaf, medical examination, parent child relationship, deafness, disabled child, mother son conflict, deaf child, therapy, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, family relations, family conflict ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Three women’s lives intersect at a lakeside resort and are forever changed by the love of a special needs boy.
Style:
captivating, psychological, sincere, deep, sentimental
Plot:
lesbian love, lesbian, lesbian relationship, lesbian romance, female protagonist, lgbt, mother daughter relationship, disability, death of mother, family secret, lgbtq, disabled child ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Iona returns to the island where she was born with her teenage son to seek refuge from a violent crime in Glasgow. Iona's return exposes her tormented son, Bull, to a way of life she rejected when she left the island and sends a shockwave ...
Style:
captivating, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
Plot:
on the run, faith, homecoming, haunted by the past, teenage boy, young love, childhood home, religion, stepfather, girl, disabled child, interracial relations ...
Place:
scotland
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Iran
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the ...
Style:
touching, emotional, dramatic, depressing, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
blindness, children, poverty, orphan, shame, islam, countryside, childhood, blind character, muslim, catholic, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, persia, tehran iran, tehran
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ooshima Shino is a 1st-grade high school student. She has difficulties pronouncing words that start with vowels in front of people. Because of her speech impediment, she does not get along with others. Shino meets Kayo who likes music, but she is ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, psychological, light, feel good ...
Plot:
schoolgirl, teenager, japanese girl, speech impediment, friendship between girls, disabled child, coping, friends, friendship, longing, musician's life, direction and purpose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Film Revolves around 12 year old kid, who has some physical disabilities. Due to this, his life becomes abnormal. Thus, film portrays his life incidents.
Style:
gujarati, emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
disabled child, urban, child protagonist, physical disability, empathy, handicapped, adolescence, teenage protagonist, relationship problems, disability, teenager, problem ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
conspiracy, inheritance, money problems, vengeance, stolen money, female protagonist, revenge plot, revenge, heiress, problem, hitler, frenchman ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 1929, year 1934
Place:
france, paris france, berlin germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 37 Seconds, 23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protective mother, forges her own unusual path to sexual awakening and independence while at ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cerebral palsy, disability, exploring sexuality, artist, loss of virginity, sex worker, coming of age, japanese woman, character study, life is a bitch, adaptation, love affair ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, thailand
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at school with their deaf daughter, the British social services grow concerned for the safety of their ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating, social
Plot:
deaf child, money problems, parents and children, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, social issues, family problems, family relations, social problems, kids and family, society, teenager ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Based on a True Story War Eagle, Arkansas is a character-driven drama about a young man’s choice of whether to leave his family and friends for a career in baseball or stay and redeem his struggling community. The story takes place over a few ...
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot:
stuttering, wheelchair bound, friendship, baseball, baseball coach, high school, stutterer, disabled child, teenage life, disability, handicapped, life is a bitch ...
Place:
arkansas
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. There she meets Maria Montessori, who is pioneering a teaching method that may help the child.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, teachers and students, disabled child, relationships, lifestyle, changing lives, family relations, lifestyle change, parents and children, horse, female protagonist, donkey ...
Time:
year 1900
Place:
paris france, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Nine-year-old Frankie and his single mum Lizzie have been on the move ever since Frankie can remember, most recently arriving in a seaside Scottish town. Wanting to protect her deaf son from the truth that they've run away from his father, ...
Style:
heartbreaking, sweet, sentimental, realistic, uplifting ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
single parent, disability, family drama, passion, friendship, father son relationship, boy, stranger, ship, passionate love, little boy, letter ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
scotland, europe, glasgow scotland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
All About Me is a British television sitcom starring Jasper Carrott about a multicultural family living in Birmingham. It was broadcast on BBC One from 2002 to 2004. All About Me was created by Steve Knight, who also wrote many of the early episodes.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, sitcom, captivating, funny ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
cerebral palsy, disabled child, daily life, teenager, social problems, social satire, satire, paralysis, social issues, lifestyle, mixed race, urban ...
Place:
birmingham alabama
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A youth romantic drama with themes of growing up, the story focuses on college student Tsuneo and dreamer Josee, who lives her life stuck in a wheelchair. Josee—named after the heroine in Françoise Sagan’s Wonderful Clouds—spends most of her ...
Style:
anime, sincere, captivating, romantic, tsundere ...
Plot:
relationships, lifestyle change, woman in a wheelchair, love, teenage life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, slice of life, teenager, wheelchair bound, disability, disabled child ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Poor painter helps a paralysed child.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, independent film, period piece ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
custody battle, paralysis, poverty, disabled child, underdog, social commentary, compassion, struggle, character study, social realism, bonding, family drama ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her a few years earlier. One day Yolande, an exuberant, eccentric, funny and beautiful girl, bursts ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, sincere
Plot:
father daughter relationship, bookstore, librarian, disabled child, family relations, lifestyle, actress, bookseller, doctor, storekeeper, mute, flashback ...
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The story about Mirella Antonione Casale who got inspired by her handicapped daughter to lead the fight for including all pupils in public schools in Italy.
Style:
inspirational, psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
school, fighting the system, mother daughter relationship, disabled child, handicapped, parents and children, disability, social problems, female protagonist, schoolgirl, social issues, civil rights movement ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A father's journey to help his blind and wheel-chair bound son to overcome impossible odds and allow the world to see his God-given potential.
Style:
motivational, uplifting, inspirational, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
father son relationship, disability, christian, man in a wheelchair, father, blindness, determination, family values, hopes, resilience, family drama, perseverance ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Diego, Italian, and Waid, Syrian, live in Rome and are both fathers of disabled children. They become friends, but Waid mysteriously disappears and Diego is targeted by the Secret Service.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychotronic
Plot:
handicapped, father son relationship, disability, disabled child, friendship between men, family relations, friendship, physical disability, rich and poor, friends, father and son, family problems ...
Place:
rome italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
Follows fish out of water Mikey and his two misfit mates, Salwa and Jerry. Their goal - make Mikey the sweetest-bestest-acest handball champ Western Sydney's ever seen.
Style:
humorous, light hearted, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
handball, children, friendship, social problems, sport team, disability, handicapped, teenage protagonist, wheelchair bound, lifestyle, disabled child, teenage life ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A couple purchases an eleven-year old girl who cannot walk, with the intention of using her to earn money through begging.
Style:
bleak, grim, independent film, slow cinema
Plot:
begging, poverty, desperation, child protagonist, abuse, manipulation, disability, human trafficking, disabled child, economic inequality, ethical dilemma, survival ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
china
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Lam Kwok Kuen, nearing retirement and raising a mentally challenged son by himself, is a police officer whose sole requirement on the job is oversee the department fleet. Despite this, he remains active in the front line of police service, putting ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
police, protective parent, family drama, sacrifice, father son relationship, heroism, loss of family member, loss of child, gunfight, police investigation, fight, fighting crime ...
Place:
china
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After their father dies, a family of five are forced to survive on their own in a Kurdish village on the border of Iran and Iraq. Matters are made worse when 12 year old Ayoub, the new head of the family, is told that his handicapped brother, Madi, ...
Style:
meditative, emotional, harsh, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
kurd, coming of age, children, youth, smuggling, siblings relations, orphan, family relations, village life, parents and children, family in crisis, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
iran, middle east, kurdistan, persia, iraq ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Bronk is an American television series starring Jack Palance as Detective Lieutenant Alex Bronkov. The series is set in the fictional Ocean City, California.
24 episodes were aired from September 21, 1975 to March 28, 1976 on CBS. The series lasted ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, suspenseful
Plot:
father daughter relationship, corruption, police procedural, tough cop, law and order, family tragedy, family drama, investigation, disabled child, urban decay, fictional city, police ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot:
disability, family relations, family problems, family life, social relations, couples, society, couple relations, youth, babies and infants, pregnancy, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
mississippi, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
Raghunandan (Mohanlal) is a TV show host and a budding novelist. He is a loner and a compulsive alcoholic, the latter of which resulted in his divorce from Meera (Kaniha). Despite this Meera and her husband Alexy (Shankar Ramakrishnan) are his best ...
Style:
realistic, poignant, satirical
Plot:
alcoholism, addiction, character study, divorce, loner, midlife crisis, male protagonist, self destructing, family drama, introspection, journalism, friendship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a ...
Plot:
cancer, disabled child, mother, mother love, funeral, subway, death, car accident, tennis, baby, pregnant woman, death of mother ...
Time:
year 1969, year 1963, 60s
Place:
paris france, south of france
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