Handicapped movies and TV shows – page 5

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Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (1971)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his ...
Style: cult classic, grindhouse, serious
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ninja, kung fu, yakuza, katana, exploitation, ancient, wuxia, swordplay, drifter ...
Place: japan, asia
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Return of the Chinese Boxer (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In wake of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), a group of Japanese warlords calculate that the best way to prepare an invasion of the rest of China from their southern Manchuria staging ground.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, samurai, fight, handicapped, supernatural, kung fu, injustice, tough heroes, battles, heroes, uninhibited rivalry, athlete's life ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, china
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 6.6
 22K
Tommy (1975)
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a religious cult.
Style: surreal, cult classic, stylized, visual, clever ...
Plot: rock and roll, surrealism, music, rock, rock opera, dancing, social commentary, trippy, musician, deaf, satire, misfit ...
Time: year 1975, post world war two
Place: england, europe
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 6.3
 19K
Blind Fury (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.
Style: exciting, cult classic, suspenseful, serious, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, blind man, organized crime, vengeance, gangster, vietnam war, samurai, ninja, blindness, rescue, heroic mission, righting the wronged ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: vietnam, asia, reno nevada
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Zatoichi at Large (1972)
Genre: Drama, Action, Adventure
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into ...
Style: cult classic, saga, semi serious, atmospheric
Plot: samurai, zatoichi, martial arts, ancient, swordplay, handicapped, sword, gangster, gory, pregnancy, escapades, babies and infants ...
Place: japan, asia
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 8.0
 85K
The Sea Inside (2004)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The Sea Inside is about Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. It is the story of Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia a lawyer who supports his cause, and Rosa, a local woman ...
Style: sad, thought provoking, emotional, philosophical, touching ...
Plot: disability, euthanasia, biopic, human spirit, death, existentialism, suicide, handicapped, lawyer, depression, character study, life & death ...
Time: year 2004, y2k, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, barcelona, europe, galicia, catalonia
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 7.1
 1K
The Devils (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Les Diables (The Devils) chronicles the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents.
Style: disturbing, captivating, emotional, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: autism, coming of age, brother sister incest, on the run, mentally challenged, incest, trauma, children's home, orphan, teenage girl, pursuit, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: marseille, france
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All the Gods in the Sky (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: 30-year-old factory worker Simon lives a solitary existence on a decrepit farm in the remote French countryside. Devoting his time to caring for his sister Estelle, who was left severely disabled when a childhood game went horribly wrong, Simon is ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot: disabled person, brother sister relationship, nun, social worker, ghost, strangulation, little girl, blood, doctor, murder, nursing, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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The Intouchables (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, emotional, motivational ...
Audience: date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: friendship, disability, friendship between men, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, disabled person, lifestyle change, human relationship, handicapped, culture clash, friends, interracial friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: france, paris france
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Out in the Open (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A boy escaped from home, listening, crouched in the depths of his hiding place, the cries of the men who seek him. When the game passes, what remains before him is an infinite and arid plain that he must cross if he wants to get away definitively ...
Style: suspense, period drama
Audience: kids
Plot: spanish civil war, man boy relationship, gays and lesbians, survival, child, fire, bus, desert, little sister, male nudity, torture, wasteland ...
Time: 1940s, year 1946
Place: spain
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Lady Chatterley (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story: French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.
Style: sexy, romantic, sexual, touching, sincere ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infidelity, sex, lady, sensuality, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, passion, erection, female nudity, female pubic hair, dysfunctional marriage, class differences ...
Time: year 2006, 1920s, 20th century
Place: riviera, mediterranean sea, europe, france
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 6.8
 647
A Brutal Game (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film follows a famous scientist (Bruno Cremer) who rules over his errant disabled daughter (Emmanuelle Debever) with an iron fist. He's meticulous and tyrannical, while she is impetuous but equally cruel in her own immature way.
Style: art house, hot
Plot: teenager, disability, darkness, handicapped, loneliness, coming of age, female nudity, sexual awakening, male nudity, daughter, father daughter relationship, father ...
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Even Dwarfs Started Small (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature of fully liberating the human spirit, as both commendable ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, art house, surreal, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, rebellion, sadism, art, fighting the system, misfit, revolution, landscape, disability, extreme, life changing, freak ...
Time: year 1970, 20th century, 60s
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being ...
Style: funny, humorous, light, not serious, slapstick ...
Audience: kids
Plot: deaf, disability, murder, blindness, farce, chase, blind man, witness, mute or deaf, friendship, deafness, odd couple ...
Time: 80s
Place: manhattan new york city
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Curse of Chucky (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After the passing of her mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit ...
Style: slasher, scary, atmospheric, stylized, serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: killer doll, doll, serial killer, evil doll, disability, toy comes to life, child in peril, psychopath, old dark house, murder, dark humor, supernatural power ...
Time: 2010s, year 1988, year 2013
Place: usa
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 6.9
 51K
Labor Day (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: unlikely relationship, stockholm syndrome, single mother, happy ending, fall in love, love and romance, single parent, family relations, boy, escapades, parents and children, love ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
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 6.6
 4K
Crazy (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Benjamin is a 16 year old half-side spastic with lousy grades in math, who switches to a boarding school to reach grammar school. Acclimatization to the new environment is difficult in the first place and he has to struggle with the various problems ...
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, coming of age, puberty, first sex, fall in love, teenage love, teenage sex, social relations, love and romance, youth, teenage life, teenage crush ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, germany, bavaria
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Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is an American television series that premiered in 2002 on the PAX Network. The show ended in May 2005 due to PAX's decision to halt the production of original programming. It was one of the two highest rated shows on the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective
Plot: deaf, agent, fbi, special agent, fighting crime, police investigation, disability, misfit, mute or deaf, law enforcement, handicapped, disabled ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
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Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When megalomaniacal White Goodman, the owner of a trendy, high-end fitness center, makes a move to take over the struggling local gym run by happy-go-lucky Pete La Fleur, there's only one way for La Fleur to fight back: dodgeball. Aided by a ...
Style: humorous, funny, hilarious, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underdog, against the odds, dumb, coach, tournament, competition, cheerleader, pirate, redemption, rivalry, contests and competitions, gym ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, california, los angeles
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 6.3
 274
91.1 (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of 3 different generations living in the same city. Alper, his best friend Soner and his long-time girlfriend Hazan are studying at the same university. Lately the relation between Hazan and Alper do not go well. Soner supports them for ...
Plot: male nudity, hospital, stealing, brothel, accident, disabled person, handicapped, disabled, male pubic hair, car theft, fiancee, theft ...
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Beg, Borrow, or Steal (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Three disabled men--one blind, one with no legs and one with no hands--get together to pull off a museum robbery
Plot: blindness, blind character, heist, museum, security guard, handicapped, blind man, man in a wheelchair, robbery, disability, obstacle, caper ...
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 7.4
 21K
The Rider (2017)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over, after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. Back home on the Pine Ridge Reservation, with little desire or alternatives ...
Style: indie film, inspirational, suspenseful, captivating, touching ...
Plot: rodeo, horse, horse riding, human animal relationship, rodeo cowboy, riding accident, cowboy, father son relationship, horse trainer, prairie, autism, friend ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place: south dakota
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 8.8
 2.2M
Forrest Gump (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style: inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: date night, kids, chick flick, girls' night, family outing ...
Plot: life & death, philosophy, life philosophy, mentally challenged, destiny, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, storytelling, life, journey ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 50s, 1950s ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., vietnam, china, alabama ...
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Alice in Earnestland (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Since she was young, Soo-Nam has been able to do anything well with her hands. She holds 14 different certificates for typing excellence, but a computer takes over her job. Luckily, she finds a new job and marries. Soo-Nam and her husband decide to ...
Style: humorous, captivating, tense, black comedy
Plot: character change, money problems, social problems, disability, fighting illness, marital problem, physical disability, hot temper, family problems, lifestyle, handicapped, social relations ...
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Switched at Birth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case ...
Style: touching, serious, sentimental, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: deaf, sign language, mute or deaf, relatives, social relations, teenage girl, teenage life, school, switched at birth, youth, mother daughter relationship, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, kansas city
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they ...
Style: sweet, touching, lyrical, inspirational, sexy ...
Plot: love, disability, cerebral palsy, young love, love story, youth, character study, mother daughter relationship, loneliness, young woman, culture clash, stereotypes ...
Place: japan
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 7.9
 80
Blue Moon (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Corazon (Boots Anson Roa), an old Filipina who lives in Boston, wrote to each Manuel Pineda in her home a letter. She hopes to find her love again. In the Philippines experiences of the old Manuel Pineda (Eddie Garcia), meanwhile, that he has cancer ...
Plot: nurse, true love, soldier, handicapped, picture, argument, wedding, murder, marriage, airplane, road trip, hospital ...
Time: 1940s, year 1938
Place: boston
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 6.9
 422
The Peddler (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second ...
Style: anthology
Plot: poverty, iranian, old age, merchant, cripple, caretaker, insanity, abandoned baby, director, handicapped, persian
Place: iran, persia, middle east
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An Eye for an Eye (1966)
Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Western revenge drama about a bounty hunter tracking down the men who murdered his wife and son.
Style: independent film
Plot: bounty hunter, gunfighter, revenge, murder, desert, marshal, reward, gang, arson, cripple, wanted, horse ...
Time: year 1966
Place: new mexico, arizona
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 5.2
 591
Karate Girl (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Okinawa, Ayaka Kurenai was born in the world’s greatest legendary Karate family. When she was a child, her family was attacked by a mysterious gang that seeks legendary black belt. Her father Soujiro Kurenai was killed and her younger sister ...
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, stylized, suspense
Plot: karate, female martial artist, pretty girl, teenage girl, pretty woman, martial arts, kidnapping, japanese man, schoolgirl, japanese schoolgirl, sibling relationship, fight ...
Place: japan, okinawa japan, okinawa
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