Disability movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant disability movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out touching, realistic, emotional, serious, sentimental and inspirational films and TV shows about / with disability, hopes, friendship, misfit, wheelchair, love and romance, love, bittersweet, illness and destiny plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as disability: Breathe (2017), Me Before You (2016), Inside I'm Dancing (2004), Rust and Bone (2012), 37 Seconds (2019), Shirley Adams (2009), Music Within (2007), The Cake Eaters (2007), Adam (2020), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016).
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26K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Switzerland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Robin, a handsome, brilliant and adventurous man whose life takes a dramatic turn when polio leaves him paralyzed.
Style:
sad, touching, inspirational, compassionate, factual ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
disability, illness, supportive spouse, paralysis, marriage, husband wife relationship, love, hospital, quadriplegic, biopic, adaptation, human spirit ...
Time:
year 2017, 50s, year 1971, year 1981, year 1965 ...
Place:
africa, england, germany, spain, kenya
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329K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds ...
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, tear jerker, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
love, disability, love story, fall in love, love and romance, caregiver, quadriplegic, death, enemies to lovers, euthanasia, handicapped, relationships ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, usa, paris france, switzerland, mallorca ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed when the maverick Rory O'Shea moves in.
Style:
touching, emotional, uplifting, dramatic, sad ...
Plot:
disability, friendship, cerebral palsy, life, youth, character study, life philosophy, loneliness, human spirit, friends, disabled, mental disorder ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, dublin ireland, ireland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Singapore
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.
Style:
sexy, sentimental, independent film, sad, touching ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
depression, disabled person, disability, sex, illegal fistfight, orca, ex boxer, amputee, relationships, family drama, opposites attract, redemption ...
Time:
2010s, y2k, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, south of france, french riviera, europe ...
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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: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Tells the story of Paul (Steven C. Stewart), a man suffering from Cerebal Palsy, who spends his days wasting away in a nursing home. To pass his time, he fantasizes about the man he should be despite his twisted body. People are able to understand ...
Style:
experimental, serious, surreal, atmospheric, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disability, retirement home, woman strangled to death, introspection, love affair, hopes, dangerous attraction, writer's life, love and romance, lifestyle, human spirit, sexual abuse ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
disability, family problems, family relations, parents and children, hopes, single parent, human spirit, life is a bitch, introspection, small town, family in crisis, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a confrontation with one of his idols dashes his dreams of studying public speaking in college, Richard Pimentel joins the Army and ships off to Vietnam. During his service, Richard loses nearly all of his hearing. Joining a new circle of ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, realistic, uplifting ...
Plot:
disability, hippie, vietnam war, hopes, friendship, social activist, mute or deaf, society, human spirit, injustice, self discovery, dignity ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2007, 70s, 60s ...
Place:
california, vietnam, portland oregon, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The death of the Kimbrough family matriarch affects the three male survivors of the clan. Widower Easy (Bruce Dern) tries to reconnect with his old flame, Marg (Elizabeth Ashley). Eldest son and struggling musician Guy (Jayce Bartok) moves back to ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
disability, young lovers, family problems, starting over, estrangement, small town life, teenage life, homecoming, family life, haunted by the past, countryside, death in the family ...
Time:
year 2007
Is relevant?
2K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Style:
sincere, thought provoking, touching, disturbing, romantic ...
Plot:
physical disability, hopes, relationships, disability, down on your luck, friendship, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, goodhearted, wheelchair bound, catastrophe, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the ...
Style:
road movie, depressing, touching, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
road trip, disability, abandoned by father, writers, honest, coming of age, friendship, depression, justice, tragedy, drinking, mentor ...
Place:
seattle, salt lake city utah, idaho, utah, montana
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his ...
Style:
inspirational, psychological, breathtaking, sincere, depressing ...
Plot:
disability, hospital, paralysis, death, coma, stroke, memory, writers, courage, patient, mute or deaf, communication problem ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya ...
Style:
anime, sincere, touching, romantic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, teenager, high school, japanese schoolgirl, coming of age, japanese school, suicide attempt, redemption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the ...
Style:
road movie, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
paralysis, disability, looking for sex, independence, buddies, friendship, road trip, brothel, obsessive quest, self discovery, physical disability, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Is relevant?
47K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
High school football coach, Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over several decades, where Radio transforms from a shy, ...
Style:
feel good, inspirational, sentimental, sweet, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, family outing, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
american football, football, disability, underdog, radio, destiny, friendship, teacher, prejudice, football team, bully, football player ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 2003, 60s
Place:
cuba, south carolina, san francisco
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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:
feel good, inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere ...
Audience:
date night, teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
friendship, disability, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, friendship between men, disabled person, human relationship, handicapped, interracial friendship, culture clash, caregiver, friends ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his ...
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, touching, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens
Plot:
dj, music, disability, party, clubbing, recording studio, mute or deaf, addiction, rave, comeback, musician's life, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ibiza, canada
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Good boy Mike Mayer is looking at a fine future and enjoys life with Wisconsin small town friends and steady girlfriend Carrie Beal. Then a stupid accident, diving from the local pier when the water is too low, leaves him quadriplegic. As if that ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching
Plot:
quadriplegic, self discovery, friendship, starting over, looking for love, hopes, love and romance, disability, couples, small town, tragic event, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
On November 4, 1970 on The CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite reported on a true, horrific story that was about to rock the country. A 13-year-old girl was discovered in the small Los Angeles suburb of Arcadia who was still in diapers, barely able to ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
abuse, disability, mistreatment, child abuse, life is a bitch, human spirit, self discovery, family problems, doctors and patients, society, hopes, social misfits ...
Time:
year 1970, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sign language, deaf, deafness, teacher, disability, mute or deaf, couple relations, couples, communication problem, opposites attract, love and romance, women ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new england, maine, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Style:
touching, uplifting, inspirational, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick
Plot:
genius, disability, love, cambridge university, physicist, mathematics, husband wife relationship, prodigy, supportive spouse, handicapped, against the odds, relationships ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
oxford university, england, united kingdom
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, sentimental, melancholic, romantic drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, disability, fighting illness, illness, star crossed lovers, death, true love, forbidden love, fall in love, couple relations, danger ...
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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, philosophical, emotional, breathtaking ...
Plot:
disability, euthanasia, biopic, death, human spirit, dying, handicapped, existentialism, suicide, depression, lawyer, dignity ...
Time:
year 2004, y2k, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
spain, barcelona, south america, europe, galicia ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An accomplished playboy Leo neglects his girlfriend and enjoys parties. His girlfriend parts from him and then, when he wants to see her once more, he has an accident. He survives, but his whole life is now to be changed. This film is about fetching ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
human spirit, redemption, life turned upside down, couples, love and romance, hopes, couple relations, rehabilitation, friendship, true love, disabled person, physical disability ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Though a childhood bout with polio left him dependent on an iron lung, Mark O'Brien (John Hawkes) maintains a career as a journalist and poet. A writing assignment dealing with sex and the disabled piques Mark's curiosity, and he decides ...
Style:
sexy, sentimental, touching, erotic, compassionate ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
near death experience, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, sexual activity, female nudity, disabled, male virgin, nudity, woman on top, oral sex, therapist, sexual awakening ...
Time:
year 2012, 20th century, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, san francisco, usa, boston
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
During a blizzard in 1964, Dr. David Henry delivers his son Paul with the help of nurse Caroline. But when Henry realizes his wife is also carrying a girl with Down syndrome, he hands the second child over to Caroline without his wife's ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, sad, gloomy ...
Plot:
down syndrome, haunted by the past, disability, child illness, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, hidden identity, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
60s, 80s, 70s
Place:
kentucky, pittsburgh
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this inspirational love story, a Delhi university student and aspiring writer afflicted with cerebral palsy leaves India for New York University, where she falls for a fiery young activist.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, touching, deep ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian relationship, sexual relations, first lesbian experience, disability, lesbian love, self discovery, fall in love, sapphic, cerebral palsy, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, indiana, india, delhi ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Style:
independent film, captivating, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
disability, physical disability, soccer, paraplegic, wedding, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, misfit, athlete's life, human nature, hopes, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, educational ...
Plot:
boy, disability, hopes, blind character, coming of age, against the odds, friendship, follow your dream, rebellion, fighting the system, society, rebelliousness ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
"Front of the Class" is based on the true story of Brad Cohen -- played in the movie by Jimmy Wolk -- who, "after being challenged by Tourette's syndrome from a very young age, defies all odds to become a gifted teacher
Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, tourette's syndrome, dedicated educator, social misfits, teachers and students, school, disability, life philosophy, honest, friendship, father son relationship, understanding ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa, atlanta georgia, england
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