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, serious, inspirational, sentimental and emotional films and TV shows about / with disability, wheelchair, misfit, hopes, illness, hospital, friendship, family relations, disease and disabled person 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: The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), Me Before You (2016), Breathe (2017), Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001), 37 Seconds (2019), Inside I'm Dancing (2004), Five Feet Apart (2019), Music Within (2007), The Theory of Everything (2014), The Intouchables (2011).

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The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
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, sentimental, compassionate, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, disability, abandoned by father, coming of age, writers, friendship, tragedy, justice, loneliness, depression, redemption, mentor ...
Place: seattle, salt lake city utah, idaho, utah, montana
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 7.4
 284K
Me Before You (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, 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, quadriplegic, euthanasia, caregiver, handicapped, relationships, death, accident ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, usa, mallorca, paris france, switzerland
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 7.1
 25K
Breathe (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
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, compassionate, factual, inspirational ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: disability, illness, supportive spouse, paralysis, marriage, love, husband wife relationship, euthanasia, hospital, biopic, adaptation, quadriplegic ...
Time: 50s, year 2017, year 1971, year 1958, year 1960 ...
Place: africa, england, spain, germany, kenya
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Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)
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: realistic, psychological, uplifting, touching, sincere ...
Plot: disability, human spirit, life is a bitch, self discovery, family problems, hopes, society, social misfits, doctors and patients, parents and children, mental illness, isolation ...
Time: 70s, year 1970
Place: los angeles, usa
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 7.4
 3K
37 Seconds (2019)
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, psychological, disturbing, captivating, manga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, artist, coming of age, japanese woman, virgin, exploring sexuality, character study, life is a bitch, adaptation, rivalry, love affair ...
Place: japan, tokyo, thailand
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Inside I'm Dancing (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, 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, dramatic, uplifting, sad ...
Plot: disability, friendship, cerebral palsy, youth, human spirit, loneliness, life, friends, life philosophy, character study, disabled, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2004
Place: europe, dublin ireland, ireland
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Five Feet Apart (2019)
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, melancholic, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: terminal illness, disability, fighting illness, star crossed lovers, true love, forbidden love, hospital, couple relations, danger, suffering, fall in love, illness ...
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 7.2
 6K
Music Within (2007)
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, realistic, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: disability, hippie, vietnam war, friendship, human spirit, society, mute or deaf, social activist, self discovery, hopes, injustice, social misfits ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 2007, 60s, 70s ...
Place: vietnam, portland oregon, seattle, california
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The Theory of Everything (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Japan
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, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens
Plot: disability, genius, love, physicist, cambridge university, mathematics, prodigy, husband wife relationship, supportive spouse, scientist, against the odds, biopic ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, 60s, 90s ...
Place: oxford university, england, united kingdom
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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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Come as You Are (2011)
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, friendship, disability, looking for sex, buddies, brothel, obsessive quest, road trip, self discovery, misfit, social misfits, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain
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 7.4
 70K
Rust and Bone (2012)
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: heartbreaking, sad, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: disability, love, depression, illegal fistfight, female nudity, sex with neighbor, opposites attract, disabled person, family drama, redemption, orca, amputee ...
Time: year 2012, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, cote d'azur, french riviera, europe, riviera ...
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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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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
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: touching, inspirational, emotional, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: disability, hospital, human spirit, nurse, paralysis, courage, coma, patient, life turned upside down, writers, bittersweet, mute or deaf ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, year 2007, y2k
Place: france, paris france, europe, hong kong, nepal ...
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 8.1
 99K
A Silent Voice (2016)
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, touching, sincere, romantic, sweet ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teenager, bullying, disability, deaf, sign language, friendship, high school, japanese schoolgirl, japanese school, coming of age, deafness, suicide attempt ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Style: uplifting, touching, compassionate, ironic, indie film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: disability, drawing, cartoonist, therapy, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, paralysis, man in a wheelchair, car accident, rehabilitation, biopic ...
Time: 70s, year 1972
Place: oregon, long beach california, portland oregon
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It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007)
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, explicit ...
Audience: adult
Plot: disability, retirement home, love affair, introspection, voyeurism, sexual relations, nursing, sexual abuse, hopes, writer's life, dangerous attraction, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
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 8.0
 21K
Silenced (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Style: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: sex crime, child abuse, rape, deaf mute, disability, mute or deaf, sign language, punishment, school, life is a bitch, deaf, youth ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
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 7.2
 44K
The Sessions (2012)
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: touching, sexy, compassionate, erotic, humorous ...
Audience: adult
Plot: disability, near death experience, first sexual experience, loss of virginity, sexual activity, male virgin, sexuality, female nudity, virginity, sexual awakening, erotica, oral sex ...
Time: year 2012, 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: california, san francisco, usa
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Children of a Lesser God (1986)
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: touching, realistic, sentimental, compassionate, emotional ...
Plot: sign language, teacher, deaf, disability, deafness, couple relations, communication problem, couples, love and romance, opposites attract, mute or deaf, dialogue ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new england, maine, usa
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)
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, disability, haunted by the past, child illness, family problems, parents and children, crumbling marriage, love and romance, obsession, hopes, hidden identity, unfulfillment ...
Time: 60s, 80s, 70s
Place: kentucky, pittsburgh
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The King's Speech (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit ...
Style: inspirational, period piece, sincere, uplifting, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: british royal family, british history, world war two, stuttering, royal family, disability, queen, politics, unlikely friendships, british monarchy, king of england, historical character ...
Time: 1930s, year 2010, 2010s, pre world war two, 50s ...
Place: england, britain, london, united kingdom, scotland ...
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 6.9
 44K
Radio (2003)
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, touching, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, family outing, adult
Plot: american football, football, disability, underdog, radio, friendship, teacher, prejudice, high school football, greed, rags to riches, autism ...
Time: 20th century, year 2003, 70s, 60s
Place: cuba, south carolina
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Life Feels Good (2013)
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, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: cerebral palsy, disability, physical disability, disabled child, handicapped, parents and children, longing, family relations, faith, social problems, hopes, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, 90s
Place: poland
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 7.8
 79K
My Left Foot (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be ...
Style: touching, inspirational, sincere, unusual plot structure, dramatic ...
Plot: disability, cerebral palsy, biopic, artist, working class, writers, handicapped, paralysis, medical, painter, art, poet ...
Time: 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: ireland, england, dublin ireland, europe
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It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
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, mockumentary, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: dj, music, disability, clubbing, recording studio, mute or deaf, addiction, rave, comeback, musician's life, rise to the top, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ibiza
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 7.6
 155K
I Am Sam (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the ...
Style: inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lawyer, father daughter relationship, mentally challenged, disability, single father, social services, custody, custody battle, child custody, parents and children, parenthood, mental illness ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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The Finishers (2013)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Julien, 17, is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy. Despite their love for him, his family is gradually falling apart under the strain of dealing with his disability. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, realistic
Plot: disability, family relations, human spirit, contests and competitions, hopes, youth, redemption, parents and children, teenage life, father son relationship, cycling, swimming ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: france, nice france, alps
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 6.4
 2K
23 Blast (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a high school football star is suddenly stricken with irreversible total blindness, he must decide whether to live a safe handicapped life or bravely return to the life he once knew and the sport he still loves.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, realistic, serious, christian film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: blindness, american football, disability, high school football, high school, sport team, human spirit, friendship, athlete's life, ambition, self pity, football ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, kentucky
Is relevant ?
 6.1
 3K
Quid Pro Quo (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, twisted ...
Plot: paraplegic, disability, doctors and patients, switching roles, obsessive quest, mother daughter relationship, forgiveness, blind date, mental illness, art, physical disability, self discovery ...
Time: year 2008
Place: usa, new york
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