Physical disability movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant physical disability movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, touching, sincere, serious, emotional and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with physical disability, disability, wheelchair, friendship, handicapped, hospital, hopes, paralysis, love and love and romance plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Biography genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as physical disability: Blue Away to America (1999), If I Had Wings (2013), Adam (2020), Life Feels Good (2013), Open Hearts (2002), Pumpkin (2002), Cavalcade (2005), 1 Litre of Tears (2005), Rust and Bone (2012), 90 Minutes in Heaven (2015).
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List of physical disability movies
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The victim of a serious accident, Camille finds himself in a strange, huge, rehabilitation centre run by Professor Helpos. He soon teams up with a group calling themselves "the wreckers" and who make their own rules, ignoring those of the ...
Plot:
physical disability, quadriplegic, physical therapy, disabled person, doctor, disability, love, violence, hospital, paralysis, gang, coma ...
Place:
america
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Genre: Drama, Family, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Alex, blind since the age of two, dreams of running for his school's cross-country team. His father, a probation officer, finds a running partner who spends his time 'running' from the law.
Style:
touching, uplifting, emotional, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
asthma, blind man, blind boy, hopes, against the odds, friendship, ambition, unlikely partners, human spirit, teenage life, follow your dream, running ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, sincere, disturbing, romantic ...
Plot:
physical disability, disability, relationships, friendship, life is a bitch, down on your luck, hopes, life turned upside down, goodhearted, life philosophy, male female relationship, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
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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, introspection, love affair, writer's life, lifestyle, human spirit, love and romance, hopes, dangerous attraction, voyeurism, sexual relations ...
Time:
21st century
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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:
disability, cerebral palsy, disabled child, physical disability, faith, family relations, mother son relationship, longing, parents and children, training, life is a bitch, mental institution ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 90s
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Cecilie and Joachim are about to get married when a freak car accident leaves Joachim disabled, throwing their lives into a spin. The driver of the other car, Marie, and her family don’t get off lightly, either. Her husband Niels works in the ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, touching, sexy, romantic ...
Plot:
love, infidelity, love story, love triangle, hospital, relationships, adultery, extramarital affair, destructive relationship, car accident, crumbling marriage, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, denmark
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When perfect, perky Carolyn (Christina Ricci) and her Alpha Omega Pi sisters decide to coach mentally challenged athletes for the regional Challenged Games, Carolyn's assigned to coach Pumpkin (Hank Harris), a young disabled man who touches her ...
Style:
humorous, romantic, sweet, witty, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
college, friendship, physical disability, fall in love, mother daughter relationship, couples, misfit, love and romance, social misfits, mentally challenged, disability, love story ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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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:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot:
redemption, human spirit, life turned upside down, couples, hopes, love and romance, rehabilitation, couple relations, friendship, physical disability, disabled person, change of heart ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
1 Rittoru no Namida is a Japanese television drama for Fuji Television about a girl who was diagnosed with an incurable degenerative disease at 15, but was able to continue her life until her death at the age of 25.
Style:
emotional, touching, thought provoking, sincere, dorama ...
Plot:
terminal illness, school, high school life, tragedy, human spirit, illness, family problems, family relations, disabled child, high school, wheelchair bound, child illness ...
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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, emotional, sad, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
depression, disability, french, love, illegal fistfight, redemption, ex boxer, killer whale, complex characters, relationships, tragic event, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, french riviera, riviera, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A man involved in a horrific car crash is pronounced dead, only to come back to life an hour and a half later, claiming to have seen Heaven.
Style:
christian film, disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot:
near death experience, hospital, church, heaven, christian, car accident, husband wife relationship, recovery, faith, dealing with death, physical disability, disability ...
Time:
year 1989
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nick Newell, a one-armed MMA fighter gets a rare chance to fight for the lightweight championship. He strives to win for himself and all the other people in the world with physical challenges.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot:
martial arts, mixed martial arts, disability, fight, professional wrestler, combat, title bout, physical disability, militant, suspense, ambition, sport ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film centres on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC (played by Colin Firth), an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine ...
Plot:
falklands war, military, british soldier, physical disability, handicapped, rehabilitation, disability, war veteran, brain damage, paralysis, head injury
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, breathtaking ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, ship, s&m, destructive relationship, bdsm, passionate interest, sexual perversion, femme fatale, sex, dangerous attraction, adultery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An oft overlooked film about struggling to deal with paralysis. Author Joel Garcia breaks his neck while hiking, and finds himself in a rehab center with Raymond, an exaggerating ladies man, and Bloss, a racist biker. Considerable tension builds as ...
Style:
realistic, touching, thought provoking, emotional, talky ...
Plot:
disability, friendship, paraplegic, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human spirit, human nature, society, hopes, physical disability, male nudity ...
Time:
90s
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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:
touching, sexy, compassionate, erotic, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
disability, first sexual experience, near death experience, sexual activity, sexuality, loss of virginity, doctors, virginity, sexual awakening, erotica, oral sex, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988, 70s
Place:
california, boston, san francisco, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
Style:
uplifting, realistic, sincere, sentimental, political ...
Plot:
president, politics, disability, ambition, rise and fall, society, rebellion, fighting the system, human spirit, hopes, introspection, life is a bitch ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
georgia, usa, florida, washington d.c., southern usa ...
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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:
emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
disability, hippie, vietnam war, friendship, social activist, human spirit, mute or deaf, society, injustice, hopes, self discovery, dignity ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 60s, 70s, 50s ...
Place:
vietnam, portland oregon, seattle, california
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Style:
scary, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, disability, twists and turns, suspense, investigation, father, female protagonist, uncover truth, mistaken identity, parents and children, missing person, loss of father ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, french riviera, riviera, cote d'azur
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in ...
Style:
epic, depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vietnam war, russian roulette, anti war, escape, friendship, suicide, hunting, small town, wedding, homecoming, war, gambling ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
vietnam, pennsylvania, asia, usa, saigon ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Based on Joni Eareckson's autobiography. She becomes paralyzed after breaking her neck in a swimming accident at age 17. Trying to cope with her new life, she learns to paint using her mouth and finds strength in her new Christian faith.
Style:
christian film
Plot:
physical disability, faith, christianity, quadriplegic, girl, disability, christian, summer, motivational speaker, religious conversion, paralysis, art exhibition ...
Time:
year 1967, 70s, 60s
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
Style:
realistic, uplifting, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
disability, human spirit, hopes, college, artists and showbiz, misfit, unfulfillment, forbidden love, mother daughter relationship, love, father daughter relationship, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s
Place:
mexico, latin america, austria
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Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a spoiled English girl living in 19th century India loses both parents in a cholera epidemic, she is sent back to England to live in a country mansion. The lord is a strange old man-- frail and deformed, immensely kind but so melancholy. She ...
Style:
fairy tale, touching, sincere, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
orphan, garden, little girl, family relations, uncle, mansion, friendship, family problems, mischievous children, family life, child's point of view, youth ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
John Woo directs this action-packed comedy that stars Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung and Cherie Chung as a trio of art thieves who grew up together as orphans under the tutelage of a cruel crime boss named Chow (Kenneth Tsang). Although Red Bean ...
Style:
stylized, humorous, visually appealing, sweet, romantic ...
Plot:
martial arts, kung fu, heist, gunfight, chase, art thief, suspense, friendship, betrayal, violence, art, brutality ...
Time:
90s, year 1988
Place:
hong kong, china, british columbia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Style:
psychological, touching, thought provoking, inspirational, compassionate ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
self discovery, friendship, insanity, mental illness, guilt, transformation, redemption, psychology, holy grail, tragic event, haunted by the past, heroes ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
14 year old Allison has to go to a horse farm. With all the horses and the help of the owner Susan Hadley she finds new sense in her life.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
horse, girl horse relationship, youth, physical disability, disability, olympics, second chance, coming of age, human spirit, hopes, rehabilitation, farm ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Lorenzo Odone was a normal child until the age of 7. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD: an extremely rare ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, inspirational, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
terminal illness, human spirit, against the odds, family relations, life is a bitch, disability, courage, cure, boy, hopes, research, parent child relationship ...
Time:
20th century, year 1984, year 1986, year 1983, 80s
Place:
washington d.c., rome italy, italy, edinburgh scotland, boston ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Soap actress May-Alice Culhane is paralyzed from the waist down in an accident. She returns to her old home in Louisiana, where she proceeds to drink quite steadily and to drive away five personal attendants in the first twenty minutes of the movie. ...
Style:
sentimental, talky, thought provoking, clever, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
disability, friendship, physical disability, animal abuse, black man, psychopath, girl power, feminism, ship, suburbs, transformation, bittersweet ...
Time:
90s
Place:
louisiana, california, usa
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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:
disability, friendship, paralysis, brothel, looking for sex, obsessive quest, road trip, buddies, self discovery, misfit, escapades, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, human spirit, follow your dream, lifestyle, couples, dance school, against the odds, hopes, ambition, contests and competitions, society, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
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