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, serious, emotional, psychological and sincere films and TV shows about / with physical disability, disability, friendship, wheelchair, love and romance, handicapped, relationships, hopes, love and nude plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as physical disability: Summer (2008), Go Now (1995), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), A Very Long Engagement (2004), Open Hearts (2002), Life Feels Good (2013), Come as You Are (2011), Heidi (1995), Adam (2020), Tumbledown (1988).
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, disability, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, haunted by the past, self discovery, misfit, hopes, introspection, father son relationship, skinny dipping, friendship between men ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick exhibits signs of serious illness. As his body slowly succumbs to multiple sclerosis, he experiences a ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
multiple sclerosis, football, disability, working class, love, aids, storytelling, friendship, soccer, infidelity, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
england, europe, paris france, new orleans, ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his ...
Style:
sexy, depressing, erotic, fairy tale, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, incest, sexy girl, bus, small town, family problems, grief, small town life, winter, law, adultery, flashback ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
canada, british columbia
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, War
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In 1919, Mathilde was 19 years old. Two years earlier, her fiancé Manech left for the front at the Somme. Like millions of others he was "killed on the field of battle." It's written in black and white on the official notice. But ...
Style:
romantic, touching, sexy, period piece, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war one, private detective, war, love and romance, missing person, wartime, life & death, prostitute, soldier, relationships, brutality, young lovers ...
Time:
2000s, 1920s, year 2004, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
france, brittany, paris france, europe, marseille ...
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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, independent film, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
hospital, dogme 95, relationships, love story, love triangle, sex scene, coitus, extramarital affair, destructive relationship, fall in love, paraplegic, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, denmark, tokyo
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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: 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: 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?
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
After charming her reclusive grandfather and falling in love with the beautiful mountain he calls home, Heidi is uprooted and sent to Frankfurt where she befriends Klara, a young girl confined to a wheelchair.
Style:
fairy tale, serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
physical disability, best friend, family relations, friends, optimism, family problems, escapades, mischievous children, youth, human spirit, orphan, young heroes ...
Place:
switzerland, germany, swiss alps, europe, alps ...
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
TV show
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 ...
Style:
dramatic, reflective, bleak, intense, period piece
Plot:
falklands war, military, biopic, military hospital, vietnam war, military base, trauma, survival, realism, heroism, duty, veteran ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, UK, Finland, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Style:
disturbing, sad, bleak, heartbreaking, sexy ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, sex, love story, love, marriage, crazy love, obsession, depression, tragic love, sex with a stranger, melancholy, self sacrifice ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Explore hidden desires on a sleepover, fall in love with the handyman and be seduced by a stranger on the beach as you discover why Love Is the Drug. Boys On Film 17 includes nine complete films: Nicholas Colia's "Alex And The ...
Style:
touching, unusual plot structure, psychological, contemplative, sentimental ...
Plot:
lgbt, gay, gay interest, coming of age, physical disability, gay slur, gay lead character, love, gay relationship, gay couple, love and romance, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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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:
sweet, humorous, dark comedy, teen, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
college, friendship, fall in love, mentally challenged, happy ending, physical disability, campus, love and romance, misfit, social misfits, couples, sorority ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Se-ha who is a physically handicapped and Dong-gu who is a mentally handicapped are not their own brothers. But while living 20 years together, the two became indispensable to each other. One day, the mother of Dong-gu suddenly visits him and acts ...
Style:
comedy drama, sincere, entertaining, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
disability, friendship, physical disability, handicapped, empathy, brotherhood, mental disorder, wheelchair bound, socially awkward, care, social issues, relationships ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The film recounts his struggle to make an honest living publishing his girlie magazine and how it changes into a battle to protect the freedom of speech for ...
Style:
sexual, controversial, erotic, factual, non fiction ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, free love, courtroom, court, love, biopic, fighting the system, rebellion, drug addiction, sex, porn ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1996, year 1983, year 1979 ...
Place:
kentucky, ohio, georgia, usa, los angeles ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dempsey Cain is an honored cop, a loving husband and father, and mentor to his handsome younger brother. Then a drug dealer's bullet paralyzes him for life and Dempsey's world is shattered. Suddenly, his wife and brother seem to care less ...
Style:
erotic, neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
illicit affair, brother in law sister in law sex, disability, affair, whodunit, cop, physical disability, spouse killer, paralysis, police, courtroom, adultery ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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Genre: Comedy, 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:
emotional, touching, talky, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
friendship, disability, paraplegic, sex scene, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human nature, society, hopes, human spirit, physical disability ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
santa monica california
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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, emotional, sincere, touching, serious ...
Plot:
disability, forbidden love, hopes, human spirit, college, artists and showbiz, misfit, unfulfillment, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, love, teenage girl ...
Time:
1940s, year 1987, 1930s
Place:
mexico, latin america, austria
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by the same name from Nicholas Evans, the talented Robert Redford presents this meditative family drama set in the country side. Redford not only directs but also stars in the roll of a cowboy with a magical talent for healing.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, girls' night, teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
horse, cowboy, ranch, animal, stallion, horse riding, riding accident, travel, rider horse relationship, true love, therapy, parent child relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
montana, new york, usa, london
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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, emotional, serious, twisted ...
Plot:
paraplegic, disability, doctors and patients, switching roles, obsessive quest, mother daughter relationship, art, mental illness, forgiveness, blind date, physical disability, perversion ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Soul Surfer is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton. Bethany lost her left arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.Bethany ...
Style:
touching, christian film, inspirational, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
surfing, human spirit, christian, disability, shark, teenager, hospital, surfer, volunteer, shark attack, survivor, against the odds ...
Time:
year 2011, 20th century, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, thailand, california
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in ...
Style:
romantic drama, erotic, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
sex scene, disability, dream, love, suicide attempt, slaughterhouse, betrayal by friend, female nudity, autism, penetration, food, sleeping ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s
Place:
eastern europe, hungary, budapest
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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: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A scorned ex-convict forces himself into the lives of the couple who put him behind bars.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, lust, sex, nudity, desire, erotica, unfaithful wife, rape, older woman younger man, disability, obsession, strong sexual content ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, sarajevo ...
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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, emotional, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
blindness, blind boy, asthma, blind man, disability, hopes, against the odds, friendship, blind character, unlikely partners, ambition, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Disabled Sreekuttan and his buddy Bhavyan are a simpletons without many dreams. However, the duo will not tolerate insults and humiliation. After being disgraced by a newly-joined police officer in their village, they set out to take revenge.
Style:
captivating, satirical, semi serious, psychological, comedy drama ...
Plot:
physical disability, male female relationship, couple relations, love affair, relationships, social problems, disability, relationship problems, handicapped, satire, resilience, struggle ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three young guys with disabilities want to go on a party holiday in Salou, just as their friends do. Only their parents block this idea. But then a caretaker, found on the internet, makes the dream possible. Adios Amigos is a remake of the Belgium ...
Style:
semi serious, sex comedy, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
disability, physical disability, sexual awakening, sexuality, friendship, road trip, lifestyle, disabled character, wheelchair bound, problem, escapades, relationship problems ...
Place:
spain
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
'Give Them Wings' is based on the true story of severely disabled football fan Paul Hodgson.
Style:
inspirational, emotional, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
disability, man in a wheelchair, physical disability, disabled person, biopic, empathy, moving, life is a bitch, wheelchair bound, handicapped, lifestyle, direction and purpose ...
Time:
21st century
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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 ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, surreal, bleak, existential ...
Plot:
physical disability, disability, hospital, rehabilitation, recovery, isolation, accident victim, survival, rite of passage, transformation, outsider, claustrophobia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
america
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