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 touching, realistic, sincere, serious, sentimental and emotional films and TV shows about / with physical disability, disability, wheelchair, hopes, friendship, love and romance, hospital, life is a bitch, female nudity and love plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as physical disability: Dawn Anna (2005), Life Feels Good (2013), Open Hearts (2002), Cavalcade (2005), Notorious Nick (2021), Adam (2020), Pumpkin (2002), Alice in Earnestland (2015), A Very Long Engagement (2004), The Sessions (2012).

List of physical disability movies

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 6.8
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Dawn Anna (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The true story of a single mom who overcomes many of life's obstacles.
Style: realistic, sentimental, sincere, serious, emotional ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: high school, family problems, against the odds, terminal illness, child illness, human spirit, family relations, disability, relationship vs career, school, family in crisis, parents and children ...
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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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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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 7.5
 11K
Open Hearts (2002)
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: dogme 95, infidelity, love story, love triangle, hospital, relationships, extramarital affair, adultery, destructive relationship, crumbling marriage, paraplegic, life philosophy ...
Time: 90s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, denmark
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 4.8
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Cavalcade (2005)
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, emotional, touching
Plot: human spirit, redemption, life turned upside down, couples, love and romance, rehabilitation, couple relations, hopes, friendship, disabled person, physical disability, change of heart ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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 5.7
 550
Notorious Nick (2021)
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: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: martial arts, mixed martial arts, physical disability, disability, fight, title bout, professional wrestler, militant, combat, battles, athlete's life, master warrior ...
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 6.5
 1K
Adam (2020)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sincere, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: physical disability, disability, relationships, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, down on your luck, hopes, friendship, goodhearted, wheelchair bound, fall in love, catastrophe ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.1
 10K
Pumpkin (2002)
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, sweet, romantic, witty, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: college, friendship, physical disability, fall in love, couples, love and romance, social misfits, misfit, mentally challenged, women, love story, happy ending ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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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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A Very Long Engagement (2004)
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, atmospheric, epic, colorful ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: world war one, war, love and romance, wartime, life & death, private detective, investigation, obsession, tragedy, relationships, lighthouse, against the odds ...
Time: 2000s, 1920s, year 2004, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille, brittany ...
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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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The Secret Garden (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style: costume drama, touching, feel good, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, beautiful scenery, friendship, little girl, children, secret, mansion, old mansion ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 90s ...
Place: india, england, britain, eastern europe, africa ...
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Conversations with God (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: "Conversations with God" is the true story of Neale Donald Walsch that inspired and changed the lives of millions. The journey begins after he unexpectedly breaks his neck in a car accident and loses his job.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, mystical ...
Plot: spirituality, faith, introspection, human spirit, change of luck, religions or cults, rise to the top, society, hopes, redemption, rich and poor, unemployment ...
Place: tibet
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If I Had Wings (2013)
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: girls' night, family outing
Plot: blind man, blind boy, disability, asthma, blindness, hopes, against the odds, friendship, unlikely partners, ambition, human spirit, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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The Waterdance (1992)
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, emotional, talky, psychological ...
Plot: disability, friendship, paraplegic, rehabilitation, life philosophy, love and romance, human spirit, society, hopes, human nature, physical disability, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
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Johnny Got His Gun (1971)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed in a fate worse than death - a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, thought provoking, surreal, political ...
Plot: anti war, hospital, disability, dream, haunted by the past, mute, amputation, patient, freak, isolation, soldier, world war one ...
Time: year 1971, near future, 1920s, 1900s, 1910s ...
Place: france, colorado, los angeles, europe, usa
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Long Ago, Tomorrow (1971)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 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, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot: disability, physical disability, paraplegic, wedding, unfulfillment, hopes, fall in love, athlete's life, human nature, love and romance, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: england, europe
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The Other Side of the Mountain: Part II (1978)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 is a 1978 film directed by Larry Peerce. It stars Marilyn Hassett and Timothy Bottoms. It is a sequel to The Other Side of the Mountain
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: disability, physical disability, quadriplegic, grief, love, paralysis, hopes, human spirit, love and romance, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Passion Fish (1992)
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, independent film, talky, clever, cult classic ...
Plot: disability, friendship, physical disability, deep south, mental health, feminist, psychiatry, psychopath, feminism, black, suburbs, ship ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: louisiana, usa
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Breaking the Waves (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, Spain, UK
Duration: 159 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, psychological ...
Plot: sex, husband wife relationship, love, tragic love, marriage, disability, love story, self sacrifice, small town, psychology, sex with a stranger, paralysis ...
Time: year 1996, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: scotland, nebraska, europe, scottish highlands
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Blue Away to America (1999)
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, man in a wheelchair, physical therapy, hospital, violence, coma, disability, doctor, paralysis, love, disabled person, quadriplegic ...
Place: america
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Give Them Wings (2021)
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: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: disability, physical disability, man in a wheelchair, disabled person, ambition, direction and purpose, life is a bitch, coping, lifestyle, wheelchair bound, handicapped, hang gliding ...
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Boys On Film 17: Love Is the Drug (2017)
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, contemplative, melancholic, romantic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay interest, physical disability, coming of age, love, gay slur, gay relationship, gay couple, love and romance, gay lead character, homosexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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1 Litre of Tears (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 48 min.
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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: touching, thought provoking, emotional, dorama, sincere ...
Plot: terminal illness, school, high school life, tragedy, human spirit, illness, disabled child, family problems, family relations, high school, wheelchair bound, child illness ...
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 6.9
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The Student (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Veniamin, a teenager in the midst of a mystical crisis, has his mother, schoolmates and entire high school turned upside down by his questions. - Can girls go to their swimming classes in bikinis? - Does sex education have a place in school? - ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: religion, student, teacher, school, violence, male pubic hair, bible, swimming pool, religious fundamentalist, religious fundamentalism, anger, faith ...
Place: russia
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On Body and Soul (2017)
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: captivating, sentimental, disturbing, sincere, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sex scene, love, disability, dream, slaughterhouse, suicide attempt, penetration, betrayal by friend, female nudity, bare breasts, autism, psychologist ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 90s
Place: eastern europe, hungary, budapest
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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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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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 5.1
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Wind Dancer (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a young girl is injured by a riding accident, she overcomes her injury with the help of her family and her beloved horse.
Style: independent film
Plot: girl horse relationship, physical disability, youth, disability, girl, rain, father daughter relationship, dog, horse riding, widower, child in peril, ranch ...
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 7.2
 14K
The Mighty (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. ...
Style: sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, disability, friendship, boy, bully, loneliness, misfit, youth, social misfits, illness, fight, best friend ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, ohio, cincinnati ohio
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