Disability Movies

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“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 realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sentimental and dramatic films and TV shows about / with disability, friendship, misfit, redemption, hopes, bittersweet, destiny, storytelling, mentor and human spirit plots mostly in Drama, Biography and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries. 

List of disability movies:

 Rory O'Shea Was Here (2004)  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: uplifting, emotional, touching, dramatic, heartbreaking. Plot: disability, friendship, youth, life, loneliness, human spirit, love triangle, character study, friends, cerebral palsy, unlikely friendships, life philosophy.  Time: contemporary 

The Intouchables (2011) 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: touching, uplifting, realistic, feel good, emotional. Plot: friendship, disability, life philosophy, lifestyle change, culture clash, french, friends, human relationship, blacks and whites, starting over, loneliness, odd couple. Time: 21st century, contemporary, 2010s 

Me Before You (2016)   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. Style: touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic, serious. Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night  Plot: romance, love and romance, fall in love, love story, disability, love, wheelchair, caregiver, quadriplegic, accident, depression, loneliness. Time: 21st century, contemporary 

The Sea Inside (2004)  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: thought provoking, emotional, serious, sad, touching. Plot: disability, human spirit, dignity, freedom, lawyer, mercy killing, wheelchair, fighting the system, nursing, suicide, euthanasia, choice. Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s, 1960s, 1990s 

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)  Story: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.  Style: touching, melancholic, emotional, depressing, compassionate ...  Plot: mentally challenged, self discovery, disability, siblings relations, mental illness, parents and children, small town, dysfunctional family, family problems, responsibility, family drama, obesity. Time: 90s, 20th century 

The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)  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. Style: sweet, touching, sentimental, compassionate, depressing. Plot: disability, wheelchair, road trip, friendship, caregiver, teenage boy, abandoned by father, guilty conscience, loss of son, unlikely friendships, tragedy, honest. Place: seattle washington, seattle 

The Theory of Everything (2014)  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: uplifting, touching, emotional, compassionate, factual, Plot: prodigy, genius, disability, supportive spouse, life is a bitch, human spirit, religion versus science, against the odds, adaptation, fall in love, life turned upside down, love. Time: 60s, 20th century, 1990s, 1960s 

Mask (1985) Story: A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempts to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances. Style: captivating, uplifting, touching, sentimental, emotional. Plot: disability, falling in love, human spirit, coming of age, teenage love, fall in love, protective parent, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, single parent, disfigurement. Time: 80s, 20th century 

The Elephant Man (1980) Story: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and sensitivity. Style: emotional, psychological, touching, surreal, bleak. Plot: social misfits, disfigurement, freak, disability, dignity, life is a bitch, human nature, hopes, suffering, cruelty, hospital, doctors and patients. Time: 19th century, victorian, victorian era, 1880s, 1800s  Place: england, london, europe 

Frida (2002)  Story: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. .Style: sincere, serious, colourful, emotional, touching. Plot: painter, disability, bohemian life, art, couple relations, feminism, lifestyle, jealousy, loneliness, artist, love of one's life, lesbian interest. Time: 20th century, 20s, 40s, 1930s, 30s ...  Place: mexico, latin america, paris france, mexico city, empire state building manhattan new york city 

A Silent Voice (2016)  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: inspirational, touching, sincere, romantic, biting. Plot: sign language, friendship, deaf, high school, redemption, disability, bullying, coming of age, suicide attempt, deafness, sister sister relationship, single mother. Place: japan 

Scent of a Woman (1992)  Story: Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. Style: sentimental, realistic, dramatic, touching, inspirational ...  Plot: human spirit, friendship, mentor, blind character, human nature, disability, depression, teaching the ways of the world, ex military, thanksgiving, change of heart, student. Time: 90s, 20th century  Place: new york, usa, new England 

Music Within (2007)  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. Style: serious, touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic. Plot: disability, wheelchair, vietnam war, friendship, hippie, social activist, mute or deaf, human spirit, paralysis, society, hopes, injustice. Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, 1960s, 1950s ...  Place: vietnam, seattle washington, california, portland oregon 

Radio (2003)  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. Style: feel good, sentimental, touching, uplifting, serious. Plot: disability, sport, football, underdog, mentally challenged, graduation, friendship, civil rights, against the odds, radio, small town life, misfit. Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s  Place: south carolina, cuba, san Francisco 

Five Feet Apart (2019)  Story: Two teenagers with life-threatening illnesses meet in a hospital and fall in love.  Style: thought provoking, talky, meditative, melancholic  Plot: falling in love, forbidden love, fighting illness, star crossed lovers, suffering, true love, couple relations, disability, destiny, danger, life turned upside down, long distance relationship.

Door to Door (2002)  Story: Sometimes the true heroes in our lives are those people who inspire us not with their superhuman accomplishments but simply by their refusal to give up in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds and the dignity in which they go about their lives. Style: uplifting, serious, touching, realistic, feel good. Plot: disability, human spirit, cerebral palsy, salesman, changing lives, against the odds, society, ambition, americana, door to door salesman, underdog, misfit. Time: contemporary  Place: Oregon 

Silenced (2011)  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, serious, emotional, bleak, realistic. Plot: child abuse, sex crime, mute or deaf, disability, teacher student sex, rape, sexual abuse, punishment, life is a bitch, social activist, power relations, society. Time: 21st century, contemporary  Place: korea, asia, south korea 

The Memory Keeper's Daughter (2008)  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 knowledge.   Style: emotional, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy  Plot: twins, disability, haunted by the past, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children, down syndrome, crumbling marriage, obsession, love and romance, child illness, dysfunctional family. Time: 60s, 80s, 70s, 1960s  Place: kentucky

Breathe (2017)  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: realistic, based on true events, factual, compassionate, sentimental ...  Plot: disability, paralysis, illness, supportive spouse, husband wife relationship, polio, adaptation, human spirit, falling to the ground, 22 year old, happiness, costume. Time: year 1973, year 1970, year 1981, year 1960, year 1958 ...  Place: spain, england, germany, africa, kenya 

My Left Foot (1989)  Story: In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Style: sentimental, touching, biting, captivating, thought provoking. Plot: disability, poet, human spirit, irish, artist, courage, working class, painting, cerebral palsy, paralysis, family relations, writer's life. Time: 20th century, 80s, 1930s  Place: ireland, Europe 

Come as You Are (2011)  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. Style: humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic, road movie  Plot: disability, looking for sex, first sex, independence, brothel, obsessive quest, buddies, self discovery, paralysis, blind character, misfit, social misfits. Time: contemporary, 21st century  Place: spain, Europe 

The Miracle Worker (1962)  Story: The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings.  Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic, serious. Plot: mute or deaf, disability, human spirit, blind character, teacher, tantrum, institution, struggle, tutor, railway station, social misfits, hopes. Time: 19th century, 1880s  Place: alabama, usa, boston 

The Finishers (2013)  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. Style: touching, serious, realistic, uplifting  Plot: disability, swimming, human spirit, contests and competitions, family relations, youth, parents and children, redemption, teenage life, hopes, cycling, father son relationship. Time: contemporary, 21st century  Place: france, alps 

The Lost Prince (2003)  Story: The Lost Prince is an acclaimed British television drama about the life of Prince John – youngest child of Britain's King George V and Queen Mary – who died at the age of 13 in 1919. John suffered from epileptic seizures and an autism-like. Style: serious, touching, sincere, captivating, realistic. Plot: disability, epilepsy, royal family, prince, family relations, state affairs, intrigue, nanny, family in crisis, separation from family, royalty, british history. Time: 1910s, 1900s, edwardian era  Place: england, Europe 

The Ringer (2005)  Story: Pressured by a greedy uncle (Brian Cox) and a pile of debt, lovable loser Steve Barker (Knoxville) resorts to an unthinkable, contemptible, just-crazy-enough-to-work scheme. He pretends to be mentally challenged to rig the upcoming Special Olympics. Style: humorous, not serious, light, idiotic, absurd. Plot: disability, mentally challenged, rivalry, ambition, dishonesty, down syndrome, friendship, love and romance, lie, sleazy, bet, make believe. Time: contemporary, 21st century, 2000s  Place: las vegas 

Cavalcade (2005)  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. Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional  Plot: disability, redemption, life turned upside down, human spirit, friendship, womanizer, rehabilitation, true love, couples, hopes, love and romance, couple relations. Time: 21st century, contemporary  Place: france, europe 

Wait Until Dark (1967)  Story: After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place. Style: tense, suspenseful, clever, psychological, serious. Plot: heroin, disability, blindness, photographer, murder, search, stabbing, crime, drug dealing, neighbor, police, crimes. Time: 20th century, 60s, 1960s. Place: new york, usa, montreal quebec 

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)  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.  Style: touching, emotional, sincere, psychological, depressing . Plot: french, human spirit, rehabilitation, disability, paralysis, life turned upside down, coma, writing, nurse, patient, courage, tragic event. Time: 20th century, 90s, 1990s  Place: france, europe, arc de triomphe paris, nepal, Africa

Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015)  Story: An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic. Style: realistic, serious, sexual, disturbing, captivating. Plot: love affair, social differences, master and servant, disability, sexual relations, society, infidelity, obsession, romance, couples, countryside, unfulfillment. Time: 20th century, 20s, 1910s  Place: england, Europe 

Temporary Difficulties (2018)  Story: Sasha Korolev has a congenital disorder. The boy’s father has chosen what seemed to him the only correct way to put the son on his feet: to treat him like a healthy person. “You’re not a patient, you have temporary difficulties”. Style: emotional, uplifting, thought provoking, based on true events, brutal. Plot: rise to the top, disability, boy, human spirit, parents and children, childhood, working class, child abuse, father son relationship, cerebral palsy, cripple, power relations. Place: ussr 

^ The films in Bold are ones I have seen. ^

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