Movies about the disabled

Movies about the disabled
List of the best movies about the disabled selected by visitors to our site: Triumph, Still Alice, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, Inside I'm Dancing, Me Before You, The Intouchables, Run, Temporary Difficulties, Chemical Hearts, The Signal.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Country
Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama, sport
CountryUSA

A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, the girl of his dreams.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:41

    Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryFrance, USA
    Duration01:50

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France
    Duration01:38

    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.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:25

    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 apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:52

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada

    Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:20

    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”. Eating, getting dressed, going downstairs and walking up the front door steps — every day the child spends hours on such simple household tasks. At school he is mocked by his peers, and there is no help to expect. The boy has coped with the illness, but started hating the father. When he finished school, Sasha left home and stopped all contact with the father. Over the past 15 years he has become the best business consultant in the country, who has helped hundreds of businesses out of crisis. “You have no a crisis, you have temporary difficulties”, — Sasha would say to his clients, having gone along a difficult path himself. And one day, a new order unexpectedly gives him the opportunity to settle accounts with the father...

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUSA

    When a hopelessly romantic high school senior falls for a mysterious new classmate, it sets them both on an unexpected journey that teaches them about love, loss, and most importantly themselves.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, United Arab Emirates, Japan

    A movie about reporter W. Eugene Smith and his research on mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan, resulting in severe neurological symptoms.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genredrama, family, biography
    CountryAustralia, USA

    When an unlikely ally enters the Bloom family's world in the form of an injured baby magpie they name Penguin, the bird’s arrival makes a profound difference in the struggling family’s life.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA
    Duration02:03

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
      CountryUSA

      The true-life story of Christian music star Jeremy Camp and his journey of love and loss that looks to prove there is always hope.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryFrance, Belgium

      Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad... Now Eva will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again… even if it causes death around her.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantasy, drama, detective
      CountryThailand, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Malaysia, South Korea, Mexico, USA, Norway
      Duration01:10

      In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, and forms a telepathic bond with one of them.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline Personality Disorder who wins Mega-millions, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.

      Markimdb: 8.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, family, biography, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

        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 (AnnaSophia Robb) was born to surf. A natural talent who took to the waves at a young age, she was leading an idyllic life on Kauai, participating in national surf competitions with her best friend Alana (Lorraine Nicholson), when everything changed. On Halloween morning, a 14-foot tiger shark came out of nowhere and seemed to shatter all her dreams.Soul Surfer reveals Bethany's fight to recover from her ordeal and how she grappled with the question of her future. Strengthened by the love of her parents, Tom (Dennis Quaid) and Cheri (Helen Hunt), and supported by her youth group leader Sara (Carrie Underwood), Bethany refuses to give in or give up, and begins a bold return to the water.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, adventure
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:37

        After the passing of her mother, a young woman in a wheelchair since birth, is forced to deal with her sister, brother-in-law, niece and their nanny as they say their goodbyes to mother. When people start turning up dead, Nica discovers the culprit might be a strange doll she received a few days earlier.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:33

        A teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:12

        When his mother commits suicide, Tom Redding discovers he has a long lost sister that cannot move or talk. Together they travel to their dead mother's isolated home, where Tom hopes to document her illness, only to be driven to the brink of madness by a supernatural evil.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA

        A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        A struggling motel owner and her daughter are taken hostage by a nearly blind career criminal to be his eyes as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantasy, adventure, family
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada
        Duration02:10

        A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryAustralia, USA
        Duration02:28

        A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:56

        Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control -- all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an impossibly charming teen who has the same illness.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA

        Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrecomedy, drama, adventure
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genremelodrama, drama, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Morgan is the inspiring story of Morgan Oliver, a gay young athlete determined that a bicycle accident that left him paralyzed will not change him. He takes a chance on love when he meets Dean Kagen on a basketball court. Dean helps Morgan train for the same race in which he had his accident. But when he sees that Morgan will risk everything to win, Dean walks out. Left alone to face the race and demons that caused his accident, Morgan teeters between what he needs and what he wants. Can he find the strength to pull himself back up again?

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        A newly paralyzed DJ gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA

        Quickie-mart employee Melissa and paraplegic Richie are very much in love. Supported only by Melissa’s small hourly wage, they are nevertheless thrilled to learn that Melissa is pregnant. Then their situation deteriorates, and their tenuous financial situation threatens to bring their happy life crashing down.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        When the notorious Diaper Mafia take hostage the Tromaville School for the Very Special, only the Toxic Avenger and his morbidly obese sidekick Lardass can save Tromaville.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama, biography, sport
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, USA
        Duration02:06

        A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:37

        An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

        Markimdb: 8.5
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jeffries breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Freemont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

        Markimdb: 8.2
        Genredrama, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration02:05

        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. Based on the true story of Joseph Merrick (called John Merrick in the film), a severely deformed man in 19th century London.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genredrama, film noir, sport
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:39

        An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrewestern
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        Man Without a Star is a 1955 western film starring Kirk Douglas as a wanderer who gets dragged into a range war. It was based on the novel of the same name by Dee Linford.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:34

        A traumatized nurse plots revenge against a catatonic businessman, whom she blames for the death of her family, by integrated herself as his personal nurse and plots revenge by killing off his family members one by one.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        Caroline, a young waitress who seems to have bad taste in men, is on her way home one night when thugs attempt to rape her. Adam, the mysterious busboy who works at the same diner, helps fight off the assailants, and she begins a relationship with him -- but not all their fellow Minnesotans are happy for them. Meanwhile, the couple face their own difficulties when Caroline finds about Adam's past, including his unique health condition.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:38

        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 to investigate the possibility of experiencing sex himself. When his overtures toward a caregiver scare her away, he books an appointment with sex surrogate Cheryl Green (Helen Hunt) to lose his virginity.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:25

        Lt. Bud Wilozek is one of a group of veterans recovering in the paraplegic ward of a hospital in his hometown. His former fiancée, Ellen, explains to his physician, Dr. Brock, her concern about his isolation and apparent depression. The doctor cajoles the withdrawn paraplegic into the life of the ward, where fellow patients begin to pull Bud out of his spiritual miasma. At length, his sense of hope starts to return, and after seeing Ellen for the first time in months, he begins to contemplate the possibility of marriage.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrecomedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA

        When his lawyer wife, Sofia, becomes pregnant, chronic underachiever Tom Reilly must take a job at his father-in-law's advertising firm. Tom has to adjust to the demands of a very high-powered job, and he finds himself in an increasingly hostile office rivalry with Chip, Sofia's paraplegic former lover.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genremelodrama, drama, sport
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:35

        Alexis Winston is a young girl who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. While practicing, Alexis suffers a terrible accident that takes her sight and threatens to destroy her dreams. In the midst of feeling sorry for herself she falls in love with a handsome young man named Nick who (with help from her family) helps her to realize that she can still fulfill her dreams.

        Markimdb: 7.8
        Genredrama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.




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