Movies about the disabled

Movies about the disabled
List of the best movies about the disabled selected by visitors to our site: The Man Who Sold His Skin, Starfish, Thozha, Flawless, Butterflies Are Free, Mrs. Hyde, Molly, I, Daniel Blake, Away from Her, This Crazy Heart.

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: 7
Genredrama
CountryTunisia, France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Turkey, Qatar, Cyprus

To be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Based on the real story of Tom and Nicola Ray from Rutland. Their perfect life is totally ruined in a single moment after Tom had developed sepsis. While her husband was in coma, Nicola gave birth to their second child on the other side of the same hospital. Within a matter of days, sepsis would rob Tom of both his arms and legs, and left his face severely disfigured. As an ordinary man, Tom never put himself at risk — he just woke up two months later in a nightmare, a face-off quadruple amputee... This incredible story of survival shows what can be overcome when love is unconditional.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:11

A convict out on parole finds employment as the caretaker of a multi-millionaire, who is paralysed from neck down.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Striving to be independent, the blind but determined Don Baker moves away from his overprotective mother. After settling into his new San Francisco digs, Don meets kooky neighbor Jill Tanner. Don's quick wit and good looks disarm the free-spirited Jill, and before long they're more than just friends. Will Mrs. Baker's incessant meddling destroy Don and Jill's budding relationship?

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrecomedy
CountryFrance
Duration01:57

Mrs. Géquil is an eccentric teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she now be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde contained?

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due budget cuts, Molly is left in the charge of her neurotypical, older brother, Buck McKay, an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. Buck allows her to undergo an experimental medical treatment, with unexpectedly drastic results.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium
Duration02:04

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryCanada, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:50

A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGermany
Duration02:12

When 30-ish rich kid Lenny has to take care of 15-year-old David, who’s suffering from heart disease, it’s the beginning of a wild adventure. Lenny fearlessly breaks all the rules to fulfill his young friend’s every wish.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

When Stephanie, a famous violinist, contracts multiple sclerosis her life begins to fall apart. Her career ends, her husband leaves her for another woman and her favorite pupil leave the country. Unable to bear all this loss, Stephanie attempts suicide.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama, sport
CountryFrance, Belgium

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. In a bid to bond with his father, Julien challenges him to participate with him in the Ironman race in Nice (French Riviera), a triathlon in which his father has previously competed.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryCanada
Duration01:40

Romeo11 is a frequent visitor to internet chat rooms and social networking sites, where he's been engaging in an ongoing flirtation with an attractive woman. But Romeo11 doesn't actually exist; he's the creation of Rami, a teenager who lives with his family in a Lebanese community in Montreal. Rami walks with a limp from an accident years ago, and his controlling father Ziad, who runs a small diner, insists on making Rami's choices for him. Ziad has decided his son will enroll in business school, but Rami, who is lonely and a bit of a dreamer, doesn't have his heart in it and often skips his community college classes. Rami's older sister and one of his few confidantes, prepares to get married, he begins wondering about what sort of a life he can make for himself, and when the young woman insists she wants to meet Romeo11 in person, he hatches a scheme to pass himself off as the character he's invented.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama, sport
CountryFrance
Duration01:38

Leila is released from prison after five years of confinement. She will meet Yannick, a young athlete who became blind after an accident. This last practice race despite his disability, but to run it must be connected by a wire to guide a person called. It offers Leila to be his guide. Through this project, they will learn to rebuild.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, military, biography, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:25

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:05

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.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother in law as the king of the ambulance chasing lawyers starts a suit while he's still knocked out. The cameraman is against it until he hears that his ex-wife will be coming to see him. He pretends to be injured to get her back, but also sees what the strain is doing to the football player who injured him.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryItaly, USA
Duration01:49

When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sally's condition worsens, Ruth takes her to see Jake, an expert in childhood autism. Jake attempts to bring Sally out of her mental disarray through traditional therapy methods, but Ruth takes a different route. She risks her own sanity by attempting to enter her daughter's mind and make sense of the seemingly bizarre things that Sally does, including building a wondrous house of cards

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryGermany
Duration02:28

An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA

Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryIndia
Duration02:46

Krishna (Suriya) comes to Mumbai in search of his brother Raju Bhai (Suriya), an underworld don. Through Raju Bhai's gangster friends, his past life is revealed. What happened to Raju Bhai? Will Krishna find him?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, music, sport
CountryUSA

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, detective
CountrySpain, Mexico
Duration01:58

The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, USA
Duration01:42

Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, musical, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryFrance, Belgium
Duration01:44

Jocelyn is a selfish and misogynist businessman. He tries to seduce a young pretty woman by pretending to be handicapped, till the day he meets her sister, who is also in a wheelchair.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:12

Sam has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita into taking his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?

Markimdb: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:40

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.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, documentary
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

Sicko is a Michael Moore documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make profit even if it means losing peoples lives. "The more people you deny health insurance the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genreaction, melodrama, drama
CountryTurkey
Duration01:45

The passionate love between a former boxer and a beautiful blind woman.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

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 to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, France
Duration02:33

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryChina, France
Duration01:57

A drama centered on the employees of a Nanjing massage parlor who share a common trait: they are all blind.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:32

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 into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, detective
CountryBelgium, Netherlands, France

Villagers find their situation growing increasingly desperate when their community becomes engulfed in an endless winter.

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