Oasis (2002), Gabrielle (2013), Forrest Gump (1994), Hasta la Vista! (2011), Sunrise at Campobello (1960), Koshish (1972), Caterpillar (2010), The Intouchables (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Disability movies.
Storyline: After serving time for killing a man in a hit-and-run car accident, Hong Jong-du (Sul Kyung-gu) is released with no money and nowhere to go. His family has abandoned him. While trying to make amends, he meets Han Gong-ju (Moon So-ri), his victim's adult daughter. She is wheelchair-bound due to cerebral palsy and all but abandoned in a cheap apartment by her callous family. Gong-ju's innate tenderness appeals to the uncontrollably impulsive Jong-du, and the pair begin an improbable relationship.
Plot Keywords: romance, drama, korean cinema, social outcasts, disability, forbidden love, human nature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young woman who has Williams syndrome possesses amazing musical talents but struggles continually to gain her independence.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, music, biography, true story, disability, musician ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, historical, inspirational, american, classic, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three disabled men drive to Spain to visit a brothel that caters to people with disabilities.
Plot Keywords: comedy, adventure, road movie, belgian film, disability, friendship, coming of age ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the summer of 1921, unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Ralph Bellamy) is vacationing with his family at their estate on Campobello Island on the Maine/New Brunswick border. During their stay, the 39-year-old Roosevelt comes down with a fever and sudden paralysis that is eventually diagnosed as polio. With the help of his wife, Eleanor (Greer Garson), and his close friend and political consultant, Louis Howe (Hume Cronyn), FDR battles his newfound disability.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, political, family, inspirational, american ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Romantic drama spaning nearly 20 years involving a deaf-mute couple, Haricharian and Aarti. Deaf and dumb bicycle messenger Haricharian meets equally deaf Aarti, and persuades her to go to sign language school to communicate with her mother and brother. The courtship leads to marriage and ultimately a child born to them. Years later, after the death of Aarti from a brief illness, Haricharian's teenage son tries to deal with the after effects as well as his history of being raised by two deaf parents when he begins courting another young girl who also happens to be deaf.—Matthew Patay
Plot Keywords: drama, family, emotional, social issues, romance, indian cinema, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1940s Japan a villager must fulfill her duty to her husband, a decorated soldier who returned from war a quadruple amputee.
Plot Keywords: war, japan, history, drama, humanity, violence, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Paris, the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer, with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue, Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his unemployment benefit. Philippe challenges Driss, offering him a trial period of one month to gain experience helping him. Then Driss can decide whether he would like to stay with him or not. Driss accepts the challenge and moves to the mansion, changing the boring life of Phillipe and his employees.
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, french film, friendship, based on a true story, social differences, attitude towards life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies 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.
Plot Keywords: suspense, thriller, crime, romance, drama, film noir, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Brilliant but tormented bomb expert Sammy Rice (David Farrar) works for the British government during World War II, but his increasingly problematic alcoholism and a recent injury threaten his ability to work.
Plot Keywords: war, british, film noir, drama, psychological, suspense, military ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary tells the story of 27-year-old Ghanaian Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, born with a deformed leg. The disabled are often disdained or even murdered at birth in Africa, but Emmanuel is determined to be a part of society. After receiving a bicycle, thanks to a grant for handicapped athletes, Emmanuel rides across Ghana, challenging stereotypes in the process. Emmanuel travels to America to receive a prosthetic leg and spreads awareness of human rights for the disabled everywhere he goes.
Plot Keywords: inspirational, documentary, biography, disability, africa, true story, social issues ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kate and Will Spicer promise their brother, Tom, who suffers from Fragile X syndrome, that they will help him meet his hero, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich.
Plot Keywords: documentary, disability, family, autism, music, journey, adventure ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute, which sends them a "half-blind Yankee schoolgirl" named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love, and sheer stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helen's walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, historical, inspirational, educational, disability, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: war, veterans, family, romance, trauma, social issues, america ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: "The Straight Story" chronicles a trip made by 73-year-old Alvin Straight from Laurens, Iowa, to Mt. Zion, Wis., in 1994 while riding a lawn mower. The man undertook his strange journey to mend his relationship with his ill, estranged, 75-year-old brother Lyle.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, road movie, based on true story, family, reconciliation, slow paced ...
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