The Intouchables (2011), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Rust and Bone (2012), You're Not You (2014), Love Affair (1939), The Penalty (1920), Christmas in July (1940), The Mighty (1998) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Disabled Person movies.
Storyline: Abandoning artistic ambitions, sensitive and club-footed Philip Carey enrolls in medical school and falls in love with a waitress Mildred Rogers. She rejects him, runs off with a salesman and returns unmarried and pregnant. Philip gets her an apartment and they become engaged. Mildred runs off with another medical student. Philip takes her back again when she returns with her baby. She wrecks his apartment and burns the securities he needs to pay tuition. He gets a job as a salesman, has surgery on his foot, receives an inheritance, and returns to school where he learns Mildred is dying.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, tuberculosis, cruelty, betrayal, paris france, orchestral music score, self destructiveness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Storytelling is comprised of two separate stories set against the sadly comical terrain of college and high school, past and present. Following the paths of its young hopeful/ troubled characters, it explores issues of sex, race, celebrity and exploitation
Plot Keywords: black comedy, interracial sex, sex scene, sex standing up, high school football, race relations, hypnosis ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After Venya's mother receives a call from school reporting her son's refusal to participate in mixed swimming lessons, she first suspects her teenager of being shy and derides his claim that it is "against his religion." As Venya is finally exempted by the school's devout principal, he grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority. Challenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community. At a time when arguments over the teaching of religion in public schools are prominent in the media, this wildly escalating classroom drama - based on a play by German playwright Marius von Mayenburg - serves as a frightening cautionary tale.—Under The Milky Way
Plot Keywords: bare breasts, male full frontal nudity, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, male rear nudity, kiss, female rear nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sir Clifford has returned from the Great War to his estate near Sheffield, paralyzed from the waist down. Lady Constance, his young wife, cares for him, but she's lifeless, enervated. Her physician prescribes the open air, and she finds a quiet retreat at the hut - the workplace - of Parkin, the estate's gamekeeper. The rhythms of nature awaken Connie - daffodils, pheasant chicks - and soon she and Parkin become lovers. She's now radiant. Parkin, too, opens up. Class distinctions and gender roles may be barriers to the affair becoming more. Connie's trip to France, with her father and sister, bring the lovers to a nuanced resolution.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: female pubic hair, female full frontal nudity, male frontal nudity, female nudity, infidelity, breasts, female frontal nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mary Donnell was married at sixteen to a gangster and soon widowed. She works for unhappily married lawyer Lloyd Rogers. A client's son Jack elopes with her, but his father tracks them down and has the marriage annulled. Mary has a son. Unaware of this, the father remarries; his new wife is crippled in an auto accident. The lawyer, now dying, tells Mary he has left her money for her and her son, Rogers' widow suspects her husband may have been the father. Jack's ruthless father , upon learning that he is the grandparent of the child, threatens legal action to gain custody, but his son wants no part in separating little Jackie from his mother. Further, he reasserts his love for Mary and promises he will ask his now handicapped wife, Flip, for a divorce so that Jackie will have a real family. He instructs Mary to pack her belongings and get Jackie ready to leave so that the three can start a new life together. Before Jack has a chance to inform his now-handicapped wife, Flip, of these stunning developments, Flip pays an unexpected visit to Mary's apartment. To Mary's surprise, Flip makes a heartfelt, selfless plea for her to take Jack and make him happy as (in her words) she could no longer do. Mary is so struck by the offer and by Flip's true love for Jack, that she not only decides to cancel her plans to reunite with Jack, but also to ask Jack to adopt Jackie and, along with Flip, give him a 'proper' life in society. Jack enters the apartment and, in a whispered chat with Mary, is prevented from telling Flip that he ever had any intention of leaving her.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: father son relationship, last will and testament, self sacrifice, reputation, remake, marriage proposal, mother son relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life.
Plot Keywords: crypt, friend, fugitive, game playing, ghost, girl, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Riddled with secret but horrid suspicion, the young American poet, Rose Elliot, writes to her brother and musicology student in Rome, Mark, about the startling findings in the dark and dank basement of her New York Art Deco apartment building. Pivoting around the cryptic knowledge hidden in the leather-bound book entitled "The Three Mothers", Rose is convinced that her aristocratic but damned abode is, in fact, an ancient coven for Mater Tenebrarum, the malevolent Mother of Darkness. Little by little, as the siblings delve deeper and deeper into the occult, a mysterious disappearance and an endless string of gruesome killings will bring Mark closer and closer to a surreal nightmare. Where do the long and shadowy corridors of Rose's building lead?
Plot Keywords: second part, dead animal, killing an animal, actual animal killed, part of trilogy, taxi, swimming underwater ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young woman, who is dying of motor neuron disease. The strong-willed woman admits her wish to be de-flowered before her death. The man, struggling to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend, declines, but offers to help pay for a gigolo to do the deed. The following events play off the inherent comedy and drama of the circumstances.—John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
Plot Keywords: disabled person, hospital, gun, graveyard, goggles, friendship, food ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: character name in title, thief, swimming pool, secret marriage, robbery, revenge, reporter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: David Wozniak is a man who is irresponsible and unreliable which doesn't exactly endear him to his family and his girlfriend. And when she tells him that she's pregnant, she tells him, she plans to do it on her own because she can't count on him. One day a lawyer shows up and talks to him about the fact that twenty years ago he was a sperm donor for about a year and his sperm was used to father over 500 children. And now over 100 of them want to know who he is but because he signed a confidentiality agreement, they can't be told who he is. So they are going to court to try to get the confidentiality set aside. His lawyer tells him that they can win this. But when the lawyer who saw him gives him info on the ones who want to see him, he takes a peek at one and decides to go see him and not tell him he's the father. He then goes out and checks out some of his other children and doesn't tell them who he is and connects with them. His lawyer tells him it could jeopardize their case, ...
Plot Keywords: new job, pizza, ambulance, drug addict, drug overdose, driver, fired from the job ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When aspiring filmmaker David is mandated by a judge to attend a social program at the Jewish Community Center, he is sure of one thing: he doesn't belong there. But when he's assigned to visit the Brooklyn Bridge with the vivacious Sarah, sparks fly and his convictions are tested. Their budding relationship must weather Sarah's romantic past, David's judgmental mother, and their own pre-conceptions of what love is supposed to look like.—AnonymousB
Plot Keywords: autism, singing, kiss, kissing, disabled person, jewish family, written by director ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tim, in his early 20s, is quiet, dependable, and held close by his mother, Jean, who works long hours at a Sydney canteen and then does stand-up at night, talking constantly about what might have been (if she'd stayed in England, if she'd had no children, if her younger son Mark weren't mildly disabled). She gets enough club work to keep hope alive. They've bought a moving van, and Tim meets Jill, falling for her but finding the challenges of sex, his mother's prying, and his brother's needs more than he can handle. The family - as well as Tim and Jill's relationship - is on the edge of crisis, accident, or, in Jane's case, self-destruction. Are family dynamics set in stone?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: self esteem, video camera, video tape, hand on crotch, crotch grab, flatulence, stand up comedian ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him.
Plot Keywords: injection, shot in the back, shot in the chest, shot in the shoulder, shot to death, shotgun, shovel ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pilot enters an aviation race in order to win enough money to pay for her brother's medical treatment, and encounters difficulty with a rival pilot.
Plot Keywords: based on novel, doctor, farmer, jealousy, operation, romantic rivalry, sabotage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. Both engaged to others, they become romantically attached on board the ship sent to take the passengers to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York City three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up, the other doesn't, but they run into each other afterwards.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: movie flop, airplane, aunt, love, singer, painting, accident ...
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