Disability Movies

A short 1982 film that offers a thought-provoking look at stereotypes about physical handicaps as seen in the story of a teenager with cerebral palsy...

Poor painter helps a paralysed child.

In one night, Lucas, Luiza and Bia remember the pains and delights of being who they are.

During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone t...

Taking its title from Tod Browning’s classic film, this radical reframing of how characters with disabilities are represented looks at a century of Ho...

Day after day, an elderly woman recalls the Spanish Basque country of her youth — while forgetting she is consigned to a retirement home in Chile.

The film director Niko von Glasow undertakes a journey to athletes, who compete at the Paralympic Games in London 2012. He himself is a short-armed av...

Music by Prudence tells a self-empowering story of one young woman's struggle who, together with her band, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds and...

Symbolic story about a person with a congenital disability who immersed himself in a paper world of ideas

When a reclusive Haitian-American painter living with fibromyalgia is invited to exhibit her work at Art Basel Miami, she must confront her invisible...

When a gifted athlete loses his sight, his convict brother sees an excuse for early parole. But with their joyful reunion comes tragedy.

A sharp-witted 30-year-old man with cerebral palsy living in assisted care has his independence tested when his overprotective mother secretly enrolls...

While researching a story on a school for problem children, Nakahara meets Emi, a college volunteer with a compelling tale of her own. After overcomin...

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig...

People with Trisomy 21/Down syndrome find themselves alone in the world where typical people have inexplicably vanished.

An ensemble of world-class musicians with disabilities defies conventional expectations, showcasing how their unique challenges lead to groundbreaking...

Martinez's second feature documentary assembles a theatre group of deaf actors in order to portray their lives and at the same time avoid any pedagogi...

Fantasy A, autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. Along the way he also find...