Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "handicapped-child"

1. Very Bad Things (1998)

R | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller

A prostitute is killed during a bachelor party and the attendees turn on each other as the wedding approaches.

Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Christian Slater, Daniel Stern, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau

Votes: 49,024 | Gross: $9.80M

2. Extraordinary Measures (2010)

PG | 106 min | Drama

A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder.

Director: Tom Vaughan | Stars: Brendan Fraser, Keri Russell, Harrison Ford, Meredith Droeger

Votes: 17,815 | Gross: $11.85M

3. Luther (2003)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, History

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

Director: Eric Till | Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov, Alfred Molina

Votes: 16,007 | Gross: $5.79M

4. Outside Providence (1999)

R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

After one too many run ins with the law, a punk teenager from a working class background is sent to prep school by his frustrated dad, and learns a thing or two.

Director: Michael Corrente | Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Amy Smart, Alec Baldwin, Tommy Bone

Votes: 9,326 | Gross: $7.29M

5. Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)

R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

The owner of a prestigious New York ballet school teams up with a male model to solve a series of bizarre murders of a few of the students.

Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Olga Karlatos, Ray Lovelock, Claudio Cassinelli, Cosimo Cinieri

Votes: 2,205

6. The Colors of Fire (2022)

135 min | Drama, History

Paris, 1927. After the death of her father, Madeleine Péricourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy leading her to ruin. Now she will have her vengeance.

Director: Clovis Cornillac | Stars: Léa Drucker, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alice Isaaz, Clovis Cornillac

Votes: 1,045

7. The Naked Kiss (1964)

Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama

A former prostitute relocates to a buttoned-down suburb, determined to fit in with mainstream society. But perverse secrets simmer beneath the wholesome surface.

Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey

Votes: 8,761

8. A Christmas Carol (1951)

TV-PG | 86 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.

Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns

Votes: 25,731

9. Heidi: A Girl of the Alps (1974)

24 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

This animation series follows the childhood "adventures" of a girl named Heidi, who lives with her grandfather somewhere on the Alps.

Stars: Vic Perrin, Randi Kiger, Kazuko Sugiyama, Kôhei Miyauchi

Votes: 6,021

10. Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)

G | 26 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

The classic Disney animated characters play the roles in this animated retelling of the Charles Dickens masterpiece.

Director: Burny Mattinson | Stars: Alan Young, Wayne Allwine, Hal Smith, Will Ryan

Votes: 15,365 | Gross: $21.00M

11. The Giant Gila Monster (1959)

Not Rated | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A giant lizard terrorizes a rural Texas community and a heroic teenager attempts to destroy the creature.

Director: Ray Kellogg | Stars: Don Sullivan, Fred Graham, Lisa Simone, Shug Fisher

Votes: 4,331

12. The Body Snatcher (1945)

Approved | 78 min | Horror, Thriller

A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Henry Daniell, Edith Atwater

Votes: 10,199

13. .hack//SIGN (2002–2003)

TV-14 | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

A strange boy named Tsukasa appears in the online video game "The World". He claims to be alive, and without a computer.

Stars: Megumi Toyoguchi, Kazuhiro Nakata, Kaori Nazuka, Amanda Winn Lee

Votes: 1,447

14. Follow the Stars Home (2001 TV Movie)

PG | 103 min | Drama, Romance, Family

Kimberly Williams and Caitlin Fein play a mother and child whose love conquers adversity.

Director: Dick Lowry | Stars: Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Campbell Scott, Eric Close, Alexa PenaVega

Votes: 1,125

15. Three Faces West (1940)

Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Austrian refugees Dr Braun and his daughter Leni join the town's plan to relocate to Oregon. The town leader falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped them escape from the Third Reich.

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters

Votes: 967

16. Caroline? (1990 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama

A mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?

Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pamela Reed, George Grizzard, Patricia Neal

Votes: 516

17. 3 Ring Circus (1954)

Approved | 103 min | Comedy

Jerry and Pete are two friends with no money, looking for some job. They finally find one as workers in a circus, but Jerry has different dreams. He wants to become a clown.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Joanne Dru, Zsa Zsa Gabor

Votes: 884

18. The Pied Piper (1972)

G | 86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Musical

In 1349, while the Black Plague threatens Germany, the town of Hamelin hires a wandering pied piper (Donovan) to lure rats away with his magic pipe, but then refuses to pay for his services, causing him to lure the town's children away.

Director: Jacques Demy | Stars: Keith Buckley, Patsy Puttnam, Arthur Hewlett, Paul Hennen

Votes: 911

19. Violent Naples (1976)

95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller

An uncompromising cop gets transferred to Naples on account of this city's atrocious crime levels. His no-hold-barred police methods are considered to be the perfect anti-dote.

Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Maurizio Merli, John Saxon, Barry Sullivan, Elio Zamuto

Votes: 1,138

20. A Christmas Star (2017)

82 min | Family

Noelle's born on Christmas with the magical ability to make people stop fighting. Her dad's workplace has problems and has to sell. The only buyer is evil.

Director: Richard Elson | Stars: Erin Galway-Kendrick, Robert James-Collier, Bronagh Waugh, Richard Clements

Votes: 2,056

21. Money on the Side (1982 TV Movie)

100 min | Drama

Three middle-class housewives who are having money problems join a prostitution ring.

Director: Robert L. Collins | Stars: Karen Valentine, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linda Purl, Christopher Lloyd

Votes: 178

22. Just, Melvin: Just Evil (2000)

96 min | Documentary

An in-depth look at the director James Ronald Whitney's family history of incest spanning at least three generations and the devastating consequences that include drug abuse and alcoholism.

Director: James Ronald Whitney | Stars: James Ronald Whitney, Melvin Just, Denise Benson, Jean Benson

Votes: 1,775

23. The Magician (I) (1926)

Passed | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A magician/alchemist, seeking to create life, finds that he needs the "blood of a virgin" to continue his experiments. He sends out his dwarf assistant to pick out the right girl.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier, Iván Petrovich

Votes: 865

24. Mere Apne (1971)

Not Rated | 164 min | Drama

Anandi Devi is an old widow living in her village she is bought to the city by her distant relative Arun. Anandi Devi realizes that Arun and his wife wanted to keep her as a maid following ... See full summary »

Director: Gulzar | Stars: Meena Kumari, Vinod Khanna, Shatrughan Sinha, Sumita Sanyal

Votes: 660

25. The Howards of Virginia (1940)

Approved | 116 min | Drama, History, War

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal

Votes: 1,262

26. The Foxes of Harrow (1947)

Passed | 117 min | Action, Drama, Romance

In pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) buys his way into society, something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen

Votes: 570

27. Come, Embrace Me (1973)

148 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Preeti lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bombay along with her widower dad, Heerachand, and is a medical student. While on a trip to Simla, she meets and falls in love with a Casanova, Prem, and... See full summary »

Director: Manmohan Desai | Stars: Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Shatrughan Sinha, Om Prakash

Votes: 423

28. Elementary (2016)

105 min | Drama, Family

Florence is a school teacher devoted to her students. When she encounters young Sacha, a child with problems, she will do everything she can to help him, even to the point of neglecting her own children.

Director: Hélène Angel | Stars: Sara Forestier, Vincent Elbaz, Albert Cousi, Ghillas Bendjoudi

Votes: 523

29. The Great O'Malley (1937)

Passed | 71 min | Drama

A by-the-book patrolman who cares more about the letter of the law than justice feels guilty when his inflexibility sends a family man to prison.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Sybil Jason, Ann Sheridan

Votes: 888

30. The Miracle Man (1919)

Not Rated | 80 min | Drama

A gang consisting of the Frog, who can dislocate his limbs; the Dope, a drug addict; Rose, who poses as the Dope's brutalized mistress; and Burke, the leader; prey on the sympathies and ... See full summary »

Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Betty Compson, Lon Chaney, J.M. Dumont

Votes: 256 | Gross: $3.00M

31. The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. He hides out at a health farm for invalid children and begins to lose his cynicism under the influence of the ... See full summary »

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 725

32. Pollyanna (1920)

TV-G | 58 min | Family, Comedy, Drama

An orphan's optimistic outlook brings a change to the ill-tempered town in which she resides to her aunt.

Director: Paul Powell | Stars: Mary Pickford, Wharton James, Katherine Griffith, Helen Jerome Eddy

Votes: 510

33. Where the Road Runs Out (2014)

91 min | Drama, Family, Romance

George, a scientist living in Rotterdam is growing wary of the world of academia. The sudden death of an old friend is the incentive he needs to return to his African roots where he takes ... See full summary »

Director: Rudolf Buitendach | Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Juliet Landau, Stelio Savante, Sizo Motsoko

Votes: 156

34. Thursday's Children (1954)

Approved | 21 min | Documentary, Short

Won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary Short of 1954. The subject deals with the children at The Royal School for the Deaf in Margate, Kent. The hearing-handicapped children are ... See full summary »

Directors: Lindsay Anderson, Guy Brenton | Star: Richard Burton

Votes: 390

35. We Have a Dream (2023)

96 min | Documentary

Who said giving up one's biggest dreams because of a disability? Director Pascal Plisson traveled the globe and met exceptional kids who will demonstrate the power of courage and inclusive education.

Director: Pascal Plisson | Stars: Maud Pruvost, Romy Pruvost, Antonio Luis Santana Cruz, Xavier Cyiza

Votes: 11

36. The Christmas Carol (1949 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy

Dickens' classic tale of Ebenezer Scrooge and three Christmas Ghosts that change his perception of life. Narrated by Vincent Price.

Director: Arthur Pierson | Stars: Vincent Price, Taylor Holmes, Patrick Whyte, Robert Clarke

Votes: 441

37. The Ice Flood (1926)

Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Jack De Quincy, an American graduate of Oxford, is still considered a wastrel playboy by his father, owner of a giant lumber company in the American northwest. To prove he is a man his ... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Viola Dana, Frank Hagney, Fred Kohler

Votes: 49

38. Flesh Eaters from Outer Space (1989 Video)

Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi

Jersey Metalheads face off against a nasty green Flesheater from beyond the stars in Parts 1 and 2 of Warren F. Disbrow's Flesheaters From Outer Space Saga. Features an appearance by Marilyn Ghigliotti from Clerks!

Director: Warren F. Disbrow | Stars: Greg Scott, Kathy Monks, Lena Hunter, Samantha Scott

Votes: 111

39. A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale (2006)

Not Rated | 48 min | Animation

This all-animal version of the much-loved classic by Charles Dickens is retold in stunning CGI animation and is destined to become a family favorite for years to come.

Director: Richard Machin | Stars: Tim Bentinck, Brian Bowles, Teresa Gallagher, Adam Rhys Dee

Votes: 78

40. The Peddler (1987)

95 min | Drama

Consisting of three separate stories, the director explores "Man" as a theme: birth, life and death, to present a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic portrait of life at the bottom of the socio-economic pile.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf | Stars: Mahmoud Basiri, Behzad Behzadpour, Jafar Dehghan, Farid Koshan Falah

Votes: 424

41. Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)

Passed | 75 min | Drama

Nurse Mary Lamont is excited about her brother's impending visit. The young man's strange behavior puzzles Dr. Kildare who believes he may be hiding a serious illness.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Robert Young

Votes: 387

42. Fighting Back (1948)

Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Nick Sanders is honorably discharged from the army, with a full pardon for his pre-war crimes, and settles into a happy home life with his wife, June, and their son, Jimmy, and the family ... See full summary »

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Paul Langton, Jean Rogers, Gary Gray, Joe Sawyer

Votes: 58

43. Captain Johnno (1988 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Family

A deaf boy befriends an Italian fisherman in his village.

Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: John Waters, Damien Walters, Rebecca Sykes, Michele Fawdon

Votes: 93

44. Muhi: Generally Temporary (2017)

89 min | Documentary

For the past seven years Muhi, a boy from Gaza has been living in an Israeli hospital, unable to return home. He is saved and raised in paradoxical circumstances that transcend identity, religion and the conflict that divides his world.

Directors: Rina Castelnuovo, Tamir Elterman | Stars: Muhammad El-Farrah, Hamuda Abu Naim El Farrah, Buma Inbar, Hiba El-Farrah

Votes: 97

45. Michael O'Halloran (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Drama

The story of a young crippled girl and her love for a teenage newsboy despite her over-protective and alcoholic mother's objections.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Scotty Beckett, Allene Roberts, Tommy Cook, Isabel Jewell

46. Amahl and the Night Visitors (1978 TV Movie)

51 min | Musical

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.

Director: Arvin Brown | Stars: Teresa Stratas, Robert Sapolsky, Giorgio Tozzi, Willard White

Votes: 66

47. The Devil Is Driving (1937)

Approved | 69 min | Action, Crime, Drama

To regain the trust of his girlfriend, an unscrupulous lawyer decides to mend his ways and follow a straighter path.

Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Richard Dix, Joan Perry, Ann Rutherford, Ian Wolfe

Votes: 34

48. Amahl and the Night Visitors (1963 TV Movie)

Musical

One night in Judea, a disabled shepherd boy-turned-beggar and his mother are visited by three strangers. They are the Three Kings, and they are on their way to Bethlehem to visit the Christ Child, who has just been born.

Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: Richard Cross, Martha King, John McCollum, Julian Patrick

Votes: 37

49. You, John Jones! (1943)

Unrated | 11 min | Short, Drama, War

John Jones' (James Cagney) daughter is rehearsing the Gettysburg Address in preparation for a school elocution when he is called away by an air raid alarm. He sits alone in the evening and ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sothern, Margaret O'Brien, Carey Wilson

Votes: 368

50. Tarnished Angel (1938)

Passed | 67 min | Drama

The ex-fiancée of a young rich man becomes the companion of a jewel thief, forming a vaudeville act with face "cure", but after she discovers, that she can really cure people, she decides to quit.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Sally Eilers, Lee Bowman, Ann Miller, Alma Kruger

Votes: 167