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1. Rain Man (1988)
R | 133 min | Drama
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Votes: 548,123 | Gross: $178.80M
2. I Am Sam (2001)
PG-13 | 132 min | Drama
An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 155,560 | Gross: $40.31M
3. The Young Offenders (2016)
83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Two teenage boys cycle 160km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.
Director: Peter Foott | Stars: Alex Murphy, Chris Walley, Hilary Rose, Dominic MacHale
Votes: 13,332
4. See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
Dave is deaf, and Wally is blind. They witness a murder, but it was Dave who was looking at her, and Wally who was listening.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder, Joan Severance, Kevin Spacey
Votes: 58,531 | Gross: $46.91M
5. The Sessions (2012)
R | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A man in an iron lung who wishes to lose his virginity contacts a professional sex surrogate with the help of his therapist and priest.
Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood
Votes: 44,022 | Gross: $6.00M
6. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
R | 114 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Director: Gus Van Sant | Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black
Votes: 30,781 | Gross: $1.44M
7. Eye of the Needle (1981)
R | 112 min | Romance, Thriller, War
A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna, Philip Martin Brown
Votes: 11,928 | Gross: $17.58M
8. The Lookout (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher
Votes: 60,608 | Gross: $4.60M
9. At the End of the Tunnel (2016)
Not Rated | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A paraplegic computer engineer in a wheelchair starts hearing noises and voices of bank robbers in his basement.
Director: Rodrigo Grande | Stars: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Pablo Echarri, Clara Lago, Federico Luppi
Votes: 15,679
10. As We See It (2022)
TV-MA | 264 min | Comedy, Drama
Three autistic roommates find a way to live together and strive for similar things in life.
Stars: Rick Glassman, Sue Ann Pien, Albert Rutecki, Chris Pang
Votes: 4,257
11. A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Approved | 102 min | Drama
Jean Hansen joins the staff at a state training institution for developmentally challenged children. When she disagrees with teaching methods used for a 12-year-old autistic boy, the principal does not believe her approach is the answer.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill
Votes: 3,401
12. The Waterdance (1992)
R | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A young man learns how to come to terms with his disability after becoming paralyzed in a hiking accident.
Directors: Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg | Stars: Eric Stoltz, Helen Hunt, Wesley Snipes, William Allen Young
Votes: 4,196 | Gross: $1.72M
13. Without (I) (2011)
88 min | Drama
On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. Her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.
Director: Mark Jackson | Stars: Joslyn Jensen, Ron Carrier, Darren Lenz, Brooke Bundy
Votes: 534
14. Like Normal People (1979 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama
A mentally-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love, and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Shaun Cassidy, Linda Purl, Zalman King, James Keach
Votes: 248
15. Kashin no takamari (1974)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Story, about a young man who literally bumps into a prostitute who lives with and looks after her brother in a wheelchair.
Director: Masaru Konuma | Stars: Yuri Yamashina, Misa Aoyama, Ai Yoshino, Natsuko Kurumi
Votes: 58
16. Quads! (2001–2002)
TV-MA | 30 min | Animation, Comedy
The misadventures of recently paralyzed man and his equally handicapped friends.
Stars: Linda Kash, Maurice Dean Wint, Corinne Conley, Cliff Saunders
Votes: 334
17. Two of a Kind (1982 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama
Nolie who has intellectual disabilities has just turned twenty-one yet acts more like eight. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Young | Stars: George Burns, Robby Benson, Barbara Barrie, Cliff Robertson
Votes: 163
18. Cinco (II) (2010)
151 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A creative horror movie made up of five unique short films tied together by a similar theme.
Directors: Ato Bautista, Cathy Garcia-Sampana, Frasco Mortiz, Nick Olanka, Enrico C. Santos | Stars: Sam Concepcion, AJ Perez, Robi Domingo, Baron Geisler
Votes: 112
19. Walter (1982 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow, Tony Melody
Votes: 327
20. Face of Fire (1959)
79 min | Drama
A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.
Director: Albert Band | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, James Whitmore, Bettye Ackerman, Miko Oscard
Votes: 341
21. Einer wie Bruno (2011)
104 min | Comedy, Drama
13-year-old Radost lives with her father, who is mentally at the level of a 10-year-old. This means that the traditional roles of father and daughter have been reversed and Radost is the ... See full summary »
Director: Anja Jacobs | Stars: Lola Dockhorn, Christian Ulmen, Lucas Reiber, Hans Werner Meyer
Votes: 256
22. The Truth About Average Guys (2009)
R | 83 min | Comedy
An insecure man has his dimwitted actor friend pose as his mentally challenged brother in order to get to know a beautiful co-worker who has a mentally challenged sister.
Directors: Ken Gayton, Jason W. Schaver | Stars: Ken Gayton, Jason W. Schaver, Erika Walter, Adam Breske
Votes: 419
23. Moonlight in Tokyo (2005)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
"Swan Lake," "The Ugly Duckling," magical realism, and two Chinese men in Tokyo. Jun is mildly mentally disabled, in his late 20s, living with his siblings after his mother has died. ... See full summary »
Directors: Felix Chong, Alan Mak | Stars: Leon Lai, Chapman To, Kuei-Mei Yang, Michelle Ye
Votes: 209
24. The Ride (IV) (2012)
55 min | Documentary, Adventure, Biography
Strap yourself in as four Aussie blokes swap wheelchairs for quad bikes and embark on the ride of their lives. This documentary charts their 5000km adventure across the outback, as they ... See full summary »
Director: Sandra Cook | Stars: Craig Parsons, Jim Cairns, Anton Zapelli, Terry Mader
25. The Home Maker (1925)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
A man's life seems to be falling apart. He's bored with his job, gets passed over for a promotion and, when the pressures get to be too much, he tries to commit suicide, but he even fails ... See full summary »
Director: King Baggot | Stars: Alice Joyce, Clive Brook, Billy Kent Schaefer, Maurice Murphy
Votes: 26
26. Ayen's Cooking School for African Men (2007 Video)
TV-G | 52 min | Documentary, Biography
In Sudan it is taboo for a man to cook. But when a group of refugee Sudanese men in Australia is found starving because the men don't know what to do with a fridge full of groceries, ... See full summary »
Director: Sieh Mchawala | Stars: Sieh Mchawala, Ayen Kuol
27. Call Me Bad (1957)
95 min | Drama
Director: Tito Davison | Stars: Ana Luisa Peluffo, Armando Calvo, Roberto Cañedo, Lorena Velázquez
Votes: 9
28. Active Partners (1979)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Male quadriplegic has satisfying sex life with female partner.
29. Fighter: a boxing story (2021)
27 min | Documentary, Short
A disabled vet and former Army boxing champion returns to his hometown and founds a no-nonsense gym to rescue at risk youth from the streets. In just six years the gym has produced champion and professional fighters.
Director: Monty Dobson | Stars: Darrell 'Smitty' Smith, Merciless Ray Mercer, Michael Spinks
30. A True Lesson in Humanity (2007 Video)
83 min | Documentary, Family
The Special Needs Color Guard of America is the first special needs Color Guard & Dance Program in the world. For the past years they perform as exhibition in Dayton, Ohio, for Winter Guard... See full summary »
Director: Wolfgang Busch