20 Movies with Disabled Characters to Watch
Explore 20 released movies with disabled characters, selected for topic relevance and audience interest, with summaries, ratings, trailers, and where to watch.
Rank 1Movie
The Theory of Everything
Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of – time.
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2Movie
My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown
No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
3Movie
The Intouchables
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
More rankings
4MovieCODA
2021★ 7.9
5MovieSound of Metal
2020★ 7.7
6MovieThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007★ 7.6
7MovieThe Elephant Man
1980★ 8.0
8MovieThe Sessions
2012★ 6.9
9MovieThe Fundamentals of Caring
2016★ 7.3
10MovieMe Before You
2016★ 7.9
11MovieRust and Bone
2012★ 7.2
12MovieThe Miracle Worker
1962★ 7.9
13MovieChildren of a Lesser God
1986★ 6.9
14MovieThe Peanut Butter Falcon
2019★ 7.4
15MovieBreathe
2017★ 7.4
16MovieWonder
2017★ 8.1
17MovieThe Sea Inside
2004★ 7.6
18MovieJosee, the Tiger and the Fish
2020★ 8.3
19MovieCrip Camp: A Disability Revolution
2020★ 7.2
20MovieThe Best Years of Our Lives
1946★ 7.7
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Explore 20 released movies with disabled characters, selected for topic relevance and audience interest, with summaries, ratings, trailers, and where to watch.
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