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46 films tagged disability
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2017 · Family
A boy with a facial difference starts school for the first time at ten, and the film hands the story around to the people near him. Warm and openly designed to move you.
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2025 · Drama
In 1983 a Scottish schoolboy starts swearing uncontrollably in class, years before anyone can tell him why, and his school treats it as bad behaviour. Based on a real life, following him from twelve into his twenties.
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2023 · Drama
A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.
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2025 · Thriller
A window cleaner is working her way down the side of a Canary Wharf tower when activists storm the gala inside and take everyone hostage, her brother among them. She is stuck on the outside.
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2009 · Science fiction
A paralysed marine ships out to a moon on the far side of the galaxy, where a lab-grown body lets him walk among the people whose forest sits on what his employers want. Long, and built to be looked at.
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2025 · Drama
During the Paris Olympics, a hearing-impaired woman managing short-term flats gets through the noise by taking her hearing aids out. Then an American visitor turns up. Short, and it drifts.
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2025 · Drama
A burned-out mother sets off on a road trip across Italy with her son, who has an intellectual disability. It is a road film, and it is mostly just the two of them.
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2017 · Action
A getaway driver who keeps music playing at all times to drown out the ringing in his ears is working off a debt to the man who hires him. Every chase and shootout is cut to whatever song he has on.
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2025 · Drama
A deaf woman living in rural Spain is expecting a baby with her hearing partner, and cannot stop thinking about how she will talk to her daughter. Close and quiet, mostly the two of them and a new baby.
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2025 · Drama
A twelve-year-old who is close to her deaf mother starts at a school full of much richer kids and begins to feel ashamed of where she comes from. Quiet and small, and it stays close to her.
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2025 · Drama
A single mother making a documentary about the lack of affection in her Barcelona neighbourhood ends up in a wheelchair after an accident, and old friends gather round. Adapted from a play, and it is mostly talk.
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2025 · Thriller
A bank assistant manager who cannot feel pain goes after the robbers who took his co-worker hostage, using the one advantage his body gives him. Fast, funny and gruesome about it.
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2025 · Drama
A suspended basketball coach is sentenced to community service and put in charge of a team of players with intellectual disabilities preparing for a tournament. A long sports comedy, mostly training sessions and the players themselves.
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2025 · Thriller
A New York piano tuner whose hearing is too sensitive to let him play any more teaches himself to crack safes by ear, and joins a crew of thieves to clear his old mentor's medical debts. Much of it is quiet, close listening.
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2025 · Crime
A woman working every job she can get in Portland has one night to replace the $25,000 she had saved to buy the house she shares with her mother and brother. One night, and it gets uglier as it goes.
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2025 · Mystery
A blind master engraver is being filmed for a television profile when his son learns the mother he thought had walked out has been dead for forty years, buried by a building site. He and the journalist start asking.
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2026 · Thriller
A cellist recovering from a robbery that killed her friend is taken to Thailand, where a drunken break-in at a marine park ends with a captive orca loose in the sea. Two friends in the water, hunted.
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2026 · Comedy
A basketball coach whose son has an intellectual disability cannot find enough eligible players for a Paralympic team, so a neighbour suggests filling it with able-bodied fakers. They get to Rio.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Drama
The only hearing member of a deaf fishing family joins the school choir and finds she can sing, just as the family business needs her on the boat. Warm and straightforward, moving between sign and speech.
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2016 · Horror
Three young burglars pick a house on an emptied-out Detroit street belonging to a blind veteran who is supposed to keep cash at home. Almost all of it is one dark house and very little talking.
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2017 · Crime
After a bank job goes wrong, a man spends one night crossing Queens trying to get his brother out of custody, and every fix he tries makes it worse. It never stops moving and the music sits right on top of you.
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2016 · Horror
A deaf writer living alone in the woods sees a masked man at her window, and he works out that she cannot hear him. Almost no dialogue, one house, eighty minutes.
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2009 · Mystery
When her son is arrested for a girl's murder and nobody will look any further, his mother starts working the town herself. It moves slowly, and the funny bits arrive at strange moments.
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2012 · Drama
A broke father turns up in the south of France with a five-year-old he barely knows, takes work as a bouncer, and meets a killer whale trainer. Rough and physical, and the love story is not a soft one.
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2019 · Drama
The drummer in a two-person metal band starts losing his hearing on tour and is sent to a sober house for deaf people while he works out what to do. The sound puts you inside his ears for much of it.
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2011 · Comedy
A rich Paris man paralysed from the neck down hires a young man from the estates who has no interest in the job and no bedside manner. Mostly the two of them winding each other up, and played for laughs.
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2018 · Drama
A young rodeo rider on the South Dakota plains is told he cannot ride again after a head injury, and has to work out what else he is for. Played by the real people involved, quiet and slow.
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2004 · Drama
A Spanish man who has been paralysed from the neck down for nearly thirty years fights in court for the right to end his life, from a bed in his brother's farmhouse. Slow, true, and mostly people talking in one room.
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2017 · Fantasy
A mute cleaner at a secret government lab in 1962 Baltimore starts leaving boiled eggs for the creature they are keeping in a tank. A fairy tale for grown-ups, with a Cold War thriller running underneath.
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2000 · Thriller
A security guard walks away from a train crash without a scratch, and a man who collects comic books tells him what he thinks that means. Slow, grey, and much closer to a drama than to a cape.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2018 · Science fiction
A man left paralysed after an attack is offered an experimental chip that gets him walking again, and the chip turns out to have opinions of its own. It is short, fast and very violent.
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Little-known
2024 · Drama
An actor with a facial difference takes an experimental treatment that changes his face, then watches another man get cast as the old him. It gets steadily stranger and funnier.
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Little-known
2006 · Drama
A rifle sold in Morocco links four families across three continents over a few days. The stories are told out of order and never quite meet.
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2025 · Horror
A brother and his blind stepsister are placed with a foster mother who has recently lost a child of her own. It gets very unpleasant, and it does not look away.
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1994 · Drama
A man from Alabama who does what he is told keeps turning up at the centre of thirty years of American history, waiting on the woman he loves. Told from a bus stop bench.
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2014 · Drama
A widow takes her violent teenage son home from an institution, and the neighbour across the road starts helping. Shot in a square frame, and very loud.
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1988 · Drama
A car dealer discovers he has an autistic older brother who has inherited the family money, and takes him across America in a Buick. Mostly two men in a car.
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1954 · Mystery
A photographer stuck in his apartment with a broken leg watches the courtyard through a lens and becomes sure one neighbour has killed his wife. It never leaves the flat.
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2011 · Drama
An Ohio construction worker starts having dreams about a coming storm and spends money the family does not have on the shelter in the yard. Slow, and it stays with him.
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2018 · Horror
A family lives on a farm in total silence, because anything that hears them comes for them. Most of it is signed or whispered, with long stretches where nobody makes a sound at all.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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Little-known
2007 · Drama
The editor of Elle has a stroke and is left able to move one eyelid, and dictates a book with it. Much of the film is shot from inside his working eye.
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2020 · Horror
A mother and her children leave the farm and go looking for other survivors, in a world where anything that hears you comes for you. Long stretches with no talking, and it keeps moving.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2010 · Drama
The future George VI works with an unqualified Australian speech therapist on a stammer that makes broadcasting impossible. Mostly two men in one room.
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2016 · Animation
A boy who led the bullying of a deaf classmate in primary school tracks her down years later to try to say something to her. Most of it is quiet, awkward conversation between teenagers who do not know how to start.
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Little-known
2019 · Drama
A young man with Down's syndrome escapes a care home to find a wrestling school, and falls in with a fisherman on the run. Warm, and it never patronises him.
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2004 · Thriller
A nineteenth-century settlement has an agreement with the creatures in the surrounding woods, and a young man wants to cross them for medicine. Slow and hushed.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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