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85
8.3
/229604/
81
/2487/
79
/1286/
4.0
/94603/
93
/14/
96
/2312/
cc age 13+

Like Stars on Earth (2007)
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.
poster
80
7.3
/25334/
73
/602/
71
/554/
3.5
/18827/
93
/40/
80
/589/
80
/21/
cc age 13+

Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Augusto and Michaela Odone are dealt a cruel blow by fate when their five-year-old son Lorenzo is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease. But the Odones' persistence and faith leads to an unorthodox cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history.
poster
HBO Max Amazon Channel
72
6.5
/13981/
65
/273/
62
/196/
3.4
/6540/
84
/112/
72
/2007/
73
/28/
cc age 16+

Rocket Science (2007)
Hal is a 15-year-old high-school student with a minor yet socially alienating (and painful) disability: he stutters uncontrollably. Determined to work through the problem, Hal opts for an extreme route – he joins the school debating team, which sends him on a headfirst plunge into breakneck speech competitions and offers a much-needed boost toward correcting the problem.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
71
67
7.4
/6774/
73
/203/
70
/104/
3.6
/2115/
78
/65/
76
/141/
60
/16/
cc age 16+

Any Day Now (2012)
In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men must fight the legal system to adopt the child.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
73
63
7.2
/3851/
70
/68/
68
/59/
3.4
/4350/
92
/13/
73
/53/

A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
poster
62
6.3
/105325/
63
/2388/
59
/1613/
3.0
/70517/
76
/188/
48
/2187/
71
/40/
cc age 15+

Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
A revenge-seeking gold digger marries a womanizing Beverly Hills lawyer with the intention of making a killing in the divorce.
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Amazon Prime Video
57
49
6.4
/5233/
64
/144/
57
/74/
3.1
/1230/
43
/47/
67
/170/
46
/20/

All Over the Guy (2001)
A contemporary romantic comedy exploring the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings thrown together by their respective best friends in hopes of igniting their own romance.
poster
Hoopla
47
5.2
/21473/
60
/683/
53
/309/
2.9
/27881/
33
/73/
59
/2648/
42
/28/
cc age 15+

Superstar (1999)
Orphan Mary Katherine Gallagher, an ugly duckling at St. Monica High School, has a dream: to be kissed soulfully. She decides she can realize this dream if she becomes a superstar, so her prayers, her fantasies and her conversations with her only friend focus on achieving super-stardom.
poster
Kanopy
87
43
7.4
/360/
80
/21/
76
/7/
100
/10/
92
/11/
100
/4/

Best Kept Secret (2013)
A Newark, New Jersey high school teacher struggles to prepare her students with autism to survive in the brutal world that awaits them once they graduate.
poster
75
32
8.3
/2175/
78
/13/
66
/20/
3.8
/814/

Special Education (1977)
Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of rehabilitation.
poster
73
30
7.7
/792/
75
/22/
65
/13/
3.2
/386/
87
/95/

Autism: The Musical (2007)
Follows five autistic children as they work together to create and perform a live musical production.
poster
69
17
7.3
/417/
68
/8/
66
/21/
3.5
/463/

School of Babel (2014)
They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks, conflicts and joys of this group of students aged 11 to 15 years, together in the same class to learn French.
poster
Hoopla
?
7.6
/23/
90
/1/

My Apocalyptic Thanksgiving (2022)
A zombie-obsessed, special needs adult who searches for his absent mom while a Korean family and gang compete to be his family. But he teaches everyone forgiveness with the help of his favorite zombie television show.
poster
?
7.0
/56/
50
/1/

Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II (1978)
A sequel to "A Circle of Children" (1977). A teacher of "emotionally disturbed" children takes on a new student who is considered to be "untrainable" by public school authorities, psychiatrists, and medical doctors. Even the child's own mother, who is very loving, does not have the tools to reach her "hopeless" child. This is the further story of a teacher who understood what it was like to be eight years old and hurt and angry and confused; a teacher who saw these children for who they were, rather than who they seemed to be.
poster
?
10
/1/

A Casa do Gaiato (1954)
The life of orphans and juvenile delinquent boys sheltered and given special education at a charitable house founded by a Christian priest, Padre Américo.
poster
Kanopy
64
?
8.1
/107/
40
/6/
72
/4/
63
/6/

Wretches & Jabberers (2011)
In 'Wretches & Jabberers and Stories from the Road', two men with autism embark on a global quest to change prevailing attitudes about disability and intelligence. With limited speech, Tracy Thresher, 42, and Larry Bissonnette, 52, both faced lives of mute isolation in mental institutions or adult disability centers. When they learned as adults to communicate by typing, their lives changed dramatically. Their world tour message is that the same possibility exists for others like themselves. At each stop, they dissect public attitudes about autism and issue a hopeful challenge to reconsider competency and the future. Along the way, they reunite with old friends from the USA, expand the isolated world of a talented young painter and make new allies in their cause.
poster
56
?
6.7
/445/
51
/9/
52
/5/

Killer Diller (2004)
A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.
poster
51
?
5.6
/406/
44
/9/
46
/7/
64
/1/

Relative Fear (1994)
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around Adam die an unexpected death, his parents start to suspect Adam - is he just simulating to be so ignorant about his environment?
poster
80
?
7.6
/62/
80
/2/
86
/19/

Bad (2007)
This film puts you inside the head of a dyslexic child trying to get through the 5th grade in the 1970's.
poster
60
?
6.1
/268/
67
/14/
52
/7/
3.1
/455/

My Bestfriend's Girlfriend (2008)
Evo and Grace are from different worlds. Their paths cross serendipitously when Grace, a waitress in a girlie bar, agrees to fill in for a stripper friend on a bachelor party attended by Evo. His not-so gentlemanly behavior during the party doesn’t endear him with Grace, and unfortunately, neither with his girlfriend who instantly breaks-up with him. Wanting his girlfriend back, Evo arrives at a scheme upon discovering that Grace happens to be his bestfriend’s girlfriend.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
64
?
7.2
/606/
64
/11/
56
/10/

Caroline? (1990)
Hallmark Hall of Fame presents the story of a mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly physically and mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?
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?
7.3
/16/

Girls With Autism (2015)
Documentary following six months in the lives of three very different autistic girls and the other students and staff at Limpsfield Grange School in Surrey, Britain's only state-run boarding school for girls with autism. Why is autism much less diagnosed in girls - are they so different to autistic boys? Thought of as a disorder primarily of boys, Girls With Autism shows us how teen girls cope with their autism and how they differ from autistic boys.
poster
?

Act Your Age: The Kids of Widney High Story (2010)
Follows the world-famous Kids of Widney High, a group of young adults with developmental disabilities who write, record, and perform their own unique brand of rock music. Based out of Los Angeles, the band grows and becomes involved in other creative endeavors including films, writing, painting, and clothing design. This documentary chronicles Kids' rise to underground cult fame over a ten year period, and incorporates the Kids' recent West Coast tour.
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?

Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back
Covers four children who the Autism Society says recovered from autism. Each child received services from the Center for Autism and Related Disorders Inc. (CARD), including assessments, supervision, parent/teacher training and one-on-one behavioral therapy. The film presents documentation of therapy sessions along with interviews of the children who are now teenagers, their parents, therapists and the founder/executive director of CARD.


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