Movies about Down Syndrome

An ambitious Scottish journalist is torn between a high-profile career and caring for his younger sister who has Downs Syndrome.

Anita is a girl who suffers from Down Syndrome and lives with her mother in the Once neighborhood in Buenos Aires. On July 18, 1994, the bombing attack on the AMIA changes her life forever.

In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.

A love story between a man and woman. And between a mother and her son. A mystical and fantastical odyssey on love.

Three young people with Down syndrome decide to run away in search of three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly.

Detective Robert has Downs, his own office, a trench coat and a Bogart hat. The only thing he is missing is a case. But then a lady comes to his rescue.

Duo is the story of a boy with Down syndrome who falls in love with a violinist and dreams of becoming her accompanist.

A young man with Down syndrome romantically pursues a small-town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.

This is a sequel of Educating Peter. The documentary follows Peter Gwazdauskas, a boy with Down syndrome. It follows him in his adventures in middle school, high school, and his high school graduation.

The adventures of a 40-year-old, beer-drinking, porno-consuming wrestling fanatic with Down's Syndrome.

A kindhearted but bumbling idiot who likes to steal bananas, is passed off for a snitch hiding from the mob.

A Finnish punk-rock band formed by four mentally disabled guys.

An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.

Daniel - a recent university graduate with Down's Syndrome - falls in love on his first day at work in the Department of Social Services. Laura is an outsider who spends her nights in the city's crowded clubs and singles' bars, escaping her problems in the arms of total strangers. Yet despite their apparent incompatibility, the two strike up a moving, bittersweet friendship that touches them both and eventually sets them on the road to happiness.

My Brother is an inner city story of two impoverished boys and mother, L'Tisha, finds herself in a tragic situation.

Explores the marriage of a young couple with Down syndrome, and the family who strives to support their needs.

Praying with Lior asks whether someone with Down syndrome can be a spiritual genius. Many believe Lior is close to God -- at least that's what his family and community believe -- though he's also a burden, a best friend, an inspiration and an embarrassment, depending on who is asked and when. As this documentary moves to its climax, Lior must pass through the gateway to manhood - his Bar Mitzvah.

In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that she can re-route her life in a better direction.

A Montreal-based theater troupe is working tirelessly to put on a play. The challenges they face are also a part of the usual drama behind any live show. There's the backstage politics, the forgotten lines, the missed cues, the romances and the rivalries. But for this troupe, the stakes are a bit higher - each cast member faces intellectual, developmental and mental health disabilities, ranging from Down syndrome to autism to schizophrenia.

A father separates his son from his twin sister at birth to prevent him and the mother from knowing she was born with Down syndrome. Based on the novel by Kim Edwards.

When a strange door appears in a troubled family's house, they will have to face their darkest secrets.

Eugenio has Down syndrome, works as a gardener at a country house, and despite his condition he is full of illusion and tries to help those in need, such as Patrizia, a young woman who has had a car accident.

University of Texas student Duane Graves chronicles his charismatic childhood chum Rene Moreno, a San Antonio native with Down Syndrome, in this playful, stirring, remarkably unique portrait documentary.

A baseball player whose professional career was cut short due to his personal problems is suddenly awakened and invigorated by a young-man with Down syndrome who works at the local grocery store.