Movies About the Physically Disabled

A jealous, manipulative stepmother confined to a wheelchair interferes with her stepchildren's romances so that they will not get married and leave home.

A kind doctor volunteers to tutor a deaf-mute woman, but scandal starts to swirl when his pupil is raped and falls pregnant.

A rich playboy whose recklessness inadvertently causes the death of a prominent doctor tries to make amends to his widow, and falls for her in the process.

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind, deaf and mute child Helen Keller how to understand and communicate.

Devoted teacher Anne Sullivan leads deaf and blind Helen Keller into the light of learnedness.

The story of Helen Keller's years at Radcliffe College.

A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.

A deaf woman becomes the target of a ruthless and corrupt cop.

When the family's fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her musical passion and her fear of abandoning her deaf parents.

A former vaudeville child star torments her paraplegic sister, who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a comeback.

A blind, uneducated white girl is befriended by a black man who becomes determined to help her escape her impoverished and abusive home life by introducing her to the outside world.

A recently blinded woman is terrorized by a trio of thugs while they search for a heroin-stuffed doll they believe is in her apartment.

A woman released from a mental hospital questions her sanity after she hears strange voices in the country manor she has moved into with her husband.

Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to her.

Jill and mom return to Bishop, renting trucker John's place during a summer getaway years post-tragedy. Jill fights her instant attraction to John, but they ultimately connect, past hurts complicating their romance.

In 1968 California, a woman whose husband is a Marine officer fighting in Vietnam falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

A young nurse becomes determined to reach an unresponsive teenage cerebral palsy patient by encouraging her to write to her favorite rock singer, Elvis Presley.

A teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.

Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.

In a small town, brutal killings start to plague the close-knit community. Marty Coslaw, a paraplegic boy, is convinced the murders are the doings of a werewolf.

The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.

A paralyzed man's friend gives him a smart monkey.

An alien trying to escape from NASA is befriended by a wheelchair-bound boy.

Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.