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1. Like Stars on Earth (2007)
PG | 162 min | Drama, Family
An eight-year-old boy is thought to be a lazy trouble-maker, until the new art teacher has the patience and compassion to discover the real problem behind his struggles in school.
Directors: Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte | Stars: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma
Votes: 206,489 | Gross: $1.22M
2. Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
PG-13 | 100 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Miles, a high-profile divorce lawyer, wins a case for his rich but adulterous client Rex Rexroth. But Rex's ex-wife, Marylin, who is no saint and is a gold-digger, plots to take revenge on Miles.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Billy Bob Thornton, Geoffrey Rush
Votes: 101,792 | Gross: $35.33M
3. Superstar (1999)
PG-13 | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
A nerdy Catholic schoolgirl, Mary Katherine Gallagher, dreams of superstardom.
Director: Bruce McCulloch | Stars: Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Elaine Hendrix, Harland Williams
Votes: 20,370 | Gross: $30.63M
4. Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
PG-13 | 129 min | Biography, Drama
Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite
Votes: 24,015 | Gross: $7.29M
5. Rocket Science (2007)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Looking for answers to life's big questions, a stuttering boy joins his high school debate team.
Director: Jeffrey Blitz | Stars: Reece Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D'Agosto, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Votes: 13,689 | Gross: $0.71M
6. All Over the Guy (2001)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
"All Over The Guy" is a contemporary romantic comedy about the quest to find the "one" when "the one" doesn't know he's the "one." It explores the unlikely pairing of two 20-somethings ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Davis | Stars: Dan Bucatinsky, Richard Ruccolo, Sasha Alexander, Adam Goldberg
Votes: 4,975 | Gross: $1.01M
7. A Child Is Waiting (1963)
Approved | 102 min | Drama
Jean Hansen joins the staff at a state training institution for developmentally challenged children. When she disagrees with teaching methods used for a 12-year-old autistic boy, the principal does not believe her approach is the answer.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill
Votes: 3,383
8. Any Day Now (I) (2012)
R | 98 min | Drama
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.
Director: Travis Fine | Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher
Votes: 6,572 | Gross: $0.20M
9. Special Education (1977)
110 min | Drama
A troubled young boy is sent to a juvenile detention center where he meets a teacher who has an unusual pedagogical approach.
Director: Goran Markovic | Stars: Slavko Stimac, Bekim Fehmiu, Ljubisa Samardzic, Aleksandar Bercek
Votes: 1,953
10. Caroline? (1990 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
A mysterious woman claiming to be the deceased daughter of a rich man tries to solve the problems of his untrusting son and supposedly mentally handicaped daughter. But one question stands in her way: is she really Caroline?
Director: Joseph Sargent | Stars: Stephanie Zimbalist, Pamela Reed, George Grizzard, Patricia Neal
Votes: 516
11. Autism: The Musical (2007)
TV-14 | 94 min | Documentary, Music
Follows five autistic children as they work together to create and perform a live musical production.
Director: Tricia Regan | Stars: Hillary Aaron, Joe Aaron, Lexi Aaron, Adam
Votes: 764
12. Killer Diller (2004)
PG-13 | 95 min | Drama, Music
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.
Director: Tricia Brock | Stars: Lucas Black, William Lee Scott, Fred Willard, John Michael Higgins
Votes: 427
13. School of Babel (2013)
94 min | Documentary
How to integrate into French society when you are a young immigrant newly arrived in Paris? Just join the school of La Grange aux Belles where, whether you are named Agnieszka, Eduardo, ... See full summary »
Director: Julie Bertuccelli | Stars: Maryam Aboulgila, Felipe Arellano Santibanez, Miguel Angel Cegarra Monsalve, Brigitte Cervoni
Votes: 403
14. Best Kept Secret (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Drama
In "Best Kept Secret," a Newark, NJ teacher struggles to prepare her students with autism to survive in the brutal world that awaits them once they graduate.
Director: Samantha Buck | Stars: Alyce Barnhardt, Carla Byrd, Robert Caspar, Johnson Green
Votes: 341
15. My Bestfriend's Girlfriend (2008)
115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After an awkward yet memorable encounter at a stag party, Evo (Richard Gutierrez) and Grace (Marian Rivera) thought they would never see each other again. Little did they know that Grace is... See full summary »
Director: Mark A. Reyes | Stars: Richard Gutierrez, Marian Rivera, JC De Vera, Ehra Madrigal
Votes: 249
16. Relative Fear (1994)
R | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
Just why are people surrounding Adam Pratman dropping down dead? Is this five year old really a murderous sociopath?
Director: George Mihalka | Stars: Darlanne Fluegel, Martin Neufeld, James Brolin, Denise Crosby
Votes: 378
17. Dinner Time (2005)
17 min | Music, Comedy, Drama
The world-famous Kids of Widney High --a group of young adults with developmental disabilities in a unique rock band-- improvise a series of fascinating and hilarious vignettes over a two-hour dinner at a posh Beverly Hills restaurant. Topics of conversation run the gamut between earthquakes and eyebrow fetishes.
Directors: Jesse Alba, Mathew Klickstein | Stars: Luis Fernandez, Elisa De La Torre, Cain Fonseca, Matty Carvajal
18. Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II (1978 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Jane Alexander, Ronny Cox, Kristine McKeon, Jeff Lynas
Votes: 48
19. Girls with Autism (2015 TV Movie)
Documentary
Autistic girls at Limpsfield Grange school learn to cope with life. 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.
Director: Nick Poyntz
Votes: 15
20. My Apocalyptic Thanksgiving (2022)
Comedy, Drama
A zombie-obsessed, special needs adult searches for his absent mom while a Korean family and gang compete to be his family.
Director: Charles B. Unger | Stars: Joshua Warren Bush, Ray Chang, Chris Wu, Grace Shen
Votes: 17
21. Special Ed (2019)
103 min | Drama
Eddie Cooper is a 36-year-old ex-actor and an Iraq War veteran who is now a special education bus driver, searching for redemption from the war while trying to help a kid in a wheelchair who is too angry to want help.
Director: Frank Anderson | Stars: Peter Christian Hansen, Grace Bureau, Brian Goff, Bob Amaden
22. Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary
Recovered - Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back documents four children who have recovered from the Autism Spectrum. Each child received services from the Center for Autism and ... See full summary »
Directors: Michele Jaquis, Doreen Granpeesheh | Stars: Bonnie, Brett, Bryce, Doreen Granpeesheh
23. Coded (2015– )
49 min | Drama
Shae Fitzgerald is a new teacher dogged by a violent past and a relentless desire to reach his students, five tenth-grade misfits with clinical issues who don't give a shit.
Stars: Jarod Joseph, Joely Collins, Matteo Cerullo, Joshua Morettin
Votes: 14
24. Wretches & Jabberers (2011)
TV-G | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Gerardine Wurzburg | Stars: Larry Bissonnette, Tracy Thresher
Votes: 100
25. bAd (2007)
30 min | Short, Drama, Family
This film puts you inside the head of a dyslexic child trying to get through the 5th grade in the 1970s.
Director: Vincenzo Giammanco | Stars: Remy Thorne, Jennifer Davis, Nancy Cronig, Kyle Dietz
Votes: 61
26. Act Your Age: The Kids of Widney High Story (2010)
Documentary, Music
Documentary chronicles Kids' rise to underground cult fame over a ten year period, and incorporates the Kids' recent West Coast tour.
Directors: Jesse Alba, Mathew Klickstein | Stars: Spero Anthony, Tony Bollas, Ty Carlisle, Matty Carvajal
27. Duo: The True Story of a Gifted Child with Down Syndrome (1996)
Not Rated | Short, Drama, Romance
Duo is the story of a boy with Down syndrome who falls in love with a violinist and dreams of becoming her accompanist.
Director: Alexandre Ginnsz | Stars: Stephane Ginnsz, Eden Riegel
Votes: 30
28. Autism in Our World (2008)
23 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary that follows a 10 year old boy with autism.
Director: Alexa DiCambio | Stars: Bonnie Bray, Brian Hoover, Avery Horne, Cole Horne
Votes: 11
29. Are You Happy? (2006)
8 min | Short
A short documentary about Morgan Warren, a girl with a rare chromosome disorder called 11Q Syndrome. The film illustrates her experience in an inclusion setting at an elementary school.
Director: Raewyn Mundhenk | Stars: Morgan Warren, Gretchen Warren, Sarah Aguilar
30. A Bolt from the Blue: Coping with Disasters (1985 Video)
21 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Andrew Ellis
32. A Casa do Gaiato (1954)
8 min | Documentary, Short
The life of orphans and juvenile delinquent boys sheltered and given special education at a charitable house founded by a Christian priest, Padre Américo.
Director: Armando da Silva Brandão | Star: Américo Monteiro de Aguiar
33. Openly in the City (1974)
26 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Brian Bergin | Star: David Hursthouse
34. Going to School/Ir a la escuela (2001 Video)
64 min | Documentary
Director: Richard Cohen | Star: Richard Cohen
Votes: 12
35.
Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode:
Elephant's Memory
(2008)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a spree killing begins in a small Texas town, Reid's identification with the killer may endanger the girl with him, and cause Reid to put his own life in jeopardy.
Director: Bobby Roth | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Paget Brewster, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler
Votes: 2,971
36.
Forensic Files (1996–2011)
Episode:
Transaction Failed
(2007)
TV-PG | 21 min | Documentary, Crime
When a dedicated, well-respected teacher disappeared, police had to determine if she'd gone on vacation without telling anyone, or if she was the victim of foul play. Investigators turned ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Jordan | Stars: Peter Thomas, Pearl Cruz, Alfred Damiani, Karisa King
Votes: 65
37.
60 Minutes (1968– )
Episode:
Steve Jobs/Apps for Autism
(2011)
TV-PG | 60 min | Documentary, News
"Steve Jobs" interviews biographer Walter Isaacson about the visionary CEO and founder of Apple Computers. "Apps for Autism" looks at how simple computer programs are being used to assist in the education of children with autism.
Stars: Steve Kroft, Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson, Lesley Stahl
Votes: 14
38.
The Doctors (2008–2022)
Episode:
Woman Charged for Leaving Negative Review?/Teachers Mock Disabled 5th Grader?/Keep Your New Year's Resolution
(2018)
TV-PG | 41 min | News, Talk-Show
A hotel guest may have been charged for leaving a negative review; teachers mock a disabled child; celebrity trainer Lacey Stone; a family booted from a flight over lice; a child's dramatic... See full summary »
Stars: Travis Stork, Andrew Ordon, Sonya Batra, Areva Martin