Unique survivant d'une catastrophe ferroviaire à la périphérie de Philadelphie, David Dunn, un agent de sécurité à la vie des plus banales, s'interroge sur les raisons qui lui ont permis d'échapper à la mort et de sortir de ce cauchemar sans la moindre égratignure. Quelque temps plus tard, Elijah Price, un étrange personnage féru de bandes dessinées, prend contact avec David. Il souffre d'une fragilité du squelette qui l'oblige à rester au lit, le moindre choc pouvant lui causer une fracture. Price soumet à Dunn une théorie pour le moins surprenante. Cet homme aux os de verre serait inextricablement lié à Dunn qui, lui, n'a jamais contracté la moindre maladie de sa vie...
Fille de parents sourds, Ruby est la seule personne entendante de la maison. Quand elle se découvre une passion pour le chant, elle doit choisir entre ses rêves et sa famille.
À la mort de son père, Charlie Babbitt, jeune vendeur de voitures de Los Angeles, se voit déposséder de son héritage. Le défunt père a légué presque toute sa fortune son frère aîné Raymond, dont il ignorait l'existence. Celui-ci est autiste et vit dans un hôpital psychiatrique de Cincinnati.
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.
A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.
A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
En 1937, Charles Dowley confie sa sœur Maud, ennuyée par l’arthrite rhumatoïde dont elle souffre depuis sa tendre jeunesse, aux soins de leur tante Ida qui vit en Nouvelle-Écosse. Cependant, après quelque temps, la jeune femme n’en peut plus de subir les reproches constants de sa parente qui la traite durement. Elle décide donc de partir pour tenter sa chance comme femme de ménage chez Everett Lewis, un pêcheur misanthrope de la région. Au début, l’homme célibataire est incommodé par la présence de cette femme qui partage sa vie. Il trouve qu’elle consacre trop de temps à décorer la maison de ses peintures naïves. Au fil du temps, la personnalité attachante de Maud produit son effet et Everett commence lentement à apprécier sa présence.
A documentary on assisted suicide, authored by actor and disability rights activist Liz Carr.
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the spotlight. When a fading Hollywood actress, Cher, decides to get her show "Honey and the Beaze" cancelled, she hires Walt -- and his brotherly appendage -- as her costars. But their addition surprisingly achieves the opposite.
Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.
Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Sclerosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
Martin, a young blind photographer, is divided between his friendship with restaurant worker Andy and the exclusive love that Celia—who is terribly jealous of this new friendship—has for him.
Tsuneo is a university student working part-time in a mah-jong parlour. Lately the customers have been talking about an old lady who pushes a baby carriage through the streets. They say she is carrying something for a crime syndicate, and they wonder what it is she has in the carriage Money? Drugs? One day, the owner of the mah-jong parlour sends Tsuneo out to walk his dog. A baby carriage comes rolling down a hill and crashes into a guard rail. The old lady asks him to look into the carriage, where he finds a young woman clutching a knife. This is how Tsuneo first meets the girl who calls herself Josee.