Films about autism

Swati Muthyam

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 8.5

After an autistic man impulsively marries a young widow, she must move to the city and ensure the welfare of her new family, against the glare of societal judgement and financial struggle.

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Temple Grandin

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8.2

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.

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Mary and Max

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 8.1

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

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Rain Man

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1988 IMDB Rating: 8

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 m...

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1993 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger br...

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Hannah Gadsby: Douglas

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Hannah Gadsby returns for her second special and digs deep into the complexities of popularity, identity, and her most unusual dog park encounter.

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I Am Sam

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a paren...

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Ocean Heaven

Film Age rating: 10 Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.5

The story of a father's tireless love for his autistic son. A terminally ill father's attempt to teach his autistic son the necessary life skills to survive on his own before he passes away. It is als...

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The Rider

Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, and a gifted horse trainer, young cowboy Brady is warned that his riding days are over after a horse crushed his skull at a rodeo. In an attempt to regain cont...

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