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Rumble in the Bronx(1995)

R
| 1h 44min | Crime, Action, Comedy, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 404 votes)

Keong comes from Hong Kong to visit New York for his uncle's wedding. His uncle runs a market in the Bronx and Keong offers to help out while Uncle is on his honeymoon. During his stay in the Bronx, Keong befriends a neighbor kid and beats up some neighborhood thugs who cause problems at the market. One of those petty thugs in the local gang stumbles into a criminal situation way over his head.

Directed by Stanley Tong - With Jackie Chan, Anita Mui, Françoise Yip, Bill Tung, Garvin Cross, Marc Akerstream, ...
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The Man Who Invented Christmas(2017)

PG
| 1h 45min | Drama, History, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 357 votes)

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Directed by Bharat Nalluri - With Dan Stevens, Jonathan Pryce, Christopher Plummer
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Bring Me Home(2019)

1h 48min | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 26 votes)

Six years after her son went missing, dedicated mother Jung-Yeon still hasn't lost hope - even after her husband's shocking accident while rushing to follow up on a potential sighting. Although she's in mourning, drowned in despair for her losses, she doesn't give up. Just when everything feels like it's in vain, she hears about a young boy living in a fishing community outside the city who seems to resemble her lost son. Facing strange surroundings and corrupt cops covering up child abuse, Jung-yeon may not be able to handle all the obstacles in her way, let alone fend for herself.

Directed by Kim Seung-woo - With Lee Young-ae, Yoo Jae-myung, Lee Won-geun, Park Hae-joon

The Nest(2019)

Horror, Drama
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Samuel is a paraplegic young boy living with his mother Elena in "Lake manor" an isolated mansion surrounded by woods. With the strict prohibition to walk away from the mansion, stuck in a family routine, Samuel grows serene but unsatisfied and restless. With the coming of Denise, a teenage maid, he finally finds the strength to oppose his mother’s restraints and to open himself up to the world. But Elena won’t let go of her son so easily, and she’s ready to do whatever it takes to keep him close to her. Why is she forcing Samuel to live as a prisoner in his own house, forbidding him to leave the estate? Why does she act cruelly towards Denise, driven by the fear that she will fuel Samuel’s desire to see the world outside? What is the mistery Elena is hiding?

37 Seconds(2019)

1h 55min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 39 votes)

In 37 Seconds, 23-year-old comic book artist Yuma, physically disabled due to profound cerebral palsy and emotionally stunted by her well-meaning but overly protective mother, forges her own unusual path to sexual awakening and independence while at the same time discovering love and forgiveness.

Directed by Hikari - With Akio Kayama, Misuzu Kanno, Shunsuke Daitō, Makiko Watanabe, Yoshihiko Kumashino, Minori Hagiwara, ...
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Paperhouse(1988)

PG-13
| 1h 32min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
3.4/5 (with 56 votes)

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.

Directed by Bernard Rose - With Glenne Headly, Gemma Jones, Ben Cross, Steven O'Donnell, Elliott Spiers, Jane Bertish, ...
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Chinese Roulette(1976)

1h 26min | Thriller, Drama
3.6/5 (with 34 votes)

A husband and wife lie to each other about their weekend travel plans, only to both show up at the family's country house with their lovers.

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - With Margit Carstensen, Andrea Schober, Alexander Allerson, Macha Méril, Ulli Lommel, Anna Karina, ...
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The Crown Jewels(2011)

2h | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 17 votes)

Fragancia is arrested for the attempted murder of Richard Persson, the son of a powerful factory owner. During the interrogation her amazing and remarkable life story is revealed. We follow her through her impoverished childhood, her adolescence where she meets the great love of her life, ice hockey star Petterson-Jonsson and the lead up to the fatal night where the story begins.

Directed by Ella Lemhagen - With Alicia Vikander, Bill Skarsgård, Björn Gustafson, Michalis Koutsogiannakis, Alexandra Rapaport, Jesper Lindberger, ...

Le Beau Serge(1958)

1h 38min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

François returns to his village after a long absence. He finds his friend Serge who has married Yvonne, and has developed an alcohol problem after the death of their stillborn child. Serge has become an angry, bitter figure not unlike the roles of James Dean, refusing to face reality and adulthood and François must help him.

Directed by Claude Chabrol, Philippe de Broca, Claude de Givray - With Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Philippe de Broca, Claude Chabrol, Claude Cerval, ...

Room for One More(1952)

NR
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Kids & Family
3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

Anne and "Poppy" Rose have three quirky kids. Anne has a generous heart and the belief in the innocence of children. To the unhappy surprise of her husband she takes in the orphan Jane, a problem child who already tried to kill herself once.

Directed by Norman Taurog - With Cary Grant, Betsy Drake, Lurene Tuttle, Charles Meredith, Don Beddoe, Hayden Rorke, ...
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Contergan(2007)

3h | Drama, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

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Directed by Adolf Winkelmann

Square Dance(1987)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.4/5 (with 7 votes)

An awkward 13-year-old leaves her cranky grandfather in rural Texas, to live with her mother in Fort Worth.

Directed by Daniel Petrie - With Deborah Richter, Irma P. Hall, Jane Alexander, Jason Robards, Rob Lowe, Winona Ryder, ...
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Handicapped Future(1971)

43min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

A documentary by Werner Herzog exploring the different treatment accorded to the disabled in Germany and the USA.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Werner Herzog

Tomorrow's Children(1934)

1h 10min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.

Directed by Crane Wilbur - With Diane Sinclair, Donald Douglas, Sterling Holloway

A Time to Live(1985)

1h 35min | Drama, TV Movie
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The problems of a mother who helps her son in his struggles against muscular dystrophy. From the true story of Peter and Mary-Lou Weisman.

Directed by Rick Wallace - With Liza Minnelli

Special Olympics(1978)

1h 40min | TV Movie, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A widowed father struggles to hold together his family of three teenagers, one of whom is intellectually challenged and enrolled in a state school for "special" children where he finds fulfillment in his love of sports, emulating his older, athletic brother.

With Irene Tedrow

By the Sea Where We Played(1967)

26min | Drama, Kids & Family

A short story about a boy who is honest and courageous despite being paralyzed.

Wright's Law(2023)

12min | Documentary
1.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Every now and then, we get a teacher who doesn't just connect with us -- they make us a better person in the world. Jeffrey Wright of Louisville, Ky. is one of those teachers. He uses wacky experiments to teach high school kids about science and the universe. But it's his own personal story about his relationship with his disabled son that shows his students the true meaning of life.

Plane Tree(2018)

1h 39min | Kids & Family, Drama, Mystery
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Mustafa lives in Kars with his 8 years old disabled son Rıza and his wife Suna.