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1. Forrest Gump (1994)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, Romance
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Votes: 2,261,784 | Gross: $330.25M
2. Gummo (1997)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives.
Director: Harmony Korine | Stars: Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, Lara Tosh, Jacob Reynolds
Votes: 38,324 | Gross: $0.02M
3. Scary Movie (2000)
R | 88 min | Comedy
A year after disposing of the body of a man they accidentally killed, a group of dumb teenagers are stalked by a bumbling serial killer.
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans | Stars: Anna Faris, Jon Abrahams, Marlon Wayans, Carmen Electra
Votes: 287,181 | Gross: $157.02M
4. Rain Man (1988)
R | 133 min | Drama
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Votes: 547,372 | Gross: $178.80M
5. Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Romance, Thriller
A small-town beauty pageant turns deadly as it becomes clear that someone will go to any lengths to win.
Director: Michael Patrick Jann | Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney
Votes: 40,906 | Gross: $10.56M
6. I Am Sam (2001)
PG-13 | 132 min | Drama
An intellectually disabled man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
Director: Jessie Nelson | Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest
Votes: 155,444 | Gross: $40.31M
7. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson
Votes: 84,676 | Gross: $17.51M
8. The Straight Story (1999)
G | 112 min | Biography, Drama
An old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz, Joseph A. Carpenter
Votes: 97,639 | Gross: $6.20M
9. The Score (2001)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth with his lover when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist that comes with a large payout.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett
Votes: 134,250 | Gross: $71.07M
10. The Snowtown Murders (2011)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Lucas Pittaway, Daniel Henshall, Louise Harris, Bob Adriaens
Votes: 20,662 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Wildflower (2022)
R | 105 min | Comedy, Drama
A girl navigates life with two intellectually-disabled parents and an extended family that can't quite agree on the best way to help.
Director: Matt Smukler | Stars: Alexandra Daddario, Kiernan Shipka, Jean Smart, Reid Scott
Votes: 3,947
12. Colonia (2015)
R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.
Director: Florian Gallenberger | Stars: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey
Votes: 57,252
13. Hatfields & McCoys (2012)
TV-14 | 97 min | Drama, History, Romance
Dramatization of the bitter blood feud between the two families on the West Virginia/Kentucky border in the years after the Civil War.
Stars: Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Matt Barr, Tom Berenger
Votes: 29,367
14. The Lookout (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher
Votes: 60,584 | Gross: $4.60M
15. Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999 TV Movie)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Dorothy Dandridge's way to fame and fortune as a dancer, singer and actress.
Director: Martha Coolidge | Stars: Halle Berry, Brent Spiner, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Obba Babatundé
Votes: 3,922
16. Bambina (1974)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An older man plans to marry a mentally-challenged, sex-crazed, adolescent girl.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Gigi Proietti, Irene Papas, Teresa Ann Savoy, Bruno Cirino
Votes: 415
17. As It Is in Heaven (2004)
Not Rated | 133 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A famous international conductor returns to his small childhood town in Sweden for early retirement. He's asked to help with the church choir. He affects the lives of all in the choir.
Director: Kay Pollak | Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Frida Hallgren, Helen Sjöholm, Lennart Jähkel
Votes: 18,287 | Gross: $0.01M
18. Champions (I) (2018)
TV-14 | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A basketball coach is sentenced to community service, forced to work with a team of mentally disabled players.
Director: Javier Fesser | Stars: Javier Gutiérrez, Athenea Mata, Juan Margallo, José de Luna
Votes: 11,843
19. Erna at War (2020)
100 min | Drama, War
A woman disguises herself as a man to join the army in order to protect her educationally subnormal son who has been called up to fight in WW1.
Director: Henrik Ruben Genz | Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Anders W. Berthelsen, Sylvester Byder
Votes: 853
20. The Eighth Day (1996)
118 min | Comedy, Drama
An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.
Director: Jaco Van Dormael | Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Pascal Duquenne, Miou-Miou, Henri Garcin
Votes: 10,089 | Gross: $0.33M
21. F.C. De Kampioenen (1990–2020)
33 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Oscar Crucke is the coach of substandard enthusiasts soccer team F.C. De Kampioenen. His marriage to Pascale is challenged by president Boma, who loves her while renting the clubhouse to them. Teenage daughter Bieke troubles housekeeping.
Stars: Danni Heylen, Marijn De Valck, An Swartenbroekx, Loes van den Heuvel
Votes: 1,470
22. Unhinged (1982)
Unrated | 79 min | Horror
Three young women who crash their car during a rainstorm are taken in by a bizarre family at their large, rural estate.
Director: Don Gronquist | Stars: Laurel Munson, Janet Penner, Sara Ansley, Virginia Settle
Votes: 1,982
23. No Way Home (1996)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A paroled murderer returns to the Staten Island home of his youth, where a poignant friendship blossoms with the restrained wife of his temperamental-- and jealous-- brother.
Director: Buddy Giovinazzo | Stars: Tim Roth, Deborah Kara Unger, James Russo, Joseph Ragno
Votes: 1,750
24. A Dangerous Woman (1993)
R | 102 min | Drama, Romance
Martha Horgan, a naive woman with an intellectual impairment who lives with her aunt Frances in a small town, is known for always telling truth.
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, Laurie Metcalf
Votes: 2,054 | Gross: $1.50M
25. Little Accidents (2014)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
In a small American town still living in the shadow of a terrible coal mine accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws together a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy in a web of secrets.
Director: Sara Colangelo | Stars: Boyd Holbrook, Randy Springer, Jacob Lofland, Beau Wright
Votes: 3,851
26. Open Season (1974)
R | 104 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Three young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.
Director: Peter Collinson | Stars: Peter Fonda, Cornelia Sharpe, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch
Votes: 685 | Gross: $0.27M
27. 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: 3,396
28. Riding the Bus with My Sister (2005 TV Movie)
PG | 97 min | Drama
After their father's death, a woman spends time with her developmentally-disabled sister.
Director: Anjelica Huston | Stars: Rosie O'Donnell, Andie MacDowell, Richard T. Jones, D.W. Moffett
Votes: 1,314
29. What Is It? (2005)
Unrated | 72 min | Drama
What Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film from the visionary mind of Crispin Glover that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes.
Director: Crispin Glover | Stars: Michael Blevis, Carlos Richardson, Lisa Fusco, Steven C. Stewart
Votes: 956
30. Uno (2004)
Not Rated | 103 min | Drama
Uno is a story from inner-city Oslo about David, a twentyfive-year-old with few prospects for the future. His days are spent hanging around with petty criminals at an inner-city gym. Still,... See full summary »
Directors: Aksel Hennie, John Andreas Andersen | Stars: Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Bjørn Floberg, Espen Juul Kristiansen
Votes: 4,455
31. Like Normal People (1979 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama
A mentally-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love, and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and friends. Based on a true story.
Director: Harvey Hart | Stars: Shaun Cassidy, Linda Purl, Zalman King, James Keach
Votes: 248
32. La casa de las mujeres perdidas (1983)
90 min | Drama
Desdemona is a pensive young nymphomaniac whose life on a remote island with her father, stepmother and mentally-challenged sister seethes with violence and incest.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Lina Romay, Antonio Mayans, Carmen Carrión, Asunción Calero
Votes: 261
33. Far From the Tree (V) (2017)
Unrated | 93 min | Documentary
Based on the NY Times bestselling book by Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree examines the experiences of families in which parents and children are profoundly different from one another in a variety of ways.
Directors: Rachel Dretzin, Jamila Ephron | Stars: Amy Allnutt, Jack Allnutt, Harry Burdick, Emily Perl Kingsley
Votes: 642 | Gross: $0.16M
34. Cold of Kalandar (2015)
130 min | Drama
"Cold of Kalandar" pictures within a unique pastoral atmosphere the realist, passionate and emotional story of Mehmet and his family living far from modern life, in a mountain village.
Director: Mustafa Kara | Stars: Haydar Sisman, Nuray Yesilaraz, Hanife Kara, Ibrahim Kuvvet
Votes: 2,028
35. The Importance of Tying Your Own Shoes (2011)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Alex's high opinion of himself isn't backed up by reality as he is unemployed and having trouble with his girlfriend. When he finally gets a job with the local council/municipality of ... See full summary »
Director: Lena Koppel | Stars: Sverrir Gudnason, Vanna Rosenberg, Mats Melin, Theresia Widarsson
Votes: 2,326
36. Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace (1972 TV Movie)
28 min | Documentary, News
A shocking exposé of the deplorable conditions and abuses from the Willowbrook State School for children with intellectual disabilities.
Director: Geraldo Rivera | Stars: Bernard Carabello, Robert F. Kennedy, Geraldo Rivera
Votes: 67
37. WrestleMania 23 (2007 TV Special)
TV-14 | 225 min | Action, Sport
Twenty-third annual WrestleMania features WWE Championship match between champion John Cena and Mr. WrestleMania Shawn Michaels. The Undertaker puts The Streak on the line when he ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: John Cena, Shawn Michaels, Dave Bautista, Mark Calaway
Votes: 1,497
38. The Sugar Experiment (2023)
92 min | Biography, Drama, History
The film is inspired by a controversial experiment that took place in Sweden in 1948.
Director: John Tornblad | Stars: Amanda Malmberg, Isak Bruno, Elisabeth Ehde Torbjörnsdotter, Henrik Norman
Votes: 263
39. Children of Darkness (1983)
57 min | Documentary
A significant number of American children and teenagers - from all social backgrounds - suffer from mental disorders, schizophrenia, autism and emotional problems, leading them to isolation... See full summary »
Directors: Ara Chekmayan, Richard Kotuk | Stars: Peter Thomas, Richard Kotuk, John Brooks, Billy Calhoun
Votes: 441
40. Best Laid Plans (2012)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the ... See full summary »
Director: David Blair | Stars: Stephen Graham, Lee Ingleby, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, David O'Hara
Votes: 1,603
41. Two of a Kind (1982 TV Movie)
102 min | Drama
Nolie who has intellectual disabilities has just turned twenty-one yet acts more like eight. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Young | Stars: George Burns, Robby Benson, Barbara Barrie, Cliff Robertson
Votes: 163
42. Ahaan (2019)
81 min | Comedy, Drama
Jilted by his wife, a man with OCD finds eye opening common ground and camaraderie with his neighbor, a young man with Down Syndrome.
Director: Nikhil Pherwani | Stars: Arif Zakaria, Niharika Singh, Abuli Mamaji, Rajit Kapoor
Votes: 384
43. Walter (1982 TV Movie)
70 min | Drama
A man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him.
Director: Stephen Frears | Stars: Ian McKellen, Barbara Jefford, Arthur Whybrow, Tony Melody
Votes: 326
44. Mummy an' the Armadillo (2004)
R | 101 min | Drama, Thriller
A young woman stops at a rundown roadside diner during a dark and stormy night which sets in motion a series of events that bring out dark secrets, psychological quotes, and more.
Director: J.S. Cardone | Stars: Betty Buckley, Lori Heuring, Clare Kramer, Busy Philipps
Votes: 416
45. Scrapper (2021)
87 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ex-con turned "scrapper" Jake leads a quiet life caring for his family until he is pursued by violent Punjabi and Mexican criminals following a botched robbery.
Director: Bari Kang | Stars: Craig muMs Grant, Anil Kumar, Ava Paloma, Myles Clohessy
Votes: 1,461
46. Dance Me to My Song (1998)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
A woman with cerebral palsy communicates with the world via her computer with a voice box. Her caretaker is a short-tempered woman who begrudges the woman the care she needs. Things change ... See full summary »
Director: Rolf de Heer | Stars: Heather Rose, Joey Kennedy, John Brumpton, Rena Owen
Votes: 462
47. Bloody Angels (1998)
R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
An Oslo detective visits a hick town to investigate some murders rumored by the locals to have been the work of 'angels'. More likely, given the unsavory types he meets, vengeance and vigilantism are the very human motivations behind.
Director: Karin Julsrud | Stars: Reidar Sørensen, Jon Øigarden, Gaute Boris Skjegstad, Trond Høvik
Votes: 514
48. Herb (2007)
113 min | Drama
Sang-eun is a beautiful 20-year-old girl who is mentally challenged. One day she happens to meet a boy and deludes herself to think he's a beast under the vicious spell.
Director: Heo In-moo | Stars: Kang Hye-jeong, Bae Jong-ok, Jung Kyung-ho, Mi-ran Do
Votes: 254
49. Heat Wave (2015)
Not Rated | 102 min | Crime, Drama
In a small village of the South of France, life is made difficult by a sweltering heat wave and its corollary, a worrisome lack of water. Everyone is under great pressure, especially the ... See full summary »
Director: Raphaël Jacoulot | Stars: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Grégory Gadebois, Karim Leklou, Carole Franck
Votes: 404
50. Special Dead (2006)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Horror
When a zombie plague infects Camp Special Dude, a dude ranch for the mentally handicapped, a ragtag band of campers and counselors struggles to survive the night. Led by the indifferent, ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas L. Phillips, Sean Simmons | Stars: Jason Brubaker, Amy Wade, Gia Franzia, Anthony Rutowicz
Votes: 554