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"Autistic Characters" playlist


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Created by: Josh_today

Movies: 132, TV Shows: 12 [scroll to tv]

Playlist description:  Movies with autistic characters



Movies (132)


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Inside Out (2015)

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to n...

Views: 17,959 • Reviews: 14

Please Stand By (2017)

A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition.

Views: 3,404 • Reviews: 6

A Brilliant Young Mind (2014)

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olym...

Views: 2,711 • Reviews: 1

Temple Grandin (2010)

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

Views: 33,784 • Reviews: 2

Snow Cake (2006)

Drama 

Alex Hughes, an ex-convict, is on a road trip to Winnipeg to see an old friend. Along the way, he meets the annoying, but vivacious, Vivienne Freeman who manage...

Views: 9,934 • Reviews: 6

Little Man Tate (1991)

Drama 

Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportuni...

Views: 17,270 • Reviews: 0

Change of Habit (1969)

Crime  Drama  Music 

Only a few songs as Elvis plays it straight as Dr John Carpenter. Mary Tyler Moore stars opposite as an incognito nun with a mission to help Dr Elvis clean up ...

Views: 3,248 • Reviews: 1

Run Wild, Run Free (1969)

Philip Ransome, a northern English boy about 10 years old, has been mute since age 3 and spends his days roaming the moors alone. His parents despair of a cure....

Views: 185 • Reviews: 0

The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)

In the 1986 film The Boy Who Could Fly, Jay Underwood plays Eric Gibb, an autistic boy who lives with his alcoholic uncle Hugo Gibb (played by Fred Gwynne) and...

Views: 8,506 • Reviews: 2

Nathan's Kingdom (2019)

Nathan's Kingdom is a dark fantasy, coming-of-age drama about Nathan, a 25-year-old autistic man struggling with his teenage prescription-addict sister, and rat...

Views: 571 • Reviews: 1

Keep the Change (2017)

A New York City romantic comedy, Keep the Change is the unlikely love story of two people who meet in a support group.

Views: 564 • Reviews: 2

A Boy Called Po (2016)

When David Wilson's young wife falls victim to cancer, he is left a single working dad with the sole responsibility of caring for his sixth grade son with autis...

Views: 582 • Reviews: 1

Jack of the Red Hearts (2015)

A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter

Views: 2,283 • Reviews: 1

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

Drama 

Oskar (Thomas Horn), who lost his father (Tom Hanks) in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, is convinced that his dad left ...

Views: 7,428 • Reviews: 6

Ocean Heaven (2010)

Drama 

The relationship between a terminally ill man (Jet Li) and his autistic adolescent son. Jet Li's first non-action film..

Views: 5,954 • Reviews: 1

My Name Is Khan (2010)

"My Name is Khan" examines the life of a Muslim man from India, living in San Francisco, who embarks on a remarkable journey across the United States, inspiring...

Views: 31,355 • Reviews: 6

Adam (2009)

Adam Raki (Hugh Dancy), an electronics engineer, suffers from a developmental disorder called Asperger syndrome. When a young woman named Beth (Rose Byrne) move...

Views: 50,969 • Reviews: 8

Mozart and the Whale (2006)

A dramatic, romantic comedy inspired by the lives of two people with Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism, whose emotional dysfunctions threaten to sabotage t...

Views: 7,458 • Reviews: 4

Killer Diller (2004)

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...

Views: 2,095 • Reviews: 0

I Am Sam (2001)

Drama 

Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she aband...

Views: 64,194 • Reviews: 18

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Tv Shows (12)


Atypical (2017)

Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it's time to find a girlfriend, a journey that sets Sam's mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks...

Views: 18,131 • Followers: 33Reviews: 4
Season:4 Episode:10 (2 years ago)

The A Word (2016)

Drama 

The Hughes family work and love and fight like every other family. Then, their youngest son is diagnosed with autism and they don't feel like every other family...

Views: 4,725 • Followers: 7Reviews: 1
Season:3 Episode:6 (3 years ago)

The Big Bang Theory (2007)

Comedy 

Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper are both brilliant physicists working at Cal Tech in Pasadena, California. They are colleagues, best friends and roommates...

Views: 1,645,460 • Followers: 312Reviews: 36
Season:12 Episode:100 (4 years ago)

Scorpion (2014)

An eccentric genius forms an international network of super-geniuses to act as the last line of defense against the complicated threats of the modern world.

Views: 187,912 • Followers: 88Reviews: 4
Season:4 Episode:22 (6 years ago)

The Good Doctor (2017)

Drama 

A young surgeon with autism and Savant syndrome is recruited into the pediatric surgical unit of a prestigious hospital. The question will arise: can a person w...

Views: 304,206 • Followers: 386Reviews: 17
Season:7 Episode:6 (2 weeks ago)

Parenthood (2010)

A family tree with Zeek (Craig T. Nelson) and Camille Braverman (Bonnie Bedelia) serving as the patriarch and matriarch. After forty-six years of marriage, they...

Views: 48,130 • Followers: 3Reviews: 2
Season:6 Episode:13 (9 years ago)

Russian Doll (2019)

Comedy 

A young woman in New York tries to escape from a party that's being thrown in her honor.

Views: 17,335 • Followers: 59Reviews: 11
Season:2 Episode:4 (2 years ago)

Astrid et Raphaëlle (2019)

Crime 

Astrid Suffers from Asperger's syndrome but has an incredible memory, so she is very useful in analyzing files. The district commander decides to entrust h...

Views: 411 • Followers: 3Reviews: 0
Season:1 Episode:8 (2 years ago)

Marcella (2016)

Marcella Backland sacrificed her high-flying career with the Metropolitan Police for her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on t...

Views: 16,621 • Followers: 33Reviews: 3
Season:3 Episode:8 (3 years ago)

Signs (2018)

A few years ago a student died in the Owl Mountains and the case was not resolved. Now another similar crime has occured. Commissioner Michał Trela, the new com...

Views: 517 • Followers: 6Reviews: 3
Season:2 Episode:8 (2 years ago)

Capitani (2019)

In a Luxembourg village where everyone is keeping secrets, gruff police inspector Luc Capitani investigates the suspicious death of a 15-year-old girl.

Views: 905 • Followers: 2Reviews: 1
Season:1 Episode:12 (3 years ago)

The Fear Index (2022)

A scientist-turned-wall street tycoon becomes the target of a plot to destroy the world's financial markets.

Views: 775 • Followers: 14Reviews: 1
Season:1 Episode:4 (2 years ago)



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