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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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Charly (1968)

Robertson delivers a heartbreaking performance as a retarded man who gains super intelligence from an experimental procedure, only to experience his newfound ...

Views: 1,909 • Reviews: 0

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

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: 3,249 • Reviews: 1

A Circle of Children (1977)

Drama 

A teacher at a school for emotionally disturbed children takes an interest in one particular child who doesn't talk but emits a stream of gibberish.

Views: 397 • Reviews: 0

No Other Love (1979)

Drama 

Two marginally intellectually disabled young adults fall in love and wish to marry.

Views: 45 • Reviews: 0

The Pit (1981)

Twelve year-old Jamie Benjamin is a misunderstood lad. His classmates pick on him, his neighbors think he's weird and his parents ignore him. But now Jamie has ...

Views: 3,981 • Reviews: 2

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

Dreaming of Paradise (1987)

In the future, pollution has driven humans deep under ground, where they tell legends of the paradise above. Two kids must find the path to the surface, while a...

Views: 124 • Reviews: 0

Rain Man (1988)

Drama 

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father dies and leaves a fortune -- to Raymond, the institutionalized savant brother that Charlie didn't know he had. They set...

Views: 16,431 • Reviews: 12

The Wizard (1989)

This is the story of a young boy named Jimmy Woods who has suffered from a serious mental disorder ever since his twin sister died in a young age. One day, Jim...

Views: 2,326 • Reviews: 1

Backstreet Dreams (1990)

Drama 

Backstreet Dreams is the story of a man, who has a disturbed child. He and his wife take their son to a clinic, where he is diagnosed by a talented psychologist...

Views: 1,007 • Reviews: 1

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

House of Cards (1993)

Drama 

When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sally's condit...

Views: 301 • Reviews: 0

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries...

Views: 25,647 • Reviews: 12

Cries from the Heart (1994)

Drama 

Michael is an autistic 7 year old child. He cannot speak or write. His mother, Karen, sends him to a special school to help him learn. Michael is taught to use ...

Views: 754 • Reviews: 0

David's Mother (1994)

Drama 

A woman estranged from her husband and family insists on caring for her autistic son alone.

Views: 285 • Reviews: 0

Relative Fear (1994)

Just why are people surrounding Adam Pratman dropping down dead? Is this five year old really a murderous sociopath?

Views: 190 • Reviews: 0

Silent Fall (1994)

An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.

Views: 324 • Reviews: 0

Digging to China (1997)

Drama 

10 y.o. Harriet's divorced mom owns and runs a motel. Harriet's an outsider and wants to leave. A woman stays there with her adult, disabled son who befriends H...

Views: 294 • Reviews: 0

Cube (1997)

Six total strangers awaken one day to find themselves alone in a cubical maze. Once they meet, they work together using their given skills and talents to surviv...

Views: 21,035 • Reviews: 20

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Tv Shows (12)


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)

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)

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: 187,923 • Followers: 88Reviews: 4
Season:4 Episode:22 (6 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)

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)

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 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: 304,281 • Followers: 385Reviews: 17
Season:7 Episode:7 (4 days 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)

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)

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)

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: 415 • Followers: 3Reviews: 0
Season:1 Episode:8 (2 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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