La Louisa Clark, la Lou, és una noia inestable i creativa que viu en un petit poble de la campanya anglesa. Ha perdut el rumb, i salta d'una feina a l'altra per ajudar la seva família a arribar a final de mes. Malgrat això, una nova feina posa a prova la seva alegria habitual. Al castell que hi ha al poble, s'ha d'ocupar de cuidar i acompanyar el Will Traynor, un banquer jove i ric que es va quedar paralític després de patir un accident.
Biopic sobre la famosa pintora mexicana Frida Kahlo, centrada en la seva tempestuosa relació amb Diego Rivera; des de la seva llarga i complicada relació amb el seu mentor i marit, fins al seu controvertit i il·lícit affaire amb Leon Trotsky, passant per les seves provocatives aventures amoroses amb dones, Frida Kahlo va viure una vida atrevida i absoluta com a revolucionària política, artística i sexual.
A principis dels anys 70, Bess, una jove ingènua d'un poble costaner d'Escòcia, s'enamora de Jan, un home que treballa en una plataforma petrolífera. Tot i l'oposició de la rígida comunitat puritana a què pertany, Bess i Jan es casen.
Rusty Dennis és la mare de Rocky, un jove que pateix una severa deformació del crani a causa d'una malaltia que li provoca una acumulació excessiva de calci i que li dóna un aspecte monstruós, però això no impedeix que sigui extremadament intel·ligent i afectuós. Rusty té un estil de vida salvatge tot i ser excessivament proteccionista amb Rocky, i està determinada a aconseguir que el seu fill tingui les mateixes oportunitats que qualsevol altra persona.
La veritable il·lusió d'en Holland és compondre una simfonia memorable. Però descobreix que la seva autèntica vocació és compartir amb els seus alumnes el seu amor per la música. Centenars d'estudiants es contagiaran d'aquesta passió que omplirà les seves vides i Holland comprendrà que el seu llegat és més gran del que mai s'hauria imaginat.
Relat biogràfic del pintor i escriptor irlandès Christy Brown. Afligit de paràlisi cerebral, gràcies a la seva tenacitat i l'incondicional suport de la seva mare, va aconseguir superar tots els obstacles que impedien la seva integració en la societat. Un commovedor exemple de superació personal i lluita per aconseguir els somnis.
La història real de l'editor de la revista 'Elle France', Jean-Dominique Bauby, que l'any 1995, quan tenia 43 anys, va patir un ictus que li va paralitzar tot el cos, excepte l'ull esquerre. Utilitzant l'ull per parpellejar, Bauby descriu eloqüentment els aspectes del seu món interior, des del turment psicològic de quedar atrapat dins del cos fins a les històries imaginades de terres que només ha visitat mentalment.
París, segle XIX. El pintor impressionista Toulouse-Lautrec, tolit per un accident de la infància, s'apassiona per la vida bohèmia dels baixos fons i visita amb freqüència el mític Moulin Rouge, un cabaret on beu i contempla a les sensuals ballarines de can-can. L'artista coneix a una prostituta i comença amb ella una turbulenta relació sentimental.
The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with two parents and a brother, while Daphne Vasquez, who lost her hearing at an early age due to a case of meningitis, grew up with a single mother in a working-class neighborhood. Things come to a dramatic head when both families meet and struggle to learn how to live together for the sake of the girls.
Based on a true story, this family-friendly series follows the adventures of a young, hearing impaired woman who has a special gift and goes to work for the FBI in Washington, D.C. She's one hard-headed, soft-hearted woman whose talent for reading lips helps crack crimes and bag the bad guys in places listening devices can't penetrate. With her hearing-ear dog, Levi, Sue's a glutton for jeopardy – and there's (almost) nothing she won't do to bring notorious criminals to justice. This remarkable, edge-of-your-seat drama is an inspiring tribute to the ability of the human spirit to overcome adversity and achieve great things.
Maya DiMeo is a mom on a mission who will do anything for her husband, Jimmy, and kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with special needs. As Maya fights injustices both real and imagined, the family works to make a new home for themselves and searches for just the right person to give JJ his “voice.”
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.
A police drama about the working relationship between Assistant DA Tess Kaufman, a prosecutor sensitive to the rights of the accused, and hard-charging, gruff Detective Dicky Cobb, an old-fashioned cop with a "bust-the-perps" attitude. Reasonable Doubts was broadcast in the United States by NBC and ran from 1991 to 1993.
A cynical experienced homicide detective based in Marseilles, France is crippled in the line of duty and depends on a wheelchair to get around. He is accompanied by a young ,vivacious female detective who's been forced on him to train as a condition of his ability to continue to work as a field detective.
Jim Jefferies, an edgy, foul-mouthed stand-up comedian from Australia, in his mid-30s and living in LA, is endeavoring to make his life and career more “legit,” only to find it a difficult, uncomfortable uphill struggle every step of the way. Jim is encouraged in his quest by Steve, his neurotic best friend and roommate, a cyber-law library salesman who struggles to stay on his feet in the wake of a divorce, and Steve’s brother Billy, who suffers from advanced staged Muscular Dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair.
In the gritty world of the NYPD, no one's tougher than Detective Robert Ironside. He and his trusted, handpicked team of specialists will do whatever it takes to solve New York's most difficult and notorious crimes - even if it means breaking the rules. As a detective, his instincts are second to none, and those around him have to stay on their toes if they want to keep up...because when his spine was shattered by a bullet two years ago, Ironside swore he'd never let a damn wheelchair slow him down.
It's not every family that's brought closer together by divorce, but then again, the Fishers are anything but typical.
Blind Justice is an American television series created by Steven Bochco about a blind New York City police detective. It was introduced mid-season in March 8, 2005 to fill the time slot left by Bochco's highly successful NYPD Blue, which had just aired its final episode after a 12-year run. The show ran for only one season, with 13 episodes broadcast.
Cast Offs is a BAFTA-nominated dramedy mockumentary that follows a group of six disabled people sent to a remote British Island for a fictional reality show. The series is made up of six episodes, with each episode concentrating on one of the six characters. It follows each character for the year leading up to them being dropped off on the island and also the happenings on the island when they are left to fend for themselves.
Miss Susan is a daytime drama which aired on NBC from March 12 to December 28, 1951. The show, originating from Philadelphia and later retitled Martinsville, U.S.A., aired for fifteen minutes at 3:00 p.m. ET on weekdays. The main writer was William Kendall Clarke.
The Oblongs are not so much dysfunctional as slightly nonfunctional. Living next to a polluted swamp has left them with the occasional missing limb or mysterious growth, but through it all, this close-knit family sticks together.Sometimes literally.
A documentary series exploring how people with disabilities or special health conditions deal with their love life.
A group of children that all have a physical disability solves mysteries together from their secret tree house.
Mike Trainor seemingly has it all—he's a good-looking, wealthy and recently retired NFL player living the high-life in New York City, but he's about to get sidelined. When his mom learns that Mike's business manager took off with all his money, she orchestrates a plan to keep Mike in Houston, save his brother Chill's restaurant and bring the dysfunctional family back together under one roof again.
Blind Mimi and her best friend Lisa discover the world around them and experience fantastic adventures.
The Skin Horse is a documentary by and about disabled people and their sex lives. Not their secret longing and private thoughts, although these are part of the film. This is a documentary about sex, sex among the disabled, sex between the disabled and the able.
