Canada Vignettes: Bridging the Gap (1981)

A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

生まれつき顔立ちが人と違う少年オギー（ジェイコブ・トレンブレイ）は、幼いころから自宅で母のイザベル（ジュリア・ロバーツ）と勉強してきた。10歳になり学校に通い始めた彼は同級生と仲良くしたいと願うが、じろじろ眺められたり避けられたりする。しかし彼の行動が、周囲の態度を少しずつ変えていき……。

Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.

原作者C・ブラウンの実話を映画化した作品。生まれながらの重度の脳性小児麻痺により、左足が少し動かせるだけで、後は植物人間同様の生活を余儀なくされている不遇の主人公が、その絶え間ざる努力の末、やがて言語能力を取り戻し、わずかに動く左足を使い絵を描けるようになるまで成長していく姿を描く。

Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the western states. The folks they collect along the way will help them test their skills for surviving outside their calculated existence. Together, they come to understand the importance of hope and the necessity of true friendship.

貧しいながらも、懸命に生きてきた母子。しかしある日、二人の住む静かな街で凄惨な殺人事件が起きてしまう。容疑者として息子の身柄が拘束された。警察も弁護人も頼りにならず、ついに母が立ち上がる……。キム・ヘジャ、ウォンビン共演の感動サスペンス。

A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

ハンガリーの鬼才、イルディコー・エニェディ監督によるラヴ・ストーリー。ブダペスト郊外の食肉処理場で働く孤独な女と人生をあきらめた男が、同じ夢を共有していたのを機に強く惹かれ合うも、現実の恋愛ではすれ違いばかりで……。

趣味の絵と本と想像の中で、自分の世界を生きるジョゼ。幼いころから車椅子の彼女は、ある日、危うく坂道で転げ落ちそうになったところを、大学生の恒夫に助けられる。 海洋生物学を専攻する恒夫は、メキシコにしか生息しない幻の魚の群れをいつかその目で見るという夢を追いかけながら、バイトに明け暮れる勤労学生。 そんな恒夫にジョゼとふたりで暮らす祖母・チヅは、あるバイトを持ち掛ける。それはジョゼの注文を聞いて、彼女の相手をすること。 しかしひねくれていて口が悪いジョゼは恒夫に辛辣に当たり、恒夫もジョゼに我慢することなく真っすぐにぶつかっていく。そんな中で見え隠れするそれぞれの心の内と、縮まっていくふたりの心の距離。その触れ合いの中で、ジョゼは意を決して夢見ていた外の世界へ恒夫と共に飛び出すことを決めるが……。

リウマチを患いながらも絵画に喜びを感じる女性が、孤児院育ちの不器用な夫の深い愛に支えられ、やがてカナダでもっとも有名な画家となる……。実話をサリー・ホーキンスとイーサン・ホーク共演で映画化した感動作。

Based on the incredibly true story of a Spanish man with Multiple Sclerosis who tried to finish an Iron-Man: 3,8km swimming, 180km cycling and 42 running. And he was told that he could not make 100 meters.

As a result of a terrible car accident, young Ukrainian athlete Oksana Boturchuk suffers several serious injuries, almost losing her eyesight. However, after long rehabilitation and a returning to incredible training, she is able to conquer a gold medal at the Paralympic Games in Beijing.

Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt and Bob Tenor make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the spotlight. When a fading Hollywood actress, Cher, decides to get her show "Honey and the Beaze" cancelled, she hires Walt -- and his brotherly appendage -- as her costars. But their addition surprisingly achieves the opposite.

Alex, blind since the age of two, dreams of running for his school's cross-country team. His father, a probation officer, finds a running partner who spends his time 'running' from the law.

Luke, an independent young man with Down's syndrome stumbles upon a wild and life changing friendship.

A film adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel. After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.

Ludwig Guttmann, a renowned German neurosurgeon who fled Nazi Germany in the early days of WWII, takes a position at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire, England in 1944 and begins to transform the lives of his patients, paralyzed soldiers that have been written-off and who are facing death from neglect. A breakthrough comes when Dr. Guttmann introduces sport into their rehabilitation, a breakthrough that leads to the founding of the Paralympic Games.