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, 1h38
Directed by Laurent TirardOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
La provence,
Transport films,
Aviation films,
Films about disabilities,
Personne sourde ou muette,
Sign-language films,
French Sign Language films,
Films about language and translationActors Jean Dujardin,
Virginie Efira,
Cédric Kahn,
César Domboy,
Manoëlle Gaillard,
Éric BergerRating62%




Diane est une très belle femme et une brillante avocate, dotée d'une forte personnalité. Malheureuse dans son mariage, elle est divorcée et est désormais enfin libre de rencontrer l’homme de sa vie. Un jour, un certain Alexandre l'appelle car il a retrouvé le téléphone portable perdu par Diane. L'homme est courtois, drôle, cultivé. Diane tombe immédiatement sous le charme. Ils prennent alors rendez-vous. Mais il y a un problème. Alexandre mesure 1,36 m.
, 1h42
Directed by Axelle RopertOrigin FranceGenres Drama,
Comedy,
Comedy-dramaThemes Medical-themed filmsActors Louise Bourgoin,
Cédric Kahn,
Laurent Stocker,
Serge Bozon,
Gilles Gaston-DreyfusRating58%




Boris et Dimitri Pizarnik sont médecins dans le quartier chinois à Paris. Ils sont frères, leur relation est fusionnelle, ils vivent dans le même immeuble. C'est ensemble qu'ils ont soigné leur mère malade, c'est ensemble qu’ils pratiquent leur métier, consacrant tout leur temps et toute leur attention à leurs patients. Dimitri semble plus fragile, alcoolique repenti, Boris est plus rude et fermé.
, 1h11
Origin USAGenres Drama,
WarThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Political filmsActors Richard Arlen,
Cheryl Walker,
Roger Pryor,
Roger Pryor,
Bobby Driscoll,
Lola LaneRating62%




The story begins near the end of World War II in Europe. A soldier, suffering from amnesia, is on a hospital ship being helped by Major Williams, a medical doctor. The soldier was the only one of four infantrymen to survive when Nazi dive-bombers destroyed the farm house they were fighting the Germans from. The soldier and the U.S. Army do not know who he is. This is because when the four men's dog tags were found afterwards, they had been blown off their bodies, and the Army does not know which of the four the surviving soldier is.
, 1h59
Directed by Lee Cheol-haGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about disabilities,
La cécitéActors Moon Geun-young,
Kim Joo-hyuk,
Lee Ki-young,
Jin Goo,
Seo Hyun-jin,
Jo Jae-yoonRating65%




Julian (Kim Joohyuk) has lived off with the money he lures from his rich female customers. But now he faces usurious debts from a hasty expansion of his business, and he will be killed unless he clears the debt in one month. The only way to save himself is to pretend to be the long-lost brother of an heiress and kill her to get her huge fortune. Min (Moon Geun-young), the blind heiress, cold-hearted like Julian, slowly opens herself to him, and he, too, falls for her. But Julian has to pay his creditor and what makes it worse for him is that the illness that took Min’s eyesight relapsed, threatening her life. This story takes a terrible turn when Julian becomes guilty, and pained with guilt. The tearjerker moments of the ironic betrayal and innocent love will make your heart turn.
, 2h5
Directed by Mervyn LeRoyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilitiesActors Ronald Colman,
Greer Garson,
Philip Dorn,
Susan Peters,
Henry Travers,
Margaret WycherlyRating78%




"John Smith" (Ronald Colman) is a British officer who was gassed and became shell shocked in the trenches during the First World War. He is confined to an asylum as an unidentified inmate because he has lost his memory and has trouble speaking. When the war ends, jubilation erupts in the nearby town of Melbridge and the gatekeepers abandon their posts to join the celebration. With no one to stop him, Smith simply wanders off.
, 2h1
Directed by Jane CampionOrigin Nouvelle zelandeGenres Drama,
RomanceThemes Feminist films,
Medical-themed films,
Seafaring films,
Films about music and musicians,
Transport films,
Films about classical music and musicians,
Musical films,
Piano,
Films about disabilities,
Political films,
Personne sourde ou muette,
Sign-language films,
Films about language and translationActors Harvey Keitel,
Holly Hunter,
Anna Paquin,
Sam Neill,
Kerry Walker,
Ian MuneRating74%




A mute Scotswoman named Ada McGrath is sold by her father into marriage to a New Zealand frontiersman named Alisdair Stewart, bringing her young daughter Flora with her. The voice that the audience hears in the opening narration is "not her speaking voice, but her mind's voice". Ada has not spoken a word since she was six years old and no one, including herself, knows why. She expresses herself through her piano playing and through sign language, for which her daughter has served as the interpreter. Flora later dramatically tells two women in New Zealand that her mother has not spoken since the death of her husband who died as a result of being struck by lightning. Ada cares little for the mundane world, occupying herself for hours every day with the piano. Flora, it is later learned, is the product of a relationship with a teacher with whom Ada believed she could communicate through her mind, but who "became frightened and stopped listening," and thus left her.
, 1h10
Directed by Eric LeiserOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Science fiction,
FantasyThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Films about autismRating38%




Redheaded twins Anna (Nikki Haddad) and Sarah (Jessi Haddad) Woodruff, roughly 10 or 11 years old, both have Asperger, an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and Sarah is going blind. Child psychologist and researcher Dr. Reineger (Edmund Gildersleeve) tries to assure their parents (Courtney Sanford, Travis Poelle) that the kids are smart and "intricately involved in their own imagination". The children enter an institute to be studied, two family tragedies occur, and the girls escape the institution. Throughout much of the film, we see a magical, distorted world through their eyes.
, 1h28
Origin United-kingdomGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Medical-themed films,
Films about psychiatry,
Films about disabilities,
Films about autism,
Children's filmsActors Dakota Blue Richards,
Juliet Stevenson,
David Haig,
Saffron Coomber,
Di Botcher,
Lucy HutchinsonRating70%




On April's fourteenth birthday, Marion, her adoptive mother, gives her earrings, not the mobile phone she wanted. They argue, and April leaves for school. After lying to her friends, claiming she has a phone and is going to the dentist's, April chooses to play truant. While at work at a stately home, Marion hears that April has not arrived at school. She talks to her friend and colleague Elliot, who unsuccessfully tries to dissuade her from leaving. April visits the home of Pat Williams, who cared for her as a baby. Pat remembers April and gives her a newspaper cutting telling the story of her discovery as a baby in a dustbin behind a pizza parlour. In a flashback, a young April is seen living with Janet and Daniel Johnson. The Johnsons' relationship is an abusive one, leading to Janet's suicide. Meanwhile, Marion goes to April's school, where she talks to April's friends, and realises that they were lied to. April then leaves Pat's home, and travels alone to Janet's grave. Marion continues to search, and, in a shopping centre, meets Elliot, who has joined her. April then visits the now abandoned Sunnyholme Children's Home, where she lived when she was younger. In a flashback, an eight-year old April lives at the Sunnyholme. Cared for by a woman named Mo, April befriends an older girl called Gina and is introduced to Pearl, a girl of her age. Pearl behaves in front of Mo, but actually bullies April. Gina wakes April one night to involve her in a burglary, and, later, Pearl attacks April, holding her head under water, and then tears up April's beloved paper dolls. April confronts Pearl, who she pushes down a flight of stairs, and is reprimanded by Mo. A voice-over from 14-year-old April says Gina was then "moved on", and, eventually, April is also moved on.