Movies: Autism

A deadly car accident brings together a group of previously unrelated people, each of whom is forced to deal with the emotional fallout....

Zen, an autistic teenage girl with powerful martial arts skills, gets money to pay for her sick mother Zin's treatment by seeking out all the people who owe Zin money and making them pay....

A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow....

A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy follows the guiding spirit of Mr. Spock on he...

A former boy band star unexpectedly gets a second shot at success when he forms a bond with a gifted young drummer....

A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic American who has become one of the leading scientists in humane livestock handling....

A mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton....

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 Olympiad....

Set in the 1970s, the film focuses on Barfi, a deaf-mute young man from Darjeeling, and his relationships with two lovely girls, the rich Shruti and the autistic Jhilmil ....

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden, started a school strike for the climate as her question for adults was, if you don’t care about my future on earth, why should I care about my future in school? Within months, her strike evolved into a...

Story of a neglected teen with mild Asperger’s syndrome whose life is changed forever when tragedy hits his family....

A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship....

This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, an...

After her lousy stepfather steals her savings to buy a vicious tiger, Kelly loses all hope of going to college. But Kelly's situation worsens when a hurricane leaves her and her autistic brother boarded up in their house with the man-eating beast. Th...

A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock....

An old man is found dead, and his housekeeper is charged with the murder. Her defense attorney is surprised to learn the only witness to the crime is a teenage girl with autism....

In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell — a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets....

This documentary captures the extraordinary twists and turns in the journeys of Rubik's Cube-solving champions Max Park and Feliks Zemdegs....

When a young boy turns up dead in a sleepy Pennsylvania town, a local sanitation truck driver, Donald, plays detective, embarking on a precarious and obsessive investigation to prove the boy was murdered....

For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregive...