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....

A mentally challenged girl proves herself to be every bit as capable as her "perfect" sister when she moves into an apartment and begins going to college....

Autistic teenager Jati struggles with change when his brother's breakup disrupts their routine — so he tries to find him a new girlfriend....

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

A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident....

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...

Molly McKay is a profoundly autistic twenty-something woman who has lived in an institution from a young age following her parents' death in a car accident. When the institution must close due to budget cuts, Molly is left in the care of her neurotyp...

The story of the struggle of an autistic girl and her brother trying to survive without their parents....

Dr. John Carpenter takes the job of running a health center in a low-income district. He enlists three women to help out who — unbeknownst to him — are actually nuns in street clothes. The church wants to improve the neighborhood but fears that nuns ...

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

As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he...

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father do...

Departing for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she's torn between her new life and her love for her brother....

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

A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hope that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection....

A teenage con artist tricks a desperate mother into hiring her as a live-in companion for her autistic daughter....

Corinne is a single mother of twin 5-year-old boys, Steven and Phillip, who are diagnosed with autism. Public school officials threaten to remove them from school due to their behavior, but through therapy, the boys are able to make major strides in ...

An unsuccessful over-the-top actress becomes a successful over-the-top authoress in this biography of Jacqueline Susann....

Television film adaptation of the true story ("A Friend Like Henry" by Nuala Gardner) of a young autistic boy and his extraordinary friendship with his dog, Thomas....

Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at his school....