🏷 Discover The Best Quadriplegia Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Exploring the Human Spirit: Movies and TV Shows about Quadriplegia

Quadriplegia, a condition that affects millions worldwide, is a topic often shrouded in mystery and misconception. However, through powerful storytelling, movies and TV shows have shed light on the complexities and triumphs of individuals living with this condition. From heart-wrenching dramas to inspiring true stories, discover the best films and series that showcase the human spirit in the face of adversity.

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Franu00e7ois Cluzet

Omar Sy

Anne Le Ny

Audrey Fleurot

The Intouchables (2011)

8.3 18.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: France

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Style: emotional

Plot: friendship, male friendship, based on true story, inspiring story, aristocrat, paragliding, unlikely friendship, duringcreditsstinger, ...

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Christopher Reeve

Will Reeve

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Alexandra Reeve Givens

Gae Exton

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024)

8.1 211 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America, United Kingdom

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Christopher Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. After becoming a quadriplegic, he became a charismatic leader and activist in the quest to find a cure for spinal cord injuries, as well as a passionate advocate for disability rights and care.

Plot: biography, based on true story, docudrama, disability, quadriplegic, activism, actor, figure study

Time: 1990s

Cast

Logan Marshall-Green

Betty Gabriel

Harrison Gilbertson

Melanie Vallejo

Upgrade (2018)

7.5 5.1K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: Australia, United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

Plot: artificial intelligence (a.i.), hacker, police, technology, cyborg, dystopia, revenge, murder, ...

Time: future, near future

Cast

Hrithik Roshan

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Shernaz Patel

Aditya Roy Kapur

Guzaarish (2010)

7.3 133 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Ethan, a magician rendered paralyzed in an accident, sets off a furor when he makes a petition to the court to end his own life.

Plot: nurse, bodily disabled person, love, lawyer, petition, quadriplegic, euthanasia, paralyzed, ...

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Kevin Hart

Bryan Cranston

Nicole Kidman

Golshifteh Farahani

The Upside (2019)

7.1 1.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 126 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.

Plot: based on true story, remake, class differences, caregiver, man in wheelchair, interracial friendship, social differences, rich man, ...

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Denzel Washington

Angelina Jolie

Queen Latifah

Michael Rooker

The Bone Collector (1999)

6.8 3.9K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves detectives baffled, they call on Rhyme to help solve the mystery. Amelia Donaghy, a rookie cop whose quick thinking preserved a gruesome murder scene, is enlisted by Rhyme to be his on-the-scene forensics expert. With Amelia reluctantly acting as Rhyme's able-bodied go-between, the pair piece together cryptic clues the killer leaves behind at the scene of the crime, hoping to catch the grisly serial killer.

Plot: new york city, taxi, based on novel or book, psychopath, taxi driver, bone, partnership, serial killer, ...