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Backstreet Dreams, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Brooke Shields, Sherilyn Fenn, Anthony Franciosa, Burt Young, Nick Cassavetes, Elias Koteas

Dean, a young hood, and his wife take their disturbed young son, Shane, to a clinic where the boy is diagnosed by Stevie, a psychologist. They discover that the boy is autistic. As the couple's marriage falls apart, Stevie believes she can help Shane as well as possibly help Dean break away from the backstreet dealings that he is living with.
Fragile
Fragile (2005)
, 1h33
Directed by Jaume Balagueró
Origin Espagne
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Ghost films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Calista Flockhart, Elena Anaya, Richard Roxburgh, Colin McFarlane, Gemma Jones, Ivana Baquero

On the Isle of Wight, just off the South Coast of England, a train accident means that the main hospital is completely full and is unable to take in any more patients. The smaller and older hospital, Mercy Falls which is more isolated, is being closed down however this accident means that some of the patients, including the childrens ward, need to remain at the site until there is availability elsewhere. The hospital has three floors with the children's ward on the first floor. The second floor was closed off twenty years before and is unaccessable due to the elevator buttons being disabled and the stairs blocked off.
Marathon
Marathon (2005)
, 1h57
Origin Coree du sud
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Medical-themed films, Sports films, Athletics films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Jo Seung-woo, Kim Mi-sook, Lee Ki-young, Baek Sung-hyun, Ahn Nae-sang, Lee Sung-min

A young man with autism, named Cho-won, finds release only in running. As a child, Cho-won regularly threw tantrums, bit himself, and refused to communicate with others—finding solace only in zebras and the Korean snack, choco pie. His mother never gave up on him and was determined to prove to the world that her child can be normal. As Cho-won gets older, he begins to find a passion for running and his mother is there to encourage and support him. Even though their family suffers from financial difficulties, they find a former marathon champion, Jung-wook — now a lethargic older man with an alcohol problem.
Words in Blue, 1h55
Directed by Alain Corneau
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Sign-language films, French Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Sylvie Testud, Sergi López, Mar Sodupe, Cédric Chevalme, Isabelle Petit-Jacques, Esther Gorintin

Clara, (Sylvie Testud), works in a birdshop. She is concerned about her deaf-mute daughter Anna, (Camille Gauthier), whom she is bringing up on her own. She has never spoken a single word. Clara herself is illiterate. Ever since her grandmother Baba, whom she adored, had been the victim of an attack when she was reading her a story, she has always refused to learn to read and write. Now that the silence of her daughter Anna is causing her to be bullied by her peers, Clara feels obliged to withdraw her from her school, and to enrol her in a school for the deaf-mute, run by Vincent, (Sergi López). Vincent, the principal, suggests giving his new pupil particular classes to teach her Sign Language, and so facilitate Anna's integration.
Cries from the Heart, 1h33
Directed by Michael Switzer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Films about child abuse
Actors Melissa Gilbert, Patty Duke, Bradley Pierce, Markus Flanagan, Lisa Banes, Roger Aaron Brown

Karen Barth (Gilbert) is the divorced mother of Michael (Pierce), a young autistic boy who is unable to speak or write. After an incident in which Michael wanders away from home to the local playground, Karen's ex-husband Roger realizes that Michael may need more specialized care than she can provide, and suggests Michael be enrolled in a special residential school.
Nightworld: Lost Souls, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors John Savage, Barbara Sukowa, Richard Lintern, Ted Rusoff, Jean-François Wolff, Christian Erickson

Victor Robinson has just moved into a country home with his family. When his son, Jesse, finds an old Edison invention and begins to play it, he hears the sounds of children laughing and playing. This is followed by Victor's autistic 12-year-old daughter, Meaghan, painting and singing; this is surrounded by strange occurrences around the house. When Victor discovers that two children were murdered in the area years before, he believes they are trying to contact him; he also believes that their neighbor is responsible for the murders.
Suzie
Suzie (2009)
, 1h34
Directed by Micheline Lanctôt
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Pascale Bussières, Micheline Lanctôt, Fayolle Jean, Normand Daneau, Xavier Dolan, Nanette Workman

Suzie (Micheline Lanctôt), a 58-year-old taxi driver suffering from depression, finds a 10-year-old autistic boy named Charles (Gabriel Gaudreault) alone in the back seat of her cab one Halloween night. The boy's mother has left him with a note directing that he be taken to his father. Suzie takes Charles to his father, and thus gets drawn into a conflict between the boy's parents. Realizing the parents have no idea what to do with their son, Suzie leaves with him, and proceeds to go to an underground gambling den. She wins money at poker and buys two plane tickets to Morocco, intending to search for her daughter, who was taken to the country by her father twenty years ago.
Killer Diller, 1h35
Directed by Tricia Brock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors William Lee Scott, Lucas Black, Fred Willard, W. Earl Brown, John Michael Higgins, Ashley Johnson

Wesley, (William Lee Scott) a car thief and musician sent to live at a halfway house on the campus of a Christian college meets Vernon, (Lucas Black) an autistic piano player in need of a friend. Together they team up with the struggling halfway house band to create the Killer Diller Blues Band.
Autism Is a World, 40minutes
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Medical-themed films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Julianna Margulies

Sue Rubin, une femme autiste qui, enfant, était considérée comme retardée. À 13 ans, elle apprend à s'exprimer à l'aide d'un clavier d'ordinateur, révélant ainsi son intelligence. Par la suite, elle étudie l'histoire à Whittier College (Whittier) et écrit des discours sur sa vie d'autiste. Le réalisatrice Wurzburg a qualifié Rubin de « Helen Keller de notre génération. »
Raam
Raam (2005)

Directed by Ameer Sultan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Jiiva, Rashin Rahman, Gajala, Murali, Saranya, Kunal Shah

The story revolves around the relationship of a mother and her son, set in Kodaikanal. The movie commences with Rama Krishna (Jiiva) and his mother Saradha (Saranya Ponvannan), a school teacher, lying in a pool of blood; The police find Raam is still alive and arrest him on charges of murdering his mother. Police inspector Umar (Rahman) works on the case. The story is narrated in flashback.
Autism: The Musical, 1h34
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Musical films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism
Actors Rosanne Katon

The film recounts six months in the 2005-06 life of five children with autism and their parents in Los Angeles, California as their children write and rehearse for an original stage production. Among the children, Henry Stills is an expert on dinosaurs and a budding comedian; Adam Mandela Walden plays the cello and sings in the film. The other children featured in the film have one or more things they excel at doing if only given the training they need to communicate and develop those skills.
Imagination, 1h10
Directed by Eric Leiser
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism

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.