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No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
In the Name of the Father
Behind Enemy Lines
The Magdalene Sisters
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
The Stalking of Laurie Show
The Grim Sleeper
Северный полюс 8
K-19: The Widowmaker
Calendar Girls
The Three
Rocco and His Brothers
Ali
Shooting Dogs
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
Santa Maria della Salute
The Red Baron
This Boy's Life
The Countess
In Bruges
Pacarrete
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In the Name of the Father
IMDB 7.9 | Dec , 1993
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.Behind Enemy Lines
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2001
While flying a routine reconnaissance mission over Bosnia, fighter pilot Lt. Chris Burnett photographs something he wasn't supposed to see and gets shot down behind enemy lines, where he must outrun an army led by a ruthless Serbian general. With time running out and a deadly tracker on his trail, Burnett's commanding officer, Admiral Reigart, decides to risk his career and launch a renegade rescue mission to save his life.The Magdalene Sisters
IMDB 7.4 | Aug , 2002
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2006
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.The Stalking of Laurie Show
IMDB 5.6 | Dec , 2000
A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.The Grim Sleeper
IMDB 4.9 | Mar , 2014
Journalist Christine Pelisek helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.Северный полюс 8
IMDB 0 | May , 2026
The events in the film take place from 1958 to 1961 at the legendary Soviet polar station. A group of polar explorers goes there to build an airfield on which a large transport plane can land.K-19: The Widowmaker
IMDB 6.5 | Jul , 2002
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster.Calendar Girls
IMDB 6.5 | Sep , 2003
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.The Three
IMDB 6 | Dec , 2020
A husband, a wife and another woman. Only three are in the frame.Rocco and His Brothers
IMDB 8 | Oct , 1960
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.Ali
IMDB 6.7 | Dec , 2001
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.Shooting Dogs
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 2006
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the country with their lives? Based on a true story.The Exorcism of Emily Rose
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 2005
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.Santa Maria della Salute
IMDB 10 | Dec , 2016
The film narrates a tormented love story between one of the most famous poets of Serbian literature, Laza Kostic, renowned for his sublime poetic puns and word coining and an enchanting young girl by the name of Lenka Dundjerski, an educated and refined daughter of a landowner Lazar Dundjerski. Standing in the way of their love is the insurmountable age gap between the two, as Kostic is 29 years older than his beloved one. The affair inspired one of the most sophisticated and tender love poems of the time, an utmost expression of yearning, in which the poet's unflinching devotion is linked to his admiration for a Venice basilisk by the name of Santa Maria della Salute.The Red Baron
IMDB 6.6 | Mar , 2008
Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes for the soldiers on the battlefields. Marked by sportsmanlike conduct, technical exactitude and knightly propriety, they have their own code of honour. Before long he begins to understand that his hero status is deceptive. His love for Kate, a nurse, opens his eyes to the brutality of war.This Boy's Life
IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 1993
When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.The Countess
IMDB 5.9 | Mar , 2009
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614), blinded by the passion that she feels for a younger man, succumbs to the mad delusion that blood will keep her young and beautiful forever.In Bruges
IMDB 7.5 | Feb , 2008
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.Pacarrete
IMDB 7.8 | Jun , 2019
Russas, a small town in northeastern Brazil, is the home of Pacarrete, a grumpy retired dance teacher who dreams of getting a big shot and starring at a dance spectacle for the whole town to see. She's close to fulfilling that dream, but not without overcoming a few impediments along the way.