Topic: Down Syndrome
Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Down Syndrome. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.
Any Day Now
2012 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Travis Fine
Cast Alan Cumming · Garret Dillahunt · Isaac Leyva · Frances Fisher
Plot In the late 1970s, when a mentally handicapped teenager is abandoned, a gay couple takes him in and becomes the family he's never had. But once the unconventional living arrangement...
7.1
401 votes
7.1
401 votes
Anita
2009 · Movie · 104 min. · Argentina
Direction Marcos Carnevale
Cast Norma Aleandro · Luis Luque · Leonor Manso · Peto Menahem
Plot "Anita" is the new film from director Marcos Carnevale. After the successful "Elsa & Fred" and "Touch the Sky", Marcos Carnevale back into the limelight with a sensitive film that...
7.0
756 votes
7.0
756 votes
7.0
187 votes
The Eighth Day
1996 · Movie · 113 min. · Belgium
Direction Jaco Van Dormael
Cast Daniel Auteuil · Pascal Duquenne · Miou-Miou · Sabrina Leurquin
Plot The Eighth Day tells the story of the friendship that develops between two men who meet by chance. Harry (Daniel Auteuil), a divorced businessman who feels alienated from his children,...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
The Grown-Ups
2016 · Documentary · 80 min. · Chile
Direction Maite Alberdi
Cast Ana María Rodriguez · Ricardo Urzúa · Andrés Martínez · Rita Guzmán
Plot Anita, Rita, Ricardo and Andrés have been attending a school for children with Down syndrome for 40 years. After all this time, they are starting to tire of this safe,...
6.9
72 votes
6.9
72 votes
Champions
2018 · Movie · 124 min. · Spain
Direction Javier Fesser
Cast Javier Gutiérrez · Jesús Vidal · Daniel Freire · Athenea Mata
Plot A story about a Spanish basket League coach with emotional disabilities sentenced to training a basketball team whose players have a range of learning disabilities.
6.9
33K votes
6.9
33K votes
Chromosome 21 (TV Series)
2022 · Series · min. · Chile
Direction Matías Venables
Cast Amparo Noguera · Claudia Di Girolamo · Sergio Hernández · Mario Horton
Plot TV Series (2022). 8 Episodes. When the police discover a man with Down syndrome hiding at a crime scene, they launch an investigation to determine whether he's a witness or...
6.7
111 votes
6.7
111 votes
Café de Flore
2011 · Movie · 120 min. · Canada
Direction Jean-Marc Vallée
Cast Vanessa Paradis · Kevin Parent · Hélène Florent · Evelyne Brochu
Plot A love story about people separated by time and place but connected in profound and mysterious ways. Atmospheric, fantastical, tragic and hopeful, the film chronicles the parallel fates of Jacqueline,...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
Me Too
2009 · Movie · 105 min. · Spain
Direction Álvaro Pastor · Antonio Naharro
Cast Lola Dueñas · Pablo Pineda · Isabel García Lorca · Pedro Álvarez-Ossorio
Plot Daniel (Pablo Pineda), a young 34-year-old from Seville, is the first European man with Down syndrome to have earned a university diploma. He starts his working life with the public...
6.5
5K votes
6.5
5K votes
The Peanut Butter Falcon
2019 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Tyler Nilson · Mike Schwartz
Cast Zack Gottsagen · Shia LaBeouf · Dakota Johnson · John Hawkes
Plot Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from the nursing home where he lives to pursue his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending a wrestling school....
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
24 Weeks
2016 · Movie · 103 min. · Germany
Direction Anne Zohra Berrached
Cast Julia Jentsch · Bjarne Mädel · Johanna Gastdorf · Emilia Pieske
Plot Centered on the dilemma faced by a woman who is already six months pregnant when she learns that her unborn child will have Down's syndrome as well as a serious...
6.3
77 votes
6.3
77 votes
Valentina
2021 · Movie · 70 min. · Spain
Direction Chelo Loureiro
Plot Valentina is fed up of her Down´s syndrome, convinced that it prevents her from making her dream true: becoming a trapeze artist. But a magical journey will reveal to her...
6.2
31 votes
6.2
31 votes
I Love You Eugenio
2002 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Francisco Josè Fernandez
Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Chiara de Bonis · Giuliana de Sio · Riccardo Garrone
Plot Adult Down's syndrome sufferer Eugenio is reintroduced to a woman who spurned his love when they were schoolchildren together
6.1
24 votes
6.1
24 votes
León and Olvido
2004 · Movie · 112 min. · Spain
Direction Xavier Bermúdez
Cast Marta Larralde · Guillem Jiménez · Gary Piquer · Jaime Vázquez
Plot León and Olvido are twin orphans. León suffers from Down’s syndrome. Olvido had to drop out of school and begin to work. What is more, her love life is not...
6.0
1K votes
6.0
1K votes
Buddies
2012 · Movie · 99 min. · Brazil
Direction Marcelo Galvão
Cast Ariel Goldenberg · Rita Pokk · Breno Viola · Lima Duarte
Plot Colegas (Buddies) is a road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light through the eyes of three young people with Down syndrome, who love movies...
5.8
42 votes
5.8
42 votes
Campeonex
2023 · Movie · 124 min. · Spain
Direction Javier Fesser
Cast Elisa Hipólito · Sergio Olmo · Brianeitor · Juan Margallo
Plot Our team of "champions" abandons basketball to enter by mistake the fascinating world of athletics under the guidance of a novice coach. Between the harsh demands of the new discipline...
5.7
5K votes
5.7
5K votes
De Gaulle
2020 · Movie · 104 min. · France
Direction Gabriel Le Bomin
Cast Lambert Wilson · Isabelle Carré · Olivier Gourmet · Catherine Mouchet
Plot Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her...
5.6
532 votes
5.6
532 votes
My Brother Chases Dinosaurs
2019 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy
Direction Stefano Cipani
Cast Alessandro Gassman · Isabella Ragonese · Rossy de Palma · Francesco Gheghi
5.6
178 votes
5.6
178 votes
The Memory Keeper's Daughter (TV)
2008 · Movie · 86 min. · United States
Direction Mick Jackson
Cast Dermot Mulroney · Gretchen Mol · Emily Watson · Krystal Hope Nausbaum
Plot The birth of a child should be the happiest moment in a couple's life. But when a doctor's wife has twins, one of whom has Down syndrome, this physician makes...
5.4
716 votes
5.4
716 votes
Champions
2023 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction Bobby Farrelly
Cast Woody Harrelson · Ernie Hudson · Cheech Marin · Matt Cook
Plot It centros on a basketball team training and competing in the Special Olympics under the guidance of an imperfect but dedicated coach Marcus.
5.4
746 votes
5.4
746 votes