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

La historia de Jan

2016 · Documentary · 94 min. · Spain

Direction Bernardo Moll Otto

7.0

187 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

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