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This is a list of autism-related films:

Fiction

• A Boy Called Po
• A Brilliant Young Mind (aka "X+Y")
• A Mile in His Shoes
• Adam
• After Thomas
• Ataru: The First Love & the Last Kill [ja]
• Beautiful Pain
• Ben X
• Bless the Child
• Cries from the Heart
• Cube
• David's Mother
• Dear John
• Fly Away
• Haridas
• Jack of the Red Hearts
• Jane Wants a Boyfriend
• Loop
• Love Child
• Malcolm
• Marathon
• Mary and Max
• Mercury Rising
• Miracle Run
• Molly
• Mozart and the Whale
• Music
• My Name Is Khan
• Ocean Heaven
• Please Stand By
• Rain Man
• Season of Miracles
• Silent Fall
• Snow Cake
• Somersault
• Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love
• Split
• Stuart: A Life Backwards
• Superbror [da]
• Swathi Muthyam
• Temple Grandin
• The Accountant
• The Black Balloon
• The Boy Who Could Fly
• The Fanatic
• The Predator
• The Sense of Wonder
• The Story of Luke
• The Specials
• Under the Piano
• White Frog

Non-fiction

• Autism Every Day
• Autism in Love
• Autism Is a World
• Autism: The Musical
• Children From The Distant Planet [zh]
• Children of the Stars
• Citizen Autistic
• Dad's in Heaven with Nixon
• Deej
• How to Dance in Ohio
• Life, Animated
• Normal People Scare Me and Normal People Scare Me Too
• Recovered: Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back
• Refrigerator Mothers
• The Horse Boy
• The Reason I Jump
• Too Sane for This World
• Vaxxed
• Wretches & Jabberers
• In A Different Key

References

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• Campbell Brown, William John Robert; Fleming, David H.; Eastwood, Steven (23 March 2013). "Film-Philosophy Conference 2013: Beyond Film. Cinema and/as Autism". Film Philosophy. Retrieved 2 July 2013.

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