Keyword: down syndrome

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

6.7

2008

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A father separates his son from his twin sister at birth to prevent him and the mother from knowing she was born with Down syndrome. Based on the novel by Kim Edwards.

Dafne

6.4

2019

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Dafne is a self-aware and bright young woman with Down syndrome. When her mother dies, she has to attend to her father too, on top of attempting to process her own grief.

The Surrogate

5.5

2020

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A web designer for a nonprofit in Brooklyn, is ecstatic to be the surrogate and egg-donor for her best friend and his husband. Twelve weeks into the pregnancy, a prenatal test comes back with unexpected results that pose a moral dilemma.

The Grown-Ups

7.8

2016

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A group of friends with Down Syndrome have been attending the same school for 40 years, they have passed all the courses, all the teachers and, even their parents who were with them, are now gone. They must now fight to get a better job, to make money like any other person, to learn to take care of themselves and to make it to their 50s. No one looks at them as children. They will do everything to prevent anyone from interfering with their adult dreams.

Any Day Now

7.5

2012

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In the 1970s, a gay couple fights a biased legal system to keep custody of the abandoned mentally handicapped teenager that comes to live under their roof.

Red Christmas

4.4

2016

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A mother must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger who is hell-bent on tearing them apart.

24 Weeks

7.2

2016

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At work, Astrid is admired by her fans as a famous cabaret artist and privately a second child is on the road to complete her family happiness. But her world is turned upside down overnight when she learns that her unborn child has a serious heart defect and will be born with Down syndrome. Together with her husband Markus, she now has to make the decision whether she will opt for a late abortion in the sixth month or give birth to the mentally and physically disabled child. The otherwise strong woman is torn and poses agonizing questions: May I judge the life and death of my child? Long discussions within the family and with her mother Beate follow. In the end there is a decision - but it is not one with which Astrid and Markus are completely at peace, either way not.

The Eighth Day

7.6

1996

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An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.