Movies About Brain Injury
by rlspins | created - 16 Dec 2017 | updated - 18 Dec 2017 | PublicFiction, Biography, Comedy, Documentaries - any movie about brain injury!
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1. The Vow (2012)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Romance
A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.
Director: Michael Sucsy | Stars: Rachel McAdams, Channing Tatum, Sam Neill, Jessica Lange
Votes: 204,867 | Gross: $125.01M
2. Concussion (2015)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play.
Director: Peter Landesman | Stars: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, David Morse
Votes: 100,562 | Gross: $34.54M
3. Concussion (2013)
R | 96 min | Drama
After a blow to the head, Abby decides she can't do it anymore. Her life just can't be only about the house, the kids and the wife. She needs more: she needs to be Eleanor.
Director: Stacie Passon | Stars: Robin Weigert, Maggie Siff, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Ben Shenkman
Votes: 5,820 | Gross: $0.04M
4. iBoy (2017)
TV-MA | 90 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
After being shot, Tom awakens from a coma to discover that fragments of his smartphone have been embedded in his head--and worse, that returning to normal teenage life is impossible because he has developed a strange set of superpowers.
Director: Adam Randall | Stars: Bill Milner, Maisie Williams, Miranda Richardson, Rory Kinnear
Votes: 24,387
5. This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
After their father passes away, four grown siblings are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes, and might-have-beens.
Director: Shawn Levy | Stars: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver
Votes: 89,216 | Gross: $34.29M
6. My Beautiful Broken Brain (2014)
TV-14 | 86 min | Documentary, Biography
After suffering a stroke at age 34, a woman documents her struggles, setbacks and eventual breakthrough as she relearns to speak, read and write.
Directors: Sophie Robinson, Lotje Sodderland | Stars: David Lynch, Sophie Robinson, Hente Sodderland, Jan Sodderland
Votes: 2,453
7. The Favorite (2019)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama
Inspired by the true events of Luke Benjamin Bernard. His spiritual and physical transformation is told through the life of two brothers.
Director: Curtis Graham | Stars: John Schneider, Luke Benjamin Bernard, Matthew Fahey, Mollee Gray
Votes: 422
8. Homeboy (1988)
R | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A simple self-destructive drifter and tough small-time boxer with a brain injury that could kill him meets and falls for a cute beach carnival owner, Ruby, but also befriends a sleazy friendly criminal, Wesley, who's planning a big score.
Director: Michael Seresin | Stars: Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Debra Feuer, Thomas Quinn
Votes: 2,829
9. Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive (2017 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy
In his first special since the near fatal car accident, Tracy Morgan jokes about life in a coma, his second marriage and the dark side of the family.
Director: Ryan Polito | Star: Tracy Morgan
Votes: 1,240
10. Head Games (2012)
PG-13 | 95 min | Documentary, Sport
A documentary that follows football player and pro-wrestler Chris Nowinski's quest to uncover the truth about the consequences of sports-related head injuries.
Director: Steve James | Stars: Chris Nowinski, Gene Atkins, Laura Balcer, Hunt Batjer
Votes: 365 | Gross: $0.01M
11. Oliver Sherman (2010)
82 min | Drama, Thriller, War
Feeling lost and disconnected, with no family of his own, veteran Sherman Oliver sets out to the countryside in search of the soldier who saved him back in the war. That man, Franklin Page,... See full summary »
Director: Ryan Redford | Stars: Garret Dillahunt, Molly Parker, Donal Logue, Fiona Highet
Votes: 316
12. Coma (1978)
PG | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible conspiracy.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Geneviève Bujold, Elizabeth Ashley
Votes: 21,145
13. Prodigal Sons (2008)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Kimberly Reed returns home for her high school reunion, ready to reintroduce herself to the small town as a transgender woman and hoping for reconciliation with her long estranged... See full summary »
Director: Kimberly Reed | Stars: Kimberly Reed, Carol McKerrow, Marc McKerrow, Claire Jones
Votes: 759 | Gross: $0.07M
14. Requiem for a Running Back (2017)
89 min | Documentary
Director Rebecca Carpenter's father, Lewis Carpenter, was a running back for Vince Lombardi's NFL Champion Green Bay Packers. When he dies, her family receives a surprise call from Boston ... See full summary »
Director: Rebecca Carpenter | Stars: Julian Bailes, Chris Borland, Erika Brown, Samantha Pyle Buono
Votes: 20
15. Recovery (2007 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama
Alan and Tricia Hamilton are blissfully happy. One day their perfect life is torn apart when Alan steps in front of a passing car. He's left with a brain injury that completely transforms his personality.
Director: Andy De Emmony | Stars: David Tennant, Sarah Parish, Harry Treadaway, Jacob Theato
Votes: 1,066
16. Regarding Henry (1991)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance
After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a loving family to support him.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Harrison Ford, Annette Bening, Michael Haley, Stanley Swerdlow
Votes: 34,355 | Gross: $43.00M
17. Patients (2016)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Patients is the story of a rebirth, a chaotic journey of victories and defeats, tears and bursts of laughter, but above all encounters: we do not heal alone.
Directors: Mehdi Idir, Grand Corps Malade | Stars: Pablo Pauly, Soufiane Guerrab, Moussa Mansaly, Nailia Harzoune
Votes: 2,363
18. Every 21 Seconds (2018)
120 min | Drama
Every 21 Seconds is an intense and dramatic film based on the gut wrenching and inspiring true story of TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) survivor, Brian Sweeney.
Director: Kuba Luczkiewicz | Stars: Shannon Brown, Kelly Thiebaud, Jim O'Heir, Matt Pratt
Votes: 185
19. New Run (2016)
68 min | Documentary
After a traumatic accident, a gifted freestyle skier goes through a difficult rehabilitation.
Director: Miikka Niemi | Stars: Pekka Hyysalo, Mikko Hyysalo, Veikko Hyysalo, Anja Hyysalo
Votes: 137
20. Along Recovery (2012)
TV-14 | 94 min | Documentary
Army veteran Justin Springer served two tours in Iraq where he witnessed dozens of Soldiers in his unit suffer from the signature wound of the war-traumatic brain injury (TBI.) The result ... See full summary »
Director: Justin J. Springer | Stars: Sean Hollins, Josh Kisner, Torrey Kramer, Ryan Soto
Votes: 20
21. 50 First Dates (2004)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams until discovering she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day.
Director: Peter Segal | Stars: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin
Votes: 381,924 | Gross: $120.91M
22. The Finder (2012)
TV-14 | 44 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An Iraq war vet suffers a brain injury that triggers the ability to see connections between seemingly unrelated events, objects or people.
Stars: Geoff Stults, Maddie Hasson, Mercedes Mason, Michael Clarke Duncan
Votes: 17,567
23. Life on Liberty Street (2004 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Romance
A nurse, trying to salvage her life after her husband and job are gone, winds up working in a halfway house full of mildly brain-damaged patients and receives help from those she helps.
Director: David S. Cass Sr. | Stars: Annabeth Gish, Ethan Embry, Wendy Phillips, Ed Begley Jr.
Votes: 181
24. The Descendants (2011)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller, Nick Krause
Votes: 251,727 | Gross: $82.58M
25. Dominick and Eugene (1988)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama
Dominick and Eugene are twins, but Dominick is a little bit slow due to an accident in his youth. They live together, with Dominick working as garbage man to put Eugene through medical ... See full summary »
Director: Robert M. Young | Stars: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert Levine
Votes: 3,281 | Gross: $3.08M
26. Remember Sunday (2013 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely waitress meets a handsome, quirky jewelry store clerk who had a brain aneurysm and thus has short-term memory loss.
Director: Jeff Bleckner | Stars: Alexis Bledel, Zachary Levi, Merritt Wever, Barry Shabaka Henley
Votes: 12,185
27. Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
R | 121 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma, a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
Director: Wolfgang Becker | Stars: Daniel Brühl, Katrin Sass, Chulpan Khamatova, Florian Lukas
Votes: 152,600 | Gross: $4.06M
28. Where Soldiers Come From (2011)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
A documentary that chronicles four years in the lives of childhood friends as they enter a faraway war.
Director: Heather Courtney
Votes: 234 | Gross: $0.04M
29. The Music Never Stopped (2011)
PG | 105 min | Drama, Music
Tale of a father who struggles to bond with his estranged son Gabriel, after Gabriel suffers from a brain tumor that prevents him from forming new memories. With Gabriel unable to shed the ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Kohlberg | Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, J.K. Simmons, Julia Ormond, Cara Seymour
Votes: 8,687 | Gross: $0.26M
30. Seizure: The Story of Kathy Morris (1980 TV Movie)
104 min | Biography, Drama
A young music student has a seizure forcing her to undergo brain surgery. She comes out of the surgery unable to count or read and has difficulty adapting to life.
Director: Gerald I. Isenberg | Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Penelope Milford, Christopher Allport, Fredric Lehne
Votes: 47
31. The Crash Reel (2013)
Not Rated | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, Sport
Fifteen years of verite footage show the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce, childhood friends who become number one and two in the world leading up to the ... See full summary »
Director: Lucy Walker | Stars: Kevin Pearce, Shaun White, Mason Aguirre, Daniel Amen
Votes: 5,080
32. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
PG-13 | 112 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby who suffers a stroke and has to live with an almost totally paralyzed body; only his left eye isn't paralyzed.
Director: Julian Schnabel | Stars: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze, Anne Consigny
Votes: 110,416 | Gross: $5.99M
33. The Lookout (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher
Votes: 60,537 | Gross: $4.60M
34. When Billy Broke His Head... and Other Tales of Wonder (1995)
Not Rated | 60 min | Documentary, Biography
A video first-person road movie about disability, civil rights, and the search for intelligent life after brain damage.
Directors: Billy Golfus, David E. Simpson | Stars: Billy Golfus, Joy Mincey Powell, Ed Roberts
Votes: 41
35. League of Denial
Drama, Sport | Announced
A look at the dangers of head injuries and their long-term effects on professional football players.
37. Forward/Backward (2009)
97 min | Drama
Clayton lost his wallet, and he hasn't paid the water bill. Which wouldn't be so bad, except he also lost his job sweeping up at the theater. Small, East Texas towns like Reklaw don't have ... See full summary »
Directors: Kendall Lynch, Elizabeth Spear | Stars: Clayton Mays, James Teems, Jenny Cunningham, Jen Lee
38. The Lookout (2007)
R | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Director: Scott Frank | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jeff Daniels, Matthew Goode, Isla Fisher
Votes: 60,537 | Gross: $4.60M
39. Bell Ringer: The Invisible Brain Injury (2016 TV Movie)
56 min | Documentary
Every year, as many as 3.8 million brain injuries occur in athletics, and they are more common among children and students than star athletes. We often hear about concussions in ... See full summary »
Director: Justin Blake Crum | Stars: Michelle Akers, Monte Coleman
40. Head Games (2012– )
TV-PG | Documentary
Stars: Craig Keene, Diodato Grisi, J. Michael Kent, Andrew Citrin
Votes: 18
41. Caris' Peace (2011)
76 min | Documentary
Documentary film about actress Caris Corfman and her theatrical one woman show, Caris' Peace.
Director: Gaylen Ross | Stars: Lewis Black, Yusef Bulos, Kate Burton, Caris Corfman
Votes: 20
42. Poor Boy's Game (2007)
R | 104 min | Drama
On his release from prison for the brutal beating of a black man, Donnie, a young white boxer, is coached by his victim's father, George for an upcoming fight against a talented and vengeful opponent, Ossie.
Director: Clement Virgo | Stars: Rossif Sutherland, Danny Glover, Flex Alexander, Greg Bryk
Votes: 1,400
43. The Loss of Nameless Things (2004)
R | 103 min | Documentary
In 1978 Oakley Hall lll was a promising playwright on the verge of national recognition when a mysterious fall from a bridge took his artistic life away. He suffered horrific head injuries,... See full summary »
Director: Bill Rose | Stars: Bruce Bouchard, Patricia Charbonneau, Bob Currier, Sofia Landon Geier
Votes: 97
45. Braindamadj'd... Take II (2006)
50 min | Documentary
Ten years ago, Montrealer Paul Nadler at 30 was a creative maverick - snowboarding, rock-climbing and scuba diving, taking part in all-night play-writing sessions, attracting women, and ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Nadler
Votes: 10
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