Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "asperger's-syndrome"

1. Young Sheldon (2017–2024)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Meet a child genius named Sheldon Cooper (already seen as an adult in The Big Bang Theory (2007)) and his family. Some unique challenges face Sheldon, who is socially impaired.

Stars: Iain Armitage, Zoe Perry, Jim Parsons, Lance Barber

Votes: 102,207

2. The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

A woman who moves into an apartment across the hall from two brilliant but socially awkward physicists shows them how little they know about life outside of the laboratory.

Stars: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg

Votes: 867,575

3. Hannibal (2013–2015)

TV-MA | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.

Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne

Votes: 276,532

4. The Accountant (2016)

R | 128 min | Action, Crime, Drama

As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities, and the body count starts to rise.

Director: Gavin O'Connor | Stars: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal

Votes: 321,612 | Gross: $86.26M

5. Dinosaur (2024– )

30 min | Comedy

Nina's world is shaken when her sister Evie, also her best friend, hastily decides to get engaged, threatening to upend the dynamics of their close relationship.

Stars: Ashley Storrie, Kat Ronney, Danny Ashok, David Carlyle

Votes: 273

6. Parenthood (2010–2015)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Drama

The lives and tragedies of the Braverman family tree.

Stars: Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Dax Shepard, Monica Potter

Votes: 37,554

7. Final Destination: Bloodlines (2025)

Horror | Filming

As a group of first responders escape the clutches of death, they begin to be killed by increasingly improbable and murderous mishaps.

Directors: Zach Lipovsky, Adam B. Stein | Stars: Richard Harmon, Brec Bassinger, Tony Todd, Rya Kihlstedt

8. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

R | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Socially frustrated Barry Egan calls a phone-sex line to curb his loneliness. Little does he know it will land him in deep trouble and will jeopardize his burgeoning romance with the mysterious Lena.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Adam Sandler, Emily Watson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jason Andrews

Votes: 177,399 | Gross: $17.84M

9. Atypical (2017–2021)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Drama

Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, decides it's time to find a girlfriend, which sets Sam's mom on her own life-changing path as her son seeks more independence.

Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Keir Gilchrist, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Michael Rapaport

Votes: 103,491

10. Easy Rider (1969)

R | 95 min | Adventure, Drama

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.

Director: Dennis Hopper | Stars: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Antonio Mendoza

Votes: 116,931 | Gross: $41.73M

11. Paprika (2006)

R | 90 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy

When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it.

Director: Satoshi Kon | Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tôru Furuya

Votes: 96,848 | Gross: $0.88M

12. The Night Clerk (2020)

R | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A voyeuristic hotel clerk becomes the subject of a murder investigation.

Director: Michael Cristofer | Stars: Tye Sheridan, Ana de Armas, Helen Hunt, John Leguizamo

Votes: 18,644

13. Dear John (I) (2010)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War

A romantic drama about a soldier who falls for a conservative college student while he's home on leave.

Director: Lasse Hallström | Stars: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins, Henry Thomas

Votes: 157,743 | Gross: $80.01M

14. Mary and Max (2009)

Not Rated | 92 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.

Director: Adam Elliot | Stars: Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana, Barry Humphries

Votes: 186,776

15. My Name Is Khan (2010)

PG-13 | 165 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

An Indian Muslim man with Asperger's syndrome takes a challenge to speak to the President of the United States seriously and embarks on a cross-country journey.

Director: Karan Johar | Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Sheetal Menon, Katie Amanda Keane

Votes: 116,355 | Gross: $4.02M

16. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)

PG-13 | 129 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Director: Stephen Daldry | Stars: Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, Max von Sydow

Votes: 105,170 | Gross: $31.85M

17. American Splendor (2003)

R | 101 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.

Directors: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Shari Springer Berman, Harvey Pekar, Chris Ambrose

Votes: 52,356 | Gross: $6.00M

18. All About Steve (2009)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Convinced that a CCN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.

Director: Phil Traill | Stars: Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church, Ken Jeong

Votes: 44,435 | Gross: $33.86M

19. Please Stand By (2017)

PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Drama

A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in an attempt to submit her 500-page manuscript to a "Star Trek" writing competition at Paramount Pictures.

Director: Ben Lewin | Stars: Dakota Fanning, Alice Eve, Toni Collette, Lexi Aaron

Votes: 15,226 | Gross: $0.01M

20. On Body and Soul (2017)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

When slaughterhouse workers Endre and Mária discover they share the same dreams, where they meet in a forest as deer and fall in love, they decide to make their dreams come true, but it's difficult in real life.

Director: Ildikó Enyedi | Stars: Alexandra Borbély, Géza Morcsányi, Réka Tenki, Zoltán Schneider

Votes: 29,877

21. Utoya: July 22 (2018)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

A teenage girl struggles to survive and to find her younger sister during the July 2011 terrorist mass murder at a political summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utøya.

Director: Erik Poppe | Stars: Andrea Berntzen, Aleksander Holmen, Solveig Koløen Birkeland, Brede Fristad

Votes: 15,815

22. Adam (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.

Director: Max Mayer | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving

Votes: 35,771 | Gross: $2.28M

23. Bully (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 98 min | Documentary

A documentary on peer-to-peer bullying in schools across America.

Director: Lee Hirsch | Stars: Alex Libby, Lona Johnson, Kelby Johnson, Bob Johnson

Votes: 10,542 | Gross: $4.04M

24. Little Man Tate (1991)

PG | 99 min | Drama

A single mother raises a child prodigy on her own, struggling to give him every opportunity he needs to express his gift.

Director: Jodie Foster | Stars: Jodie Foster, Dianne Wiest, Adam Hann-Byrd, Alex Lee

Votes: 16,028 | Gross: $25.01M

25. ReGenesis (2004–2008)

TV-14 | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Geneticist David Sandstrom is the chief scientist at the prestigious virology/micro-biology NORBAC laboratory, a joint enterprise between the USA, Canada and Mexico for countering bio-terrorism.

Stars: Peter Outerbridge, Conrad Pla, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Mayko Nguyen

Votes: 3,449

26. When Time Got Louder (2022)

114 min | Drama

Departing for college, Abbie leaves her parents and brother who has autism and is non-verbal. As she explores her independence and sexuality, she's torn between her new life and her love for her brother.

Director: Connie Cocchia | Stars: Willow Shields, Lochlyn Munro, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jonathan Simao

Votes: 457

27. Somersault (2004)

Not Rated | 106 min | Drama, Romance

A young girl flees her hometown and arrives in the Australian Alps, where new experiences help her learn the differences between sex and love.

Director: Cate Shortland | Stars: Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran, Damian de Montemas

Votes: 8,192 | Gross: $0.09M

28. Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015)

115 min | Comedy

Mr. Müller and his class are taking a school trip to Thailand to strengthen the reputation of their school.

Director: Bora Dagtekin | Stars: Elyas M'Barek, Jella Haase, Karoline Herfurth, Katja Riemann

Votes: 14,577

29. The Sense of Wonder (2015)

100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Louise, a widow with two children, almost crushes a stranger with her car. She takes care of him, even if he's not really wounded. It turns out that he has mental disorders and that they can help each other much more than they thought.

Director: Éric Besnard | Stars: Virginie Efira, Benjamin Lavernhe, Lucie Fagedet, Léo Lorléac'h

Votes: 3,337

30. Simple Simon (I) (2010)

85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A younger brother with Aspergers syndrome helps his older brother find a girlfriend.

Director: Andreas Öhman | Stars: Bill Skarsgård, Martin Wallström, Cecilia Forss, Sofie Hamilton

Votes: 10,164

31. The Other Me (2016)

101 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A professor of criminology tries to solve five completely unrelated murders whose only link is quotes from Pythagoras.

Director: Sotiris Tsafoulias | Stars: Pigmalion Dadakaridis, Dimitris Katalifos, Manos Vakousis, Ioanna Kolliopoulou

Votes: 12,655

32. #Horror (2015)

Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Six preadolescent girls face a night of terror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

Director: Tara Subkoff | Stars: Sadie Seelert, Haley Murphy, Bridget McGarry, Blue Lindeberg

Votes: 3,957

33. Bleeder (1999)

98 min | Crime, Drama

Two stories for the price of one: Lenny works in a video shop and tries to get aquainted with the waitress Lea. Leo beats his pregnant wife, Louise, which is a VERY bad idea, as her brother, Louis, is a violent racist.

Director: Nicolas Winding Refn | Stars: Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, Rikke Louise Andersson, Liv Corfixen

Votes: 9,172

34. Another Happy Day (2011)

R | 119 min | Comedy, Drama

A wedding at her parents' Annapolis estate hurls high-strung Lynn into the center of touchy family dynamics.

Director: Sam Levinson | Stars: Ellen Barkin, Ezra Miller, Ellen Burstyn, Demi Moore

Votes: 4,578

35. Mozart and the Whale (2005)

PG-13 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.

Director: Petter Næss | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Radha Mitchell, Gary Cole, Sheila Kelley

Votes: 9,294 | Gross: $0.04M

36. The Victims' Game (2020– )

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After discovering his estranged daughter's link to mysterious murders, a forensic detective with Asperger's syndrome risks everything to solve the case.

Stars: Wei-Ning Hsu, Hsiao-chuan Chang, Shih-Sian Wang, Tsai-Hsing Chang

Votes: 1,833

37. A Dangerous Woman (1993)

R | 102 min | Drama, Romance

Martha Horgan, a naive woman with an intellectual impairment who lives with her aunt Frances in a small town, is known for always telling truth.

Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal | Stars: Debra Winger, Barbara Hershey, Gabriel Byrne, Laurie Metcalf

Votes: 2,050 | Gross: $1.50M

38. Watch Dogs 2 (2016 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Crime

In San Francisco, hacker Marcus Holloway joins DedSec, to take down a corrupt system by fighting and hacking his way through the entire San Francisco Bay.

Directors: Danny Bélanger, Jonathan Morin | Stars: Ruffin Prentiss, Shawn Baichoo, Tasya Teles, Jonathan Dubsky

Votes: 4,921

39. Meadowland (2015)

R | 105 min | Drama

A year after their son goes missing, a couple handle the loss in varying ways, growing apart from one another and their reality.

Director: Reed Morano | Stars: Olivia Wilde, Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Elisabeth Moss

Votes: 4,185

40. A Mile in His Shoes (2011 TV Movie)

PG | 89 min | Drama, Family, Sport

Mickey Tussler, an autistic pitcher, joins a minor-league baseball team and has a profound effect on the team and manager Arthur "Murph" Murphy over the course of a season.

Director: William Dear | Stars: Luke Schroder, Dean Cain, George Canyon, Chilton Crane

Votes: 789

41. I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)

Not Rated | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Based on the true life of Olga Hepnarová, a young Czech woman who became a rampage killer in 1973.

Directors: Petr Kazda, Tomás Weinreb | Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Martin Pechlát, Klára Melísková, Marika Soposká

Votes: 2,720

42. Dip (2018)

60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Sahir, who is in charge of discouraging people from committing suicide for Istanbul Police Department, meets a mysterious scientist woman called Bilge, when he receives a notice by phone.

Stars: Ilker Kaleli, Neslihan Atagül, Berrak Tüzünataç, Bülent Emin Yarar

Votes: 2,254

43. Ben X (2007)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Thriller

As an alternative to getting bullied at school, an autistic teenager retreats into the world of online role-playing games.

Director: Nic Balthazar | Stars: Marijke Pinoy, Greg Timmermans, Cesar De Sutter, Gilles De Schryver

Votes: 19,378 | Gross: $0.00M

44. I Am Greta (2020)

TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography

The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.

Director: Nathan Grossman | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen, António Guterres

Votes: 8,373

45. The Swap (2021– )

Comedy, Drama

Two families whose lives become impossibly complicated when they discover that their 6 year old sons were switched at birth. Emotional family drama where the investigation throws up surprises for both families.

Stars: Marta Dancingerová, Marek Adamczyk, Viktor Sekanina, Sabina Remundová

Votes: 97

46. In A Different Key (2020)

102 min | Documentary

A mother tracks down the first person ever diagnosed with autism to a rural Mississippi town to learn whether his life story holds promise for her own autistic son.

Directors: John Donvan, Caren Zucker | Stars: John Donvan, Amy Gravino, Jason McCarver, Donald Triplett

Votes: 74

47. The Luzhin Defence (2000)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance

Two worlds collide when an eccentric genius falls in love with a strong-willed society beauty.

Director: Marleen Gorris | Stars: John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson

Votes: 4,705 | Gross: $1.05M

48. Mr. Know-It-All (2018)

99 min | Comedy, Drama

A football coach afraid of commitment has to take care of his nephew with Asperger's Syndrome.

Directors: Stéphan Archinard, François Prévôt-Leygonie | Stars: Arnaud Ducret, Max Baissette de Malglaive, Alice David, Jean-François Cayrey

Votes: 826

49. Jane Wants a Boyfriend (2015)

R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A young woman with Asperger's syndrome tries to find her first boyfriend with a little help from her older sister.

Director: William Sullivan | Stars: Louisa Krause, Gabriel Ebert, Eliza Dushku, Polly Draper

Votes: 2,173

50. Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? (2013)

Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary, Animation, Biography

A series of interviews featuring linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky done in hand-drawn animation.

Director: Michel Gondry | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Michel Gondry, Richard Feynman, Michèle Oshima

Votes: 3,678 | Gross: $0.13M