Deaf films from around the world
A directory of feature films, shorts and documentaries made by, with and about Deaf people. Every entry records which sign language appears on screen and whether Deaf actors and filmmakers were actually involved — so you can tell Deaf-led work apart from a hearing actor playing a Deaf role.
187 films found — page 1 of 5
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Deaf
A Deaf woman expecting her first child with a hearing partner confronts a world built without her in mind.
LSE Deaf-led production -
Deaf President Now!
The 1988 student uprising at Gallaudet University that won the school its first Deaf president.
ASL Deaf-led production -
In Cold Light
An ex-convict is pulled back into danger by her twin brother's death.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone
A portrait of Marlee Matlin's career and the cost of being Hollywood's only Deaf star for decades.
ASL Deaf-led production -
Marty Supreme
A table tennis drama featuring a Deaf Japanese champion.
Deafness as a theme -
Primate
A family is stalked by a violent chimpanzee; the Deaf father cannot hear it coming.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Retreat
A young Deaf man begins to doubt the isolated all-Deaf community that raised him.
BSL Deaf-led production -
Tuner
A piano tuner turned safecracker loses his hearing edge.
Deafness as a theme -
Concerto for Abigail
A musician learns she is going deaf as her career takes off.
Deafness as a theme -
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Jia's signed bond with Kong drives the story into Hollow Earth.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Hear Me: Our Summer
Korean remake of the Taiwanese romance about a young man who falls for a swimmer's Deaf sister.
KSL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Living in Two Worlds
A CODA grows up interpreting for his Deaf parents and struggles to build a life apart from them.
JSL Deaf actors in the cast -
Rally Caps
A boy at summer baseball camp befriends a player with a cochlear implant.
Deaf actors in the cast -
The Hearing
A Deaf boy's abuse case tests a legal system with no reliable way to hear him.
FSL Deaf actors in the cast -
The Silent Hour
A detective losing his hearing protects a Deaf murder witness from the people hunting her.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
The Way We Talk
Three young Deaf people in Hong Kong disagree over implants, speech and sign language identity.
HKSL Deaf actors in the cast -
All the Silence
A Deaf actress and sign language teacher in Mexico City learns she is losing her remaining hearing.
LSM Deaf actors in the cast -
Boy Kills World
A Deaf and mute man trained as an assassin narrates in an imagined inner voice.
Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Close to You
A trans man returns home for the first time in years and reconnects with an old Deaf friend.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Creed III
The family signs together as Adonis confronts a friend from his past.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Extraction 2
An action sequel whose antagonist has significant hearing damage.
Deafness as a theme -
Lapse
A Deaf teenager navigates a hearing world that keeps mistranslating her.
Libras Deaf actors in the cast -
Causeway
A soldier home from Afghanistan visits her incarcerated Deaf brother.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Dig
A demolition contractor and his Deaf daughter are taken hostage on a job.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Love Life
A woman's life fractures when her Deaf first husband reappears after a family tragedy.
JSL Deaf actors in the cast -
Millstone
A grieving couple seek help from an unconventional therapist.
Deafness as a theme -
Past Future
A partly-signed musical made during the pandemic.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Small, Slow But Steady
Based on the memoir of Keiko Ogasawara, Japan's first professional Deaf boxer.
JSL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
The 355
An international team of agents chases a stolen weapon; a Deaf character appears among them.
IS Deaf actors in the cast -
The Night of the 12th
Detectives working an unsolved murder consult a Deaf witness to lip-read a silent recording.
LSF Deaf actors in the cast -
We Met in Virtual Reality
Filmed entirely inside VR, including a community teaching sign language in virtual space.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
A Quiet Place Part II
The surviving family ventures beyond the farm, with the Deaf daughter leading.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Audible
A football team at the Maryland School for the Deaf plays through grief and a losing streak.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
CODA
The only hearing member of a Deaf fishing family is torn between the family business and music school.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Drive My Car
A theatre director stages a multilingual Uncle Vanya that includes a signing actress.
KSL Deafness as a theme -
Eternals
Immortal beings emerge to defend Earth; their fastest member is Deaf and signs throughout.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Forgiveness
Three women wake in an asylum unable to see, hear or speak.
Deafness as a theme -
Godzilla vs. Kong
A young Deaf girl is the only person Kong communicates with, in sign language.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Preman
A Deaf low-level gangster goes on the run with his son after witnessing a murder.
BIM Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
A superhero sequel featuring a character who wears a hearing aid.
Deafness as a theme