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.
121 films found — page 3 of 4
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Marianna Ucrìa
A Deaf noblewoman in 18th-century Sicily uncovers the truth behind her lost hearing.
LIS Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
The Perfect Circle
A poet in besieged Sarajevo shelters two orphaned brothers, one of them Deaf.
Deafness as a theme -
What the Deaf Man Heard
A boy left at a bus station pretends to be deaf and keeps the pretence for twenty years.
Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Beyond Silence
The hearing daughter of Deaf parents pursues the clarinet, straining her role as their interpreter.
DGS Deaf actors in the cast -
Jerry Maguire
A brief elevator scene in which a Deaf couple sign about love became one of the film's most quoted moments.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Khamoshi: The Musical
The hearing daughter of Deaf parents is pulled between music and her family's silence.
ISL-IN Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Ridicule
A courtier at Versailles encounters an abbé teaching Deaf children sign language.
LSF Deafness as a theme -
Mr. Holland's Opus
A music teacher slowly learns to know his Deaf son on the son's own terms.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Immortal Beloved
Beethoven's life and deafness traced through the search for his mystery addressee.
Deafness as a theme -
Miracle on 34th Street
Kris Kringle signs with a Deaf girl in a scene that became the film's emotional centre.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Once in a Lifetime
A mother fights for her Deaf son's education.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
To Live
A family endures decades of Chinese history; the daughter is deafened by childhood illness.
CSL Deafness as a theme -
I Don't Want to Talk About It
A small-town mother tries to shield her daughter from how the town sees difference.
Deafness as a theme -
Gas Food Lodging
A New Mexico waitress and her daughters, one of whom falls for a man who signs.
ASL Deafness as a theme -
A Scene at the Sea
A Deaf garbage collector teaches himself to surf, watched by his Deaf girlfriend.
JSL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Grand Canyon
Interwoven Los Angeles lives, including a father's bond with his Deaf daughter.
Deafness as a theme -
Wild Flower
A girl with epilepsy and hearing loss is kept locked away by her family until neighbours intervene.
Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Bridge to Silence
A Deaf woman fights her mother for custody of her daughter after a fatal accident.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Crazy Moon
A wealthy eccentric teenager falls for a Deaf shop assistant.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Suspect
A public defender represents a homeless Deaf veteran accused of murder.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Children of a Lesser God
A speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls for a Deaf former student who refuses to speak.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Love Is Never Silent
A hearing daughter of Deaf parents is torn between her own life and her role as the family's interpreter.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast -
Tin Man
A Deaf mechanic builds a device that lets him hear, and regrets it.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Amy
A woman leaves her husband to teach at a school for Deaf children in the early 1900s.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
And Your Name Is Jonah
A boy wrongly institutionalised as disabled turns out to be Deaf, and his family learns to sign.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Dummy
A Deaf young man who cannot read or write is tried for murder with no way to defend himself.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Mom and Dad Can't Hear Me
A teenager is embarrassed by her Deaf parents after the family moves to a new town.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
A teacher of Deaf children leads a double life at night.
ASL Deafness as a theme -
Nashville
A sprawling country-music ensemble that includes a mother of Deaf children.
ASL Deafness as a theme -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A patient assumed to be Deaf and mute turns out to be neither.
Deafness as a theme -
Think Me Nothing
Early independent short produced within the American Deaf community.
ASL Deaf-led production -
Tommy
A boy rendered deaf, mute and blind by trauma becomes a pinball messiah.
Deafness as a theme -
Koshish
A Deaf couple in India build a marriage and raise a hearing son.
ISL-IN Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Psych-Out
A Deaf runaway searches for her brother in Haight-Ashbury.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
A Deaf man in a Southern town becomes confidant to everyone but himself.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
The Shop on Main Street
A carpenter is made 'Aryan controller' of an elderly Deaf Jewish widow's shop in wartime Slovakia.
Deafness as a theme -
The Miracle Worker
Anne Sullivan breaks through to the DeafBlind Helen Keller.
Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Happiness of Us Alone
A Deaf couple build a life together across the hardship of postwar Japan.
JSL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Mandy
Parents disagree over whether to send their Deaf daughter to a specialist school.
Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Johnny Belinda
A doctor teaches sign language to a Deaf woman in a hostile fishing village.
ASL Deaf role played by a hearing actor