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.
94 films found — page 1 of 3
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Deaf President Now!
The 1988 student uprising at Gallaudet University that won the school its first Deaf president.
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In Cold Light
An ex-convict is pulled back into danger by her twin brother's death.
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Marlee Matlin: Not Alone
A portrait of Marlee Matlin's career and the cost of being Hollywood's only Deaf star for decades.
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Primate
A family is stalked by a violent chimpanzee; the Deaf father cannot hear it coming.
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
Jia's signed bond with Kong drives the story into Hollow Earth.
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The Silent Hour
A detective losing his hearing protects a Deaf murder witness from the people hunting her.
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Close to You
A trans man returns home for the first time in years and reconnects with an old Deaf friend.
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Creed III
The family signs together as Adonis confronts a friend from his past.
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Causeway
A soldier home from Afghanistan visits her incarcerated Deaf brother.
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Dig
A demolition contractor and his Deaf daughter are taken hostage on a job.
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Past Future
A partly-signed musical made during the pandemic.
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We Met in Virtual Reality
Filmed entirely inside VR, including a community teaching sign language in virtual space.
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A Quiet Place Part II
The surviving family ventures beyond the farm, with the Deaf daughter leading.
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Audible
A football team at the Maryland School for the Deaf plays through grief and a losing streak.
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CODA
The only hearing member of a Deaf fishing family is torn between the family business and music school.
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Eternals
Immortal beings emerge to defend Earth; their fastest member is Deaf and signs throughout.
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Godzilla vs. Kong
A young Deaf girl is the only person Kong communicates with, in sign language.
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Feel the Beat
A failed Broadway dancer coaches a small-town dance team that includes a Deaf girl.
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Feeling Through
A homeless teenager helps a DeafBlind man get home on a late New York night.
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Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements
Three generations of one Deaf family, framed by Beethoven's own loss of hearing.
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Sound of Metal
A metal drummer loses his hearing and enters a Deaf recovery community.
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The Silence
A family whose daughter is Deaf survives creatures that hunt by sound.
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A Quiet Place
A family survives sound-hunting creatures by signing; their Deaf daughter's implant becomes the key.
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Creed II
Adonis and Bianca raise a Deaf daughter while he faces a legacy fight.
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado
A crime thriller in which a signed exchange with a Deaf man is a key scene.
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Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
A teen comedy in which the protagonist briefly pretends to be deaf, widely criticised by Deaf viewers.
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Baby Driver
A getaway driver with tinnitus signs with the Deaf foster father he is trying to protect.
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Sign Gene: The First Deaf Superheroes
Deaf mutants whose sign language generates superpowers investigate a conspiracy across continents.
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The Shape of Water
A mute cleaner communicates in sign with an amphibian creature held in a government lab.
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Wonderstruck
Two Deaf children fifty years apart run away to New York in search of family.
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Hush
A Deaf writer living alone in the woods is stalked by a masked intruder.
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Wild Prairie Rose
In 1950s South Dakota a young woman returns home and falls for a Deaf man against her mother's wishes.
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Creed
A musician with progressive hearing loss becomes the fighter's partner.
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Lake Windfall
Five friends, three of them Deaf, take a camping trip that turns dangerous.
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No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie
An actor who plays a Deaf superhero on television mentors a Deaf boy struggling at school.
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This Is Normal
A short about a Deaf woman navigating an ordinary day of small misunderstandings.
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Deaf men expose decades of abuse at a Wisconsin school for the deaf and the cover-up above it.
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Resident Evil: Retribution
A Deaf child clone signs her way through an underground facility under attack.
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Deaf Jam
A Deaf teenager brings ASL poetry into New York's spoken-word slam scene.
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Take Shelter
A father haunted by apocalyptic visions is also fighting for his Deaf daughter's implant coverage.
ASL Deafness as a theme