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 2 of 5
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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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Out of This World
A taxi driver becomes fixated on a Deaf dancer.
LSF Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Unsound
A struggling music venue is reborn as a Deaf club, bringing together a trans man and a Deaf musician.
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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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A Star Is Born
A musician's noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus shape his decline.
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Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen biopic featuring a Deaf actor as Freddie Mercury's father.
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Bori
A hearing girl in a Deaf family wishes she could lose her hearing to belong. Directed by a CODA.
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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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A Silent Agreement
A Deaf man and a hearing screenwriter navigate a relationship strained by miscommunication.
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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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The Silent Child
A social worker teaches a Deaf four-year-old to sign, against her family's wishes.
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Wonderstruck
Two Deaf children fifty years apart run away to New York in search of family.
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
A former bully seeks out the Deaf classmate he tormented years earlier.
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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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Marie Heurtin
A nun teaches a DeafBlind girl to communicate in a 19th-century French convent school.
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The Bélier Family
A farming family's hearing daughter discovers a gift for singing. Deaf parents played by hearing actors.
LSF Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
The Little Death
Interlinked stories about desire, including a Deaf man's video relay call.
Auslan Deaf actors in the cast -
The Tribe
A new student at a Ukrainian boarding school for the deaf is drawn into its criminal hierarchy.
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Lake Windfall
Five friends, three of them Deaf, take a camping trip that turns dangerous.
ASL Deaf-led production -
Medeas
A mute or Deaf mother on a failing California dairy farm.
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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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Barfi!
A Deaf and mute young man in 1970s Darjeeling loves two very different women.
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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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Glove
A disgraced pitcher coaches a Deaf high school baseball team, based on true events.
KSL Deaf role played by a hearing actor -
Perfect Sense
A worldwide epidemic strips humanity of its senses one at a time, hearing among them.
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Silenced
A teacher uncovers systematic abuse of Deaf students at a school. Prompted a change in Korean law.
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Soundtrack
A Mumbai DJ loses his hearing at the height of his career. Remake of It's All Gone Pete Tong.
Deafness as a theme