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 5 of 5
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Solarbabies
Orphans in a dystopian future, one of them Deaf, protect a mysterious orb.
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Love Is Never Silent
A hearing daughter of Deaf parents is torn between her own life and her role as the family's interpreter.
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird
The Sesame Street cast, including its long-running Deaf character, search for Big Bird.
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Tin Man
A Deaf mechanic builds a device that lets him hear, and regrets it.
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Amy
A woman leaves her husband to teach at a school for Deaf children in the early 1900s.
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And Your Name Is Jonah
A boy wrongly institutionalised as disabled turns out to be Deaf, and his family learns to sign.
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Dummy
A Deaf young man who cannot read or write is tried for murder with no way to defend himself.
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Mom and Dad Can't Hear Me
A teenager is embarrassed by her Deaf parents after the family moves to a new town.
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
A teacher of Deaf children leads a double life at night.
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Murder by Death
A detective spoof whose household staff include a Deaf-mute cook.
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Deafula
A Dracula retelling and the first feature-length film shot entirely in American Sign Language.
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Nashville
A sprawling country-music ensemble that includes a mother of Deaf children.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
A patient assumed to be Deaf and mute turns out to be neither.
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Think Me Nothing
Early independent short produced within the American Deaf community.
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Tommy
A boy rendered deaf, mute and blind by trauma becomes a pinball messiah.
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Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
A Deaf gunfighter and his talking partner in 1830s Texas.
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Koshish
A Deaf couple in India build a marriage and raise a hearing son.
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Psych-Out
A Deaf runaway searches for her brother in Haight-Ashbury.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
A Deaf man in a Southern town becomes confidant to everyone but himself.
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The Shop on Main Street
A carpenter is made 'Aryan controller' of an elderly Deaf Jewish widow's shop in wartime Slovakia.
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The Miracle Worker
Anne Sullivan breaks through to the DeafBlind Helen Keller.
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Happiness of Us Alone
A Deaf couple build a life together across the hardship of postwar Japan.
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Helen Keller in Her Story
A portrait of the DeafBlind author and activist in her own later years.
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Mandy
Parents disagree over whether to send their Deaf daughter to a specialist school.
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Johnny Belinda
A doctor teaches sign language to a Deaf woman in a hostile fishing village.
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Misjudged People
An early German documentary made to counter prejudice against Deaf people.
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The Voiceless Message
One of the earliest surviving films to feature sign language and a Deaf performer.
ASL Deaf actors in the cast