Language Movies

Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are...

After an unprecedented global pandemic has turned the majority of humankind into violent infected beings, Morgan, a man gifted with the ability to...

With the 70s behind him, San Diego's top rated newsman, Ron Burgundy, returns to take New York's first 24-hour news channel by storm.

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...

The story of the New York accent, as told by New Yorkers.

Despite an unrivaled talent for communicating, Jake has trouble talking to women. When an impossible situation presents itself, Jake ignores the...

They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese ... For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed talks,...

Yu Ming is bored of his life in China and decides to go to Ireland. He studies the language, but is dismayed to find that no one understands him when...

Steven, a pupil in a special-needs class, learns that his school has won a trip to Alcabideche, Portugal. He is overjoyed to get the chance to...

The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled...

A surreal trip into the world of an extremely long german word.

A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in...

This tape is the first of Hill’s works for which he deliberately wrote a screenplay. The title defines the piece’s starting point: Alice...

Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their...

The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...

This short satirical film takes us to Stereoville, a city where citizens must literally double up in their efforts to deal with the community’s...

In the middle of a French exam, 17 year old Charlie struggles to find the words to be true to himself…and his best friend.

A Japanese man and a gay bar-owner in Hong Kong drink beer as they talk about their childhood and experiences.

What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i"...