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...

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.

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...

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

There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this...

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

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

Emile is an unhappy little vampire, doing a job he detests, in a world plunged into perpetual gloom. He serves a despotic mistress who loathes...

Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality....

The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries,...

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...

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

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

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.

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

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

The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the...

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

An incident from the early days of Québec's quiet revolution, tailor-made for the cartoonist. It is the story of a Montréal commuter...

This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree...