Feature Films With No Speech
This is a list of feature films that contain no speech - that means not a single spoken word in the entire film; not even narration or singing. Silent films only count if they have no intertitles.
This list does not include short films. If a film on here is listed as a short film, then a feature-length version is also available.
This list does not include short films. If a film on here is listed as a short film, then a feature-length version is also available.
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- DirectorChristiane CegavskeA handmade stop-motion fairy tale for adults that tells the tale of the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak over the doll of their heart's desire.
- DirectorThierry ZénoStarsDominique GarnyAn allegoric male character falls in love with his pig.
- DirectorClaude FaraldoStarsMichel PiccoliBéatrice RomandMarilù ToloMade without proper language, just gibberish and grunts, this is an absurdist comedy about a man who rejects every facet of normal bourgeois life and turns his apartment into a virtual cave.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsÉtienne GuichardRégis BouquetFrancesco De RosaDance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.
- DirectorE. Elias MerhigeStarsBrian SalzbergDonna DempseyStephen Charles BarryPresented in a surreal, gory and entirely visual manner, Begotten tells of the death of religion, the abuse of nature by Man and a nihilistic outlook on what life ultimately is.
- DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsMasuo InoueAyako IijimaYoshie NakagawaA man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
- DirectorJean-Jacques AnnaudStarsEverett McGillRon PerlmanNicholas KadiThis story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.
- DirectorRussell RouseStarsRay MillandMartin GabelHarry BronsonA chance accident causes a nuclear physicist, who's selling top secret material to the Russians, to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsEdward AsnerPat BenatarJerry BrownA collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsChristie BrinkleyDavid BrinkleyPatrick DisantoAn exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.
- DirectorGodfrey ReggioStarsBelladonnaMarlon BrandoElton JohnA visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.
- DirectorStan BrakhageThis film is a 'deconstruction' of 'Dog Star Man'. It takes the four 'rolls' of super-fast edited, often poetic, imagery of 'Dog Star Man' and shows them first combined, then each combination of three rolls(=4) then each combination of two rolls (=6) then each individual roll (=4). The 'plot' is of a man who goes up a mountain with a dog to chop down a tree, but he has some unspecified transcendental experience while he is there.
- DirectorHarry SmithA sequence of surreal cutout animation imagery, largely without a discernible narrative.
- DirectorPeter I. ChangA rich and evocative tableau of urban communion and loneliness in the Japanese capital.
- DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta SvilovaA man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- DirectorMark SavageStarsSusanne HausschmidBethany FisherColin SavageA woman seeks revenge after being brutally attacked by dishonest land developers.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannStarsPaul von HindenburgThis movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
- DirectorJan SvankmajerStarsPetr MeisselGabriela WilhelmováBarbora HrzánováSix people unknowingly form a cycle of masturbation as they each cause others to privately indulge in their fetishes.
- DirectorClaude NuridsanyMarie PérennouStarsKristin Scott ThomasJacques PerrinA documentary on insect life in meadows and ponds.
- DirectorRon FrickeStarsPatrick DisantoA collection of expertly photographed scenes of human life and religion.
- DirectorEligio HerreroStarsCarole KirkhamGeir IndvardJosé YepesAfter several nuclear explosions, two men and one woman wake up in the middle of a desert and begin a journey of survival and self discovery.
- DirectorJanez BurgerStarsLeon LucevRené BazinetPauliina RäsänenDescribed as a Slovenian war drama.
- DirectorKen JacobsGhosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead. Preservation of their memory ceases at the edges of the frame.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsFreek de JongeJim van der WoudeCatrien WolthuizenA teenage boy (the Illusionist), dreams of becoming a magician. After his mentally challenged brother is taken to a mental institution due to an attempted strangling, the Illusionist starts a journey to rescue him from being lobotomized.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsAlex DescasYekaterina GolubevaPiotr KishteevSilent Lithuanian film about a woman visiting a Fayre.
- DirectorKarin HoerlerA German girl eats yogurt, looks through a phone book, and tries to sleep on a couch to no avail.
- DirectorAlain CavalierStarsAnge AndréaniAlexandra ArnouldClaude-Maurice BailleExploring a dystopian future which has parallels to those found in Brazil, Fahrenheit 451, and 1984, this film, tells of a place where a military junta has taken control and requires people to think, speak, and act in precise ways: anyone who fails to do so is killed. The story is told entirely without the use of spoken dialogue. Symbolic imagery replaces much of what would have been spoken in a narrative, establishing the situation and setting. In the story, two brothers are part of an underground organization opposed to the totalitarian regime. Members of the underground identify themselves using pieces of torn photographs. Reviewers found that the story is told intelligibly and quite swiftly, despite the absence of dialog, but is not quite lively enough to satisfy action buffs.
- DirectorSimon PummellSimon Pummell's epic movie tells the story of a human life, using found footage from the last 100 years of cinema, cut to a powerful score by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.
- DirectorBill MorrisonStarsTsuru AokiJulia CalhounMargaret CullingtonA meditation on the human quest to transcend physicality, constructed from decaying archival footage and set to an original symphonic score.
- DirectorIon Popescu-GopoStarsIurie DarieLiliana TomescuHaralambie BorosA dialogue free Romanian science-fiction spy-comedy that draws upon farce, satire and surrealism as it subversively deconstructs the spy thriller with the protagonist's accidental discovery of a nuclear suitcase bomb and the subsequent fight over ownership between the rival powers of the criminals and the military.
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsPierre JolivetJean BouiseJean RenoIn a post-apocalyptic future where no one is able to speak, the few remaining humans fight over resources in order to survive.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsEric AlfieriMathilde AltarazMuriel BoulayA Ruizian adaptation of Jean-Claude Gallotta's iconic wordless ballet choreography.
- DirectorBill PlymptonMuch to his surprise, an utter misanthrope is transformed into a reluctant do-gooder, when a glorious pair of angelic snow-white wings sprouts up from his back. Now, everyone in town wants a piece of his feathered appendages.
- DirectorSharon LockhartThe camera is entirely untethered, slowly moving in a single tracking shot through a long corridor where workers are enjoying their lunch hour at the Bath Iron Works, a massive shipyard in Maine.
- DirectorThomas BangalterGuy-Manuel De Homem-ChristoStarsPeter HurteauMichael ReichHelena StoddardThe journey of two robots on their quest to become human.
- DirectorAbbas KiarostamiFive sequences : 1) A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones stop by, look at the sea, then go away 3) Blurry shapes on a winter beach. A herd of dogs. A love story 4) A group of loud ducks cross the image, in one direction then the other 5) A pond, at night. Frogs improvising a concert. A storm, then the sunrise.
- DirectorZihan LooKan LumeStarsZihan LooGuat Kian GohYu-Beng LimInspired by true events, Solos explores relationships among three individuals who are struggling to open up their feelings towards each other.
- DirectorChantal AkermanHotel Monterey is a cheap hotel in New York reserved for the outcasts of American society. Chantal Akerman invites viewers to visit this unusual place as well as the people who live there, from the reception up to the last story.
- DirectorDiego RísquezStarsKosinegueRolando PeñaHugo MárquezInitially, it's the recreation of what the American territory would have been like before the arrival of the Spaniards: we see the indigenous people who dedicate themselves to art, fishing, children who play and the community that celebrates its rituals, dances and beliefs. With the arrival of Christopher Columbus everything changes.
- DirectorSharon LockhartWatching & observing. A meditation.
- DirectorMort HeiligStarsChristopher MitchumMarta KristenJim MalindaCreation washes up on a beach alone. Soon Destruction appears. Creation makes life, and Destruction simply destroys, yet they live in a certain balance. But when Creation creates Humanity for companionship a bitter struggle ensues.
- DirectorJames BidgoodStarsDon BrooksBobby KendallCharles LudlamAn erotic poem set in the fantasies of a young male prostitute.
- DirectorVladimir MaslovEvgeniy YufitStarsTatyana VerkhovskayaVladimir MaslovIgor BezrukovA documentary filmmaker, is obsessed with documenting the marginal manifestations of life around him. As he moves closer to them with the lens of his film camera, himself, against his will, becomes a direct participant and victim of them.
- DirectorPeter SellarsStarsMikhail BaryshnikovJoan CusackPeter GallagherFeaturing music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat who mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
- DirectorNeil St. ClairStarsInger EbeltoftMatt ScarboroughStacey AtkinsonThe story of the first woman on earth, as she journeys through mythical landscapes in search of her soul-mate.
- DirectorLech MajewskiStarsJoanna LitwinGrzegorz PrzybylPatryk CzajkaThis dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesque.
- DirectorCristiano BurlanStarsEd CanedoJanaína SpoladoreThe routine for a couple on the last night of their relationship.
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsJohn GiornoA man sleeps for five hours.
- DirectorJohn PalmerAndy WarholStarsJonas MekasAndy WarholA single shot of the Empire State Building from early evening until nearly 3 am the next day.
- DirectorStan BrakhageIn his description for A CHILD'S GARDEN, Brakhage quotes from poets Ronald Johnson and Charles Olson.
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsStan BrakhageJane Wodening
- DirectorStan BrakhageStarsRichard D. LammAccording to Brakhage: "On July 4, 1976 I and my camera toured the state of Colorado with governor Richard D. Lamm, as he traveled in parades with his children, appeared at dinners, lectured, etc. On July 20, I spent the morning in his office in the state capitol and the afternoon with himself and his wife in a television studio, then with Mrs. Lamm greeting guests to the governor's mansion and finally with Governor Lamm in his office again. These two days of photography took me exactly one year to edit into a film which wove itself thru multiple superimpositions into a study of light and power."
- DirectorStan BrakhageTime-lapse photography of books, paintings, reflections, and light falling on textures, shot entirely through a glass ashtray.
- DirectorYasuaki NakajimaStarsJacqueline BowmanVelina GeorgiZorikh LequidreAFTER THE APOCALYPSE is a futuristic drama about five survivors trying to make sense of a New World after a devastating urban catastrophe challenges their basic human needs. Set in a bleak, post-urban landscape in the aftermath of the Third World War, the film presents a strangely limited environment where a single woman and four men are forced to communicate without words as a result of destructive gasses from the war. When their pasts are erased by the war, they are forced to recreate their lives both individually and collectively.
- DirectorTomás VorelStarsEva HolubováBolek PolívkaAnna MarhoulováA tragicomedy full of slapstick and vignettes, and even an unexpected shootout. A family of villagers moves up in the world - to the county seat. Dad works as a butcher at a meatpacking plant, mom is a checker at a supermarket. The daughter is at odds with her homeroom teacher, while the son - a vegetarian, anarchist, and avid pothead - is apprenticing as a butcher to please his father. The kid's in hot water with both his forewoman and the police. But dad isn't much of an example, letting himself be tempted by the charms of a lovely young butcher. However much mom tries - visiting the beauty parlor, her psychologist, or even the confessional - her husband shows his interest by moving out. Mom plots revenge. And somehow an imp gets mixed up in it all...
- DirectorRenato FalcãoStarsHique GomezCarmem SilvaJefferson SilveiraA black and white, surreal and silent comedy. Pedro has a dream of giving his wife an unforgettable birthday feast.
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsJean SebergNicoTina AumontBiographical film about Jean Seberg, loosely based on Nietzsche's The Antichrist.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsEmil JanningsMaly DelschaftMax HillerAn aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
- DirectorJirí SvobodaStarsJirí MenzelJana BrezkováRadoslav BrzobohatýStepán Pavlík (Jirí Menzel), a design engineer of connection technology, longs to become a astronaut. He sends his application to Moscow and waits for the answer. He meets the team from the observatory in Ondrejov, where he also encounters a mysterious girl Mab (Lenka Skopalová), who sometimes shows up close to the observatory. Finally, the answer comes from the Academy of Science in Moscow. On the basis of the Academy's decision Stepán is taken on at the observatory, where he replaces engineer Málek (Jirí Kodet) who has resigned.
- DirectorRob Van EyckStarsJacques VerbistFranka RavetDora RaskinThe year 2011. The world is torn apart by war, violence and other misery. The Nuke has been dropped and the world is a desolate place where chaos and anarchy rules. A grown man with the mind of a child lived all those years locked securely in a bunker and when an automatic time slot suddenly opens he is coming into a world where he knows nothing about. "The Afterman" is soon confronted with violent and perverse survivors. He is, together with an anxious wife, locked up at a local slave driver. However, they can both escape, and slowly but surely, something beautiful blossoms between the two. But is there room for love and happiness (read: sex) in this savage new world? This film is a cult-movie with no dialogue.
- DirectorJan BalejStarsJirí LábusA feature-length narrative animated film from one of the directors of Fimfárum 2. Mysterious and extraordinary stories of loneliness. What all can happen during one night in one city? Do you know what happens when a person sews on somebody else's ear? Can you meet a genie in Zizkov who will make any wish imaginable come true? Do you think there are places where time stands still? Do you know what can disrupt an insect circus performance, what a local hunter's goal is, and what excites his neighbor? Can a carp and a tree become friends?
- DirectorDaisuke NishioHirotoshi RissenLeiji MatsumotoStarsRomanthonyThomas BangalterA continuation of the story told in the Daft Punk music videos "One More Time," "Aerodynamic," "Digital Love," and "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger."
- DirectorLarry JordanA five-year project of hand-painted cut-out animation, this story goes from a paradisaical garden to the interior of the Mosque of St. Sophia, and centers around Sophia, an early Greek and Gnostic embodiment of spiritual wisdom.
- DirectorWakefield PooleStarsRonnie SharkCassandra HartLydia Black
- DirectorNigel TommThe Prince of Denmark sees a ghost.
- DirectorRon FrickeStarsBalinese Tari Legong DancersNi Made Megahadi PratiwiPuti Sri Candra DewiFilmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
- DirectorLuc BessonAtmospheric soundtrack follows this compilation of nature footage that focuses on the ocean and various life forms that live, mate and die in it.
- DirectorGogol LobmayrFascinating Nature is a nonverbal landscape documentary film of images from around the world.
- DirectorDavid HannanExplore the vibrant colors and alien-like creatures of the coral reef.
- DirectorJames BenningLos Angeles is depicted in 35 stationary shots, each 2 1/2 minutes long, in this non-narrative film.
- DirectorPatrice LeconteDirector Patrice Leconte weaves an impressionistic, sensorial tapestry of existence in and around early 21st-century Cambodia. Journeying through the country's farmlands, factories, streets and rural villages, camera-in-hand, Leconte glimpses the people and the elements of the landscape that make Cambodia so culturally specific, and gently contrasts modes of life found there.
- DirectorJames BenningAn experimental film portraying different skies in very long takes.
- DirectorJames BenningShots of 13 great lakes in the USA, with each shot containing half water and half sky or land.
- DirectorHarold MonfilsA musical, visual journey. Recorded and filmed on location, it resurrects ancient and forgotten folk music from Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Maldives, India and Myanmar. The experience is brought to life for a contemporary audience through a minimalist orchestration of modern electronic waves and flows, thereby preserving the integrity of the music. The musicians come primarily from the coastal communities, towns and villages practically wiped of the world map by the Tsunami of December 26, 2004. It's beauty lies in it's purity and simplicity, a non-judgmental point of view. For the international team who came together, Laya Project is a personal and collective tribute to the resilience of the human spirit.
- DirectorMartin H. SchmittIn this nonverbal documentary film the industrial footage as well as the musical style of sitar master Al Gromer Khan create the film's base for an immersion into the highway spheres.
- DirectorJames BenningJames Benning's worrying and also reassuring vision of the Ruhr Valley, shot in 7 fascinating takes of a tunnel, a factory, a forest near an airport, inside a mosque, a graffiti wall, a street and an industrial chimney.
- DirectorPavol BarabasUp there, above the clouds, one can feel a mysterious alliance with the universe.
- DirectorMartin H. SchmittThe non-verbal documentary Robot World depicts the evolution of robots from a mechanical somnambulist to an autonomous sensorium.
- DirectorVictor KossakovskyWhat would be the shortest route between Entre Rios in Argentina and the Chinese metropolis Shanghai? Simply a straight line through the center of the earth, since the two places are antipodes: they are located diametrically opposite to each other on the earth's surface. During his visits to four such antipodal pairs, the award-winning documentary filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky captured images that turn our view of the world upside down. A beautiful, peaceful sunset in Entre Rios is contrasted with the bustling streets in rainy Shanghai. People who live in a wasteland are connected to people dwelling next to a volcano. Landscapes whose splendor touches the soul are juxtaposed with the clamor of a vast city. These antipodes seem mythically connected, somehow united by their oppositeness. Kossakovsky's movie is a feast for the senses, a fascinating kaleidoscope of our planet. VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! - Long Live The Antipodes! What is happening on the point of the earth diametrically opposite to where we are now, what awaits us there? Fascinated by this question, Victor Kossakovsky conducted an experiment, and in the course of his unique project visited four coupled antipodes - in Argentina and China, Spain and New Zealand, Chile and Russia, Botswana and Hawaii. Thanks to a keen sense of the magic of his eight locations, Kossakovsky captures unforgettable images. He follows the menacing glow of a volcano's lava, contemplates the majestic flight of a condor, documents human attempts to rescue a stranded whale. A sunset in Argentina's Entre Rios is juxtaposed with rush hour in Shanghai. Tranquil silence and amber light contrast with noisy industriousness and metallic hues. The movie approaches its subject playfully, and Kossakovsky's deployment of the camera is innovative: the earth's surface bends right in front of our eyes, images upside down.
- DirectorGyörgy PálfiStarsFerenc BandiJózsefné RáczJózsef FarkasUsing almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.
- DirectorPaolo Cherchi Usai
- DirectorPhilippe GarrelStarsLaurent TerzieffBernadette LafontStanislas RobiolleA 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments and emotions to light. The French word révélateur" describes the procedure to develop or "reveal" film negatives.
- DirectorKostas SfikasRobots in a single set representing a factory yard. A critique of the 'implacable process that transforms mankind into negotiable goods and mere accessories of an industrial machine.'
- DirectorEric De KuyperStarsEmile PoppeJack PostPaul RuvenIn a series of long held shots, men are observed performing simple tasks in real time, while on the soundtrack we hear excerpts from opera.
- DirectorGimpoStarsJimi CautyBill DrummondFormer members of the techno music group The KLF Bill Drummond and Jimi Cauty after forming a new "art collective" named the K Foundation burn 1 million UK pounds of their own money in a shack on the Isle of Jura while being taped by their roadie, Gimpo.
- DirectorJames Benning47 roads across the United States.
- DirectorFranco PiavoliStarsPatrizio GirardiEmanuela CobelliLaura CarnevaliSemi-documentary without comment portraying Castellaro Lagusello, a small town in Northern Italy.
- DirectorMorris PanychStarsBrahm TaylorGordon WhiteMicki MaunsellAkaky Akakyevitch (Peter Anderson) is a small, insignificant man who endures ridicule from his co-workers and performs tedious work copying legal papers. When he uses his life savings to buy a custom made overcoat it changes his life, but also leads to tragedy.
- DirectorGene KellyJoseph BarberaWilliam HannaStarsGene KellyIgor YouskevitchClaire SombertThree different stories are told through a notably unusual way - no words, just dance.
- DirectorBill MorrisonA re-imagining of Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein', using images culled from archives around the world.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinStarsStephen DwoskinExploring the texture, the beauty and the singularity of aging faces and silhouettes, Age Is meditates through tiny details, a gesture, a pause, a look, on the subjective experience and cultural concepts of ageing.
- DirectorSingeetam Srinivasa RaoStarsKamal HaasanAmala AkkineniTinnu AnandAn unemployed graduate who coincidentally encounters a rich unconscious man, and takes over his lifestyle by keeping him a prisoner. However, he is in for a twist as a contract killer is after him, assuming him to be the affluent man.
- DirectorSharunas BartasStarsDaiva KsivickieneMantvydas JaneliunasViacheslav AmirhanianThe atmosphere of a corridor between yesterday and tomorrow, where many doors open into the unknown.
- DirectorErmek TursynovStarsGulsharat ZhubyevaTurakhan SadykovaErzhan NurymbetA woman is led by her family to her new husband's home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother. Despite being forced into the marriage, she discovers that he is not such a bad catch after all but domestic bliss does not last long.
- DirectorDenis CôtéAlong the rhythm of the seasons, beasts and humans regard each other. 'Bestiary' unfolds like a picture book about mutual observation. A contemplation of a stable imbalance, and of loose, tranquil and indefinable elements.
- DirectorMikael KristerssonStarsCaisa PerssonFilmed over several years, it is a wonder-filled portrait of a family of kestrels (European falcons) who live in a church tower above a small Swedish town. The amazing cinematography, nominated for a Swedish Oscar.
- 80 minutes of never-before-seen digital video of the Earth shot from the Space Shuttle, provided by NASA, and set to music.
- DirectorGustav DeutschStarsEmperor Franz Josef
- DirectorPeter B. HuttonThis is a soundless story of the building of 'Toledo Spirit', the container ship, its sailing and eventual beaching. Insignificant men crawl on cranes and gantries to build it and other men, sans the equipment, scrape it after beaching.