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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

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

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

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...

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

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

How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach? This...