Movies: Language barrier
- 2014
Samba (2014)
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Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do what...
- 2011
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
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After living 45 years in Germany, the Turkish Hüseyin Yilmaz, seventy, announces to his family that he has bought a house in Turkey and they should return to make the necessary reforms. The idea is unwelcome and causes very heated discussions. In ad...
- 2013
Aningaaq (2013)
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Aningaaq, an Inuit fisherman camping on the ice over a frozen fjord, talks through a two way radio with a dying astronaut who is stranded in space, 500 kilometers above Earth. Even though he doesn't speak English and she doesn't speak Greenlandic, th...
- 2014
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter (2014)
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Frustrated with her mundane life, a Tokyo office worker becomes obsessed with a fictional movie that she mistakes for a documentary. Fixating on a scene where stolen cash is buried in North Dakota, she travels to America to find it....
- 2016
Morris from America (2016)
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A heartwarming and crowd-pleasing coming-of-age comedy with a unique spin, Morris from America centers on Morris Gentry, a 13-year-old who has just relocated with his single father, Curtis to Heidelberg, Germany. Morris, who fancies himself the next ...
- 2023
The Sketch (2023)
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Upon his arrival in Paris, filmmaker Tomas Cali immerses himself in learning French, as well as the language of sketching. In an art studio, he meets transgender life model Linda Demorrir, who helps him to connect with himself and his new city in a p...
- 2003
C.I.D. Moosa (2003)
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Moosa, a private detective, faces many challenges while solving various cases. His only rival is his own brother-in-law, Peethambaran, who is a police officer....
- 2006
Transit (2006)
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A group of American pilots from Alaska ferry Airacobra fighter planes across the ocean on Lend-lease. The orderly course of life is disrupted when it becomes clear that the American pilots are attractive and charming young women. The feelings of the ...
- 2017
The Silent Child (2017)
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A deaf 4-year-old girl named Libby lives in a world of silence until a caring social worker teaches her to use sign language to communicate....
- 1994
Thenmavin Kombath (1994)
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Sreekrishnan unknowingly falls in love with the woman his best friend, Manikyan, loves. Though Sreekrishnan tries his best to woo her, she resists, leading to a battle that ensues between the friends....
- 2011
The Universal Language (2011)
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The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the history of Esperanto, an artificial language that was created in the late 1800s by a Polish eye doct...
- 2018
Sudani from Nigeria (2018)
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When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences....
- 2011
The Perfect Stranger (2011)
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The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the stranger's life, believing that he's going to reopen an old shop. In ...
- 2010
Hi-So (2010)
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Ananda has returned home from abroad. Unsure of his career plans, he accepts an invitation to act in a new movie for a famous director. During the filming in a small seaside town, Zoe, his American girlfriend from University, arrives for a week-long ...
- 1994
I Can't Sleep (1994)
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Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously beautiful drag performer....
- 2006
Sugartown: The Bridegrooms (2006)
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In the Greek village of Sugar Town, men have a serious problem. Women are fleeing the area in search of work or marriage in the big cities, leaving them behind - and lonely. Fully aware of the men’s dire situation, the astute mayor of Sugar Town prom...
- 2004
Kaazhcha (2004)
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Pavan is a boy who reached Kerala after he lost everything in the Gujarat earthquake on the Republic Day. Operator Madhavan happens to meet the boy among the beggars. Initially he dislikes the boy but soon he becomes a part of Madhavan's family. But ...
- 2018
Chuchotage (2018)
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During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener....
- 1990
What's Up Connection (1990)
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When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickp...
- 2017
Wave (2017)
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A man wakes from a coma speaking a fully formed but unrecognizable language baffling linguistic experts from around the globe....