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poster
86
7.7
/106487/
77
/2351/
75
/1381/
3.6
/104047/
94
/89/
90
/6409/
95
/15/
cc age 6+

My Fair Lady (1964)
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
poster
Kanopy
82
7.3
/28975/
72
/575/
68
/377/
3.9
/33018/
100
/42/
87
/674/
83
/17/
cc age 12+

Local Hero (1983)
An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.
poster
Kanopy
81
7.9
/842712/
78
/64589/
76
/18773/
4.1
/2179619/
94
/441/
83
/6112/
81
/52/
cc age 11+

Arrival (2016)
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 a threat.
poster
Hoopla
78
7.5
/56501/
75
/1845/
73
/1011/
3.6
/39955/
92
/51/
85
/1430/
80
/15/
cc age 6+

Forbidden Planet (1956)
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years. They find themselves unwelcome by the expedition's lone survivor and warned of destruction by an invisible force if they don't turn back immediately.
poster
74
7.8
/498028/
77
/13815/
75
/7271/
3.8
/274948/
65
/216/
83
/21055/
55
/43/
cc age 14+

The Last Samurai (2003)
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
poster
73
7.1
/248296/
70
/4645/
68
/3626/
3.4
/386305/
67
/207/
81
/13281/
65
/42/
cc age 18+

Closer (2004)
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
poster
73
6.3
/262458/
67
/17254/
76
/10391/
2.8
/567437/
75
/393/
91
/3874/
59
/57/
cc age 11+

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
In a time when monsters walk the Earth, humanity’s fight for its future sets Godzilla and Kong on a collision course that will see the two most powerful forces of nature on the planet collide in a spectacular battle for the ages.
poster
Kanopy
81
72
8.1
/5089/
82
/113/
75
/92/
3.9
/2644/
78
/9/
94
/177/

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
poster
Netflix
71
7.3
/59514/
74
/3379/
72
/1057/
3.6
/43590/
82
/167/
89
/68/
63
/28/
cc age 15+

Official Secrets (2019)
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
poster
Disney Plus
66
6.9
/145126/
73
/8527/
70
/5003/
3.8
/341428/
48
/144/
55
/5176/
52
/29/
cc age 8+

Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
poster
Kanopy
78
66
7.2
/2872/
69
/80/
68
/37/
3.9
/4809/
100
/12/
85
/111/

Sherman's March (1985)
Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by women who come and go in his life, his recurring dreams of nuclear holocaust, and Burt Reynolds.
poster
71
65
7.0
/9763/
71
/165/
69
/139/
3.5
/5905/
76
/17/
72
/172/

I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
poster
Kanopy
78
65
7.4
/4511/
79
/170/
78
/139/
4.1
/31698/
80
/15/
90
/15/
64
/6/

I Dream in Another Language (2017)
An indigenous language is in peril, as its last two speakers had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge of bringing the old friends back together and convincing them to speak once again so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it.
poster
Kanopy
63
6.0
/2125/
63
/140/
55
/57/
3.1
/2683/
82
/49/
47
/45/
65
/16/
cc age 16+

Do I Sound Gay? (2015)
What makes a voice “gay”? A breakup with his boyfriend sets journalist David Thorpe on a quest to unravel a linguistic mystery.
poster
62
7.0
/100460/
71
/3205/
67
/1522/
3.3
/47960/
43
/56/
72
/1938/
52
/28/
cc age 15+

Fallen (1998)
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
poster
MGM Plus
59
7.0
/216305/
76
/9647/
70
/3635/
3.2
/85254/
53
/49/
73
/6246/
42
/17/
cc age 13+

Stargate (1994)
An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
poster
Hoopla
54
6.4
/86990/
68
/4604/
62
/1519/
2.7
/37507/
37
/171/
49
/3046/
51
/29/
cc age 12+

Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.
poster
65
53
6.6
/4272/
69
/87/
64
/72/
3.4
/1188/
57
/14/
71
/50/

Too Late the Hero (1970)
A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
poster
71
51
7.3
/1906/
63
/29/
65
/36/
3.7
/2558/
79
/51/

Camouflage (1977)
A moral conflict between a young assistant and an associate professor arises during a university linguistics camp.
poster
The Roku Channel
50
5.8
/16780/
66
/631/
59
/365/
2.7
/7785/
15
/20/
49
/335/

The Seventh Sign (1988)
Abby is a pregnant woman with a curious new boarder in the apartment over her garage. Turns out he's heaven-sent and is speeding along the Apocalypse by bloodying rivers, egging on plagues and following scripture word for word.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
40
6.0
/3168/
57
/50/
54
/26/
3.0
/935/
63
/16/
50
/64/

Princess Caraboo (1994)
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?
poster
Hoopla
62
39
6.3
/1329/
59
/41/
64
/53/
3.2
/3419/

The Spider Labyrinth (1988)
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
poster
64
38
6.7
/3921/
62
/43/
63
/32/
3.2
/390/
67
/30/

The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
Disappointed with humanity, God wants to revoke his contract with humanity and wants to take back the stone tablets containing the ten commandments. To this end an angel is sent out to affect the personal lives of three humans so an appropriate child may be conceived.
poster
Kanopy
59
37
6.1
/1244/
60
/22/
60
/26/
3.5
/3768/
46
/373/

Le Gai Savoir (1969)
Night after night, not long before dawn, two young adults, Patricia and Emile, meet on a sound stage to discuss learning, discourse, and the path to revolution. Scenes of Paris's student revolt, the Vietnam War, and other events of the late 1960s, along with posters, photographs, and cartoons, are backdrops to their words. Words themselves are often Patricia and Emile's subject, as are images, sounds, and juxtapositions.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
36
31
4.0
/4808/
44
/133/
40
/115/
2.3
/5333/
13
/1054/

Inseminoid (1981)
A crew of interplanetary archaeologists is threatened when an alien creature impregnates one of their members, causing her to turn homicidal and murder them one by one.
poster
The Roku Channel
71
28
6.9
/273/
52
/7/
65
/3/
100
/82/

God's Outlaw (1986)
A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.
poster
72
26
7.1
/1374/
68
/49/
70
/50/
3.4
/369/
83
/3/

Jungle Child (2011)
A family of a German linguist lives with an indigenous tribe in Papua New Guinea.
poster
Kanopy
72
16
7.2
/268/
73
/12/
70
/8/
3.3
/375/
79
/17/

The Linguists (2008)
The Linguists is a hilarious and poignant chronicle of two scientists—David Harrison and Gregory Anderson—racing to document languages on the verge of extinction. In Siberia, India, and Bolivia, the linguists confront head-on the very forces silencing languages: racism, humiliation, and violent economic unrest. David and Greg's journey takes them deep into the heart of the cultures, knowledge, and communities at risk when a language dies.
poster
67
15
7.2
/716/
71
/5/
56
/22/
3.6
/238/

The Lover (2002)
This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn’t really know her.
poster
65
15
6.9
/272/
50
/4/
70
/12/
3.6
/712/

On Top of the Whale (1982)
A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. That language apparently consists of a single word, which therefore means everything.
poster
57
12
6.7
/667/
65
/14/
54
/8/
3.2
/229/
40
/19/

Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941)
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
poster
63
9
5.8
/432/
70
/2/
62
/11/
3.1
/219/

Sons of Liberty (1939)
Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution.
poster
?
6.9
/37/
60
/7/
20
/1/

Who Is That Man? (1985)
The story is set in 1939. A military officer is stripped of his rank for his apparent collaboration with a counter-espionage agent while on a mission in Paris. Then he is enlisted in his own country's counterespionage unit, due to his knowledge of languages. He is assigned to Gdansk where he is trying to uncover mysterious "Wotan" in the German Secret Service. He eventually tracks down and kills the agent, but by doing so wipes out the possibility to clearing himself of the charges. Just as the death sentence is to be carried out on him the war breaks out and he escapes out of the bombed prison to join partisans.
poster
?
7.6
/27/

Target Risk (1975)
A professional courier's girlfriend is abducted, and the kidnappers threaten to kill her unless the courier helps them fake a diamond robbery.
poster
62
?
6.5
/300/
54
/7/
67
/11/

Simple mortel (1990)
A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. The messages ask him for very bizarre missions. Eventually, he understands that he's just a pawn in an intergalactic game, and that the fate of Earth depends on him.
poster
Kanopy
?
8.2
/41/
53
/3/
60
/1/

The Language You Cry In (1998)
THE LANGUAGE YOU CRY IN tells an amazing scholarly detective story that searches for -and finds- meaningful links between African Americans and their ancestral past. It bridges hundreds of years and thousands of miles from the Gullah people of present-day Georgia back to 18th century Sierra Leone.
poster
Kanopy
?
7.3
/101/
100
/1/
75
/5/

Eastern Memories (2018)
At the turn of the 19th and 20th century Finnish philologist G. J. Ramstedt travelled around Mongolia and Central-Asia. In this documentary Ramstedt’s memoirs are heard in the modern day setting, where tradition is replaced with hunger for money, and deserts give way to cities.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
61
?
5.7
/302/
52
/9/
75
/33/

Regresa (2010)
Mary is married to Ernest, a successful businessman who devotes all his time managing the business he inherited from his family. Therefore, he spends little time with Mary, to the extent that she suspects he has a mistress. Isabel is married to Adolfo, Doctor of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM graduated, best friend of Ernesto. Patricia is passionate about esotericism; she believes in past life regressions. Isabel and Patricia are concerned about the marital status of Mary and to distract her, convince her to do a regression through hypnosis, the problem is when the hypnotist can not make her come back and they find Mary speaking a strange language, claiming to be a Basque princess of the XIV century.
poster
45
?
4.8
/323/
43
/8/
47
/9/

The Statue (1971)
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image. Can art and love reconcile?
poster
?
5.2
/16/

She (1908)
A mysterious metal box is bequeathed to Leo, a young Englishman, to be opened on his twenty-fifth birthday. It is opened in the presence of his guardian, and his servant. They find an Egyptian tablet 2,000 years old.


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