Topic: Blindness

Direction Arthur Penn

Cast Anne Bancroft · Patty Duke · Andrew Prine · Inga Swenson

Synopsis The Miracle Worker (1962) tells the inspiring true story of Helen Keller, a deaf-blind girl trapped in a world of silence and darkness. Her desperate parents hire Annie Sullivan, a determined and innovative teacher, to help Helen communicate. Through relentless...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Fini Straubinger

Synopsis Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since adolescence, and her work on behalf of other deaf and blind people, this film shows how the deaf and blind struggle to understand and accept a...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Björk · Catherine Deneuve · David Morse · Peter Stormare

Synopsis Dancer in the Dark (2000) follows Selma, a Czech immigrant and single mother working in a small American town. Struggling with a degenerative eye condition, she finds solace in her love for musicals and her vivid imagination. Selma saves every...

Direction Majid Majidi

Cast Hossein Mahjoub · Salime Feizi · Mohsen Ramezani · Farahnaz Safari

Direction Martin Brest

Cast Al Pacino · Chris O'Donnell · Gabrielle Anwar · James Rebhorn

Synopsis Scent of a Woman (1992) follows Charlie Simms, a reserved prep school student who takes a weekend job assisting Frank Slade, a blind, retired Army colonel. Frank is sharp-tongued, cynical, and determined to indulge in life's pleasures before ending his...

Direction Cristiano Bortone

Cast Paolo Sassanelli · Luca Capriotti · Marco Cocci · Simone Colombari

Synopsis The film is inspired by the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most gifted Italian sound editors working today, who happens to be blind. A small village in Tuscany, 1971. Mirco is a bright, lively 10-year-old, crazy about...

Direction Terence Young

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Alan Arkin · Richard Crenna · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Synopsis In Wait Until Dark (1967), a blind woman named Susy becomes the target of three criminals searching for a heroin-stuffed doll hidden in her apartment. Unaware of its presence, Susy relies on her sharp wits and heightened senses to outmaneuver...

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast Gary Cooper · Maria Schell · Karl Malden · Ben Piazza

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a mysterious frontier doctor, Joe Frail, in THE HANGING TREE. When a blind and ailing Swiss girl, Elizabeth Mahler, is placed under his care, Frail treats her, and then falls for her. However, it's not long...

Direction Guy Green

Cast Elizabeth Hartman · Sidney Poitier · Shelley Winters · Wallace Ford

Synopsis A young blind woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of her life, meets a black man, who, resisting family pressures, falls in love with her, puts her into a school for the blind, and promises to...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Takuya Kimura · Rei Dan · Takashi Sasano · Nenji Kobayashi

Synopsis Shinnojo, a low level samurai, lives with his pretty, dutiful and loyal wife Kayo. He has come to find his position in a castle as a food-taster for a feudal lord to be boring and pointless, and talks about opening...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

Cast Takeshi Kitano · Tadanobu Asano · Michiyo Oguso · Yui Natsukawa

Synopsis The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi (2003) follows a wandering blind masseur and master swordsman, Zatoichi, who arrives in a town oppressed by ruthless gangs. Disguising his lethal skills behind a humble demeanor, he befriends a kind innkeeper and two geisha sisters...

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Agostina Belli · Alessandro Momo · Moira Orfei

Synopsis An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every situation, nicknames the youth Cuccio ("Babyfat"), and spends the next...

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Mark Cousins

Synopsis 'The Story of Looking' sees Mark Cousins prepare for surgery to restore his vision. Cousins explores the role that visual experience plays in our individual and collective lives. In a deeply personal meditation on the power of looking in his...

Direction Song Il-gon

Cast So Ji-Sub · Han Hyo-joo · Kang Shin-il · Park Chul-min

Synopsis A love story centered on ex-boxer Chul-min and a blind telemarketer Jung-hwa.

Direction Tom Tykwer

Cast Melchior Beslon · Natalie Portman

Synopsis The phone rings, startling Tomas, who is seated in front of the computer. He feels for the telephone receiver. Tomas is blind. His girlfriend, Francine, tells him that it's all over and she's leaving him. The phone drops back onto...

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Jamie Foxx · Kerry Washington · Regina King · Clifton Powell

Synopsis The Life Story of Ray Charles. Soul singer Ray Charles' life transpires on-screen, from his humble beginnings in Georgia, where he went blind at the age of seven, to his pre-fame life touring the South, and on to his career...

Direction Daniel Ribeiro

Cast Ghilherme Lobo · Fabio Audi · Tess Amorim · Selma Egrei

Synopsis Leonardo is a blind teenager searching for independence. His everyday life, the relationship with his best friend, Giovana, and the way he sees the world change completely with the arrival of Gabriel.

Direction Daniel Ribeiro

Cast Ghilherme Lobo · Tess Amorim · Fabio Audi · Júlio Machado

Synopsis The arrival of a new student in school changes Leonardo's life. This 15 year-old blind teenager has to deal with the jealousy of his friend Giovana while figuring out the new feelings he's having towards his new friend, Gabriel.

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Michèle Morgan · Line Noro · Rosine Luguet

Synopsis A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but the man already is married.

Direction Johan van der Keuken