Topic: Blindness

Direction Arthur Penn

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

Plot Young Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and mute since infancy, is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation,...

Direction Werner Herzog

Cast Fini Straubinger

Plot 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...

Direction Lars von Trier

Cast Björk · Catherine Deneuve · David Morse · Peter Stormare

Plot The story concerns Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant living in 1964 Washington State with her 12-year-old son, Gene (Vladan Kostic). On the verge of blindness, Selma spends her days working...

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

Plot Hoping to earn extra money over the Thanksgiving weekend, Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a scholarship student at an exclusive prep school, agrees to look after blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank...

Direction Cristiano Bortone

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

Plot 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...

Direction Terence Young

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

Plot After an airplane trip, a young woman asks Susie's husband, Sam, to keep a doll for her to avoid spoiling the surprise of her daughter's gift. But the real reason...

Direction Delmer Daves

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

Plot 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...

Direction Guy Green

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yôji Yamada

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

Plot 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...

Direction Takeshi Kitano

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

Plot Blind Zatoichi makes his living by gambling and giving massages. But behind his humble facade, Zatoichi is a master swordsman, gifted with lightning–fast draw and strokes of breathtaking precision. Zatoichi...

Direction Dino Risi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Mark Cousins

Plot '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...

Direction Song Il-gon

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

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

Direction Tom Tykwer

Cast Melchior Beslon · Natalie Portman

Plot 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...

Direction Taylor Hackford

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

Plot 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...

Direction Daniel Ribeiro

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

Plot 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...

Direction Daniel Ribeiro

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

Plot 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...

Direction Jean Delannoy

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

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

Direction Johan van der Keuken