College (1927), Baraka (1992), Latcho Drom (1994), Microcosmos (1996), The Navigator (1924), Babies (2010), Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (2013), Silent Movie (1976) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best No Dialogue movies.
Storyline: To impress his sweetheart (Anne Cornwall), a bookworm (Buster Keaton) goes out for baseball and crew.
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, campus, sports, youth, slapstick, american film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Without words, cameras show us the world, with an emphasis not on "where," but on "what's there." It begins with morning, natural landscapes and people at prayer: volcanoes, water falls, veldts, and forests; several hundred Balinese Hindu men perform kecak, the monkey chant. Indigenous peoples apply body paint; whole villages dance. The film moves to destruction of nature via logging, blasting, and strip mining. Images of poverty, rapid urban life, and factories give way to war, concentration camps, and mass graves. Ancient ruins come into view, and then a sacred river where pilgrims bathe and funeral pyres burn. Prayer and nature return. A monk rings a huge bell; stars wheel across the sky.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: no dialogue, documentary, nature, humanity, culture, earth, passage of time ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The film takes the viewer on a journey west, from India to Spain, with stops along the way, to dramatize Romany's nomadic culture. This journey takes place over a year's time, from summer through fall and winter to spring. Gatlif holds his camera on the elemental essentials of this life: water, the wheel, fire, beasts of burden and of sustenance, colorful clothes, jewelry, musical instruments, song, and dance. Throughout, via song and dance, young and old celebrate, embody, and teach the cultural values of family, journey, love, separateness, and persecution.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: cultural heritage, no dialogue, visual poetry, dance, oral history, cross-cultural, musical journey ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography. It includes bees collecting nectar, ladybugs eating mites, snails mating, spiders wrapping their catch, a scarab beetle relentlessly pushing its ball of dung uphill, endless lines of caterpillars, an underwater spider creating an air bubble to live in, and a mosquito hatching.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: nature, documentary, ecology, french film, cinematography, biodiversity, science ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Rollo decides to marry his sweetheart Betsy and sail to Honolulu. When she rejects him he decides to go alone but boards the wrong ship, the "Navigator" owned by Betsy's father. Unaware of this, Betsy boards the ship to look for her father. whom spies capture before cutting the ship loose. It drifts out to sea with the two socialites each unaware of there being anyone else on board.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: silent film, comedy, adventure, black and white, 1920s, nautical, classic film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A look at one year in the life of four babies from around the world, from Mongolia to Namibia to San Francisco to Tokyo.
Plot Keywords: documentary, growth, family, cultural differences, parenting, no dialogue, childhood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a peaceful little clearing, the remains of a picnic hastily abandoned spark warfare between two tribes of ants. A bold young ladybug finds himself caught in the middle of the battle. He befriends one of the black ants, Mandible, and helps him save the anthill from the assault of the terrible red ant warriors, led by the fearful Butor. A fantastic journey at ground level...—FUTURIKON
Plot Keywords: animation, adventure, comedy, family, nature, friendship, bravery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them. The film contains only one word of dialogue, spoken by an unlikely source.
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, humour, satire, hollywood, nostalgia, parody ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will iniciate the run for the best fields and claims.—Volker Boehm
Plot Keywords: silent film, western, comedy, action, adventure, romance, chase scene ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: animation, short film, comedy, music, family, classic, disney ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) was possibly the most important filmmaker of the avant-garde and one of the greatest artists of our time. From 1952, at the age of nineteen, until his death, Brakhage created more than 400 films, ranging in length from several seconds to several hours, constantly and consistently redefining cinematic art. The film BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker's genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travelers and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. While touching on significant moments in Brakhage's biography, the film celebrates Brakhage's visionary genius and explores the extraordinary artistic possibilities of cinema, a medium mostly known only for its commercial applications in the form of narratives, cartoons, documentaries and advertising. BRAKHAGE combines excerpts from Brakhage's films and films of other avant-garde filmmakers (George Kuchar, Jonas Mekas, Willie Varela, Bruce Elder and others); interviews with Brakhage, his friends, family, colleagues and critics; archival footage of Brakhage spanning the past thirty-five years; and location shooting in Colorado and New York. BRAKHAGE was directed by Jim Shedden, produced by Alexa-Frances Shaw and executive produced by Ron Mann. An original score was composed for the film by long-time Brakhage associate and noted avant-garde composer James Tenney.
Plot Keywords: experimental film, visual art, no dialogue, dream logic, non-narrative ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve.
Plot Keywords: thriller, action, crime, revenge, violence, gunfight, gangster ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in Mary's stomach. The water breaks. It floods into me. I can't close the lid. My heart is full."—Sido Lanters
Plot Keywords: experimental film, art film, no dialogue, surrealism, gender issues, social critique, minimalism ...
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