Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "sense-of-hearing"

1. A Quiet Place (2018)

PG-13 | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.

Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe

Votes: 583,423 | Gross: $188.02M

2. Sound of Metal (2019)

R | 120 min | Drama, Music

A heavy metal drummer's life is turned upside down when he begins to lose his hearing and he must confront a future filled with silence.

Director: Darius Marder | Stars: Riz Ahmed, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Lauren Ridloff

Votes: 150,281

3. The Choice (I) (2016)

PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance

Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.

Director: Ross Katz | Stars: Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, Alexandra Daddario, Maggie Grace

Votes: 45,791 | Gross: $18.71M

4. Innerspace (1987)

PG | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A test pilot is miniaturized in a secret experiment, and accidentally injected into a hapless store clerk.

Director: Joe Dante | Stars: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy

Votes: 65,111 | Gross: $25.89M

5. I Origins (2014)

R | 106 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

A molecular biologist and his laboratory partner uncover evidence that may fundamentally change society as we know it.

Director: Mike Cahill | Stars: Michael Pitt, Steven Yeun, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Brit Marling

Votes: 133,590 | Gross: $0.33M

6. August Rush (2007)

PG | 114 min | Drama, Music

A musically gifted orphan, Evan, runs away from his orphanage and searches New York City for his birth parents. On his journey, he's taken under the wing of the Wizard, a homeless man who lives in an abandoned theater.

Director: Kirsten Sheridan | Stars: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard

Votes: 111,100 | Gross: $31.66M

7. Ray (I) (2004)

PG-13 | 152 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.

Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell

Votes: 157,384 | Gross: $75.33M

8. Perfect Sense (2011)

R | 92 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.

Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Eva Green, Lauren Tempany, Connie Nielsen

Votes: 63,944 | Gross: $0.00M

9. A Wrinkle in Time (2018)

PG | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

After the disappearance of her scientist father, three peculiar beings send Meg, her brother, and her friend to space in order to find him.

Director: Ava DuVernay | Stars: Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling

Votes: 47,787 | Gross: $100.48M

10. Altered States (1980)

R | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A psycho-physiologist experiments with drugs and a sensory-deprivation tank and has visions he believes are genetic memories.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid

Votes: 38,630 | Gross: $19.85M

11. Suspect Zero (2004)

R | 99 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A mysterious serial killer is preying on other serial killers and one FBI agent suspects there may be more to the vigilante than the obvious characteristics.

Director: E. Elias Merhige | Stars: Aaron Eckhart, Ben Kingsley, Carrie-Anne Moss, Harry Lennix

Votes: 21,179 | Gross: $8.73M

12. The Kids Are All Right (2010)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Two children conceived by artificial insemination bring their biological father into their non-traditional family life.

Director: Lisa Cholodenko | Stars: Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowska

Votes: 134,431 | Gross: $20.81M

13. Biutiful (2010)

R | 148 min | Drama, Romance

A man dying of cancer tries his best to leave the world on his own terms.

Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Javier Bardem, Maricel Álvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrella

Votes: 94,603 | Gross: $5.10M

14. Lorenzo's Oil (1992)

PG-13 | 129 min | Biography, Drama

Lorenzo Odone, a Virginia 5-year-old, develops a degenerative nerve disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his parents decide to immerse themselves in research and tackle the problem themselves.

Director: George Miller | Stars: Nick Nolte, Susan Sarandon, Peter Ustinov, Kathleen Wilhoite

Votes: 24,028 | Gross: $7.29M

15. Upstream Color (2013)

Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Amy Seimetz, Frank Mosley, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig

Votes: 34,962 | Gross: $0.44M

16. The Sentinel (1996–1999)

TV-14 | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

In the jungles of Peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.

Stars: Richard Burgi, Garett Maggart, Bruce A. Young, Ken Earl

Votes: 2,669

17. Code Unknown (2000)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

A young man harasses a homeless woman, another man protests, the police arrest both and the woman has to leave the country. What were their various story-lines leading up to this event?

Director: Michael Haneke | Stars: Juliette Binoche, Thierry Neuvic, Josef Bierbichler, Alexandre Hamidi

Votes: 15,166 | Gross: $0.10M

18. The Last Mimzy (2007)

PG | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine!

Director: Robert Shaye | Stars: Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Timothy Hutton, Chris O'Neil

Votes: 22,219 | Gross: $21.47M

19. Annapolis (2006)

PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Set against the backdrop of boxing at the Naval Academy, centers on a young man from the wrong side of the tracks whose dream of attending Annapolis becomes a reality.

Director: Justin Lin | Stars: James Franco, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Donnie Wahlberg

Votes: 21,910 | Gross: $17.13M

20. All My Life (2020)

PG-13 | 91 min | Drama, Romance

A couple's wedding plans are thrown off course when the groom is diagnosed with liver cancer.

Director: Marc Meyers | Stars: Jessica Rothe, Harry Shum Jr., Marielle Scott, Chrissie Fit

Votes: 6,081

21. Clean, Shaven (1993)

Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

After a man suffering from schizophrenia is released from a mental institution, he attempts to get his daughter back from her adoptive family.

Director: Lodge Kerrigan | Stars: Peter Greene, Alice Levitt, Megan Owen, Jennifer MacDonald

Votes: 6,022

22. It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)

R | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

A famous DJ in the Ibiza club scene finds the alcohol and drug-fueled party that is his life threatened by the progressive loss of his hearing.

Director: Michael Dowse | Stars: Paul Kaye, Beatriz Batarda, Kate Magowan, Mike Wilmot

Votes: 20,670 | Gross: $0.12M

23. The Color of Paradise (1999)

PG | 90 min | Drama, Family

The story of Mohammed, a blind Iranian boy and his father, Hashem, who is always oscillating between accepting his son as he is and abandoning him, as he represents a burden for him, after the loss of his wife.

Director: Majid Majidi | Stars: Hossein Mahjoub, Mohsen Ramezani, Salameh Feyzi, Farahnaz Safari

Votes: 18,198 | Gross: $1.81M

24. Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013)

Unrated | 117 min | Biography, Drama, Thriller

A troubled Native American veteran forms an extraordinary friendship with his maverick French psychoanalyst as they try to find a cure to his suffering.

Director: Arnaud Desplechin | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Mathieu Amalric, Gina McKee, Larry Pine

Votes: 3,117 | Gross: $0.02M

25. White of the Eye (1987)

R | 110 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Somebody's killing rich married women in their homes - latest in a rich desert community outside Tucson. A married sound expert is prime suspect.

Director: Donald Cammell | Stars: David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Alan Rosenberg, Art Evans

Votes: 2,991 | Gross: $0.23M

26. Proof (1991)

R | 86 min | Drama, Romance

The life of a blind photographer who is looked after by a housekeeper is disrupted by the arrival of an agreeable restaurant worker.

Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Geneviève Picot, Russell Crowe, Heather Mitchell

Votes: 7,124 | Gross: $0.52M

27. Nobody Else But You (2011)

Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A bestselling crime novelist who is desperately looking for a new story hones his focus on the apparent suicide of a small-town woman, an aspiring model who thought she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.

Director: Gérald Hustache-Mathieu | Stars: Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Arsinée Khanjian

Votes: 2,958 | Gross: $0.04M

28. Pickup (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Drama, Film-Noir

A lonely widowers life changes when he marries a young woman who resents his frugal ways and hatches a plan to murder him.

Director: Hugo Haas | Stars: Hugo Haas, Beverly Michaels, Allan Nixon, Howland Chamberlain

Votes: 839

29. The Secret Life of Words (2005)

Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance

A hearing impaired factory worker gives up her first holiday in years and instead travels out to an oil rig, where she cares for a man suffering from severe burns.

Director: Isabel Coixet | Stars: Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Javier Cámara

Votes: 13,152 | Gross: $0.02M

30. The Story of Marie and Julien (2003)

Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Middle-aged Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Bettina Kee

Votes: 1,931

31. Careful (1992)

Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

The wary residents of a 19th century mountain village must tread carefully and speak softly lest they cause an avalanche. Sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles with deadly consequences.

Director: Guy Maddin | Stars: Kyle McCulloch, Gosia Dobrowolska, Sarah Neville, Brent Neale

Votes: 1,944

32. Angel (2016)

80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

Devastated with grief after the mysterious disappearance of her magician lover, Louise is sent to a psychiatric asylum. Nine months later, she gives birth to Angel, a baby boy with an ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Cleven | Stars: Hannah Boudreau, Maya Dory, Fleur Geffrier, Elina Löwensohn

Votes: 499

33. Twist and Shout (1984)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Denmark, 1963: Teenagers Bjørn and Erik are into girls and being in a band helps Bjørn meet Anna. Erik likes Kirsten but she likes Bjørn. Having a mentally ill mom at home also ruins Erik's chances. Anna's pregnancy changes everything.

Director: Bille August | Stars: Adam Tønsberg, Lars Simonsen, Camilla Søeberg, Ulrikke Bondo

Votes: 1,955

34. Beyond Silence (1996)

PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Music

Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice... See full summary »

Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Sylvie Testud, Tatjana Trieb, Howie Seago, Emmanuelle Laborit

Votes: 4,585 | Gross: $0.17M

35. Love on the Ground (1984)

125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

A play within a play within a play within a play. Actors perform a play in a house; an audience member invites them to work in his own home improvising a play around his own life. The line between fiction and reality blurs.

Director: Jacques Rivette | Stars: Jane Birkin, Geraldine Chaplin, André Dussollier, Isabelle Linnartz

Votes: 647

36. Callas Forever (2002)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The last days of legendary opera singer Maria Callas.

Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Jay Rodan

Votes: 2,453 | Gross: $0.45M

37. Hybrid (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

After an accident causes him to lose his sight, Aaron Scates finds himself in a fight for survival. He must learn to embrace his inner animal or become another failed experiment.

Director: Yelena Lanskaya | Stars: Justine Bateman, Tinsel Korey, William MacDonald, Gordon Tootoosis

Votes: 747

38. The Five Senses (1999)

R | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's ... See full summary »

Director: Jeremy Podeswa | Stars: Molly Parker, Gabrielle Rose, Elize Frances Stolk, Nadia Litz

Votes: 3,146 | Gross: $0.50M

39. Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)

R | 101 min | Drama, Romance

A man returns to Victoria, Australia, where he grew up, and encounters a mysterious woman who reminds him of someone he once knew.

Director: Michael Petroni | Stars: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Peter Curtin, Frank Gallacher

Votes: 2,480 | Gross: $0.12M

40. And Now Tomorrow (1944)

Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance

A wealthy woman who lost her hearing to meningitis meets a doctor who is concocting a serum that will cure deafness.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Alan Ladd, Loretta Young, Susan Hayward, Barry Sullivan

Votes: 469

41. Painted Fire (2002)

Unrated | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History

In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.

Director: Im Kwon-taek | Stars: Choi Min-sik, Ahn Sung-ki, Yoo Ho-jeong, Kim Yeo-jin

Votes: 2,825 | Gross: $0.06M

42. The Perfect Human (1968)

13 min | Short

An elegant and humorous film-in the guise of a serious anthropological treatise-spotlights "The Perfect Human," a model of the modern Dane created by our wishful thinking.

Director: Jørgen Leth | Stars: Majken Algren Nielsen, Claus Nissen, Jørgen Leth

Votes: 2,559

43. Noise (I) (2007)

Not Rated | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

This is a story about the wrong person in the right place at the wrong time. Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling.

Director: Matthew Saville | Stars: Brendan Cowell, Maia Thomas, Katie Wall, Maude Davey

Votes: 2,761 | Gross: $0.02M

44. Earthworm Tractors (1936)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy

Alexander Botts is a self-described natural born salesman and master mechanic, who is trying to make a big sale of Earthworm tractors to grouchy lumberman Johnson. Since Botts doesn't ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Guy Kibbee, Dick Foran

Votes: 498

45. The Fetist (1998)

65 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

A Japanese LGBT-themed horror film about a young gay man who gradually becomes a serial murderer.

Director: Hisayasu Satô | Stars: Yoshihisa Nemoto, Yuichi Araki, Yôji Tanaka, Kunio Masaoka

Votes: 85

46. Cactus (1986)

PG | 93 min | Drama, Romance

A woman who injured her eyes in car accident and a young blind man fall for each other. Is sight the only way to see the world?

Director: Paul Cox | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Menzies, Norman Kaye, Monica Maughan

Votes: 239

47. Sunny's Ears (1997– )

23 min | Family, Comedy, Drama

Sunny is a 13-year-old girl who lost her hearing at age 11 after a bout of meningitis. She talks normally, and her family is learning sign language - and she has a nutty school friend who ... See full summary »

Stars: Jocelyn Barker, Pascale Blackburn, Tricia George, Chris Walker

Votes: 11

48. How Does It Feel? (1976)

60 min | Documentary

How do we relate to and make use of our physical senses? This film examines the mechanics of perception and the still mysterious way in which the brain makes meaning of it all. Includes ... See full summary »

Director: Mick Csaky | Stars: R.D. Laing, Richard L. Gregory, Elkie Brooks, Nadine Scott

49. You and Your Five Senses (1955)

8 min | Animation, Family, Short

Jiminy Cricket explains the five senses, contrasting man and other animals.

Star: Cliff Edwards

Votes: 74

50. 5films in an Anthology of a Film a Month (2009)

22 min | Short, Drama

5 short vignettes of human story, each one centered on one of the 5 human senses, and all inspired by the music of Nine Inch Nails' GHOSTS I-IV.

Director: David Shiyang Liu | Stars: Maya Aleksandra, Matthew Cohen, Dyllan Corbett, Kiloran Hiscock