Silent movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant silent movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out silent, psychological, surreal, art house, suspenseful and captivating films and TV shows about / with death, male nudity, friendship, minimal dialogue, no dialogue, nude, family relations, love, violence and female nudity plots mostly in Drama, Horror and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as silent: 10 Minute Tales (2009), Mercury (2018), Simon's Cat (2008), Animanimals (2013), Azrael (2024), Wedding Trough (1974), Black Wedding (2015), Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws (2019), Days of Nietzsche in Turin (2001), High School Girls (2019).
Best films
New films
| Batman Unlimited (2015) | 6.4 | |
| Gangsta. (2015) | 7.2 | |
| ABCs of Death 2.5 (2016) | 4.7 | |
| Mercury (2018) | 6.0 | |
| Baby (2020) | 5.0 |
List of silent movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The biggest names in writing, acting and directing come together in a series of shorts on Sky1 HD this festive period. Experience a novel Noel with these original, uplifting and highly creative slices of silent cinema that prove actions do speak ...
Style:
touching, experimental, anthology, silent, realistic ...
Plot:
hopes, love and romance, redemption, family relations, loss, slice of life, british, love, bittersweet, holiday, intimate, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Five friends, all affected in some way by a mercury poisoning incident are partying when a freak accident put them on a collision course with an entity that is in no mood to forgive their misgivings.
Style:
medical horror, silent, psychological horror, black and white, atmospheric ...
Plot:
unsettling, macabre, social commentary, trauma, haunting, guilt, minimal dialogue, high school reunion, body horror, retribution, isolation, supernatural ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, ...
Style:
detective, dramatic, silent, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
nurse, death, cemetery, hospital, deaf, mysterious death, flashback, hollywood, fame, biopic, life & death, police detective ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 2 min.
TV show
Story:
Simon's cat follows the silent-movie-like adventures of a cat and his owner and lots of others.
Style:
cute, silent, lighthearted, funny, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly
Plot:
cat, pets, house, human animal relationship, prank, young man, animal human communication, humour, owner, parenting, minimal dialogue, animal ...
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Genre: Animation
Country: Germany
Duration: 3 min.
TV show
Story:
The Animanimals are animals with little quirks. Each time, a different animal faces an absurd adventure that could only happen to them.
Style:
absurd, feel good, silent, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
animal, minimal dialogue, absurd humor, satire, animal protagonist, absurdism, lifestyle, animal life, heartwarming, pantomime, minimalism, children ...
Time:
2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Estonia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, religious horror, silent, psychological horror ...
Plot:
human sacrifice, female protagonist, folk horror, mute character, religious fanaticism, ritual sacrifice, survival horror, problem, imprisonment, wilderness, isolated community, moral ambiguity ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A mad farmer falls in love with his pig and has mutant piglets with it. When the "piglets" prefer their mother over him, he hangs them all and the sow kills herself.
Style:
disturbing, minimal cast, avant garde, controversial, surreal ...
Plot:
bestiality, zoophilia, suicide, piglet, surrealism, suicide by hanging, last man on earth, pig, mental disorder, violent, hardcore, extreme ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
belgium
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Black Wedding is a pitch-dark comedy on marriage. Not a single word is spoken, but murder is ubiquitous. It's the uproarious story of a husband and wife that artfully tries to kill each other - again and again, for 76 minutes, without speaking ...
Style:
dark comedy, silent, tragicomedy, absurd, fast paced ...
Plot:
marriage, murder, wedding, violence, satire, revenge, intimate, absurd violence, family drama, family secret, pantomime, parent child relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing everyone's lives will never be the same.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
filmmaking, marshal, sheriff, gunslinger, deputy sheriff, historical figure, robbery, lawman, outlaw, heist, cinema, criminal ...
Time:
1920s, 19th century
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A cinematographic essay, without dialogues, about the months Nietszche spent in Turin, Italy, with narration quoted by his original writings.
Style:
philosophical, experimental, existential, art house, silent ...
Plot:
philosophy, philosopher, symbolism, solitude, reflection, literary, european, memory, nihilism, research, voice over narration, urban decay ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century
Place:
italy, turin italy
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story:
Who needs dialog when you're this cute? The beautiful (but unlucky) Momoko, the cool, collected Shibumi, and the refreshingly innocent Mayumi star in a "silent manga." No speeches, no dialog! Just pictures, sound effects, and three ...
Style:
anime, cute, lighthearted, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
slice of life, friendship, everyday life, girl, high school life, schoolgirl, school, high school, young girl, lifestyle, teenage girl, teenage life ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Drama
Country: France, UK, South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Scotland, late 1950s. A struggling illusionist visits an isolated community and meets a young lady who is convinced that he is a real magician.
Style:
breathtaking, stylized, touching, sad, visual ...
Audience:
kids, preschool
Plot:
magician, art, magic, friendship, coming of age, loneliness, theater, very little dialogue, imagination, mentor, transformation, character study ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 2010s, year 1959, year 2010 ...
Place:
england, scotland, france, edinburgh scotland, scottish highlands ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Italy, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.
Style:
silent, contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
divorce, youth, family relations, dysfunctional family, delusion, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, family problems, self defense, couples, solace ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
japan, california, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who feels he doesn't fit in, decides to embark on an intimate journey. Three weeks for three impediments: deafness, mutism and blindness. Three weeks not to escape, but to find reality.
Style:
existential, meditative, psychological, experimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
intimate, blindness, deafness, self discovery, personal growth, existential crisis, identity crisis, loneliness, minimal dialogue, alienation, isolation, identity ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 3 min.
TV show
Story:
This merchandise show displays short episodic battles, and other encounters, around Batman and his Batfamily like Nightwing, Red Robin and Robin. The episodes manage without dialogues.
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, fast paced, heroic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
batman, superhero, superhero team, masked superhero, fight scenes, heroes, battles, fighting crime, choreography, comic book, trick, children ...
Place:
new jersey
Is relevant?
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Genre: Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmed on a California beach, this arty outing features loin-cloth wearing actors silently telling the allegorical love story between Creation and Humanity on a lonely California beach.
Style:
allegory, art film, art house, experimental, poetic ...
Plot:
beach, humanity, conflict, companionship, minimalism, vanity, ritual, nudity, gift, good versus evil, symbolism, female nudity ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.
Style:
surreal, psychological, avant garde, art house, experimental ...
Plot:
surrealism, baby, existentialism, nightmare, insanity, psychology, dream, loneliness, psychosis, factory, dark humor, eccentricity ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
america, philadelphia
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, nightmare, murder, vengeance, curse, psychiatrist, fear, danger, priest, sexual attraction, letter, pitchfork ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young man living far from his beloved one wastes his existence absorbed in modern distractions until he loses contact with her.
Style:
non-verbal, silent, art house, avant garde, independent film ...
Plot:
mysticism, free will, enlightenment, love, universe, planet earth, evolution, philosophy, ocean, cosmos, wilderness, mute ...
Place:
new zealand
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.
Style:
visually stunning, thought provoking, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
bookstore, deafness, friendship, boy, deaf, father son relationship, chase, pursuit, multiple storylines, twists and turns, sign language, deaf girl ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1977, 1920s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, minnesota
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Story:
"Films Confiscated from a French Brothel" is a bare all Avant-garde Anthology homage to silent stag films.
Style:
erotic, anthology, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
brothel, nymphomania, erotica, sexual abuse, sex scene, insanity, seduction, burlesque, eroticism, found footage, peeping tom, sexual content ...
Time:
1920s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Together with his teenage sister and a horde of orphans, young Guy Maddin lazes away his under-stimulated youth on the mysterious island he will someday inherit. In the lighthouse orphanage in which they all live, their every move is watched over by ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, cerebral, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
human experiment, surrealism, lighthouse, childhood memory, lesbian, island, orphanage, investigation, family relations, parallel world, dying, abandoned ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
canada, romania
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The son of a ruined millionaire and a horsewoman becomes a clown.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, silent, slapstick ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
crazy love, loss of fortune, circus, love letter, great depression, elephant, traveling circus, stock market crash, family relations, power relations, dull life, hopes ...
Time:
year 1965, 1920s, 20th century, 1930s, 1940s ...
Place:
france, europe, brittany
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.
Style:
mysterious, suspense, futuristic, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
research, moon, astronaut, space, mission, elite, space station, moon base, planet, asteroid, space exploration, space mission ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Yakuza hitman travels to North America for his 27th job, only to find lingering memories of lost love through a chance encounter with a beautiful prostitute.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, touching, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
yakuza, mafia, asian, hitman, criminal, death, murder, love and romance, revenge, couples, heroes, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A young man is warned by his boyfriend that he is leaving. Melancholia becomes part of his life until his friends take him to parties, amid these adventures, he can finally rediscover happiness.
Style:
unusual plot structure, melancholic, romantic, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
lgbt, male nudity, gay interest, gay, gay couple, gay relationship, love and romance, nude, gays and lesbians, society, couples, homosexual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, touching, atmospheric, cute ...
Plot:
alienation, brother brother relationship, dating, suicide attempt, sibling relationship, loneliness, depression, hospital, dreaming, estrangement, family relations, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, europe, warsaw poland
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
Welcome to Veritas. It is an old place. A place with a long memory. A city of shadows and hidden terrors long forgotten by the modern world of 1931. But some things in the shadows are best left forgotten... SHADOW BOUND follows famed pulp horror ...
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, silent ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, writer's life, good versus evil, rivalry, losing-it hero, dishonesty, danger, small town, monster, creature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Thomas Capper is an unconventional and mysterious serial killer who takes aim at a Hollywood film set, by unleashing his own brand of retribution on the cast and crew.
Style:
slasher, semi serious, rough, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, small town, vengeance, filmmaking, gory, danger, violence spree, mysterious stranger, killing spree, erotica, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana
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