Cinema Therapy Movies

 

A compilation of movies on various subjects – including Deaf Cultural topics – is provided below.  Please feel free to Google a given title with the year to find out more information on the movie / video.     

 

 

Addictions

 

• 28 Days (2000)

• Clean and Sober (1988)

• Drugstore Cowboy (2007)

• Barfly (1987)

• Ironweed (1987)

• Hard Eight (1997)

• Alcoholics Anonymous (Third Edition): American Sign Language (2009)

• Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions: American Sign Language (2006)

 

Adoption & Attachment

 

• Martian Child (2007)

• Dark Matter of Love (2014)

 

Anger & Forgiveness

 

• The Upside of Anger (2005)

• Anger Management (2003)

• Dolores Claiborne (1999)

• Changing Lanes (2002)

• Antwone Fisher (2003)

• An Unfinished Life (2006)

• Gandhi (1982)

• The Straight Story (1999)

 

Audism

 

• Crash (2005)

• Audism Unveiled (2008)

• The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)

• Rabbit-Proof Fence (2011)

• Introduction to Deaf Hate Crime (2010)

 

Autism Spectrum

 

• My Name is Khan (2010)

• Gerald (2009; ASL Films)

• Temple Grandin (2010)

• Loving Lamposts (2011)

• Mozart and the Whale (2006)

• Ocean Heaven (2010)

• Talk to Me: A Documentary Film (2003)

• Wretches and Jabberers (2011)

• Snow Cake (2006)

 

Bipolar

 

• Beautiful (2000) 

• Mr. Jones (2013) 

• Silver Linings Playbook (2012) 

• Vincent and Theo (1990) 

• All She Ever Wanted (1996)

 

Body Image

 

• My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

• My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (2016)

• Real Women Have Curves (2002)

• Shallow Hal (2001)

 

CODA

 

• Deaf Mosaic: A Bridge Between.  Program No. 212. (1987, February)

• Deaf Mosaic: KODA, A National Organization For Kids of Deaf Adults. Program No. 908. (1993, December)

• Deaf Parents: Voice with Hearing Children? (2014; That! Vlog)

• Live at SMI (video No. 256): Elinor Kraft. (1994)

• Love Is Never Silent (1985, December 1)

• Passport Without A Country (1992/1993)

• Tomorrow Dad Will Still Be Deaf And Other Stories (1997)

 

Deaf Entertainment Movies in ASL

 

• Black Sand (2010)

• Forget Me Not (2010)

• Hard Man (2012)

• In The Can (2015)

• Beyond the Embers (2015)

• Lake Windfall: Are You Prepared? (2013)

• Slot: Steep Slot, Steeper Risk (2014)

• The Legend of the Mountain Man (2008)

• Versa Effect (2012)

• Wrong Game (2007)

 

Deaf Issues

 

• Sound and Fury (2000)

• Sound and Fury: 6 Years Later (2006)

• Children of a Lesser God (1986)

• The Miracle Worker (2000)

• And Your Name is Jonah (1979)

 

Deaf Culture

 

• ASL Pah! Deaf Student’s Perspectives On Their Language (1992)

• Deaf Culture Lecture: Cultural Differences (1994)

• Deaf Culture Lecture: Shared Wisdom For Families (1996)

• Deaf Culture Lecture: Tools For A Cross-Cultural Adventure (1996)

 

Depression

 

• It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

• Dead Poets Society (1989)

• Elizabethtown (2005)

• Ordinary People (1980)

• Unstrung Heroes (1995)

• Life of Pi (2012)

 

Domestic Violence

 

• The Secret Life of Bees (2008)

• Precious (2010)

• Take My Eyes (2003)

• Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)

• The Color Purple (1985)

 

Grief

 

• Fearless (1993)

• Deeply (2000)

• Ghost (1990)

• Rabbit Hole (2010)

• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

 

Music – Sign Language

 

• Best Sign Language Music Videos – Official List (1994; Jules Dameron)

• Mr. Holland’s Opus (1995)

 

OCD

 

• As Good as it Gets (1997)

• Breaking the Waves (1996)

• Matchstick Men (2003) 

 

Schizophrenia

 

• Clean Shaven (1994)

• A Beautiful Mind (2001)

• Shine (1996)

• Dear John (2010)

• Foxcatcher (2014)

 

Self-Esteem & Authentic Self

 

• Harold and Maude (1971)

• My Life (1993)

• Still Alice (2015)

• Nell (1994)

• Gattaca (1997)

• The Other Sister (1999) 

• Sliding Doors (1998)

• The Hammer (2010)

 

Stress Management

 

• The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)

• Happy (2011)

• The Princess Bride (1987)

• Moneyball (2011)

• Cast Away (2000)

• Cinderella Man (2005)

 

“Zone” Movies

 

• Office Space (1999)

• Blazing Saddles (1974)

• Meet the Parents (2000)

• Airplane! (1980)

• There’s Something About Mary (1998)

• Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987)

• Zoolander (2001)

• Ghostbusters (1985)

• Wayne’s World (1992)

• Clueless (1995)

• Three Amigos! (1986)

• Dumb and Dumber (1994)

• Groundhog Day (1983)

• Happy Gilmore (1996)

• Fletch (1985)