translator

28 movies and shows

A Brief Season

Wed, 26 Nov 1969

A young American agent living in Rome meets with a beautiful Swedish translator.

A mining engineer acting as a technical translator is suspected of industrial espionage after sending an innocent telegram that is intercepted by a militant snoop. Placed under investigation and reassigned to a less sensitive department, but never informed of the reason for his demotion, he petitions to get his job back, sparking an increasingly obtuse series of Party meetings.

First Cousin Once Removed

Tue, 09 Oct 2012

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.

The Translator

Wed, 13 Oct 2021

A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

The Woman in the Fifth

Sun, 11 Sep 2011

An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.

Ky Nam Inn

Fri, 28 Nov 2025

Set in 1985 post-war Vietnam, Khang moves to Saigon after securing a position to translate "The Little Prince." Due to his family connections, Khang's life under the new regime is secure. But everything changes when he meets Ky Nam, a reserved older widow who lives in Khang's new community.

The Whistle Blower

Fri, 21 Nov 1986

A war veteran tries to investigate the murder of his son who was working as a Russian translator for the British intelligence service during the Cold War. He meets a web of deception and paranoia that seems impenetrable...

Lies

Tue, 28 Jun 2016

This is the story about the life and artistic views of a designer through an interview that’s replete with poetic dialogue.

Footprints on the Moon

Sat, 01 Feb 1975

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

Chuck Norris vs Communism

Thu, 12 Nov 2015

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.

Night Book

Tue, 27 Jul 2021

An interpreter is deceived into reading a passage from an ancient book that unleashes a demon that begins to possess people inside her home.

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Fri, 26 Feb 2021

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?

Fremont

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager existence in Fremont, California. Shuttling between her job writing fortunes for a fortune cookie factory and sessions with her eccentric therapist, Donya suffers from insomnia and survivor's guilt over those still left behind in Kabul as she desperately searches for love.

Chuchotage

Tue, 24 Apr 2018

During a professional conference in Prague, two interpreters in the Hungarian booth hilariously vie for the attention of one listener.

Shugaley 2

Sun, 06 Sep 2020

Russian sociologist Maxim Shugaley and his translator colleague Samer Sueifan are still being held in a Libyan prison. For more than a year, they have been subjected to torture and psychological violence on a daily basis. While in custody, Maxim Shugaley encounters various people who turn out to be, sometimes unknowingly, sources of information about the situation in Tripoli. Listening to their stories, the sociologist literally collects valuable information bit by bit, which can be decisive for the entire world community.

Fear and Trembling

Wed, 12 Mar 2003

Amélie, a young Belgian woman, having spent her childhood in Japan, decides to return to live there and tries to integrate in the Japanese society. She is determined to be a "real Japanese" before her year contract runs out, though it precisely this determination that is incompatable with Japanese humility. Though she is hired for a choice position as a translator at an import/export firm, her inability to understand Japanese cultural norms results in increasingly humiliating demotions. Though Amelie secretly adulates her, her immediate supervisor takes sadistic pleasure in belittling her all along. She finally manages to break Amelie's will by making her the bathroom attendant, and is delighted when Amelie tells her the she will not renew her contract. Amelie realizes that she is finally a real Japanese when she enters the company president's office "with fear and trembling," which could only be possible because her determination was broken by Miss Fubuki's systematic torture.

A Place Among the Living

Thu, 28 Aug 2003

A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.

Quo Vadis, Aida? Sequel

Invalid Date

Six months after the genocide in Srebrenica and after the Peace Treaty was signed, the women still don’t know the whereabouts of their sons. Out of desperation, they organize protests and private investigations. Despite being emotionally fragile, often under-informed and lacking education, these women embody an incredible strength that overcomes all political and bureaucratic barriers. They demand their sons, the truth, and justice, and nothing can stand in their way.

Translating Ulysses

Mon, 08 May 2023

Kawa Nemir is like a walking dictionary of the Kurdish language. He flees Turkey and takes refuge at Anne Frank's former house in Amsterdam. Will he be able to finish the translation of Ulysses and publish it?

Entrenched

Sun, 01 Jul 2018

Four Australian soldiers become compromised when they capture a young Afghani boy spying on their reconnaissance position.