communication
49 movies and shows
Arrival
Thu, 10 Nov 2016
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Love Life
Fri, 09 Sep 2022
Taeko and her husband, Jirō, are living a peaceful existence with her young son, Keita, when a tragic accident brings the boy's long-lost father, Park, back into her life. To cope with the pain and guilt, Taeko throws herself into helping this deaf and homeless man.
Domain
Fri, 31 Mar 2017
After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors are forced to wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the viral threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, the survivors wait for years and slowly become a motley family of sorts. But their fragile social ecosystem is shattered when, one by one, they start mysteriously disappearing from their bunkers.
David
Fri, 11 Mar 2005
A young mute student goes to the movies when ditching school, but changes his mind when he meets an unemployed man who tries to communicate with him. Through messages and games, the two will make a discovery they never imagined.
Chatô, The King of Brazil
Thu, 19 Nov 2015
The true story of Assis Chateaubriand, the first magnate of communications in Brazil. Due to his influence during the late 1930s up to the early 1960s, he has come to be called 'the Brazilian Citizen Kane'.
The Love Letter
Sun, 01 Feb 1998
20th century computer games designer Scott, Civil War buff, buys an antique desk from that era and, while polishing it, he discovers a secret compartment in which sits an unmailed letter--a letter written by a young poet named Lizzie over a century earlier. Touched by her yearning for passion, he writes her back, egged on by his mystically inclined mother. Magically, his letter reaches Lizzie and they begin a correspondence that threatens Scott's impending marriage but promises to bring fulfilment to Lizzie. Spanning the Civil War to the present, the perils of Lizzie's war-torn situation threaten her safe passage into the future. Will their love endure the test of time?
Listening
Fri, 03 Oct 2003
At a spa where talking is forbidden, an emotionally distraught woman finds solace in the company of a kind man and the two of them gradually fall in love.
Aloha
Fri, 29 May 2015
A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him.
The Words
Thu, 01 Oct 2009
On his way to a nameless destination, a man decides to stop by his father's house. The awkwardness of the relationship between the man and his old and ill father marks an ordinary visit that could very well be their last.
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Mon, 07 Jul 1975
After a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to forge a path forward in life.
Orangutan
Mon, 01 Feb 2021
A vivacious aspiring social worker brings together five peculiar strangers to help solve their existential problems but finds herself in way over her head.
Never a Backward Step
Sat, 01 Jan 1966
This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded attention to business brought him riches, power, and even a baronetcy in England. A native of Timmins, Ontario, Thomson had a tremendous career as publisher, television magnate, financier, and owner of many newspapers, including leading London dailies. The film is a frank study of an equally frank man.
The Cable That Changed the World
Mon, 05 Aug 2024
The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, County Kerry, to Newfoundland, Canada, 165 years ago was an 8 year endeavor that helped lay the foundation of the modern technology industry and explains the fragility of undersea cables today.
Communicating Non-Defensively
Mon, 15 Feb 1982
A 1980s educational video that teaches the view how to communicate more effectively in the workplace.
Boca Fechada
Sat, 02 Oct 2021
Road Head
Invalid Date
Stuck on the side of the road on their way to a social distance party, two contact-starved millennials try not to connect on an intimate level in this Reform Jewish absurd comedy about grief, changing plans, and the lengths we'll go to avoid direct communication with the people we love.
the things I keep from my mother
Fri, 15 Dec 2023
Gonzalo, now 18, chooses not to take his deceased father's car, even though it was expected that he would. This unexpected choice perplexes everyone, especially his mother. The car becomes a symbol of an unresolved family wound, only to heal when Gonzalo honestly admits to his mother that he doesn't remember his father.
I futurieri
Thu, 01 Aug 2019
Mr. Kershaw's Dream System
Fri, 01 Jan 1982
A man grows insane when he hears the beeping of a Monarch telephone, and he seeks help of a psychiatrist.