Films with theme "La cécité", sorted by name

, 1h50
Directed by Chen Kaige
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Xu Qing

Un vieux musicien aveugle parcourt le pays avec son jeune disciple Shitou, aveugle lui aussi.

, 1h54
Directed by Dario Argento
Origin Italie
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Serial killer films, Films about disabilities, La cécité, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Tino Carraro, Pier Paolo Capponi

Franco Arnò (Karl Malden) a middle-aged blind man is walking down a street at night with his niece Lori (Cinzia De Carolis) when they pass by a man in a car. Franco overhears him mention blackmail. They walk back to Franco's apartment nearby and while Lori sleeps, Franco works on a puzzle when he hears a noise. Outside, the unseen man in the parked car gets out and knocks out a night watchman by the gate of a large medical complex, the Terzi Institute. The unseen man uses a screwdriver to get inside the building. A doctor preparing to leave for the night sees the night watchman unconscious and sees a dark figure running away.

, 1h25
Directed by Michel Boujenah
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Charles Berling, Florence Guérin, Jean-Stan DuPac, Pascal Elbé, Raphaëlle Bruneau, Laurent Capelluto

Marie, élève sérieuse et passionnée de violoncelle, souhaite intégrer le conservatoire supérieur, mais est en train de perdre la vue. Elle se lie d'amitié avec Victor qui va l'aider dans cette aventure : réussir a rentrer dans cette prestigieuse école en cachant son handicap...

, 1h45
Directed by Fritz Lang
Origin German
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Dawn Addams, Wolfgang Preiss, Peter van Eyck, Gert Fröbe, Nico Pepe, Werner Peters

A reporter is killed in his car on his way to work. Inspector Kras gets a call from his informant Peter Cornelius, a blind fortune-teller, who had a vision of the crime but not the perpetrator. Meanwhile, Henry Travers, a rich American industrialist, checks into the Luxor Hotel, which has been outfitted by the Nazis during World War II to spy on people in every room. He becomes involved with Marian Menil who is being threatened by her evil clubfooted husband. Hieronymus B. Mistelzweig, purportedly a salesman, who is also a guest in the hotel always seems to be lurking about. These disparate characters eventually get together to solve what appears to be the re-emergence of the long-dead Dr.

, 1h58
Directed by Albert et Allen Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, Western
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films set in the future, Films about disabilities, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, La cécité, Disaster films
Actors Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Jennifer Beals, Frances de la Tour

Thirty years after a nuclear apocalypse, Eli (Denzel Washington) travels on foot toward the west coast of the former United States. Along the way he demonstrates uncanny survival and fighting skills, hunting wildlife and swiftly defeating a group of desert bandits who try to ambush him. Searching for water, he arrives in a ramshackle town rebuilt and overseen by Carnegie (Gary Oldman). Carnegie dreams of building more towns and of controlling the people by using the power of a certain book. His henchmen scour the desolate landscape daily in search of it, but to no avail.

, 2h37
Directed by Martin Brest
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bradley Whitford

Charlie Simms is a student at an exclusive New England prep school. Unlike most of his peers, Charlie was not born to a wealthy family. To pay for a flight home to Oregon for Christmas, Charlie accepts a temporary job over Thanksgiving weekend looking after retired Army Ranger Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, whom Charlie discovers to be a cantankerous, blind alcoholic.

, 1h36
Directed by Stuart Gillard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Sports films, Films about disabilities, La cécité, Children's films
Actors Andrew Lawrence, Alessandra Torresani, Khleo Thomas, Wayne Brady, D. B. Sweeney, Billy Aaron Brown

Jason "Jace" Newfield (Andrew Lawrence) is the new blind student at his school, whose family recently moved from New York City to Salt Lake City, Utah. Thinking that his way to fit in is through playing the drums, he shows off in class only to find out that his band teacher, Mr.Wyatt, is also blind.

, 1h15
Directed by Walter Summers
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Wilfred Walter, Alexander Field, Edmon Ryan

In London, Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi) runs an insurance agency where he loans money in exchange for the assigning of life insurance benefits to himself of many of his customers' policies. A resident of Orloff's (under the name "Dearborn") home for the "Destitute Blind" is Jake, a tall, hideous brute, who murders on Orloff's behalf. Scotland Yard begins finding bodies in the Thames River. One of the dead men has a daughter named Diane (Greta Gynt) for whom Orloff obtains employment at the home for the blind. Suspicions begin to arise surrounding Dearborn and Orloff in relation to the dead bodies. Orloff sends Jake (Wilfred Walter) to kill Diane who has found out too much about them. When Orloff disappears, Diane finds one of her father's cuff links in the home from the blind. Confronted by Diane, Dearborn removes his disguise to show himself as Orloff. Orloff traps Diane with a straight-jacket and calls for Jake to finish the job. Jake refuses as he has found out that Orloff has murdered a blind friend of his. Jake turns on Orloff and throws him out of a window allowing him to sink in the mud below.

, 1h43
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Bryce Dallas Howard, Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Brendan Gleeson

In the small, isolated Pennsylvania village of Covington in the 19th century, the residents live in fear of nameless creatures in the surrounding woods. They have constructed a large barrier of oil lanterns and watch towers that are constantly manned to keep watch for "those we don't speak of". It is explained that the villagers have a long-standing truce with the monsters; the villagers do not go into their woods, and the creatures do not enter their village.

, 1h15
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Transport films, Aviation films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Myrna Loy, Cary Grant, Roscoe Karns, Hobart Cavanaugh, Dean Jagger, Russell Hopton

Skywriter and stunt pilot Sheila Mason (Myrna Loy) who has to work as a barnstormer because women were not allowed to be active in other aviation fields, is attracted to ace pilot Ken Gordon (Cary Grant). Ken is trying to perfect instrument flying (flying "blind"), with his own design of an autopilot. He has devoted four years to perfecting the system and even mortgaged his aircraft to get funds to finance his experiments. Before being able to prove his invention works, while Sheila Mason helps him prepare for the decisive flight, cooking him coffee, the stove has problems to get the flame. He tries to help her, but the gas around inflames right in his eyes. He is blinded at least temporarily, but the doctors can't say how long.

, 2h30
Directed by D. W. Griffith
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, La cécité, Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Lucille La Verne, Frank Losee, Frank Puglia

Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry until Louise can look upon her husband to approve him. Lustful aristocrat de Praille (whose carriage kills a child, enraging peasant father, Forget-not) meets the two outside Paris. Taken by the virginal Henriette's beauty, he has her abducted and brought to his estate where a lavish party is being held, leaving Louise helpless in the big city. An honorable aristocrat, the Chevalier de Vaudrey helps Henriette to escape de Praille and his guests by successfully fighting a duel with him. The scoundrel Mother Frochard, seeing an opportunity to make money, tricks Louise into her underground house to be kept prisoner. Unable to find Louise with the help of the Chevalier, Henriette rents a room, but before leaving her de Vaudrey comforts and kisses the distressed woman. Later, Henriette gives shelter to admirable politician Danton, who after an attack by Royalist spies following a public speech falls for her. As a result, she runs foul of the radical revolutionary Robespierre, a friend of Danton.

, 1h27
Directed by Charlie Chaplin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Sports films, Boxing films, Films about disabilities, Le boxe anglaise, La cécité
Actors Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, Charlie Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia

The officials of a city unveil a new statue, only to find The Tramp sleeping on it. They shoo him away and he wanders the streets, destitute and homeless, and is soon tormented by two newsboys. He happens upon a beautiful Flower Girl (Virginia Cherrill), not realizing at first that she is blind, and buys a flower. Just when she is about to give him his change, a man gets into a nearby luxury car and is driven away, making her think that the Tramp has departed. The Tramp tiptoes away.

, 1h38
Directed by Alfred Vohrer
Origin German
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Baal, Dieter Borsche, Wolfgang Lukschy, Klaus Kinski, Eddi Arent

In this film, a series of murders of wealthy men leads investigators to a group of blind men with a mysterious leader.

, 2h
Directed by Guillem Morales
Origin Espagne
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide, Films about disabilities, La cécité
Actors Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Julia Gutiérrez Caba

The film begins with the death of the blind Sara, who appears to be being tormented by an unseen stranger. Heading to her basement to attempt suicide, she curses the hidden tormentor and refuses to give them the satisfaction of seeing her hang herself; but as she tries to remove the noose from her neck, the stool beneath her is kicked away, leaving her to die. Miles away, Sara's twin sister Julia collapses at work, sensing something amiss with her sister.

, 1h49
Directed by Milton George Katselas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Théâtre, Films about disabilities, Films based on plays, La cécité
Actors Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Paul Michael Glaser, Michael Warren, Paul Ryan

In the San Francisco of the 1970s, Don Baker (Edward Albert), who was born blind, has lived all his life with his mother (Eileen Heckart). Don moves out into an apartment on his own, but Don finds himself all alone. He has made a contract that his mother will not come to see him for at least two months.