Awesome Movies With NO Dialogue

[Pontiuth Pilate]

What good movies are out there that are told entirely through music and sound effects, or even just music?



I can think of a few:

Fantasia
The Snowman
that Koyaniquatsi or whatever film

Any others?

 

[Babbler]

I guess stuff made before the talkies.

And there was some voice-overs in Fantasia, IIRC.

 

[CaptainF]

Koyaanisqatsi FTW!

 

[aaglo]

The Checkoslovakian animations of the Mole (Krtek)

 

[soul_warrior]

Chaplin's Gold Rush, or others found HERE

 

[Sparta]

Hell in the Pacific

Toshiro Mifune plays a Japanese officer marooned on a desolate remote island, where Lee Marvin washes up as a downed U.S. pilot. There is a very small amount of spoken language, but as neither can understand the other, zero dialogue. Pretty cool movie, IMHO; Toshiro Mifune rules (as does Kurosawa, the director, of course).

 

[Heretic_Cata]

Does Baraka count ?

 

[Technocactus]

Charlie Chaplin, and Fantasia.

 

[Thorgalaeg]

La Guerre du feu.

 

[LuckyAC]

The Triplets of Belleville

 

[warpus]

The Checkoslovakian animations of the Mole (Krtek)

Krtek was my childhood hero.

Ever since then I've lived underground, in a hole of my own creation.

 

[Xanikk999]

Most of early charlie chaplin movies were good but had some written dialogue, do those count?

 

[Furiey]

I loved The Plank as a child but Sir Henry of Rawlinson End was definitely stranger.

 

[ummmm........]

Most silent films had title cards, so they don't really fit with the theme of the OP.

The first thing I thought of was Le Dernier Combat, but it does have that one exchange . . .

 

[Masquerouge]

La Guerre du feu.

The Triplets of Belleville

Good choices!

 

[Martacus]

My Dinner with Andre. Nobody says a word in that movie.

 

[jameson]

Not a movie, but I always liked the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode named 'Hush' where the main characters are left unable to speak for most of the time (season fourr, IIRC).

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Do silent movies count? What about unnarrated documentaries? If they are, then I reccomend one from each:

Hindle Wakes

Face of War

 

[Pasi Nurminen]

The three Star Wars prequels didn't have any real dialogue, but they were far from awesome.

"It's because I love you."
"No, it's because I love you!"

Arrrrgggghhh!

 

[Shylock]

Battleship Potemkin.