Illiteracy Movies

  • 2009
    Precious

    Precious

    Precious

    7.3192009HD

    Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the...

    Precious
  • 1995
    La Ceremonie

    La Ceremonie

    La Ceremonie

    7.2721995HD

    Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who...

    La Ceremonie
  • 2022
    Women Talking

    Women Talking

    Women Talking

    6.92022HD

    A group of women in an isolated religious colony struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony's men.

    Women Talking
  • 1961
    El analfabeto

    El analfabeto

    El analfabeto

    7.71961HD

    Inocencio Prieto y Calvo receives a letter telling him he is the heir to his uncle's fortune of two million pesos. Not being able to read he has no...

    El analfabeto
  • 1977
    Padre Padrone

    Padre Padrone

    Padre Padrone

    6.81977HD

    The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by...

    Padre Padrone
  • 1955
    La vida no vale nada

    La vida no vale nada

    La vida no vale nada

    8.21955HD

    Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion...

    La vida no vale nada
  • 1996
    Small Faces

    Small Faces

    Small Faces

    6.31996HD

    Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow,...

    Small Faces
  • 2002
    Black and White

    Black and White

    Black and White

    62002HD

    Australia, 1958. When a nine year old white girl is found murdered, police are quick to arrest illiterate Aborigine, Max Stuart. Under interrogation...

    Black and White
  • 2007
    The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker

    The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker

    The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker

    6.82007HD

    A university student finds himself wrapped up in the bizarre world of his next door neighbor, learning about his history and relationship with a girl...

    The Foreign Duck, the Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker
  • 1982
    Melanie

    Melanie

    Melanie

    6.81982HD

    A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother....

    Melanie
  • 1978
    Können Analphabeten lesen?

    Können Analphabeten lesen?

    Können Analphabeten lesen?

    01978HD

    The short film answers the question of whether illiterate people are able to read.

    Können Analphabeten lesen?
  • 1958
    The Street Boy

    The Street Boy

    The Street Boy

    01958HD

    Young widow Li Jingqin is struggling to put her son Du Shaoxiong through school with her meagre income. Bullied by the landlady, Du spends his days...

    The Street Boy
  • 1980
    Petria's Wreath

    Petria's Wreath

    Petria's Wreath

    7.11980HD

    This film takes place in a small mining town in Serbia, within a time span covering the prewar, war, and postwar period. A story about tragic life of...

    Petria's Wreath