Blindness - Movies

Elizabeth Hartman and Wallace Ford

Elizabeth Hartman

"A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between a black man, Gordon (played by Sidney Poitier), and a blind white female teenager, Selina (Elizabeth Hartman), and the problems that plague their relationship when they fall in love in a racially divided America. Made in 1965 against the backdrop of the growing civil rights movement, the film explores racism from the perspective of "love is blind." (Wikipédia)

Uma Thurman

"... While investigating the links between the dead and missing blind girls, he meets blind music student Helena Robertson (Thurman), determining that her roommate Amber was the eighth victim. Berlin (Garcia) becomes obsessed with the case, despite an almost complete lack of hard evidence, and becomes romantically involved with Helena, who resembles his ex-wife." (Wikipédia)

James Hong

"Daytona agrees to help capture the man responsible for his father's death. Rodriguez informs him that he needs to win some championships in order to be noticed by Feng's ping-pong scouts. After losing at a local tournament, Daytona is brought to a Chinatown noodle shop to be apprenticed under a blind man named Wong (James Hong), who was Feng's former mentor, and who recognizes Daytona's talent. Daytona also meets Wong's niece, Maggie (Maggie Q)." (Wikipédia)

Madeleine Stowe

"Emma (Madeleine Stowe) is a young musician who has been blind for 20 years. New surgery techniques restore her vision but initially cause "vision flashes" that leave her uncertain about what she sees. One night, she is awakened by a noise in the apartment above. Peeking out her door, she "sees" a figure descending the stairs. She contacts the police, worried that her neighbor has been murdered, but is unsure if it was just her new vision deceiving her. The killer then begins to stalk Emma." (Wikipédia)

Charles Chaplin and Virginia Cherryll

Virginia Cherryll

"... 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."

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner

Ben Affleck


"Matt Murdock (Ben Affleck) is a blind lawyer in New York City's Hell's Kitchen and runs a firm with best friend Franklin "Foggy" Nelson (Jon Favreau), who only defends innocent clients and does not require monetary payment.

As a child, Matt (Scott Terra) gets blinded by a toxic waste spill over his eyes while taking a shortcut home from school after discovering that his father, former boxer Jack "The Devil" Murdock (David Keith), had become an enforcer for a local mobster. The accident, however, enhanced his other senses and gave him sonar to "see" through sonic vibrations. Matt uses his sharpened senses to train himself in martial arts. His father, blaming himself for his disability, stopped being an enforcer and went back to boxing. However, his new career was short-lived and he was murdered after refusing to turn in a fixed fight by the same mobster that had employed him earlier. To avenge his father's death, Matt used his abilities to become a crime-fighter known as "Daredevil", who operates in Hell's Kitchen, going after the criminals that escape the conventional means of justice." (Wikipédia)

Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell

Al Pacino

"Charlie Simms (O'Donnell)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 (Al Pacino), whom Charlie discovers to be a cantankerous, blind alcoholic. (Wikipédia)

Jamie Foxx

"Raised on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles Robinson went blind at the age of seven, shortly after witnessing his younger brother drown." (Wikipédia)

Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino

Val Kilmer

Audrey Hepburn

"Susy (Audrey Hepburn), is blind from an auto accident."
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Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft

Patty Duke

"Young Helen Keller (Patty Duke), blind and deaf since infancy due to a severe case of scarlet fever, is frustrated by her inability to communicate and subject to frequent violent and uncontrollable outbursts as a result. Unable to deal with her, her terrified and helpless parents contact the Perkins School for the Blind for assistance. In response they send Anne Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a former student, to the Keller home to tutor her. What ensues is a battle of wills as Anne breaks down Helen's walls of silence and darkness through persistence, love, and sheer stubbornness" (Wikipédia)

Robby Benson and Lynn-Holly Johnson

Lynn-Holly Johnson

"Lexie becomes uncomfortable with the changes in her life and in herself. Lexie leaves a party for skating sponsors and goes down to the outdoor rink nearby to skate. Her coach and the party goers notice her, and are watching through the windows as Lexie skates. She attempts a difficult triple jump, but lands off the ice onto a set of tables and chairs that are chained together near the edge of the rink. Lexie suffers a serious head injury, with a blood clot in her brain that robs her off her eyesight. She can see only light and blurry shapes. The doctor is uncertain if her injury is permanent." (Wikipédia)

Lee J. Cobb and Sig Ruman

Sig Ruman

Danny Glover and John Malkovich

John Malkovich

"...The frustrated banker has a disadvantaged brother-in-law, Will, who becomes a lodger at Edna's farm. He has been blinded in the war." (Wikipédia)

Chief Dan George and Dustin Hoffman

Chief Dan George

"Custer and the 7th Cavalry make a surprise attack on the Cheyenne camp at the Washita River. A now-blind and elderly Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George) is saved by Jack (Dustin Hoffman), but Sunshine, their child, and her sisters are killed." (Wikipédia)

Björk and Catherine Deneuve

Björk

"What no one in Selma's life knows is that she has a hereditary degenerative disease which is gradually causing her to go blind." (Wikipédia)

John Phillip Law and Jane Fonda

John Phillip Law

"Barbarella's ship burrows through the planet and comes out next to a vast labyrinth. Upon emerging from her ship, she is knocked unconscious by a rockslide. She is found by a blind angel named Pygar, who states he is the last of the ornithanthropes and has lost the will to fly." (Wikipédia)

Há-Neul Kang

"Min Soo-Ah (Kim Ha-Neul). She used to be a promising cadet at the police academy, but after a horrific car accident which killed her brother, Soo-Ah's police career ended. Min Soo-Ah also lost her eyesight in the car accident." (Wikipédia)

Ellen Dorrit Petersen

"Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home - a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. But Ingrid's real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over." (Wikipédia)

Ann-Margret, Roger Daltrey and Oliver Reed

Roger Daltrey

"Tommy goes into shock and becomes non-responsive, leading people to believe that he is deaf, dumb, and blind—while Tommy stares at his reflection, his mind internally going on adventures with his dead father." (Wikipédia)

Mila Kunis and Denzel Washington

Denzel Washington

"...Once inside, Eli, seemingly blind, begins to dictate the Bible from memory to Lombardi (Malcolm McDowell), the leader of the group.

Meanwhile, back in the town, the Engineer opens the locked Bible where Carnegie discovers, to his dismay, that it is in Braille, and orders Claudia to read it to him. She pretends that she cannot remember how to read braille, telling Carnegie his leg wound has become infected and his men have begun to run amok. At the sanctuary, Eli has died, but not before he finished reciting the entire book. The printing press at Alcatraz begins producing copies of the Bible, and Lombardi places one on a bookshelf between the Torah and Tanakh on one side and the Quran on the other. Solara, though offered sanctuary, chooses to return home, taking with her Eli's possessions." (Wikipédia)

Han Hyo-Joo and So Ji-Sub

"Cheol-min, a man with a dark, mysterious past, gets hired at a part-time night job as a parking lot attendant. He sits in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and stares at the small television. A woman named Jung-hwa walks into the booth. She offers something to Cheol-min and sits next to him. Cheol-min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Their lives change forever from this point." (Wikipédia)

Rutger Hauer

"Nick Parker (Rutger Hauer), an American soldier serving in the Vietnam War, is blinded by a mortar explosion, and soon after rescued by local villagers, who help him recover his health. Although he remains blind, as a part of his recovery, he is taught by the local master to be an expert swordsman, and to train his other senses." (Wikipédia)

Goldie Hawn and Edward Albert

Edward Albert

"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." (Wikipédia)

Mohsen Ramezani

"The story revolves around a blind boy named Mohammed who is released from his special school in Tehran for summer vacation. His father, shamed and burdened by Mohammed's blindness, arrives late to pick him up and then tries to convince the headmaster to keep Mohammed over the summer. The headmaster refuses, so Mohammed's father eventually takes him home." (Wikipédia)

Gloria Jean and Alan Curtis

Gloria Jean

"A fugitive from the law (Curtis) becomes the victim of several double-crosses, eventually finding refuge with a blind girl (Jean) and her father (Craven) at a secluded farmhouse." (Wikipédia)

Ralph Fiennes and Natasha Richardson

Ralph Fiennes

Sofia (Natasha) eventually meets Todd Jackson (Ralph), a former official of the U.S. State Department who recently lost his wife and children in separate terrorist bombings. The bombing that killed his child also left him blind. Using his substantial winnings from a well-placed bet at the racetrack, he opens an elegant nightclub catering to the cosmopolitan upper class and invites Sofia to work for him as his primary hostess, an offer she accepts, and in honor of her he calls the club "The White Countess." (Wikipédia)

Marc Singer and Shari Belafonte

Marc Singer

"Tom Sullivan (Marc) is a blind college student who wants to be normal. When not in class, Tom hangs out with his friend, Sly, who does not treat him like a blind person..."(Wikipédia)

Hugo Weaving and Russell Crowe

Hugo Weaving

"The story concerns the tribulations of Martin (Weaving), a blind photographer. Through a series of flashbacks, Martin is shown as a child, distrustful of his own mother, as she describes to him the garden outside his bedroom window. She tells him that someone is raking leaves, but he can't hear the sound and angrily decides she is lying to him." (Wikipédia)

Anjaly Jay and Chris Pine

Chris Pine

"Danny Valdessecchi (Chris Pine) is an intelligent, handsome, charming boy who happens to be blind. Having been blind from birth, he volunteers for a risky experimental visual prosthesis that may restore his sight—having a microchip installed in the visual cortex of his brain that connects to a camera that would give him only, at best, fuzzy black and white images. During the tests he meets a beautiful Indian nurse, Leeza (Anjali Jay)." (Wikipédia)

Vittorio Gassman and Agostina Belli

Vittorio Gassman

"A blind Italian captain (Gassman), accompanied by his aide Ciccio (Momo), who has been assigned to him by the army, is on his way from Turin to Naples to meet with an old comrade who was also disfigured in the same military incident. Unknown to his aide, the Captain means to fulfill a suicide pact there. While they journey, the Captain asks Ciccio to help him spot beautiful women. Unsatisfied with the boy's descriptions, he uses his nose instead, claiming that he can smell a beautiful woman. During their journey, he carries with him a picture of his beloved Sara (Belli), whom he could not bear to have see him disfigured and helpless. The suicide pact is eventually thwarted once Sara enters the picture, and the boy Ciccio does some much-needed growing up." (Wikipédia)

Jessica Alba

"Sydney Wells (Jessica) is a successful classical violinist from Los Angeles who has been blind since she was five years old, caused by an accident with firecrackers. Fifteen years later, after celebrating conductor Simon McCullogh's birthday during rehearsal, Sydney undergoes a cornea transplant, which causes her eyesight to return, a bit blurry at first. As time goes on, Sydney's vision begins to clear; however, she also begins experiencing terrifying visions, mostly of fire and of people dying. She also sees people that are already dead, on one occasion when a girl passed right through her. The bulk of the rest of the film concerns Sydney unraveling the mystery of the visions, and trying to convince others, primarily her visual therapist and fellow violinist, Paul Faulkner, who becomes a helpmate in her quest. She knows that she is not going insane..." (Wikipédia)

Angelica Lee

"Blind since the age of two, 20-year-old Hong Kong classical violinist Mun undergoes an eye cornea transplant after receiving a pair of new eyes from a donor. Initially, she is glad to have her sense of sight restored but becomes troubled when she starts seeing mysterious figures that seem to foretell gruesome deaths. The night before her discharge from hospital, she sees a shadowy figure accompanying a patient out of the room and the next morning the patient is pronounced dead..." (Wikipédia)

Julie Adams and Arthur Kennedy

Arthur Kennedy

"During World War II, Larry Nevins (Kennedy), an American sergeant, is blinded by a German sniper while fighting in North Africa. He is taken to a hospital for other blinded soldiers, where he struggles to come to terms with his disability." (Wikipédia)

Lambert Wilson and Jacques Gamblin

Lambert Wilson


"A police inspector must solve two grisly murders. The problem is that his only suspect is a blind man." (IMDB)

Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr

Victor Mature

..." Her plan works; she (Hedy Lamarr) cuts his hair, which he feels gives him his strength. In order to fully neutralize him, Samson is blinded by his captors, put to slave work and is eventually brought to the temple of Dagon for the entertainment of the Philistines and of the Saran." (Wikipédia)

Leslie Nielsen

Mary Philbin and Conrad Veidt

Mary Philbin

"The Man Who Laughs is a 1928 American silent film directed by the German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni. The film is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel of the same name and stars Mary Philbin as the blind Dea and Conrad Veidt as Gwynplaine. The film is known for the grim carnival freak-like grin on the character Gwynplaine's face, which often leads it to be classified as a horror film." (Wikipédia)

Muriel Ângelus and Ronald Colman

Ronald Colman

"In 1865, youngster Dick Heldar (Colman) is briefly blinded when his girlfriend Maisie accidentally fires his pistol too close to his head."

"...When his vision starts to blur, he goes to see a doctor (Halliwell Hobbes), who gives him a grim prognosis: as a result of his old war injury, he will go blind, in a year if he avoids strain, "not very long" if he does not.

"Before he completely loses his sight, Dick resolves to paint his masterpiece, "Melancholia". (Wikipédia)

Barbara Stanwyck and David Manners

David Manners

"Florence Fallon (Barbara Stanwyck) is outraged when her minister father is fired after many years of selfless service to make way for a younger man. She tells the congregation what she thinks of their ingratitude. Her bitter, impassioned speech impresses Bob Hornsby (Sam Hardy), who convinces her to become a phony preacher for the donations they can squeeze out of gullible believers. She builds up a devoted national following. Then she meets a blind John Carson (David Manners), falls in love, and the sham comes tumbling down.Barbara Stanwyck." (Wikipédia)

Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman

Jane Wyman

"...His first attempt causes Helen (Wyman) to step into the path of a car while trying to run away from Merrick's advances. She is blinded by this accident."

"Merrick (Hudson) secretly arranges for Helen (Wyman) to travel to Europe and consult the best eye surgeons in the world. After extensive tests, these surgeons tell Helen there is no hope for recovery."

"Many years pass and Merrick is now a dedicated and successful brain surgeon who secretly continues his philanthropic acts, and searches for Helen. One evening, Randolph arrives with news that Helen is very sick, possibly dying, in a small Southwest hospital. They leave immediately for this clinic. Merrick arrives to find that Helen needs complex brain surgery to save her life. As the only capable surgeon at the clinic, Merrick performs this operation. After a long night waiting for the results, Helen awakens and discovers she can now see." (Wikipédia)

Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo

Mark Ruffalo

"...During a dinner with his wife (Julianne Moore), the doctor Ruffalo) discusses the strange case of sudden blindness that hit the Japanese man. Elsewhere in the city, the woman with dark glasses—revealed to be a call-girl—becomes the third victim of the strange blindness after an appointment with a john in a luxury hotel.

The next day, the doctor wakes up to realize that he too has gone blind. In various locations around the city, more citizens are struck blind, causing widespread panic, and the government organizes a quarantine for the blind in a local derelict asylum." (Wikipédia)

Gabrielle Anwar

"Al and Sonora perform at Atlantic City in front of their largest audience. Everyone is nervous and excited. As she is climbing the ladder, he proposes to her. She accepts and gets ready to do the jump. The horse, a jittery stallion who is not her usual partner Lightning, is anxious because of all the noise from the band and the crowd, and just before the jump a cymbal crashes loudly, which causes him to falter and trip. Sonora keeps her eyes open as they fall into the water. Both of them make it, but her vision is impaired, yet she hides this from Al and won't seek medical attention for the condition.

The next day when she wakes up, Sonora discovers she can't see. The doctor diagnoses detached retinas in both her eyes due to uncontrolled hemorrhaging behind them (a result of the high impact of the dive and her open eyes at the point of it) and tells her the condition is permanent and she will be blind for the rest of her life. In order to avoid a breach of contract lawsuit, Al must find another diving girl within a week, and calls Marie, who returns to be it." (Wikipédia)

River Phoenix, David Strathairn, Dan Aykroyd and Robert Redford

David Strathairn

"In the present day, Martin, now called Martin Bishop, is running a tiger team of security specialists in San Francisco, including Donald Crease, a former CIA officer and family man; Darren "Mother" Roskow, a conspiracy theorist and electronics technician; Carl Arbogast, a young genius; and Irwin "Whistler" Emery (David Strathairn), a blind phone phreak." (Wikipédia)

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor

Richard Pryor

"A blind man named Wally Karew (Richard Pryor) and a deaf man named Dave Lyons (Gene Wilder) meet when Wally applies for a job in Dave's New York City concession shop. After a brief period of confusion and antagonism, Wally and Dave become friends. Dave reads lips and guides Wally when they travel, and Wally tells Dave about invisible sounds and what people say behind his back. At a local bar, Wally defeats a belligerent man in a fistfight with assistance from Dave, who uses clock-face directions to tell Wally where his opponent is. Dave hires Wally." (Wikipédia)

Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss

Keanu Reeves

"In the real world, the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar and the Hammer find and reactivate Niobe's ship, the Logos. They interrogate Bane, who says that he has no recollection of the earlier massacre. As the captains plan their defense of Zion, Neo requests a ship to travel to the Machine City. Motivated by her encounter with the Oracle, Niobe offers him the Logos. Neo departs, accompanied by Trinity. Bane, who has stowed away on the Logos, takes Trinity hostage. Neo realizes that Bane has been assimilated by Smith. Bane cauterizes Neo's eyes with a power cable, blinding him; however, Neo discovers an ability to perceive the world as golden light. Neo kills Bane, and Trinity pilots them to the Machine City." (Wikipédia)

William Fichter

"William Fichtner as Kent Clark, a blind SETI scientist who assists Arroway in her studies" (Wikipédia)

Woody Harrelson and Will Smith

Woody Harrelson

"Tim's sixth candidate is Ezra Turner (Woody Harrelson), a blind telemarketer for a meat company, who plays the piano." (Wikipédia)

Bryce Dallas Howard

"Meanwhile, Ivy Elizabeth Walker (Bryce Dallas Howard), the blind daughter of the chief Elder, Edward Walker (William Hurt), informs Lucius that she has strong feelings for him, and he returns her affections." (Wikipédia)

Joan Allen

"At his job in a St. Louis film lab, Francis Dollarhyde—The Tooth Fairy—approaches a blind co-worker, Reba McClane (Joan Allen), and ends up offering her a lift. They go to Dollarhyde's home, where Reba is oblivious to the fact that Dollarhyde is watching home-movie." (Wikipédia)