10 Incredible Movies That Barely Have Any Dialogue

10. The Bear

French film The Bear - directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud and released in 1988 - is proof that dialogue is far from cinema's only meaningful form of communication. The Bear tells the story of an orphaned bear cub who befriends an adult grizzly bear, exploring their lives and subsequent attempt to escape from a pair of hunters tracking them through the wild.

As you might expect, the two bears don't do a lot of talking (nor, in fact, do the hunters pursuing them), but that doesn't stop them from connecting in a meaningful way.

Throughout the film's hour and a half run time we see the grizzly teach the cub various skills to survive: how to fish, hunt and find a safe place to sleep. It's these actions to develop their relationship, showing how they live and survive as a pair.

It's an extremely unique piece of film-making, made all the more impressive by the fact that it required the training of two real bears, a nine-foot tall Kodiak bear named Bart and a young female bear named Douce.